THE BUILDERS CHOICE profile
BOYCE WESTERN GLASS Your one stop shop from design to installation
PROFILE
One hundred years of glass Experience, service and quality of product are vital requirements for survival over time in any commercial field of endeavour, but to have an unbroken history of 100 years in any industry is a rarely achieved event. Next year the Boyce Family who have been in the glass and glazing industry for four generations, will be celebrating a century of involvement in all aspects of the Traditional Leadlight and the Glass and Glazing sector. Thirty of those years have been in Western Australia providing a complete Commercial and Domestic Glass and Glazing and Traditional Leadlight services. The original family business was founded in Birmingham, UK by the great, great grandfather of the current Director of Boyce Western Glass, Philip Boyce. Over 70 years, the company expanded to operate throughout the Midlands region providing a glazing service involving the restoration and manufacture of traditional stained glass, domestic and commercial glazing and windscreen replacement for vehicles. In 1992, Philip emigrated from the UK to Perth and with his Father established Boyce Western Glass working from a leadlight studio in the foothills of the Darling Range. Restoration and Heritage work From this small studio, Boyce Western Glass has been involved in
numerous restoration works and other projects including churches and heritage listed properties. With its English roots, Boyce Western Glass are able to provide a more focused understanding and a greater perspective of the long history and tradition of manufacturing and preserving genuine lead and Zinc lights. Years in the leadlighting business, also means they keep a small stock of obsolete glass which enable them, in the majority of cases to match glass for renovation work. Boyce Western Glass also stocks a wide range of stained-glass colours and textures which can closely match older glass patterns and equally can be used to for creating more modern vibrant designs. Significant fluctuations in the economic climate over the years pushed Boyce Western Glass to add the speciality of Simulated Stained Glass to their repertoire becoming the Australian Distributor for the Regalead range of Self-adhesive Film and Lead products. These products offer not only the option of creating more intricate designs but affords customers on a smaller budget with the ability to still incorporate stunning stained-glass features in their home. This form of simulated stained glass has also been successfully used in heritage and modern church buildings alike to create a stained-glass feature which appeals to the more modern era of designs whilst meeting the budget restraints of the project.
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New Purpose factory and showroom With a growing reputation for outstanding craftsmanship, old fashioned service and absolute integrity together with a total commitment to the highest standards of design, materials & workmanship, the company soon outgrew the small hills studio. Whilst many customers today remember visiting the studio to get their leadlights repaired and
restored to their original beauty or to commission new stained-glass work to create a unique and stunning masterpiece in their home, today Boyce Western Glass operates out of a purpose-built factory located close to Perth Airport and main road links to the North, South and East of Perth. The new factory has allowed Boyce Western Glass to increase its range of stock holdings of textured glass patterns including
