Shower screen repairs, done in one visit
Door off its track, cracked glass, a seal letting water onto the floor. Most of it is fixable — and usually for a fraction of what a full replacement costs.
What's gone wrong with yours?
Nine out of ten screens we’re called to have one of these six faults. Pick the one that matches and it’ll take you straight to the fix.
Door off its track
Drags, jams halfway, or lifts out of the bottom channel when you pull it. The most common callout we get, and usually the cheapest to put right.
Cracked glass
A chip on the edge of toughened glass is a shatter waiting to happen.
Water escaping
Perished seals or a failed bead. Left alone it rots the floor behind the tiles.
Worn rollers
Grinding, squealing, or a door that needs two hands to move.
Dropping hinges
Frameless doors sag when pivot pins wear, then catch on the hob.
Glass that won't come clean
That permanent cloudy film is mineral etching, not soap scum. It can be machine-polished back rather than replaced — most people don’t know that’s an option.
Repairs, replacement and new installs
Framed, semi-frameless and frameless — homes, strata buildings and rental turnarounds.
Sliding doors off track, pivot doors dropping, handles pulling loose, doors no longer square in the frame.
One panel swapped rather than the whole screen. Measured on site, cut in 6mm or 10mm toughened glass.
Roller and track repairs
Flattened carriages replaced, channels cleaned out and the door reset so it runs with one finger.
Seal and leak repairs
Hardened seals swapped, old silicone cut out and re-beaded, then water-tested before we leave.
Hinge and hardware repairs
Worn pivot pins, sagging frameless doors, failed magnetic catches and loose handles put right.
Shower frame replacement
Pitted, chalky or split aluminium replaced while your existing glass stays exactly where it is.
When the frame is gone or the layout changed, the old screen comes out and a new one goes into the same opening.
New screens fitted after a renovation or re-tile, set out plumb and sealed so water stays in the recess.
Repair it, or replace it?
We’ll tell you straight on site. Here’s roughly how that call goes.
Worth repairing
- Frame is straight and the aluminium is sound
- Glass is intact, or only one panel is damaged
- Fault is hardware — rollers, hinges, catches, seals
- Water escaping from a failed bead, not a warped frame
- Glass is etched but structurally fine
Better replaced
- Frame is corroded through or splitting at the joins
- Screen is out of square because the hob has moved
- Hardware is obsolete in that profile
- Glass is annealed, not toughened — a safety issue
- You're re-tiling and the opening size is changing
Every screen type, and what usually fails on it
The build tells us a lot before we even see the fault.
Frameless
Thick 10mm panels held by pivot hinges and brackets, no surrounding frame.
Semi-frameless
Framed fixed panel with a frameless door hung off it. The Sydney default.
Framed
Aluminium all the way around, usually 4mm or 5mm glass. Common in older builds.
Sliding
Two panels running on a track, used where a door can’t swing out.
What your quote depends on
Every screen is different, so we don’t publish a flat price. These are the four things that move the number, and you’ll know yours before anyone starts work.
What's actually broken
Hardware is the cheap end — rollers, seals, hinges and catches are stock parts. Glass costs more because every panel is cut to your opening.
How the screen is built
Framed screens use thinner glass and standard profiles. Frameless uses 10mm glass and heavier hardware, so the same fault costs more to fix.
Size and access
Anything over 2100mm, or a second-floor bathroom with a tight stairwell, takes two people and more time on site.
Whether the parts still exist
Most profiles are still made. On a screen from the eighties we may need a compatible substitute, or the hardware set changes entirely.
Cheapest to dearest, so you know roughly where you sit
How a callout runs
Send a photo
One shot of the whole screen, one close up on the fault. Usually enough to price it before anyone drives out.
Book a window
Pick a morning or afternoon slot. You get a call when the glazier is on the way, not a vague all-day wait.
Fixed price on site
The glazier confirms the fault, quotes the work, and gets your go-ahead before touching anything.
Done and tested
Door run and adjusted, seals water-tested, silicone left to cure. Workmanship covered for 12 months.
Where we work
Vans run out of the inner west daily and cover metropolitan Sydney from the Northern Beaches down to the Shire.
Outside these areas? Ring anyway — if we can’t get to you we’ll usually know a glazier who can.
What people say after we've been out
Two other places told me I needed a whole new screen. He replaced the rollers and the seal, and it shuts better than it has in years.
Panel shattered on a Sunday night. Glass was cleared first thing Monday and the new one was in by Thursday. No fuss at all.
We manage forty-odd apartments and they handle tenant access themselves. Invoices come straight to us. Easiest trade we deal with.
Questions we get asked
Most of Sydney can be seen the same day or the next, depending on where you are and how the run is tracking. Broken glass gets priority because it’s a safety issue. Ring before midday and there’s a fair chance of an afternoon slot.
Toughened glass can’t be patched, so a cracked panel has to be swapped. The good news is that you rarely need a whole new screen — in most builds the damaged panel comes out on its own and the frame, hardware and other panels stay exactly where they are.
It’s one of the cheaper repairs we do. Nine times out of ten the roller carriages have worn flat and the door is riding on the track itself. New rollers, a clean-out and a realignment sort it, and we carry the common Sydney profiles in the van.
Yes, and that’s most of what we do. Rollers, bottom seals, side seals, magnetic catches, handles and hinges are all replaceable parts. The only time it gets difficult is when a screen is old enough that the profile is no longer manufactured, and even then there’s often a compatible substitute.
Because a shower screen quote swings on the glass thickness, the opening size and what hardware is in there, and a number on a page would be wrong for most people who read it. Send a photo and you get a real figure for your screen, usually the same day, with no obligation.
Photo quotes are free. If you’d rather have someone look at it in person, there’s a callout fee that comes off the bill if you go ahead with the work.
Yes. Everything that goes into a shower is grade A safety glass to AS 1288, stamped accordingly. If we find annealed glass in an older screen we’ll tell you, because that’s a genuine hazard rather than an upsell.
Regularly. We can deal with the tenant directly to arrange access, invoice the agency or the owners corporation, and provide a written scope for larger buildings with several bathrooms to get through.
Send a photo, get a price
Two photos — one of the whole screen, one close up on the fault — and we’ll come back with a figure and the next available slot.