Our Meadows villa is about 20 years old and the original aluminium windows and sliding doors are showing their age: - the seals are perished — draughts and dust get in; - the big…
AMAisha M.•15 Aug 2026•3 answers•865 views•active 22 Oct 2026 Our Al Barari villa has a lot of floor-to-ceiling glazing looking out over the planting, and with all the greenery, water features and humidity here the glass seems to mist up far…
LFLayla F.•15 Aug 2026•3 answers•790 views•active 16 Oct 2026 We're slowly doing up an older apartment and the aluminium windows are the next headache. On a couple of them the handle just spins — it turns all the way round but nothing happen…
AMAisha M.•13 Aug 2026•3 answers•874 views•active 21 Oct 2026 We're in a Dubai Hills villa with a lot of floor-to-ceiling glazing and big sliding doors — it looks great, but I've never really thought about maintaining it until now. A couple…
YAYousef A.•12 Aug 2026•2 answers•681 views•active 28 Oct 2026 Our building's aluminium composite (ACP) facade cladding is looking tired — some panels have faded and gone chalky, and in a few spots the surface seems to be lifting/separating (…
BRBilal R.•11 Aug 2026•3 answers•969 views•active 28 Oct 2026 The aluminium frames on our older villa's windows have gone dull and chalky, with white powdery spots and little pits in places — worst on the side that catches the sun and wind.…
AMAisha M.•10 Aug 2026•3 answers•1k views•active 22 Oct 2026 We're specifying glass for a few spots in the villa — a frameless shower screen, a balcony balustrade (glass railing), and an internal partition — and two contractors have given u…
RKReema K.•10 Aug 2026•3 answers•847 views•active 28 Oct 2026 The glass in our master shower screen has gone permanently cloudy — a whitish, slightly rough film that used to wipe off but now won't, whatever spray I use. A couple of the villa…
NFNadia F.•10 Aug 2026•3 answers•1.2k views•active 21 Oct 2026 Our unit is in a Business Bay tower and the glazing needs attention: one pane has gone foggy/misted between the layers, another window whistles and lets dust in, and the external…
RARaed A.•8 Aug 2026•4 answers•983 views•active 18 Aug 2026 Our villa backs onto the water in Jumeirah Islands, and the windows and sliding doors are showing their age: draughts, a bit of whistling wind, dust getting in at the frames, and…
DKDana K.•7 Aug 2026•3 answers•1k views•active 22 Oct 2026 We're in a Palm Jumeirah villa right on the water and the sea air is clearly hard on all our glass and aluminium, frames marking, seals looking tired, fittings stiffening. What ma…
NSNour S.•6 Aug 2026•2 answers•1k views•active 21 Oct 2026 Heading into summer and our villa's aluminium windows and one big sliding door aren't right, we can feel warm air leaking in around the frames, and the slider has gone stiff and n…
NSNour S.•6 Aug 2026•2 answers•526 views•active 21 Oct 2026 Our Springs villa's windows and the big sliding doors are showing their age, the sliders are getting stiff, there's a draught, dust seems to get in more than it should, and a coup…
SJSara J.•6 Aug 2026•2 answers•675 views•active 30 Oct 2026 Our JGE villa has an enormous amount of glazing, which is beautiful but I'm realising it's a maintenance commitment in itself, a couple of panes have started fogging, some seals l…
HSHana S.•4 Aug 2026•2 answers•533 views•active 21 Oct 2026 Fitting out a commercial space and need glass partitions plus some shopfront glazing, and the quotes vary a lot. I want to understand what actually drives the cost of a commercial…
RARaed A.•4 Aug 2026•2 answers•850 views•active 21 Oct 2026 We've got a large villa and want to add a glass partition to split a big space, possibly with a door in it, and maybe a large fixed screen elsewhere. I like the frameless look but…
HSHana S.•4 Aug 2026•2 answers•1.1k views•active 22 Oct 2026 Our Nad Al Sheba villa has some large glass panels and a couple have gone cloudy/foggy between the panes, plus one has a crack. Do we have to replace the whole window units, or ca…
JSJason S.•4 Aug 2026•2 answers•516 views•active 29 Oct 2026 Our Remraam apartment's windows and the balcony glazing are getting tired, the sliders are stiff, there's a bit of a draught and dust seems to get in, and a couple of seals look g…
OKOmar K.•4 Aug 2026•2 answers•632 views•active 21 Oct 2026 We're in a villa in Umm Suqeim, close enough to the sea that everything metal seems to suffer. The window handles and hinges are corroding, some of the rubber seals have gone hard…
SQSana Q.•4 Aug 2026•2 answers•1.2k views•active 21 Oct 2026 We'd like some curved glass (a curved shower screen and a curved balustrade panel). - How is curved/bent glass actually made — can flat glass really be shaped into a smooth curve,…
RKReema K.•3 Aug 2026•3 answers•753 views•active 21 Oct 2026