Janakpuri is one of the older planned parts of Delhi, and the buildings show it in a useful way: they are consistent. The DDA blocks across A, B and C were built to the same handful of layouts, so the bathrooms and windows repeat. The district centre alongside them holds small offices, clinics and coaching floors. Both are straightforward work as long as nobody assumes a forty-year-old wall is straight.
Forty-year-old walls, and what they do to frameless glass
The DDA flats here are from the seventies, and after that long almost nothing is plumb. Usually it is only a few millimetres. In most trades a few millimetres does not matter. In frameless glass it does.
Frameless panels are cut square, so where the wall leans, a tapering gap opens along the edge. It reads as bad workmanship even though the wall caused it, and it cannot be closed with more silicone without looking worse.
So we check with a level while measuring. Where the wall is out, a slim aluminium frame is the right answer: the channel takes up the difference and seals properly. Where the bathroom has just been re-tiled and the walls are true, frameless looks better and we will say so. We decide it on site, with you, rather than in advance.
Small offices and coaching floors in the district centre
The district centre buildings hold small suites - agencies, clinics, coaching classrooms, back offices. The glass work here is cabins, reception fronts and dividing an open floor into rooms.
A coaching or classroom partition has a specific requirement that offices do not: it has to cut sound to a useful degree while keeping the floor visible. Single glass cuts less noise than people expect. Where quiet genuinely matters we say so and price a double-glazed partition, which is a different product at a different price, rather than sell a single-glazed one and let you discover it.
Most of these floors are leased. If yours is, tell us, because it changes what we recommend: an aluminium-framed system unbolts and comes out at the end of the lease, and a fully frameless one does not.
Repairs are most of the work here
In a locality this age, more of our work is repair than replacement. Windows that will not slide, doors that catch on the floor, wardrobe shutters off their track, handles that have worn through.
Almost all of it is the fitting rather than the frame. A sliding window that has stopped moving is nearly always its rollers, which sit under the panel and wear out after ten or fifteen years. Changing them takes under an hour. A door catching on the floor has usually dropped on its hinge or its floor spring, and that is adjusted or replaced rather than the door being rebuilt.
We check that first and say plainly which it is. Selling a whole new window when the rollers were the problem is the easiest sale in this trade, and it is not one we want to make twice to the same person.
