Something in your home, office or shop has stopped working. A door that will not lock. A wardrobe shutter off its channel. A mirror coming away from the wall. A railing that shakes. A rolling shutter that will not lift. Most of the time the thing itself is fine. One small part has worn out, or one fixing has failed. We come out, find which, and change it.
Why things stop closing, sliding and locking
Anything that moves hangs on two or three small parts. Those parts carry its whole weight, every day, for years. When one of them wears, the door or the shutter drops by a few millimetres. That is enough to make it rub, miss the lock, or stop shutting flush.
On a glass door it is usually the floor spring or the patch fittings. On an aluminium or uPVC door it is usually the hinges or the lock keeper. On a wooden door or a wardrobe it is usually the hinge screws, which have pulled loose. On anything that slides it is nearly always the rollers.
None of these needs a new door, a new window or a new wardrobe. Most of them are a part and an hour or two of work. We tell you which one it is before we start, and what that part costs.
Sliding doors, windows, wardrobes and drawers
A sliding shutter that has to be lifted or shoved is running on worn rollers. The rollers sit under the panel and take its full weight. When the bearings go, the panel drops onto the track and drags. A drawer that sticks is the same fault on a smaller channel.
We change the rollers for a pair rated for the weight of the panel. We also dress the track, which means filing the worn groove smooth again. Skipping that part is why new rollers sometimes fail within months. Then we reset the guides and the stoppers so the panel cannot jump out.
This is the same job on an aluminium window, a uPVC door, a glass slider, a wardrobe shutter and a kitchen drawer. Several of them in one flat or one office share a single visit, so each one costs less.
Broken glass, cracked table tops and loose mirrors
Call us first if glass has cracked or shattered. On the first visit we take out whatever is left, clear the pieces away, and cover the opening so the place is safe to use. Broken glass can usually be made safe the same day.
New glass is made to your sizes, so we measure properly, and it takes a few days to cut and toughen. We match the type and the thickness you had before, unless there is a good reason to change it, and we tell you if there is. A table top, a shelf, a partition panel, a railing panel, a shop front and a window pane are all the same job. So is a mirror, which we cut to size and fix with the right adhesive and clips.
Glass is priced by the square foot, fitted. A cracked pane in an aluminium, wooden or uPVC frame is the same job again: the frame stays, the glass and the gasket are new.
Railings, grills, gates and rolling shutters
A railing or a grill that shakes has lost a fixing, not its strength. The anchor bolt has worked loose in the wall, or a bracket has cracked. We re-fix it with proper anchors, change the bracket, and check every other fixing along the run while we are there.
A gate that drags or will not latch is the same fault as a door: worn hinges, or a keeper out of line. Where the hinges are bolted on, we change them and re-set the gate. Welded hinges need welding, which is not work we do. A collapsible gate that judders is running on worn wheels, and we change those too.
A rolling shutter that is stuck, heavy or loud is usually the spring or the bearings. We change them, grease the guides and reset the stoppers. On any of these, if the job needs welding or a new section of metal, we tell you on the call. That is not work we do.
Wardrobes, kitchens and cabinets
A kitchen shutter usually hangs on two hinges and a wardrobe shutter on three. When one wears, the shutter drops and its edge hits the next one. We change the hinges and re-set the shutter, and we fit soft-close hinges if you want the slamming to stop.
A drawer that sticks, tips or has come out is running on a worn channel. We change the pair of channels for ones rated for the weight of the drawer. A storage bed whose lid will not stay up has a gas lift that has lost its pressure, and we change that for one rated for the weight of the lid.
Locks, handles, knobs and magnets on any cupboard, almirah or locker are changed on the same visit.
Wood, uPVC and steel: what we do, and what we do not
Fabrockers installs, replaces and repairs glass, aluminium, uPVC, wood and steel work. uPVC doors and windows are repaired in full: handles, locks, rollers, rubbers, hinges, sealing and the glass itself.
On anything wooden or steel we do the part that is mechanical: hinges, handles, locks, closers, channels, rollers, gas lifts, re-fixing and alignment. That covers most of what goes wrong with these things.
We do not do carpentry, new wooden shutters, polishing, welding, fabrication or painting. If your job needs one of those, say so on the call and we will tell you straight away. It costs you nothing to ask, and a wasted visit helps neither of us.
What we can nearly always do is make the thing close, lock, slide and sit properly again.
What a repair costs
Two things make up the bill. There is the part, and there is the visit.
Every part we fit is one fixed price, supplied and fitted. A door closer costs the same on a small door as on a big one, so it is priced per door and not by size. The same is true of hinges, handles, rollers and channels. Those prices are listed above and they are the prices we charge.
The visit covers travel and up to two hours of work. If the job needs no new part, the visit is the whole bill. Several things in the same building can often be looked at in the same visit, though more than a couple may need extra time. Glass and mirrors are the one thing priced by area, because a bigger pane genuinely costs more to make.
How fast we can come
We work in Bengaluru and Delhi NCR, Monday to Sunday, 9am to 8pm. Offices and shops can ask us for night or Sunday work. Each city has its own team. In the service areas we list, the team in your city can usually reach you within 29 minutes. That depends on traffic and on which team is free.
Most repairs are finished on that same visit, because the team carries the common hinges, handles, locks, closers, rollers and channels. A part we do not carry is usually a day or two. Glass and mirrors cut to size take a few days to make.
If the thing has to stay usable in the meantime, tell us. We will make it safe on the first visit and come back to finish.
