Kaushambi is small, dense and almost entirely commercial - hotels, clinics, offices and retail packed into a few blocks beside Anand Vihar. There is very little residential work here. What there is instead is a steady flow of hospitality and office glass, nearly all of it done outside the hours the businesses trade.
Hotel work happens a room at a time
There are several hotels in this small block, and their glass work has a rhythm of its own: rooms come out of service one or two at a time, never a whole floor.
That suits this trade well. A single bathroom enclosure is a day's work, so we can move down a corridor room by room while the hotel keeps trading. We finish each room fully and hand it back clean rather than leaving three part-done.
The useful thing is that hotel rooms repeat. Once we have measured two, we know the rest, which makes a standing arrangement across a block of rooms much cheaper per room than a series of single visits. Tell us the whole plan at the start even where the budget is spread across months.
Working around business hours
Almost nothing here can happen between ten and eight. Offices are working, clinics are seeing patients, the hotels have guests.
So the work is early morning or night, and that is normal rather than a special arrangement. Night work is also easier logistically in Kaushambi, because the streets are tight and a delivery vehicle standing during the day is a problem for the whole block.
Night working costs more in labour and nothing more in glass, because a night window needs a larger team to finish a section in one go, plus a setup and clear-down at each end. We show that as a separate labour line rather than adding it later as a premium.
Entrance doors and the traffic they take
A hotel or clinic entrance is opened and closed hundreds of times a day, and it is the hardest-working thing we fit anywhere.
So the floor spring matters more than the glass. A commercial-rated floor spring is built for that cycle count. A lighter one looks identical on the day, costs less, and starts slamming or drifting open within a year - in a hotel lobby or a waiting room that is a real problem rather than a cosmetic one.
We fit the rated part and tell you which one it is. Locks and handles on a public entrance are wear items with a service life too, not fittings that last forever, and it is better to set that expectation at the start than to have the conversation in month ten.
