$250 to $450 for a windshield and $200 to $500 for door, quarter or back glass, fitted at your curb for the same money as the bay, in about an hour on site. At your end it needs two things: a legal space alongside the car with both front doors able to swing fully open, and about an hour without rain. The van runs Monday to Friday, 8 to 5, and the work is held to the same standard outdoors as it is on East Columbia Avenue.
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Mobile exists because some cars should not be driven anywhere. A missing driver's window in the rain, or a crack straight across the sightline, is not something to nurse through traffic to save a call-out. Nothing in the specification drops because the work happens outdoors: the same glass, the same primer, the same urethane and the same vacuum come out of the van as off the bench. What does change is the environment, and it is worth being straight about that. Urethane takes its strength from the moisture around it, so cold or heavy rain pushes the safe drive-away time out, and the number you get at the curb is the honest one for that morning.
The other honest point, in this neighborhood specifically, is that mobile is not always the right answer. From most Fishtown blocks the shop is five minutes away, indoors, out of the wind, with the parts on a shelf. If the car is drivable, bringing it in is usually the faster and the better job, and you will be told so rather than sold a van visit for the sake of it. Where mobile earns its place here is the car that will not start, the one boxed in on a narrow one-way, the one with a window missing and rain forecast, or the driver who genuinely cannot give up a slice of a working day.
“Rich is amazing! Helped me with a broken window. He was able to get me in same day and did beautiful work at an incredible price point. I literally tell everyone now to go to him if they need anything done.”
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Fishtown is one of the harder places to do this well, which is why the details get asked on the phone. East of Frankford Avenue the streets are narrow one-ways with cars down both sides, and a van standing beside your car blocks the block completely. Girard Avenue has rails set into it and traffic that does not slow for anybody, so it is the wrong curb to work at. What does work here is a wider cross street, a legal space with clear room at the front of the car, or a lot at your workplace, and it works best mid-morning once the commuters have gone. Street cleaning decides more than people expect, too: an hour of glass work sits badly against a sign that clears your side of the street at eleven.
Same service, same price, other Fishtown neighborhoods:
No. The business runs Monday to Friday, 8 to 5, and that applies to the van as much as the shop. There is also a practical reason beyond the hours: bonded work has to start early enough that the safe drive-away time finishes while somebody is still contactable, so a windshield booked at half past four is a windshield booked badly. If your window went at the weekend, cover it properly, park it somewhere sheltered if you can, and call at eight on Monday. Those calls generally get seen the same day.
For a door, quarter or rear window, yes. Those are mechanically fitted into channels and clips, and rain is an inconvenience rather than a problem, which is why most bad-weather mobile work is broken side glass. A bonded windshield is different: the bead needs a clean, dry surface to grip and the cure slows down in cold, wet air, so steady rain means either a longer safe drive-away time or a better day. If the forecast will not give us a dry hour, you will hear that when you book, along with the option of the five-minute drive to the shop.
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