Houses around DVG Road and NR Colony have been added to, re-floored and re-roofed over many decades. Shops on Gandhi Bazaar have traded from the same place for generations. Very little in either is straight any more. If you pretend it is, the glass job ends up with a gap you can see from the doorway.
Why a frame nearly always wins here
After forty or fifty years a building has moved. The walls lean a little, the floor is not level, and the opening is wider at one end than the other.
Frameless glass has almost no room for that. A gap shows along the edge, and a door may need a shim to close properly.
A slim aluminium frame has that room built into its channel. It usually costs a little less on a simple run because it takes thinner glass, and it hides a lot. Where a room has just been fully redone, frameless looks better again, and we will say so.
Glass shop fronts along Gandhi Bazaar
The shops here are old, busy and often narrow at the front. The work is entrance doors, display glass and front panels.
A shop door on a street this busy is opened hundreds of times a day. So it goes on a floor spring made for that, with a lock and handle to match. The floor spring is the part under the door that pulls it shut. We list every part on the written price, so you can compare a cheaper quote on what is really in it.
Anything that changes the shop face needs the building owner's yes, and often the local authority's. Start that early. On these streets the glass is ready long before the permission is.
How the job works
- Tell us about the jobSend a few photos, rough sizes and what you need. Use WhatsApp or the form. For a repair, a short video of the door moving helps a lot.
- We call you back in about 2 minutesWe confirm what you need and a time to visit. Where we can, we give you a rough price on the call.
- We come and measureWe measure the opening and check the walls, floor and ceiling around it. Anything made to size is made to these measurements, so they must be right.
- You get a written priceIt lists each item, with GST as its own line. If anything about the job changes, we tell you before we go ahead.
- We fit itYou approve the price and pay the advance. Our own team fits the work, checks that every door and window opens and closes properly, and clears up. Most jobs are done in 3 to 4 days.
