Boston Glass & Boarding Service, Inc.

Boston Glass & Boarding Service has been fixing windows in Dorchester since 1972, when a 20-year-old named Sid Shubert started out boarding up broken storefront glass for commercial clients before expanding into full installation work. The company says it's still family run today, even after Shubert passed away in 2012, working out of the same Dorchester Ave address on everything from storefront glass and emergency board-ups to auto glass, mirrors, tabletops, and shower installs around Boston. The reviews that exist are uniformly positive. Google shows a perfect five-star rating across its ratings, and BBB gives the company an A+ with no complaints on file, though it hasn't sought formal BBB accreditation. One of the two most recent Google reviews, from April, describes a plain, ordinary job: a small pane of glass ordered for a customer's front door, with a courtesy call when it was ready. The other, from January, is harder to take at face value — it describes fixing a chipped window on an "18.4 million dollar" mansion and a Lamborghini Veneno Roadster, phrasing so over-the-top it reads more like a joke submission than a typical customer account, even though it carries five stars. Set that one aside, and the pattern across two years and five sources — 12 reviews total — is a shop people call for ordinary glass work and come away satisfied with, including a Nextdoor thread where neighbors specifically point others toward it for window repairs. There's no complaint on record to weigh against that, but the sample is still modest for a business that's operated more than five decades, worth keeping in mind before leaning too hard on the perfect rating. This is a reasonable call for routine glass work — a cracked pane, a boarded-up storefront, a broken shower panel — from a shop with real longevity in the neighborhood. Get a firm quote and timeline up front, since the reviews don't say much either way about pricing or scheduling.