The residential side of Saket is older than the malls by a long way. DDA blocks and builder floors from around 1980, small bathrooms, no lift, and forty years of settlement in every wall. That age decides almost every choice in a shower enclosure here, and it is why we will not specify one from a photograph.
What forty years does to a bathroom wall
Nothing in a building of this age is perfectly plumb. Usually it is three or four millimetres over the height of a wall, which no other trade in the room would notice.
Frameless glass notices. The panel is cut square, so against a leaning wall it opens a gap that is wider at one end than the other. It reads as bad workmanship even though the wall caused it, and filling it with silicone only draws attention to it.
So we put a level on all three walls while measuring and tell you the number. Under about two millimetres, frameless sits fine. Beyond that, a slim frame is the honest answer, and in a small 1980s bathroom it usually looks better anyway.
Carrying glass up a 1980s staircase
There is no lift in most of these blocks, so every panel is carried up by hand and the turn in the stair sets the largest one that will make it.
We measure that turn on the same visit as the bathroom. People never think of it and it constrains the design more than the bathroom door does.
Where the enclosure wants a taller panel than the stair allows, we build it as two with a slim vertical joint rather than trying to persuade a made-to-size panel around a corner. Toughened glass cannot be trimmed afterwards and does not survive being forced.
The drainage question nobody asks until later
In bathrooms of this age the floor almost never falls evenly to the drain, and that matters to where the enclosure goes.
If the glass line sits on a high point, water pools on the wrong side of it and runs out under the door. No amount of sealing fixes that, because the water is not getting past the seal - it is arriving on the wrong side of it.
So we check the fall with a level while measuring, and where it is wrong we say so before you order. Sometimes the fix is moving the glass line by a few inches. Sometimes it means the floor needs attention first. Either way it is far cheaper to know now.
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 back in about 2 minutesWe confirm what you need and a time to visit. Where we can, we give you a rough price on the call.
- We come and measureWe measure the opening and check the walls, floor and ceiling around it. Anything made to size is made to these measurements, so they must be right.
- You get a written priceIt lists each item, with GST as its own line. If anything about the job changes, we tell you before we go ahead.
- We fit itYou approve the price and pay the advance. Our own team fits the work, checks that every door and window opens and closes properly, and clears up. Most jobs are done in 3 to 4 days.
