A CP partition job is an internal job. Inside your suite you have normal freedom to build cabins, meeting rooms and a reception front. The colonnade outside is protected, and the boundary between those two things is the first thing we establish, because getting it wrong stops a job rather than delaying it.
Designing a run to a 1930s lift
The lifts in these buildings are original or close to it, and many take a panel no longer than about six feet on the diagonal. Some upper-floor suites have no usable service lift at all.
So the panel schedule is designed backwards from the lift, not from the room. We measure the car, the door opening and the corridor turn before anything is drawn.
The result is that a full-height run in CP normally carries a slim vertical connector partway along. That is a deliberate detail here rather than a compromise - it is invisible from a few feet away, and it is the difference between panels that arrive and a made-to-size toughened panel stuck in a lobby that cannot be cut down to fit.
Night movement, and what it does to the programme
Materials cannot move through the circles freely during the day. In practice panels arrive at night or very early and are carried along the corridor while it is empty.
That has a specific effect on the programme: the delivery and the fitting become two separate operations on two different clocks, rather than one continuous day.
We plan them that way and price them that way. The glass costs what it costs anywhere; the installation here costs more because of the trips, the hours and the carrying. Showing that as its own labour line is fairer than folding it into a rate and letting it look like the glass is more expensive in CP, which it is not.
The line between your suite and the colonnade
Inside the suite: cabins, meeting rooms, internal doors, reception fronts. Ordinary work, and we do it often.
At the corridor face: not ordinary. Anything visible from the colonnade is heritage-governed, and approval sits above your landlord. It takes time unrelated to how long glass takes to make.
We establish which side of that line your job sits on before quoting. If it touches the frontage, the approval is the long pole and the glass is the easy part - and the worst outcome in this trade is starting a frontage without clearance, which ends in a stop-work notice and an opening that is neither old nor new.
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 backUsually the same day. Where we can, we give you a rough price on the call. Then you know if a visit is worth your time.
- We come and measureWe measure the opening. We also check the walls, floor, ceiling and the way in. Your glass is made to these final sizes, so they must be right.
- You get a written priceIt shows the glass, the fittings and the fitting work as separate lines. If anything about the job changes, we tell you before we go ahead.
- We make it and fit itYou approve the price and pay the advance. Then we make your glass. Our team delivers it, fits it, checks the doors line up and clears the site.
