Hoodi and Brookefield went up quickly around the tech parks, and most of it is now ten to fifteen years old. That age is the whole story here. The offices are settled rather than new, so the work is changing a layout rather than building one from scratch. And in the towers, the first bathroom fittings have reached the point where they start to fail.
Repair or replace, answered honestly
This is the question we get most from this area, and it depends on which part has failed.
If the glass is sound and only the hinges, seals or handle have gone, that is a real repair. It costs far less than a new enclosure.
If the frame has rusted, the seals have worn out and the silicone behind the tiles has failed, that is what fifteen years looks like. Fixing one of those three only lasts a few months, and you pay for the visit twice. Send a photo of the door edge and the bottom track, and we will tell you which it is before anyone travels.
Changing an office layout that already exists
Most office work here is a second or third layout of the same floor. Taking a partition down, adding a run, re-hanging a door that has dropped.
How easy that is depends on how the floor was built. Aluminium frame partitions unbolt and go back up somewhere else. Frameless panels only fit an opening of exactly the same size, because toughened glass (safety glass) cannot be re-cut.
So if you know your layout will keep changing, tell us before you order. On this kind of building a frame often works out cheaper over five years, even where frameless is cheaper on day one.
Getting material up in a settled tower
A block full of families runs stricter than a block still in fit-out. Expect a gate pass, worker IDs, a booked service lift and set daytime hours.
We arrange all of it. We measure the lift as well as the bathroom, because the lift decides the largest panel we can carry up.
Give us the tower name at the first call. One phone call to the facility desk tells us the lift size and the working hours. That is enough to price the job properly instead of guessing.
