What carpentry work costs in Nellore: the rate card explained

Carpentry with us is priced by job, not by the hour. A door or window fix — hinges, lock alignment, planing where it is due, or frame repair — is ₹499. Furniture repair covering sofa legs, tables, shelves and joint work is ₹499. Bed frame repair, meaning slats, joints, legs and tightening, is ₹499. Wardrobe sliding work, covering track, roller and handle replacement, is ₹599. Custom wall-fixed shelving in wood or PVC is ₹999.

Those figures are the labour and workmanship. Timber, board, hardware, brackets and anchors are separate, charged at MRP, and shown to you before anything is fitted.

The rate card

Job	What it covers	Price
Door / window fix	Hinge, lock, planing, frame repair	₹499
Furniture repair	Sofa legs, table, shelf, joint fix	₹499
Wardrobe sliding	Track, roller, handle replacement	₹599
Custom shelves	Wall-fixed wooden or PVC shelving	₹999
Bed frame repair	Slat, joint, leg repair or tighten	₹499

Which job to book

Door / window fix (₹499) when a door drags, has dropped, will not latch, rattles, or the frame has moved. This is also the booking for window shutters that have gone out of square and for a door that genuinely needs planing at the end of the dry season.

Furniture repair (₹499) for the widest range of work: a wobbling table, a sofa leg, a sagging shelf, a joint that has opened, cabinet and kitchen shutter hinges, handles, drawer channels and small panel replacements.

Wardrobe sliding (₹599) when a sliding shutter jumps its track, drags, will not close flush, or the rollers have worn. It carries a slightly higher rate because the shutters have to be lifted off and refitted, which is heavier work than it looks — particularly with mirrored panels.

Custom shelves (₹999) for new wall-fixed shelving, where the job includes working out the span, choosing the right anchor for your wall type, and drilling safely around concealed services.

Bed frame repair (₹499) when a slat has snapped, a joint has loosened, a leg is failing or a storage bed has stopped sitting square.

About materials

The items that usually appear on a carpentry bill are hinges, soft-close dampers, handles, sliding rollers and track sections, drawer channels, slats, brackets, wall anchors, edge banding, adhesives and board or timber where a panel is being replaced.

We do not publish prices for these because they differ so much by brand and size. What we commit to is that the material is shown to you with its price before it goes on, and that you approve it first. If you would rather supply your own hardware, say so at the time of booking.

What a quote should show

A usable quote names the job from the rate card, names each material with a price against it, and gives a total. If you are handed a single round figure with no breakup, ask for the breakup before you agree to anything. And nothing is payable in advance — you pay once the work is done.

If a second visit turns out to be needed — a track section that has to be ordered in a particular size, say, or a shutter that needs a panel made — that should be said at the quote stage rather than discovered afterwards. Ask what is being done today and what is being left for later, and get both on the same piece of paper.

Keeping the cost down

The cheapest carpentry is the small job done early. A hinge screw tightened this month is free; the same hinge left until it tears out of the shutter is a panel repair. A roller cleaned out of a dusty channel costs nothing; the same roller left to seize chews up the track as well.

Practical habits that save money in this climate: seal exposed board edges, keep furniture off wet floors and away from damp outer walls, run a screwdriver over cabinet and bed fasteners once a year, and clear sliding channels every couple of months. If you have several small jobs pending, group them into one visit rather than calling for each one separately — the rate card is per job type, and a carpenter already in the house can often deal with the rest quickly.