Dilip Hardware & Paints

We are located at Plot No. 80/2 in B K Sindhi Colony. Our shop is right opposite the Sabzi Mandi Gate, so it is always loud and busy, especially in the mornings when everyone is buying vegetables. You can usually smell the paint when you walk in. We have rows and rows of tins and brushes and all sorts of hardware bits. It is a small space but we try to fit as much as possible on the shelves. Sometimes things get a bit disorganized, but we know where everything is. People come in for a single nail or a whole gallon of paint. We spend a lot of time mixing colors for customers while they wait. The floor has a few paint spills on it that we never quite managed to scrub off. We don’t use any corporate talk here. We just tell people what we have and what might work for their leaky tap or their bedroom wall. It’s a neighborhood shop. Most of our customers live right here in the colony. We see the same people every week. It’s a bit cramped and the light isn't the best, but it works for us. We open the gate early, just as the vegetable sellers are setting up, and we stay until the evening rush is over. It is a simple place with a lot of stuff packed into every corner.