Shaik Peer & Sons

Shaik Peer & Sons is located at No.10/2 on New Bamboo Bazar Road. As the name of the road suggests, there’s a lot of history with wood and bamboo around here. We’ve been part of this street for generations. It’s a family-run thing, and we’ve seen the way the business has passed down from the older folks to us. The shop is usually filled with the smell of sawdust and cut wood. We have a lot of different lengths and types of materials stacked up against the walls and in the back area. It’s a bit of a maze sometimes if you don’t know where you’re going. We spend most of our days outside on the pavement or just inside the doorway, greeting people and discussing their requirements. It’s a very hands-on job. We’re constantly measuring, cutting, and loading stuff onto carts or trucks. The road out front is always crowded with traffic, so we have to be quick when we’re loading up. We don’t use any fancy computers for everything; a lot of our notes are still kept in big handwritten books. It’s how we’ve always done it. The shop doesn't look like much from the outside, just another storefront on a busy road, but there's a lot of work that happens behind those doors. We’re just regular people trying to make a living in the same spot our family has been for years. Every day brings something a little bit different for us.