Furniture and carpentry in Bangalore

Neither is better as a policy, and the honest answer is item by item. A factory panel is machine-cut and machine edge-banded, so it is flatter and more consistent than anything cut on a landing. A site-built unit is scribed to the wall it actually meets, which matters where walls are out of true, where a beam cuts the corner, and on panelling and one-off pieces. The useful question is not which method but which method for which item — and a quotation should say which one each component was priced as.

The board is named per item on the quotation rather than described as a category. In wet and damp positions — utility, bathroom vanities, walls that share a face with a bathroom — BWP plywood to IS 710 is the grade to specify. In dry bedrooms MR or BWR plywood to IS 303, or HDHMR, is usually appropriate. What matters as much as the grade is that it is written down before cutting, because board is the line an unusually low rate per square foot is most often cutting.

About a week for drawings and sign-off, then two to three weeks to make and fit a single site-built wardrobe. Three wardrobes run to roughly 18 to 25 working days once the drawings are signed. Factory-made units are different: four to eight weeks of supply time, then about a week to fit. The three usual causes of delay are a laminate chosen late, a wall that is not ready, and hardware that turns out to be out of stock.

As an indicative 2026 band, a hinged wardrobe in basic laminate runs about ₹1,100 to ₹1,800 per sq ft of front area; the same wardrobe in BWP or HDHMR with branded hardware about ₹1,800 to ₹2,600; and a premium wardrobe in acrylic, PU or veneer about ₹2,600 to ₹4,500. Sliding wardrobes are wider again, roughly ₹2,200 to ₹5,500, because the track and the shutter construction carry the door weight. These are planning bands, not a quotation — the figure for your wardrobe comes from measuring it and pricing the items.

Hinged is cheaper for the same specification, gives you the whole opening at once, and needs swing space in front of it. Sliding costs more and always keeps one bay closed, but it needs no clearance, which is what makes it the answer in a narrow bedroom or against the foot of a bed. Sliding also puts more load on the hardware, so the track has to be rated for the door weight and height rather than chosen by price.

A labour-only arrangement can be quoted, and the indicative bands are around ₹240 to ₹400 per sq ft for wardrobes, ₹220 to ₹350 for TV units and ₹180 to ₹250 for lofts. It is worth being clear about what changes: you carry the procurement, the wastage and the responsibility for board and hardware quality, and a defect then has two possible owners rather than one. Whether a particular job is taken on that basis is agreed before it starts.

Hardware is specified by brand and series on the quotation rather than as 'branded hardware', because the series is what carries the rating. Hettich, Hafele and Blum are the ranges usually specified for soft-close hinges and drawer systems. Sliding tracks are selected against the door weight and height rather than by name alone. If a quotation you are comparing does not name the series, that is worth asking about before comparing the totals.

Both are avoidable, and both are decided by detailing rather than by luck. Swelling starts at an unsealed cut edge or at board standing directly on a floor that gets mopped, so every exposed edge wants banding and the carcass wants to sit clear of the floor. On a wall that shares a face with a bathroom or takes monsoon damp, the answer is BWP board and a ventilation gap behind the back panel rather than a better finish on the front. Borer and termite treatment can be specified where the position calls for it.

Yes, and it is the straightforward case: the drawings are checked against site measurements, the boards, finishes and hardware are named against each item, and the work is quoted from that. Where a detail cannot be built as drawn — a shutter that fouls a beam, a scribe that will not close against an out-of-true wall — it is raised before cutting rather than improvised on site.

The defects period, what it covers and what it excludes are stated in the project scope before work begins rather than left to the end. As a general matter, manufacturing and workmanship are the things a joinery warranty is about; wear, misuse, water damage from a leak elsewhere, and hardware adjusted or replaced by someone else usually sit outside it. Where warranty cards, board invoices and a care sheet form part of the agreed scope, they are handed over at completion.