Reglazing glasses cost cutting discussion area.

zedbyc

lookonlineforspecs.co.uk offer reglazing too.:beer:

£15 including lenses, unless you go for upgrades.

poorbabe

I'm livid :mad::mad: I've just come across 'reglazing' as an option from another finance website. I'm severely short-sighted and my prescription changed frequently until my 40s when it seems to be improving slightly :rolleyes:. However, every time there was a change the optician was insistent that I needed new glasses and that my current frames couldn't be used. Given they would cost upwards of £300 (frames and lenses) and I wear contacts 95% of the time, I always resisted until I had the money/found somewhere cheaper.

Not once had any optician at Optical Express and, more recently, D&A suggested I could get my lenses reglazed so I wouldn't have to get new frames. That would have saved me £00s over the years. I'm due a sight test in about 2 weeks. If my prescription has changed again, I'll give them what for if reglazing is not mentioned :mad::mad::mad:

Bunch of thieving ............... :mad::mad::mad:

FIL!!*_2

Hi, I have been in Optics over 25 years and reglazing is frowned upon because the frame sale is so important. It is often used as a last resort to 'keep' the patient. Very wrong though! Some on-line sites offer it, but make sure they know what they are doing! We use a company to make the specs for our practice, when my lab tech is away, that do on-line reglazing only. For us the work is perfect and as good as our techi would do. Worth a look, not promoting on-line businesses too much as they do make our work slightly more difficult, but if you want to do it this way then try ciliaryblue.

lostinrates

DH has had only two frames in the last 6 and a half years, just keps getting them reglazed. He has this done through a normal high street chain opticians, and they are always happy to do this. When he did replace the frames he's chosen more expensive frames that he fels suit him, feeling he can send a little more as he's going to reuse them.

poorbabe

Thanks you guys. I had to move my sight test to August so I'll wait to see what the results are, what they suggest, then politely raise the reglazing issue.

veronarona

andrewmoorcroft wrote: »

Most suppliers recommend polycarbonate lenses as the best for rimless but the company mentioned in the glasses thread (cilaryblue) dont offer them. When i rang them they didnt recommend them for rimless because they distort at the holes. I'm confused.

Did you go for Ciliary Blue reglazing in the end, Andrew? They look almost ideal for me but I hadn't noticed that they don't do polycarbonate for rimless (I was fooled by the "ultra thin"), which is what I have and would like replaced. The only thing with polycarbonate is that it does fingerprint badly, but I dread anything heavier and am prepared to put up with frequent cleaning.

I'm extremely broke but my eyes have deteriorated significantly, I feel, in the past year or so.

veronarona

ciliaryblue_company_representative

Hi veronarona,
We can reglaze any pair of glasses with polycarbs, they are strong and extremely light, but we have found after doing many thousands of rimless, that they become very brittle when drilled and tend to crack and 'star' around the drill holes. We tend now to use standard lenses as they have a higher success rate. If you wanted polycarbs they would cost the same as our 1.60 index lenses and it would mean giving us a call to order rather than on-line.

hanster

which type of lense are the lightest/ thinnest?

Also do anyone know where to get nose pad replacements from since the ones on my rimless glasses are going yellowish !

veronarona

I'm 99.9% sure that polycarbonate are the lightest/thinnest lenses. I'm very impressed with the non-scratch properties of mine, too.

I don't know about nose pads - but they can't be difficult to replace because I'm sure I've seen offers for specs with spares included.

veronarona

HKB33

As a result of these forums me and my family have had their glasses made very cheaply, we have used ciliaryblue exclusively so much so that they have given me a loyalty promotion code that reduces the value of the pruchase by 10%, my friend used this same code today for her first purchase and got the same discount. Try and save a little more, the code is exp001. I hope it works for you guys too.