Kootenay Glass

Nelson’s local glass shop since 1991

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206 Lakeside Drive · Nelson, BC

Nelson’s Local Glass Shop Since 1991

Auto. Home. Business. We’ve Got You Covered.

From a chipped windshield or broken sealed unit to a new shower enclosure, replacement windows or complete commercial glazing project, Kootenay Glass has been helping Nelson and the West Kootenays with their glass needs since 1991.

Automotive glassResidential glassCommercial glass
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The blue steel front of the shop at 206: a glass sign lettered Kootenay Glass & Mirror Ltd. for auto, residential, commercial and marine glass, over a dark-framed glass storefront and entrance door.
A man with long white hair, a straw hat and glasses, in a tie-dye shirt, raising a glass at a live-edge wood table outdoors under tall trees.

Our story · Since 1991

It Started With a Prairie Boy, a Set of Mountains and a Lot of Glass.

Long before there was Kootenay Glass, there was a prairie boy named Rob Wudkevich.

These days, most people around Nelson simply know him as Woody.

With his unmistakable long, luscious locks, his big personality and an even bigger heart, Woody became a friendly giant to some and simply “The Glass Man” to others.

What started as travels west eventually became permanent, and in 1991 Kootenay Glass was born in Nelson, British Columbia.

More than three decades later, Woody has technically semi-retired.

Technically.

Today, the Kootenay Glass family is led by Dale Bonderud, supported by a great group of friendly, service-oriented technicians who take pride in doing quality work.

Take care of your neighbours. Do good work. Stand behind it.

We’ve Got You Covered.

Read Woody’s whole story

What we do

Auto. Home. Business.

Automotive

Windshields, chips, ICBC claims, fleets and specialty vehicles.

Cars, pickups, commercial trucks, classics, trailers, motorhomes and heavy equipment.

Automotive glass
A large walk-in shower behind frameless glass with black hardware, a teak bench inside and two rain heads overhead.

Residential

Glass for the place you call home.

Showers, mirrors, railings, screens, fogged windows and sealed units, windows and doors.

Residential glass
A glass storefront entrance: a two-storey curtain wall of glass over a row of four automatic sliding doors.

Commercial

Glass for the places where the Kootenays work.

Storefronts, entrances, commercial doors, automatic operators, repairs and complete commercial glazing projects.

Commercial glass

In the shop on Lakeside Drive

We are real local people who care about the work.

Meet the Kootenay Glass family
Three work trucks with glass racks parked outside the blue shop building, with forested mountains behind.

Why us

Why Kootenay Glass?

  1. Local Since 1991

    We’re not a national chain or a call centre somewhere else. Our shop is on Lakeside Drive, our people live here and the customers walking through our door are our neighbours.

  2. One Glass Shop. A Lot of Experience.

    Cars, homes, businesses, heavy equipment, mirrors, showers, windows, doors and commercial construction: glass is what we do.

  3. We Actually Care

    We know your vehicle matters to you. We know construction inside your home is disruptive. We know downtime costs businesses money.

    Our job isn’t just to install glass. Our job is to make the whole experience easier.

  4. Backed When We Need It

    We have the local service and accountability of Kootenay Glass combined with the additional resources of our sister companies when a larger or more specialized project requires them.

The orange steel truss of the Nelson bridge over the lake, with houses on the hillside and evergreen branches in the foreground.
Gloved hands scoring a sheet of glass with a cutter along a straightedge, the workshop reflected in the glass.
A technician’s hands injecting resin into a stone chip on a windshield.
Two hands holding a caulking gun, a tube of sealant loaded, against a glass and metal frame.
Baker Street in Nelson: brick heritage buildings with a green turret and a painted hotel sign, parked cars below and a forested mountain behind.

Nelson, BC

Proud to Call Nelson Home.

We came here for the mountains and stayed because of the people.

Kootenay Glass has been part of Nelson since 1991. We work here, play here, raise families here and believe strongly in supporting the businesses, organizations and events that make this corner of British Columbia special.

From our neighbours

What Our Neighbours Say

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Need Glass?

You don’t need to know exactly what it’s called.

Tell us what’s broken, what you’re building or what you’re trying to accomplish, and we’ll help you figure out the rest.

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