If a football, stone or other object has landed on your windscreen and caused it to shatter, here is some guidance on how to handle this situation.
Call a mobile windscreen repair specialist
The first thing you should do is find out if there are any mobile windscreen repair specialists operating their businesses near your home. The reason for this is as follows; if you don't use this specialist's services, the process of repairing the windscreen will be difficult.
Attempting to drive your car to a windscreen repair shop when even some of its windscreen is shattered could be extremely risky, as you need to be able to see out of every section of this window at all times in order to avoid causing accidents. The other option would be to get the car towed to a local windscreen repair shop. However, the expense of towing it, in combination with the cost of fixing the windscreen, could make your bill much higher than you might like. Additionally, transporting the car to this shop will take time and will mean that you will have to travel to these premises in order to collect it after it's been repaired.
Conversely, if you ask someone to come to your property and fix your car on the driveway, you won't have to pay any towing bill or endanger yourself by trying to drive the car whose windscreen is severely damaged. Instead, your windscreen will be repaired on the spot, for an affordable price.
Enquire about their window tint services when you first contact them
A lot of windscreen repair specialists also provide tinting services. If you have been meaning to have a tint added to your windows for a long time, but have never got round to doing it because you were unable to find the time, you might want to make use of this situation in order to get this task you've been postponing done. Given that you will have to wait the hour or so it takes to have the windscreen repaired, it should not be too much of a bother to wait an extra couple of hours to have a tint added to the other windows.
As such, when you call the repair specialist, ask them about their window tinting service after you have finished discussing the damaged windscreen. During the time it takes for them to reach your home, give some thought to how dark you want the tint to be. For example, if you do a lot of driving at night on poorly-lit rural roads, you might want to opt for a tint that lets a decent amount of light in, as in these circumstances a very dark tint might cause visibility issues.
For more information about window tints, contact a windscreen service in your area.