Glazing for an established southern suburb that is quietly doing itself up.
Reglazing post-war joinery, safety glass where the original never was, double glazing upgrades, rental repairs, showers and mirrors, plus shopfront glass around the village. First Glass Solutions is a family-owned Tauranga glazing company, ten minutes down Cameron Road.
First Glass Solutions is based in Tauranga, and Greerton is about ten minutes down Cameron Road. That is close enough that a standard repair here is same-day as a matter of course rather than as a favour, and close enough that a boarded-up window at 2am is a short drive rather than a call-out decision. We are through Greerton Village and along Chadwick Road often enough to know which streets are which, which matters more than it sounds when you are trying to describe a broken window over the phone.
Greerton is one of the older parts of Tauranga, and the housing stock tells you what the glazing work will be before you get there. The largest single share of it went up in the 1950s, with plenty more through the 1960s and 70s. That vintage means timber joinery with putty that has perished, early aluminium windows that are now well past their best, and glass that is often thinner than anything you would put in today. It also means ordinary float glass in places where the rules now require safety glass, particularly in back doors, door sidelights and low panes near floor level. When we reglaze one of those openings we reglaze it to current standards, which is usually the first time that opening has ever had safety glass in it.
The second half of the work here is rental. Greerton has a high proportion of tenanted housing, and rentals generate a steady, predictable run of glass jobs: a window broken between tenancies, a door pane that has to be sorted before the next inspection, an insurance job that needs quoting in a form the insurer will accept. We are used to working with landlords and property managers rather than only with owner-occupiers, which means securing the property first, invoicing the person who actually pays, and not making a small job feel like an imposition. One pane is a job.
The third thread is renovation, and it is the one that has changed the suburb most. Old shower boxes come out and frameless screens go in, kitchens get a glass splashback instead of tiles, and mirrors get cut to bathrooms that were never a standard size. Double glazing comes up in the same conversations, and where owners go ahead it is new joinery going in rather than a unit fitted into the frames they have, which our double glazing guide explains. Add the commercial side, because Greerton Village is a working shopping strip with shopfronts, door glass and the occasional overnight break-in, and it is a genuinely mixed patch to work in. All of it comes from the same family-owned business, with 40+ years of combined glazing experience and a 5.0-star Google rating, and every job starts with a free onsite measure.
All replacement glass meets NZ safety standards (AS/NZS 2208).
The full First Glass Solutions range, for owners, landlords and the village shops alike.
Based in Tauranga, working right across the region.
Very probably. Plenty of Greerton homes from the 1950s to the 1970s still have ordinary float glass in back doors, sidelights and low panes near floor level, which is exactly where the rules now require safety glass. When we reglaze one of those openings we reglaze it to current NZ safety standards as a matter of course, so it ends up safer than it has ever been rather than simply back to how it was.
Yes. A good share of what we do here is rental and property management work, so we are set up for it. We secure the property first if it is not weathertight, quote the permanent repair, and invoice whoever is actually paying, whether that is the landlord, the property manager or an insurer. Small jobs are welcome, because one broken pane between tenancies is still a job.
Yes. We do not fit sealed units into the original frames: the window comes out and new joinery made for double glazed units goes in, so it is quoted as a window replacement. Most people here do it in stages, worst rooms first.
Yes. We come out to your property in Greerton, Gate Pa, Tauranga South or Poike, 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.
