A finished house in a developing sector sits beside building work and unmade ground for years, and that puts far more dust into everything than a settled area does. It is temporary, it is worse than people expect, and most of the damage it causes is preventable with maintenance rather than repair.
Tracks that fill several times faster
Sliding window and door tracks here collect dust at a rate a settled area never sees, and that grit wears rollers and blocks the drainage slots.
Once those slots block, rain fills the track and goes inside, which reads as a leaking window and is nothing of the kind.
So the useful routine here is clearing tracks and slots twice a year rather than once, before the monsoon and again after the dry season. It takes minutes with a vacuum and it prevents most of what we would otherwise be called out for.
Cement dust, which damages glass permanently
Ordinary dust washes off. Cement dust is alkaline, and left on glass through rain and sun it etches the surface permanently — no cleaning recovers it.
So glass near active building work needs washing off rather than being left until it looks bad.
Where work is going on immediately adjacent, covering the affected windows for the duration is cheaper than replacing a hazed pane afterwards. It is worth doing for a neighbouring plot's construction as much as your own.
Mesh that clogs instead of tearing
In a dusty sector mesh blocks with fine particulate rather than failing mechanically, and a clogged mesh stops airflow almost completely.
People notice a room that has become stuffy rather than a mesh problem, and replace it, and six months later it is the same.
So mesh here has to come out to be washed, which means a rigid removable frame rather than mesh fixed to the window. Washed twice a year the airflow is fully restored, and the same mesh lasts for years.
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.
