Thureshwar Hardware & Construction

Our shop is right on Sdm Office Road in the Paonta Sahib area. Being so near the SDM office makes it very easy for local people to find us. We sell all kinds of hardware and we also take on some construction jobs when they come up. It's a small place, and it's usually packed to the ceiling with tools, boxes of nails, and heavy bags of cement. There isn't much room to walk around sometimes because of all the stock. We have everything from plastic pipes to different colors of paint. I’ve been running this shop for many years now. It started as just a tiny stall and we just kept adding more shelves as we went along. People from the neighborhood come in for a single bolt or sometimes a whole truckload of supplies. We try to keep everything in stock but the deliveries from the city can be late quite often. Construction is a tough business because workers are hard to find and the weather doesn't always cooperate with the schedule. We just do our best to get things done. I spend most of my day sitting behind the wooden counter. My son helps me out with the site visits and the deliveries. We know most of the people who come in by their first names. It’s that kind of a town. We don't have a website or anything fancy. We just rely on being here for a long time.