Why we started this
Everyone in Islamabad has the same story. You call a number a neighbour gave you, he says he is coming at four, and at eight you are still waiting with a bucket under the sink.
When he finally arrives, nobody has mentioned a price. The work gets done, the number appears at the end, and you have no idea whether it is fair. A month later the same tap is leaking and the number does not answer.
That is not a shortage of skilled people. Islamabad is full of electricians and plumbers who are very good at their trade. What is missing is everything around them: someone answering the phone, a price agreed before the work, and somebody who stands behind the job afterwards.
That is the whole idea of Pechkas. We are the part around the work.
Who we are
[FOUNDER NAMES]
Pechkas, Islamabad
If a job goes wrong, the complaint comes to one of us. Not to a call centre, not to a form.
Tell us directlyPut a photograph of the two of you in src/assets/founders/and swap it in here. A real photograph of two people, even an ordinary one, does more for trust than another paragraph.
[FOUNDER STORY]
Write a short, true paragraph here: where you grew up, what you were doing before this, and the repair that made you start Pechkas. Two or three sentences is plenty. People trust specifics far more than adjectives. Edit it in src/pages/about.astro.
[WHY THE NAME]
A line about the name is worth having here. A pechkas is a screwdriver, and "har pech ka hal" means a fix for every screw — and for every problem. Say it in your own words.
How we are building it
Slowly, and in a small area. We are in F-11, E-11 and G-13today. We could take bookings across the whole city tomorrow, and every one of them would arrive late with a tired technician who does not know the roads. We would rather be the people who actually turn up in a few sectors than the people who let everyone down everywhere.
Every technician is checked before he takes a job, and we pay them the same day they work. A technician who is treated properly and paid on time behaves differently in your home. That is not charity, it is the whole business model.
What we will not do
- Put made-up reviews on this website. When we have real ones, they will be real.
- Claim numbers we have not earned. We are new, and saying otherwise would be the first lie we told you.
- Take a booking in an area we cannot reach properly.
- Take a commission from a shop for sending you there.
Give us one job to prove it
Start with something small. If we do it properly, you will know who to message next time.
Khara kaam, khara daam