Just returned from a 1mo. trip to the NW.We hit a bump and a Pyrex dish jumped out of the overhead cabinet and went thru my front slider.I don't need a slide window and just want to replace it with a 1 peice.Can someone tell me the process and where I might find one.Would install plexie glass as I don't even look thru it, it's just there.It's a 95 Lance Squire lite, 8'6". Is there a site with step thru step instructions? Pictures really help. Oh, and a great trip otherwise. Was 61 just about everyday on the coast and we've come home to 109. Was 117 while we were gone,sorry we missed that,lol.

In my area, the local glass shop will make it. You give them the measurements and they cut and have it tempered. It was pretty painless other than the wait. I had a door glass broken by someone breaking into one of my RVs a few years ago.Also, Lance may have a standard size and that might mean you can buy it premade from them or a mail order supplier.

Did it break both sides of the slider? Fixed side? Slider side? If it was the slide section, that would be a no brainer to take out and have the glazing replaced. If it is the fixed glass side, I'd go for takinging the frame out, fix and reinstall with new caulking.

Ditto to what Jim said, but I will add this: ...perhaps make a template yourself out of chipboard or similar (including any radius corners) to insure it fits and use it for the dimension take-off instead of just taking a tape measure and giving those to the glass cutter. I did this method for on of my overhead windows on a past camper and it was perfect fit.

It was the non slide side. So your saying I can just take out the whole frame and have a solid peice cut to fit? The vertical bars just pop out or do I need to buy a whole window frame and glass if I want a non slide? Thanks guys for your input.

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whizbang
Explorer II
Jul 10, 2013
+1 on the local glass shop. The one here fixes glass cheaper than I can myself.
d3500ram
Explorer III
Jul 09, 2013
tuna fisher wrote:
...So your saying I can just take out the whole frame and have a solid peice cut to fit? ...
Doing as you state was my first thought... you will have to asses the exact situation.
tuna_fisher
Explorer
Jul 09, 2013
It was the non slide side. So your saying I can just take out the whole frame and have a solid peice cut to fit? The vertical bars just pop out or do I need to buy a whole window frame and glass if I want a non slide? Thanks guys for your input.
d3500ram
Explorer III
Jul 09, 2013
Ditto to what Jim said, but I will add this:

...perhaps make a template yourself out of chipboard or similar (including any radius corners) to insure it fits and use it for the dimension take-off instead of just taking a tape measure and giving those to the glass cutter. I did this method for on of my overhead windows on a past camper and it was perfect fit.
Super_Dave
Explorer
Jul 09, 2013
Did it break both sides of the slider? Fixed side? Slider side? If it was the slide section, that would be a no brainer to take out and have the glazing replaced. If it is the fixed glass side, I'd go for takinging the frame out, fix and reinstall with new caulking.
tuna_fisher
Explorer
Jul 09, 2013
bump
jimh406
Explorer III
Jul 09, 2013
In my area, the local glass shop will make it. You give them the measurements and they cut and have it tempered. It was pretty painless other than the wait. I had a door glass broken by someone breaking into one of my RVs a few years ago.

Also, Lance may have a standard size and that might mean you can buy it premade from them or a mail order supplier.

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