A building let room by room generates a steady stream of small faults, and dealing with them one at a time is the most expensive possible approach. The efficient way here is a regular visit that works through everything at once, because the travel and setting up cost more than most of the individual repairs.
One visit, a whole building
In a building with eight or ten rooms there is always something: a catch, a mesh, a mirror, a door that will not lock.\n\nIndividually none is worth a call-out, and together they are a morning.\n\nSo we would rather attend monthly or quarterly and work through the list than come out for each. It costs the owner considerably less per item and it means faults get fixed while they are small rather than after a tenant has forced something.
Locks and doors in a shared building
Room doors in a let building are the most-used and least-maintained items in it, and a lock that has to be forced is a lock that is about to fail.\n\nWhen it does, the tenant is locked out or the room cannot be secured, and that becomes urgent immediately.\n\nSo a lock that has started to stick is worth changing at the next visit rather than waiting. It is an inexpensive part, and the alternative is an emergency call-out plus a damaged door.
Windows that have been forced
In shared accommodation windows get forced rather than serviced, and a sliding window that has been pushed hard for months has usually bent its interlock.\n\nAt that point new rollers alone will not fix it, because the sash is no longer straight.\n\nSo we check whether a window has been distorted before quoting parts. Where it has, the honest answer is a replacement sash rather than hardware, and we would rather say so than fit rollers into a frame that will chew them up again.
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.
