Roughly 300 window panels at 101 Park Avenue, pitted by demolition sparks, restored panel by panel instead of replacing glass at Midtown commercial prices.
Exterior-only post-construction cleaning on a new-build Brooklyn tower — spray foam, concrete, and adhesive cleared from glass via a rooftop rig over glass railings.
A 120-foot exterior skylight film at the Museum of Jewish Heritage — UV protection for irreplaceable artifacts under a glazed dome in Lower Manhattan.
Gradient frosted film in a Park Slope hospital lobby — blocking sightlines into staff workstations while keeping the glass partitions open and full of light.
A DIY repair that turned acid graffiti into a restorer’s nightmare of uneven grooves — saved without glass replacement through careful multi-stage restoration.
Removing aged window film from a Manhattan commercial project — the tool, chemical, and technique protocol that separates a clean result from a glass-replacement bill.
A window film installer’s technical case for Solar Gard HiLite 70 in NYC apartments — heat and UV control without dark tint or a nighttime mirror effect.
Forty years of calcium oxidation ground and polished off a 1980s commercial building’s glass on Long Island — roughly 400 rope drops, no mechanical lifts.
Can anti-graffiti film hide acid etching? A real test at 141 East Houston Street that partly overturned the industry’s flat “no.”
Cleaning Nike’s custom slumped-glass facade on Fifth Avenue — why a standard squeegee fails on carved, curved panels and what the night shift really requires.
