Patel Glass And Ply

Patel Glass And Ply is on Begur road in Bommanahalli, though the address sometimes confuses people because of the Ghatkopar West mention. We are basically a shop filled with the smell of cut wood and the sound of glass being scored. It’s a bit cramped inside because plywood sheets take up so much room when you stack them by grade. We have to be really careful walking around because of the glass edges, and we’ve all had our fair share of small nicks on our fingers over the years. The floor is usually covered in sawdust no matter how much we sweep it. We spend our mornings unloading trucks and our afternoons cutting things to size on the big table in the back. It’s noisy when the saws are running, and you can barely hear the phone ringing over the din of the traffic outside on Begur road. We don't have any polished sales pitch or anything. People just come in with their scraps of paper where they’ve scribbled down dimensions, and we try to find the right piece of ply for them. Sometimes the electricity goes out and we just sit on the front step and watch the motorbikes go by until it comes back on. It is a simple business and we’ve been at it for a long time. We just focus on the work at hand and try not to break too many glass panes in the process.