Almost nothing in Indiranagar was built for its use today. Cafes, studios, clinics and small offices work out of houses. These houses are thirty or forty years old. This shapes our work here. The rooms are odd shapes. The walls are rarely straight. And a vehicle cannot stand outside for long. So we plan the delivery as carefully as the glass.
Working inside a house that is now an office
An old house is not an empty floor. The rooms are already split up. The ceiling height changes from room to room. And there is often a beam right where you wanted the glass.
So we measure the room, not the drawing. Where the ceiling steps down, we make the panel follow it. In these houses the floor often slopes. So we set the glass line off the finished floor, not off a level line on the wall.
This is why we ask for a measuring visit before we quote more than one panel. A price from a photo of a house like this is only a guess.
The street decides the delivery
This is the practical thing about Indiranagar. Most crosses are narrow. Both sides are parked. A vehicle standing outside your building becomes a problem in minutes.
So we deliver early, unload straight away, and move the vehicle off the street. The panels then go up the stairs by hand.
This matters for the design too. The staircase in an old house has a tight turn. That turn sets the largest panel we can carry up. We measure that turn on the same visit as the room. Where a panel will not make it, we build the run as two panels with a slim joint. You cannot spot it from a few feet away.
Cafe and shop fronts on the main roads
On 100 Feet Road and CMH Road the work changes. Here it is entrance doors and front glass for cafes, salons and small showrooms. That door gets far more use than any office door.
So the front door goes on a floor spring made for public use, with a lock and handle to match. A lighter one looks the same on the day. But it starts slamming within a year.
We fit and repair these around your shop hours, usually before you open. Anything that changes the shop face needs the building owner to agree first, and often the local authority too. So start that early, not after the glass is made.
Bathrooms in the flats above
Above and behind the shops there are plenty of flats. Most are old enough that the shower work is a replacement, not a first fitting.
After twenty years, the walls in these buildings have usually moved a few millimetres out of straight. Frameless glass can barely hide that, so a gap shows along the edge. A slim aluminium frame takes it up inside the channel, and it often suits the bathroom better.
If your bathroom has just been re-tiled, frameless looks better and we will say so. We check with a level at the measuring visit. We do not decide in advance.
