What a double storey house means in Gulshan-e-Iqbal
A double storey in Gulshan-e-Iqbal is decided in the first slab: the stair, the toilet drops, and the weight of the upper floor. If the house is already standing, the first job is to look at that slab.
What usually goes wrong
Promising the first floor later, on concrete nobody designed for it.
Labor rate
Labor for two floors includes the stair. A hole with no stair is not a complete structure. On a labor rate we build the bungalow and you arrange the material. The veranda and the stair are still drawn first. A labor gang cannot invent them on site without costing you the room they occupy.
With material
With material, the upper floor is in the steel of the first slab, or it is refused. It is not implied. With material, we supply what the bungalow scope lists and we build it. Shade, the roof, and the wet areas are in that list. A glass front is not a substitute for a veranda that works in June.
What moves the figure
A bungalow rate in Gulshan-e-Iqbal moves with the covered area, whether the car actually fits the lane, and whether the contract is labor only or with material.
Have this ready when you call
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The plot dimensions, measured, including any cut the road has taken.
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Who lives in the house, so the rooms are not a foyer with beds around it.
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Whether the car must enter, and from which side.
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Labor rate or with material.
Labor rate or with material
Call for the Gulshan-e-Iqbal rate.
Maymarian builds Karachi residential houses on 80, 120, 240, 400, 600, 800, and 1,000 square yard plots. You can take a labor rate, or a contract with material. The figure is given on the phone, for this plot.
Labor rate
We build. You arrange the material. The labor rate follows the covered area on the Gulshan-e-Iqbal plot.
With material
Labor and material in one contract. Cement, steel, and the rest sit in the scope we read with you.
What you are walking into
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Cross ventilation was never asked about.
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The bungalow is sealed toward the only breeze the lane gets.
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The bungalow looks impressive from the gate and airless at 3 p.m.
What changes after the visit
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A modest bungalow is allowed to stay modest.
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Wet areas share a wall.
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Shade is drawn before glass.
After keys
A small office, but the same people who sat in the first meeting walked the slab with us.
Ahmed Raza, Bungalow Eleven, Gulshan-e-Maymar
Weekly reports, staged payments, no disappearing act. That is why we used them again.
Tariq Farhan, Palm Court, Seaview
They stayed on site until the snag list was closed. Handover matched the drawings we signed.
Imran Habib, Azure House, Clifton
The office
A weekly note that hides the problem is not a note we send.
Tariq Mansoor Bangash, Owner
double storey house in Gulshan-e-Iqbal
A double storey house in Gulshan-e-Iqbal is decided in the first slab. The stair, the toilet drops, and the weight of the upper floor have to be in the concrete. Promising the first floor later, on a slab nobody designed for it, is how the argument starts.
If the house is already standing and you want a floor added, that is a look at the existing structure, not a paint job. Bungalow either includes the upper floor now or it says the slab cannot take it.
Bungalow in Gulshan-e-Iqbal follows this ground. Gulshan-e-Iqbal is already built up. A new house is an insertion between neighbours. Working hours, the gate opposite, and an old footing in the ground matter more than a new elevation.
On this ground
Gulshan-e-Iqbal sits in the part of Karachi this office already works. We do not fly a crew in for a single slab.
A house in Gulshan-e-Iqbal should still be legible in ten years.
From Gulshan-e-Maymar the drive is a known one. Inside Gulshan-e-Iqbal the lane, not the block name, decides how concrete arrives.
Gulshan-e-Iqbal is already built up. A new house is an insertion between neighbours. Working hours, the gate opposite, and an old footing in the ground matter more than a new elevation.
Do you build a double storey in Gulshan-e-Iqbal?
Yes, when the structure is drawn for two floors. Call 0321-2000130 or 0321-2000690 for the labor rate or the rate with material. An extra floor on an old slab waits until we have seen that slab.
Do you give a bungalow rate for Gulshan-e-Iqbal?
After the visit. Not on the phone.
Is a bungalow just a smaller house?
It is a single-family house with its own ground. It is not a villa with rooms deleted to fit the plot.
Can you keep the plan modest?
Yes. A smaller bungalow with usable rooms is a success. A double-height foyer that deletes a bedroom is not.
Call for the rate
Send the plot number. Say the yardage. The visit is next. Labor rate or with material. The figure is on the phone.