Houses of this age have small high-level ventilators above the doors and windows, put there to move air before anybody had a ceiling fan in every room. Most are now painted shut, broken or blocked, and they are the cheapest thing in the house to put right for the amount of difference they make.
What the ventilators were for
A high-level ventilator lets hot air out at the top of a room while cooler air comes in lower down, which is how these houses were designed to work.
Once painted shut or blocked, the room relies entirely on the window and the fan.
Freeing them is usually a small job — cutting the paint line, freeing the pivot, replacing a broken pane or a missing mesh. In a room that gets hot in the afternoon it makes a genuine difference, and almost nobody asks for it.
Glass and mesh in a ventilator
These often have a single small pane and, where there was mesh, it has long gone.
A ventilator without mesh is an open invitation once it is working again, which is usually why it was blocked in the first place.
So when we free one we fit mesh in a small removable frame at the same time. It is a few hundred rupees and it is the difference between a ventilator that gets used and one that gets shut again within a week.
Reaching things at high level in a tall room
Ventilators sit above door height, and in a house with tall rooms that is beyond comfortable ladder reach for most people.
That is largely why they stay broken: not because the repair is difficult but because nobody wants to get up there.
So it is worth having them all done in one visit while we are already set up rather than one at a time. On a house with six or eight of them the difference between one visit and several is most of the cost.
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.
