Kitchen remodeling
Bathroom remodeling
Home additions & ADU
Roofing
Windows & doors
Driveway & pavers
FenceFree written scope consultation - allowances, timeline, and change-order rules on paper before a single trade is scheduled
Mr-Glass Construction in Lexington Hills, CA | Brookside Contractors
We provide independent Mr-Glass service across Lexington Hills, from frameless shower enclosures to custom tempered glass panels. What makes our work here different is that we plan every Mr-Glass install around the realities of mountain roads, wood-framed cabins, and Santa Cruz County’s wildfire code. If you’re off Old Santa Cruz Highway or up a steep private drive, we already know the drill. Call us at (833) 725-3508 and we’ll talk through what your bathroom actually needs before anyone measures anything.
Why Lexington Hills Residents Choose Us for Mr-Glass Service
We’re independent contractors, not a Mr-Glass dealership. That means we’re not pushing whatever’s sitting in a warehouse. We’ve worked on Mr-Glass frameless sliding systems, pivot and hinged enclosures, and semi-frameless bypass doors long enough to know exactly what wears out first in a mountain cabin. And because we’re also general contractors, we catch the structural problems a glass-only specialist misses. Nate Burrell trained in construction technology at Gavilan College and spent two decades on job sites across South Santa Clara County before leading Brookside Contractors. He’s the one who’ll tell you the truth about whether your 1970s bathroom wall can actually hold a frameless panel.
OEM-compatible parts matter in Lexington Hills. We source genuine Mr-Glass rollers, hinges, seals, and sweeps when the glass itself is still sound. The tempered panel is the expensive part. More often than not, it outlives the hardware by years. We’d rather replace a $40 sweep than sell you a $2,500 enclosure you don’t need.
Styles & brands we work with
Common Mr-Glass Construction Problems We Solve in Lexington Hills
Lexington Hills cabins and custom homes have a specific set of failure modes when it comes to shower glass. Here’s what we see most often:
- Rollers and track wear on bypass sliding doors. Wood-frame cabins settle. Humidity from wet winters swells framing. When the opening moves even a quarter inch out of plumb, Mr-Glass bypass rollers bind, jump the track, and chew the aluminum. We re-block the wall, reset the track, and replace the worn hardware.
- Hardened or cracked sweeps and seals. The clear vinyl bottom sweeps and magnetic closures on Mr-Glass doors harden after a few hot, dry summers. Once they crack, water tracks onto wood subfloors. On a well-and-septic lot in Lexington Hills, that’s not a cosmetic problem, it’s a floor structure you don’t want to reach.
- Hinge and pivot screw pull-out in older walls. A lot of 1960s through 1980s bathrooms in Lexington Hills have tile set on drywall or thin backer, with no blocking behind the hinge line. The enclosure loosens, and the glass stresses exactly where you don’t want it. We open the wall, add blocking, and reset the hardware properly.
- Out-of-square openings that stock Mr-Glass panels won’t seal. Older cabins shift. A stock panel that doesn’t seal lets moisture wick into framing, which is a bigger problem now that fire-hardening retrofits have walls opened up anyway. We measure to the sixteenth and order custom-cut panels when the opening justifies it.
- Chipped or edge-delaminated tempered glass. When a Mr-Glass panel is damaged, especially near the edge, we say so plainly. Chasing repairs on compromised tempered glass isn’t worth the risk. We’ll tell you when replacement is the honest call.
Mr-Glass Service in Lexington Hills: What Local Conditions Mean for Your Equipment
The thing people don’t expect about Lexington Hills is that the road decides the job, much like it does for our Mr-Glass service in Monte Sereno. Narrow, winding mountain roads off Old Santa Cruz Highway often can’t handle a full-size delivery truck, so we stage materials at the bottom and shuttle them up with smaller equipment. That’s not an inconvenience, it’s the job. On a 1970s cabin off Old Santa Cruz Highway, we staged a Mr-Glass frameless enclosure at the bottom of the drive and brought it up by pickup, because the concrete truck couldn’t make the final approach. The old bypass door’s rollers had chewed the track, the opening was 3/8 inch out of square, and the sweep had been tracking water onto the wood floor for at least a season. We re-blocked the hinge wall, set a custom Mr-Glass panel, and replaced the hardened sweep. That’s what Mr-Glass service looks like in Lexington Hills: logistics, structure, and glass, in that order.
And because most cabins up here sit on private wells, a leaking shower door isn’t just a wet bathroom floor. It’s water moving into a septic-adjacent structure that’s expensive to reach on a steep, wooded lot. We treat every Mr-Glass install in Lexington Hills as a water management job first.
Mr-Glass Models & Products We Service in Lexington Hills
We work on Mr-Glass frameless sliding shower door systems, including 10mm tempered glass in standard 60-inch and custom openings. That covers pivot and hinged frameless enclosures, semi-frameless bypass sliding doors, and custom-cut tempered glass panels and shelves. When the glass is good, we replace genuine Mr-Glass hardware. When the panel’s chipped, delaminated at the edge, or the opening’s badly out of square, we’ll tell you a new enclosure beats chasing parts. Most replacement hardware is stocked locally for fast Lexington Hills turnaround, and we carry the same inventory for Mr-Glass repair in Cambrian Park. Custom glass takes what it takes, and we don’t rush it.
See the difference
Before
After
Before
After
Before
AfterMr-Glass Service Pricing in Lexington Hills
Pricing depends on what your bathroom actually asks for. A straight walk-in shower install runs one number. A tub-to-shower conversion with a 1970s wall opened up and re-blocked runs another. Here’s what we see across Lexington Hills:
| Service | Typical Range |
|---|---|
| Walk-In Shower Installation | $4,500 – $12,000 |
| Tub-to-Shower Conversion | $3,500 – $10,000 |
| Shower Replacement | $3,000 – $8,500 |
| Bathroom Remodel | $9,000 – $28,000 |
| Small Bathroom Remodel | $5,000 – $12,000 |
A free estimate means we come out, measure, check the wall structure, and give you a written number. No guesswork, no change orders later. Call (833) 725-3508 to get yours scheduled.
Serving Lexington Hills, CA — Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Lexington Hills area and know this community well, and we also provide Los Gatos Mr-Glass service nearby. Use the map below to see our full service coverage — if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs – Mr-Glass Construction in Lexington Hills
Yes, this is routine for us in Lexington Hills. We stage panels and hardware at the bottom of the drive and shuttle them up with smaller equipment, often with a spotter for PG&E lines. We’ve done it on some of the tightest approaches in the area. Call (833) 725-3508 and we’ll walk the route before install day.
They do, and it comes down to two things: wood framing settling seasonally and hot, dry summers hardening the surrounding seals. When a cabin shifts, rollers take the abuse. We replace them with genuine Mr-Glass parts and re-align the track so they don’t bind again.
Usually yes, but it depends on the wall behind the tile. Many 1970s Lexington Hills bathrooms have thin backer instead of proper blocking at the hinge line. We check before we quote, and if we need to open the wall and add blocking, we’ll tell you up front. No surprises after demolition.
It can, because fire-hardening retrofits often mean walls are opened up anyway. That’s actually a good time to fix out-of-square openings and add hinge blocking. We coordinate the glass work with the structural work so you’re not paying to open a wall twice.
Repair when the glass is sound and the hardware is worn. Replace when the panel is chipped, edge-delaminated, or the opening is so far out of square that stock panels won’t seal. We’ll give you the honest call. Free estimates at (833) 725-3508.
Service Areas Near Lexington Hills
We work throughout Lexington Hills service area and the surrounding communities from Morgan Hill to San Martin, Gilroy, Corralitos, Interlaken, and Day Valley. For details on nearby coverage, see our Mr-Glass service in La Selva Beach and Mr-Glass service in Seacliff pages. For more about our Mr-Glass expertise, visit Mr-Glass sales & service.
Book Your Mr-Glass Service in Lexington Hills Today
Tell us where the cabin is, what the access looks like, and what the shower’s doing. We’ll handle the rest. Call (833) 725-3508 for your free estimate in Lexington Hills, and we’ll put eyes on it before anyone quotes a number. Do it once, do it right, everything else is just a future repair bill.
Written by Nate Burrell, Owner & General Contractor at Brookside Contractors, serving Lexington Hills and the South County mountains.