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Windscreen repair is the
environmentally friendly alternative to
replacement and if you have fully comprehensive insurance you can usually get a stone chip repair done for FREE or from as little as £35 inc vat.
The carbon footprint of a repair
is much smaller than the one produced by the manufacture of the
replacement windscreen
and the recycling of the old
one.
Windscreen Repairs are for the repair of laminated glass
only.
You do not need to determine if the windscreen is
laminated, if it is chipped or cracked it must be laminated,
the
older toughened windscreen does not chip; it shatters into thousands
of pieces.
The repair process works by injecting a liquid acrylic resin
into the damaged glass.
The resin is cured by the use of long
wave ultra violet light.
After curing, what the repair
will do is as follows.
1. It will restore the strength to the damaged glass. BS
AU251:1994 is the relevant British standard for measuring the
performance of windscreen repair
equipment and copies are
available from BSI if required.
2. Cosmetic improvement.
Repairs restore the optical or
cosmetic appearance.
The size of the blemish left is a function
of the severity of the initial damage.
3. Durability.
Repairs are permanent and the vehicle can
be washed or driven immediately after repair.
4. Heated windscreens can be repaired in exactly the same
manner as ordinary windscreens.
5. Tinted windscreens or tinted top band areas can be
repaired in the same manner as plain windscreens.
The "colour"
is in the PVB interlayer not the glass. The glass picks up the
colour from the interlayer, the repair resin will do exactly the
same.
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