Glazing for a big family suburb strung along one long road.
Broken panes and ranch slider glass, double glazing upgrades for 1990s homes, cat and dog doors, shower screens, mirrors and balustrades for the hill sections. First Glass Solutions is a family-owned Tauranga glazing company, in and out over the Hairini bridge most weeks.
First Glass Solutions works out of Tauranga, and Welcome Bay is one of those suburbs where the drive is short but the route is not optional. Welcome Bay Road is effectively the way in and the way out, reached over the Hairini bridge off Turret Road or round by Maungatapu, and anyone who lives here knows exactly what Turret Road is like at 8am and again at 5pm. Being a local team rather than a franchise run out of another city means we plan around that instead of pricing it as a difficult call-out. Standard repairs here are usually same-day, and for a smashed window the 24/7 emergency line gets the property secured first.
Welcome Bay is the fourth largest suburb in Tauranga by housing stock and it is genuinely mixed in age, but the single biggest share of it went up in the 1990s, and it is family housing almost all the way through. Family housing generates a very particular kind of glass work, and it is rarely dramatic. A ball through a bedroom window. A ranch slider panel that has finally given up. A door caught by the wind and slammed into its own frame. That is glass work rather than joinery work: in almost every case we replace the glass in the frame that is already there, in toughened safety glass, and the house looks like nothing happened.
The other complaint we hear constantly in Welcome Bay is condensation. Almost none of that 1990s stock was double glazed, because it was not required here until well into the 2000s, and the lower parts of the suburb sit in a sheltered bowl near the estuary where cold air settles, so windows stream in winter and sills stay damp. Double glazing is the fix, and we do it by replacing the whole window with new joinery built for double glazed units, not by pushing a sealed unit into the frame you already have. There is more on how it works in our guide to double glazing repair in Tauranga.
Then there is the top half of the suburb. Climb the hill toward Ohauiti and the higher Welcome Bay streets and the sections start looking back across the harbour to the Mount, and once a deck has that outlook a solid rail across the middle of it stops making sense. Frameless glass balustrade holds the view and still meets the height and loading requirements. Whichever end of Welcome Bay you are at, the job comes from the same family-owned business, with 40+ years of combined glazing experience, a 5.0-star Google rating, a free onsite measure before anything is quoted, and a site left clean.
All replacement glass meets NZ safety standards (AS/NZS 2208).
The full First Glass Solutions range, for family homes at the bottom and view decks at the top.
Based in Tauranga, working right across the region.
No, and this is the most common question we get in Welcome Bay. In almost every case the frame, the track and the rollers are fine and only the glass has gone. We measure the panel, cut and fit new toughened safety glass into the existing frame, and the door works exactly as it did before at a fraction of the price of replacing it. If the frame itself is bent or the rollers are shot, we will tell you that onsite.
Double glazing is the fix, and it is a joinery job rather than a glass job. We do not fit a sealed unit into the aluminium frames you already have: the window comes out and new joinery made for double glazed units goes in, so it is quoted as a window replacement.
Standard repairs are usually same-day. We come in over the Hairini bridge or round by Maungatapu, and being a Tauranga team rather than one run out of another city means we work around the traffic rather than charging you for it. For a smashed window or a broken door, the 24/7 emergency line gets the property secured first and the permanent fix follows.
Yes. We come out to your property in Welcome Bay, Ohauiti, Maungatapu or Hairini, measure up and give you a firm quote before any work starts, at no cost.
Tell us what you need. We'll come back to you within a few hours during business hours.
Call the Tauranga-based team for a free measure and quote.
