Visio Optical has been fitting eyewear in Holland Village for nearly twenty years, and lens replacement has been part of the work throughout: new lenses cut and edged to the frame you already own, rather than a new pair.
At Visio Optical, you can expect a lens replacement that is:
- Available for the vast majority of frame shapes and brands
- As fast as 10 minutes for stock lenses on full frames
- As fast as 30 minutes for rimless frames
- As fast as 1 day for progressive lenses
- 100% done in-house
- Done with the most advanced equipment available on the market
- Done by professionally trained technicians
Lens replacement for glasses and sunglasses
For Spectacles
Looking to replace the lenses in your spectacles? We will take the utmost care of your frame.
Whether you want to use the same prescription of your old lenses, or you want to use a new prescription, we can do it. And we offer the widest range of lenses, from standard lenses to the most premium lenses available on the market.
You can trust Visio Optical for your spectacles lens replacement.
For Sunglasses
We offer replacement lenses for all brands of sunglasses, including Ray-Ban, Oakley, Maui Jim, Persol, Prada, and more. Upgrade your sunglasses to polarized lenses for glare-free vision, especially when driving.
Why get a new pair of sunglasses when you can restore the sunglasses you have? Your new lenses will be scratch free and you can choose from a wide range of colors to freshen up your old look. Your shades will thank you and you’ll be smiling for weeks.
When you need it
Scratches
Scratches on lenses are a very common problem, especially with the use of plastic lenses. Even when you are careful, lenses tend to get scratches over time. Scratches get in the way, affecting the sharpness of your vision.
You don’t need to endure the discomfort of scratched lenses. Don’t compromise your eyesight.
Coat peeling
Today’s lenses are treated with coatings in order to resist scratches, dust, smudges and reflections, while also protecting your eyes. However, the coating itself gets damaged over time.
While it may look like scratches, that film flaking off your lenses means that the coating is peeling off, and your glasses may have reached the end of the line. Lens coatings can last anywhere from a year to about two years. With higher-quality coating and proper care, the life of your lenses can increase to 3-4 years.
A damaged coating can reduce and impair your vision dramatically.
Broken lenses
We all know that accidents happen. Spectacles fall on the floor, sunglasses are sat on, and many other mishaps can occur to your eyewear.
What can do when your lenses are broken? Visio Optical can help you and replace with new lenses.
Change of prescription
As a general rule, you should have an eye exam once a year. If your prescription has changed, you can get a new pair of spectacles, or you may want to put new lenses you your own frame.
And if you’re buying glasses for your child whose prescription changes often, you can ask to have new lenses put in the old frames, rather than buying new frames each time.
Change of lens colors
If you frequently go outside, you should wear sunglasses (with or without prescription). And if you are bored of the color of your lenses, you can change them.
Bring your sunglasses back to life with new colors. Polarized and non-polarized lenses are available at Visio Optical.
Special shapes: wraps, rimless and steep curves
Most optical shops are unable to replace lenses that are very curve, or with odd shapes. At Visio Optical, we use the most advanced lens cutting technology, and we are not limited by constraints in the frame shape.
Wrap sunglasses and curved frames
Sunglasses are built on a far steeper curve than most spectacles, and a lens for a wrap shape has to be surfaced and edged to follow that curve so it seats cleanly in the rim or groove instead of fighting it. Shapes from makers such as Oakley, Maui Jim, Ray-Ban and Persol are the ones that most often need this kind of work.
Tints can be solid or graduated, polarised or plain. The material chosen and the depth of the frame’s groove both set how thin the lens edge can be taken, which is why a deeply curved frame and a flat one are not the same job.
An older frame is worth looking over before anything is cut: acetate that has spent years in sun and heat behaves differently from new material, and rim grooves wear. Bringing the frame in means it can be measured and checked as it is, rather than assumed from a photograph.
What decides the work on your own frame
Two lens replacements in the same prescription can be quite different pieces of work. The frame sets most of it: a full acetate rim, a rimless mount drilled through the lens and a steeply curved wrap each call for different edging, and a deep groove allows a thinner edge than a shallow one.
The lens itself is the other half of the decision:
- Design — single vision, or a progressive corridor that has to be positioned against where the frame sits on the face.
- Material and index — a higher index takes the edge thinner at the same prescription, and polycarbonate and Trivex are the usual choices for rimless mounts and sports shapes.
- Coatings and tints — anti-reflective and hard coats, and for sunglasses a tint that can be solid or graduated, polarised or plain.
- Maker — lenses from ZEISS and Hoya.
Because the frame governs so much of it, the frame is measured as it is rather than assumed from a description: bring it in, and the shape, the groove and the condition of the material can all be looked over before anything is cut.