We work across Uddingston, Bothwell, Viewpark and Tannochside on a regular basis. Whether it is a sandstone terrace on Main Street, a villa off Bothwell Road or a semi up in Viewpark, we repair misted double glazing, dropped and sticking doors, worn hinges, broken handles and failed locks, usually in a single visit.

What we fix in Uddingston and Bothwell

Misted, blown or cracked double glazing, with replacement glass units from £75
uPVC and composite doors that stick, drop or will not lock
Window hinges, handles, locks, gaskets and seals
Full window and door servicing, re-alignment and re-sealing to stop draughts
Replacement door panels, letterplates, cylinders and handles
Patio, French and sliding doors that jam, drag or will not close properly

Bigger windows, bigger replacement bills, better reasons to repair

Bothwell and the older parts of Uddingston have some of the largest windows we work on. Bays, tall sashes in converted openings, feature units in extensions and conservatories, all of them expensive to replace and all of them perfectly repairable. When one pane in a bay mists up, you do not need the bay renewed. You need that one unit measured and swapped, and the rest left alone.

Up in Viewpark and Tannochside the housing is different again, a lot of ex council semis and terraces with uPVC that is now twenty or thirty years old. There the calls are usually about hardware, handles that have gone stiff or snapped, hinges that have dropped the sash out of square, and front doors that need shouldered before the key will turn. All of that is a repair, not a replacement.

What a repair costs

Replacement sealed units start at £75 fitted, and larger or specialist units are quoted once we have measured them. Hardware is priced on what the door or window needs. There is no call out charge and no charge for a quote, so nobody is committed to anything until you have the number in front of you. Over thirty years in the trade and more than a hundred five star reviews behind us.

How soon we can get out to Uddingston and Bothwell

We are on the road eight until five, Monday to Friday. Uddingston and Bothwell are around twenty five minutes from the workshop. Straightforward repairs are often done on the first visit because the van carries the common parts, and anything that needs glass made to size takes a few working days before we come back to fit it.

Not sure what is wrong? Send a photo of the window or door on WhatsApp and we will give you a quick idea of the fix and the cost, with no obligation.

Call 01698 604 278 or message us on WhatsApp for a free quote on window or door repairs in Uddingston and Bothwell.

Two places with very different housing

Uddingston and Bothwell sit next to each other and get lumped together, including by us on this page, but the work is not the same in both.

Bothwell has a great deal of large older property, sandstone villas and substantial detached houses, much of it on generous plots. Parts of it sit within a conservation area. Uddingston is more mixed, with older terraced and villa stock around the centre and a good deal of suburban and post war housing beyond it.

The practical difference is that a Bothwell job is more likely to involve large, heavy, non standard windows and, sometimes, planning considerations. An Uddingston job is more likely to be a standard casement repair like anywhere else.

Conservation areas and what they actually mean

This causes more confusion than anything else round here, so it is worth setting out plainly.

Repairs are not affected. Replacing a failed sealed unit, changing a hinge, fitting a new handle, replacing gasket, adjusting a dropped sash. None of that changes the appearance of the building and none of it needs anybody’s permission, conservation area or not. If somebody has told you otherwise, they are wrong.

Replacement is a different matter. Changing the windows themselves, particularly if the style, material or glazing pattern would change, is where consent can come into it. In a conservation area the council takes a view on how the street looks. If the property is listed, the rules are tighter again.

What we will not do is guess on your behalf. Whether a specific address is affected, and what would be permitted there, is a question for South Lanarkshire Council, and it is worth a phone call before you order anything rather than after. Our piece on window rules in Scotland covers the general position.

Where replacement is on the cards in a sensitive setting, flush sash windows are usually the uPVC style with the best chance of sitting comfortably, because the sash finishes level with the frame the way a timber window does rather than standing proud of it.

Large windows are a different job

Bothwell villas tend to have big openings, and size changes the mechanics in ways that matter.

A large sash is heavy, and weight is what wears friction stays. So the biggest windows in a house are almost always the first to drop and the first to go stiff. If a house has one window playing up and it happens to be the largest, that is not a coincidence.

Large sealed units are heavy too, awkward to handle and genuinely a two person lift, which suits us because there are two of us. A firm sending one man to a big unit is either going to struggle or going to damage something.

Bay windows and full height glazing bring their own considerations again, and any pane sitting below 800mm from the floor has to be safety glass by regulation, which on the larger openings common round here catches more panes than people expect. There is more in toughened or laminated glass.

Questions from Uddingston and Bothwell

I am in the conservation area. Can you still repair my windows?

Yes, without any permission needed. Repairs keep the building looking exactly as it does now, which is precisely what a conservation area is trying to achieve. It is replacement that raises questions, not repair.

Can you match a window to the others on the house?

Usually, and on a period property it matters more than on a modern one because the eye picks up an odd one out immediately. Glazing bar layout, obscure pattern, glass tint and frame finish all need thinking about rather than assuming. Raise it when we quote rather than afterwards.

My biggest window is the one that sticks

Expected rather than unlucky. Weight wears stays, so the heaviest sash gets there first. It is a stay replacement rather than anything structural, and the fix is the same as on a small window, just with heavier duty parts.

Do you work on timber windows?

We will look at them, and we can replace failed sealed units in timber frames, which is often the best outcome on a period house where changing the windows would be a shame or would need consent. Where the timber itself needs joinery work we will tell you that plainly rather than glaze over a problem.

Before you call us out

A lot of the jobs we get in Uddingston and Bothwell start as one of these questions. The answers are free to read and there is no sales pitch in any of them.

There are fifty articles in all in our window and door advice section.

We also cover Bellshill, Hamilton, Blantyre and Cambuslang and Rutherglen.