Greater Kailash is builder floors, and almost every job here happens in a building that is occupied. One floor is being renovated while the floors above and below carry on as normal. That single fact shapes everything: how much noise we can make, when we can make it, how big a panel can come up, and how clean we have to leave at the end of each day.
The lift is the specification
Builder-floor lifts in GK are small. Many take a panel no longer than about six and a half feet on the diagonal, and a good number of floors have no lift at all.
So we measure the lift car and the lift door before we design anything. It is the first measurement we take, ahead of the bathroom itself, because it is the one that cannot be argued with. Toughened glass is made to size and cannot be cut down afterwards.
Where the enclosure needs a taller panel than the lift will take, there are two honest answers and we will give you both: carry it up the stair, if the stair turn allows, or build the run as two panels with a slim joint. What we will not do is order a panel and find out on the day.
Working above and below people
Your neighbours did not ask for your renovation. In practice that means the noisy work has a window, and the window is usually 10am to 5pm.
The loud part of a shower enclosure is short: cutting out the old screen, cleaning the silicone off, and drilling the tile for the fittings. We do all of that first, early in the day, rather than at four in the afternoon.
We also take the mess with us. Glass dust and silicone on a shared stair is how a job gets stopped by an RWA on day two. Each day ends with the stair and the landing clean, which is not a courtesy so much as the reason we are allowed back tomorrow.
Replacing rather than fitting new
Most GK bathrooms have had something in them before. Taking it out properly is a real part of the job and it is worth pricing honestly.
An old screen has been sealed to the tile for years. It comes out, the old silicone comes off, and what is underneath is not always sound. Occasionally a tile lifts with it, and occasionally the wall behind is damp because the seal failed long ago and nobody looked.
We check for that when we measure, not on fitting day. If there is damp, the right order is to fix it and then glaze, because sealing new glass onto a wet wall just hides the problem for a year.
