Vasundhara is sector after sector of group housing built in the 2000s - fully occupied, well settled, and now at exactly the age where things start needing attention. Almost all our work here is bathrooms being redone and fittings being replaced. Because the blocks were built to a handful of layouts, we usually know what we will find before we walk in.
Repeating layouts, and the money in them
Vasundhara was built in blocks to a small number of plans, so within a society the flats repeat. The bathrooms are the same size. The windows are the same size.
That is worth something specific to you. The costs that do not shrink with a small job are the measuring visit, the delivery and a day of the team's time. Spread those across two or three flats in the same block rather than one flat on three trips, and the price per flat drops noticeably.
So if a neighbour is thinking about the same work, say so when you call. One trip, one lift session, one set of names in the register - and a better number for each of you. It costs us nothing to arrange and it is the single biggest saving available in this kind of work.
Mesh, and why the type matters
A good share of what we do here is not glass at all. Mosquito mesh on windows and balconies is constant work in these blocks, and the types are not interchangeable.
Fixed mesh is the cheapest and stays where it is put. Sliding mesh runs on the existing window track and suits sliding windows. Pleated and roll-up types fold or wind away when you want the full opening and the view back, and cost more for that.
We will show you each against your actual window rather than recommending one blind. The wrong choice here is not dangerous, it is just annoying every day for years - a fixed mesh across a window you wanted to open fully, or a pleated one on a window you never open.
Fifteen-year-old walls and frameless glass
The buildings have settled a little. Usually a few millimetres out of plumb, and usually nobody has ever noticed - until square-cut frameless glass goes against the wall.
Where a wall leans, a tapering gap opens along that edge. It reads as poor workmanship even though it is the building, and it cannot be filled with silicone without looking worse.
So we check with a level while measuring and tell you what we found. A slim aluminium frame absorbs the difference inside its channel and seals more reliably, and in a compact bathroom it often suits the room better anyway. Where a bathroom has recently been re-tiled and the walls are true, frameless is the better-looking answer and we will say so instead.
