Defence Colony was built as single-family bungalows for officers. Most of them are now something else. The ground floor is a clinic or a design studio, and the floors above are flats for the family or tenants. So in one building we might fit a clinic's reception glass downstairs and a shower enclosure two floors up.
A clinic below, a family above
Many Defence Colony buildings now hold a business on the ground floor and homes above it. That is workable, and it changes how we plan the day.
The noisy work, like drilling and cutting out old fittings, goes first and early. The shared stair is cleaned at the end of every session. And we never leave a partition half-standing overnight in a building where people live.
So we size each day to what will truly finish.
Consulting rooms need privacy at seated height
There are many clinics here, and one detail matters more than any other. In an office, the frosted band on glass sits at standing eye height. In a consulting room that is the wrong height.
The patient is sitting down. So the band goes lower, at seated height. We set that line on site with you, standing and sitting where your patients will. It takes five minutes and saves a film being stuck on later.
Rooms that were never square
These bungalows are fifty years old and have been altered many times. Walls lean a little, floors slope, and a beam often sits exactly where the glass wants to go.
So we measure the real room, not the drawing. Each panel is cut for the room it goes into. Where the floor slopes, we set the glass line from the finished floor. Where there is a beam, the run steps around it cleanly.
