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Yes, and we plan for them from the start rather than treating them as an obstacle to negotiate later. We provide the worker list with identity documents and vehicle details well ahead of mobilisation so passes can be issued, and we run these projects with a small fixed crew who are all cleared rather than a rotating labour pool, because a replacement cannot be sent in at short notice. Material is ordered in complete consignments against a full schedule instead of arriving as it runs out, and the site holds a buffer of consumables so a missing box of screws does not cost a day. The practical effect is that mobilisation takes a little longer here and the run of work is considerably steadier.

It depends less on floor area than on how long you expect to stay. A demountable fit-out for a quarter or a leased house — freestanding wardrobes, a bolted kitchen run, surface-mounted lighting, loose furniture, all designed to be dismantled and moved — typically runs ₹5–9 lakh. A full renovation of an older bungalow including plaster repair, services, and built-in joinery across multiple rooms generally falls between ₹14 and ₹26 lakh. Above ₹28 lakh you are into whole-house restoration with bespoke joinery throughout. The Cantt has a genuine spread because the housing stock does. These are indicative ranges; the itemised quote after a site visit prices each element separately, and in an old building the plaster and services lines are the ones worth reading first.

A permanent one, usually not. A demountable one, often yes. The question we would ask is what you want to own when you leave. If the answer is a well-fitted home now and a crate of good furniture and storage at the next station, then the money is well spent, because a fit-out designed as a kit — carcasses on levelling feet, a kitchen run that unbolts from its frame, lighting that plugs in rather than being chased into walls — moves with you and reassembles in a week. If the answer is that you want the house improved and are content to leave it behind, that is a different and smaller scope: paint, lighting, soft furnishing and loose furniture. What we would not recommend is built-in joinery scribed into walls you are handing back.

Yes, if it is designed for it from the beginning — retrofitting the idea afterwards does not work. A movable kitchen is built as bolted carcasses sitting on an independent levelling frame rather than being scribed and glued to the walls, with the counter in sections at the module joints instead of one continuous slab, services brought to the units through flexible connections at accessible points, and every panel labelled against an assembly drawing. It lifts out in a day or two and goes back up in about the same. The visible difference in the room is essentially nothing. The cost difference is modest, and it is recovered the first time you move. Appliances, sink and tap all travel; only the counter joints and the sealant are consumable.

Because it fails, usually within a season or two, and it takes the original plaster with it when it goes. Lime plaster is porous by design: moisture moves through thick old masonry and evaporates out through the surface. Cement render and modern plastic emulsion seal that surface, so the moisture accumulates behind the new layer until the pressure pushes it off the wall in sheets. The correct approach is to establish why the wall is damp in the first place — a broken gutter, a cracked plinth, a failed veranda or terrace slab are the usual four — repair that cause, then patch the plaster in like material and finish with a breathable mineral paint. It costs more than rendering over the problem and it is the only version that lasts.

Internal work that does not touch the structure or the external appearance generally does not, while anything altering the elevation, the roof line, the built footprint or an external opening generally does — but the rules are the Cantonment Board's and they change, so the only safe answer is to confirm your specific scope with the Board or your estate office before committing to it. If you are in a service quarter or a leased property there will usually be a separate permission required from the allotting authority as well. We will tell you plainly which parts of a proposed scope are likely to need an application, keep the design inside what is permitted where you would rather avoid one, and prepare the drawings if you do decide to apply.

Design and drawings take two to three weeks, and pass clearance runs alongside them rather than after. A demountable fit-out for a quarter is typically four to seven weeks on site, because most of it is manufactured in the workshop and assembled here. A bungalow renovation generally runs twelve to eighteen weeks, and the spread is wide for a reason — plaster and damp repair in an old building cannot be fully scoped until a wall is opened, and we would rather tell you that at the start than issue a variation halfway through. Restricted vehicle entry means deliveries are scheduled rather than ad hoc, which is built into the programme. You get a dated schedule before work begins and a weekly update against it.

No. The first visit is free and carries no obligation, though it does need arranging a little further ahead than elsewhere because of the entry formalities. In an older property we spend longer on it than we would in a new flat, because what decides your budget is not visible in a photograph: we check the plaster and whether it is lime or cement, look for damp along the plinth and under the veranda, open a switchboard to see what the wiring actually is, assess the roof structure and the terrace waterproofing, and test how fixings are likely to behave in the masonry. You get indicative budget ranges at the end of it and an itemised quote once you have seen a layout. Nothing is chargeable until you decide to proceed.