A Beginner's Guide to Reglazing Glasses Servicing

A Beginner's Guide to Reglazing Glasses Servicing
4 Min Read | 28 Sept 2023
Akash Raj
Akash Raj

Content Manager

In everyday life, we often overlook taking proper care of our glasses. At times, we accidentally sit on them, drop them, or leave them lying around, which can result in broken frames. Due to this, we end up buying another pair of eyeglasses. But what do you do when the frames are perfectly fine, but the lenses need an upgrade?

Imagine you have a favourite pair of glasses that fit you well, suit you, but your eyepower has changed. What will you do? Well, you can make use of the reglazing service. If your lenses are damaged or broken, need a prescription change, or a feature update, getting the spectacles reglazed is the best option. In this blog, we will talk about the A to Z of reglazing services and see how you can benefit from them.

What is Reglazing?

Simply put, reglazing is the process of replacing the lenses in a pair of existing glasses and keeping the frames. The mechanism entails removing the old, damaged, or outdated lenses and affixing new ones to the existing frames. Moreover, it is possible to reglaze prescription sunglasses, non-prescription spectacles, prescription glasses, and more. It is an incredibly beneficial service that helps save time and money while extending the life of your favourite frames.

When to Opt for Reglazing Services?

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Reglazing services can be a boon for many people. By ensuring that well-functioning frames do not go to waste, lens reglazing benefits a lot of people. But what are the scenarios under which you can go for reglazing service? Let us find out.

  • Lens damage: The first scenario wherein reglazing services become beneficial is lens damage. If your lenses are scratched, the result can be distractions, limitations in visual clarity and an ultimate deterioration of eyesight. In such a scenario, you can opt for reglazing glasses if the frames are intact.

  • Prescription update: The second reason you should opt for reglazing services is prescription updates. After your eyesight weakens, it continues to deteriorate gradually. At times, the prescription changes can be very minor, but even such small changes might mandate switching your spectacles. In such a situation, rather than buying a new pair of glasses, you can simply choose to get them reglazed. Thus, it is possible to address vision changes without the expensive outlay of new frames.

  • Feature upgrade: Last but not least, you can also opt for reglazing services for feature updates. During the time of buying glasses, you might have decided to forego an anti-scratch, anti-glare, or X-blue light coating and now regret the decision. However, choices from the past need not hamper your visual acuity and the performance of your glasses, as you can get the lenses reglazed.

Benefits of Reglazing Glasses

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After a crisp overview of the ‘what’ and ‘when’ of reglazing glasses, let us check out its benefits.

  1. Better vision and comfort
    Reglazing glasses can help improve the comfort of your glasses, ensure optical clarity and enhance visual acuity. Once the lenses get scratched, damaged, or smudged, it becomes very difficult to see clearly. But, reglazing glasses solves the problem easily.

  2. You save money
    In today’s day and age, when buying necessities can be difficult for some people, one can only imagine the burden of getting new glasses, especially when the expense is unprecedented. In such a situation, reglazing glasses emerges as a rather affordable and budget-friendly way to repair your glasses by simply changing the damaged lenses.

  3. Customisable advantages
    The third benefit of reglazing services is the customisable options. You can reglaze your glasses with a range of high-performing lenses, such as tints, varifocals, anti-glare coatings, anti-blue light coatings, and more.

    At Specscart, we offer reglazing facilities with various customisations, such as 9 multi-purpose tints, anti-glare and scratch-resistant coatings, etc.

  4. Environmental benefits
    Reglazing glasses is also beneficial for the environment. The constant disposal of old and damaged spectacles produces a lot of waste, most of which ends up in the world’s landfills. When you reglaze glasses with a prescription or upgrade the lenses of your existing frame, the amount of waste produced is reduced. This simple measure can be incredibly effective in protecting the environment and lessening your carbon footprint.

Get Your Glasses Reglazed and Preserve Your Favourite Pair

If the frames of your favourite pair of glasses are intact and the lenses are damaged, then simply opt for reglazing services from Specscart. Our reglazing services are undertaken by the best technicians. Besides, the customisable options are massive. From infusing tints to incorporating blue light coatings, the possibilities are endless with Specscart’s reglaze facilities.

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