Aashia Painter & Contrators

We spend most of our days covered in white dust or bits of wet paint. It’s been like this for a long time here in Kandivali East. Umesh Colony 9 is where we keep our ladders and the leftover cans from the last few jobs. Sometimes the phone rings while we’re up on a scaffolding, so we might not pick up right away. We just handle walls and wood and whatever else needs a fresh look. It isn't always pretty work while it’s happening. There’s plastic sheets everywhere and the smell of thinner is always in the air. We don’t have some big office with fancy chairs. Mostly we’re out at the sites. When we’re done, we pack up the brushes and try to get the paint out from under our fingernails. People around here know us because they see the truck parked near the corner. It's a lot of climbing and scrubbing. We don’t use those big fancy computer programs to show what a room will look like. We just talk it through and then get to work. If the weather is bad, we focus on the inside stuff. It’s hard work, and your back usually hurts by five o’clock, but that’s just how it goes with contracting. We’ve lived in this part of town for years, so we know which buildings have the old leaky pipes and which ones have walls that crumble if you look at them wrong. We just fix what is there.