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Windscreen
repair is the environmentally friendly alternative to replacement.
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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