Now management companies have begun to actively make repairs in our homes. Repair of facades, entrances, communications. What paints do management companies usually use to repair the entrances of residential buildings? Usually the walls in the entrances are painted with oil paints or enamels. But not everyone knows that these building materials are detrimental to human life and health, as they contain highly toxic substances. For more than two weeks after painting, the inhabitants of these entrances breathe these toxic fumes. Even after more than two months after painting, an unpleasant smell remains in the entrance. The nature of oil paint (enamel) is to blame. These paints are made from toxic solvents based on alkyd resins. After drying, an air- and vapor-tight film is formed, which prevents normal air exchange between the wall material and the air in the entrance. Therefore, in such a room, the walls stop "breathing", there is no moisture regulation. Dampness and a disgusting musty smell remain forever in such an entrance.
The technology of painting walls with oil paints is outdated by 50-60 years.
In developed countries, the production of solvent-based alkyd paints has been banned, and large companies are forced to move the production of these building materials to developing countries where they do not pay much attention to the environment.
Another point is that management companies make repairs using this outdated technology with our money. And the amounts we pay for home maintenance are huge!
At the same time, there is now a great alternative to these obsolete materials - water-based acrylic paint. This type of paint has undeniable advantages. High environmental friendliness, since water acts as a solvent, fire safety for the same reason. A very high degree of diffusion of water vapor - the walls "breathe", moisture regulation occurs. Therefore, in rooms painted with acrylic paint, it is easy to breathe and there are no unpleasant odors.
There is also a fairly large number of acrylic paints that can be cleaned using abrasives and other detergents, including the use of a brush.
Acrylic paint is easy to give almost any color and shade thanks to machine tinting technology. This results in a high resistance to fading of the resulting coating. That is, residents of the entrance can choose not only "blue or green" color, but almost any.
Summarizing, we can say that it is necessary to actively influence management companies and their outdated approach. Our porches are also part of our home. And they should also breathe well, be light and comfortable. Our choice is to paint the porches with acrylic paints.
Why are porches often painted in nasty colors?
Do you like it?
Today there is a variety in paints, and earlier it was possible to find paints of four colors. Green, brown, white, grey. These paints were cheap and produced in huge quantities. This is understandable, military equipment was painted green and white in summer and winter, decks were painted brown, and the sides of warships and ships were gray. There was also blue paint. And nothing supernatural. And housing was needed, they built a lot, there was no time for paint. Of course, it was possible to paint the entrances beautifully and elegantly with paints of two colors, but they believed that not artists, but ordinary people would live in apartments. By the way, Peter the Great built St. Petersburg in the image of European cities, the houses were supposed to be painted in all the colors of the rainbow, bright and beautiful, but only now we can see not dirty gray houses, but multi-colored and beautiful.
And this is an example of a porch where only two colors are used, but it looks much nicer than multi-color porches.
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Most of the entrances of apartment buildings are a pitiful sight: walls peeled or painted with indecent inscriptions, whitewash crumbling by the scruff of the neck, panels faded from time to time, spotty floors. Meanwhile, the housing office has been traditionally referring to a lack of funds for many years now.
Maybe it makes sense to solve this problem with your own hands? Especially when there is a mutual understanding of the issue by all residents of the entrance and the opportunity to work for almost everyone - from young to old. Enthusiasm, of course, is not enough for a major overhaul, but it’s quite enough for painting.
We prepare materials
Bringing the walls into an acceptable form is possible in two ways - by whitewashing or painting them. Everything will depend on financial costs, which must be agreed upon by all tenants. Whitewashing is a much more budgetary option, but also less practical: few people want to renew the surface of whitewashed walls every year and periodically clean their clothes from white traces of whitewashing.
Therefore, the initiative group should work among the participants, insisting on painting. Moreover, saving in this case is also quite possible.
You need to start by choosing the right paint. Based on the conditions in which the wall covering will be used, it must meet the following consumer characteristics:
- It is distinguished by high plasticity, since in conditions of sharp temperature fluctuations (and they will still be, even if the entrance is heated), the finished coating will lag behind the wall the next year.
- To be convenient for application with a high-performance painting tool - a roller. Other options should not be considered, because otherwise it will be very inconvenient to work at the entrance.
- Do not have a strong odor that will penetrate the apartments.
- Dry quickly, otherwise it is extremely inconvenient to use the entrance, especially to casual visitors and guests.
- It is good to lay down on any basis (chalk, lime, concrete, brick).
Water-based paints most fully meet this set of requirements. They are easy to use, adhere well to any base, are affordable.
The disadvantage of such coloring compositions - a small selection of colors - is easily overcome. To do this, you need to purchase special tinting additives of the desired color. These additives are introduced into the paint immediately before its use, the intensity of the color will be determined by the amount of the additive. So you can paint the entrance even in a certain color scheme.
In addition to the walls, the floor often requires painting. Here you will need a paint that is more durable in a mechanical sense. It is most advantageous to use any composition intended for painting roofs: their operating conditions are no simpler than near the floor in the entrance.
What paint to choose for the floor? There are also options here that depend on the type of flooring in the entrance. Most often, the floors in the entrance are concrete, much less often - wooden. Acrylic paint works best on a concrete floor surface. Unlike other options (polyurethane paint, epoxy compositions), it is one-component, and therefore easy to prepare for work.
It's also a good idea to use latex-based rubber paint. Although it is more expensive, it is recommended mainly for roofs, but it also fits perfectly on other surfaces: wood, cement or concrete. Rubber paint on the walls and stairs of the entrance will be highly resistant to moisture, dries relatively quickly, adheres well to the original surface. The only limitation is that latex paints are not recommended for use at ambient temperatures below 15°C.
Wooden floors can be painted with any paint, except water-based. By the way, most paint compositions are also suitable for painting wooden windows.
The color and texture of the painted walls and floor are discussed with all residents, after which paint is purchased and, if necessary, tinting additives to it.
Work Tools
Since these entrance elements do not have a complex configuration, it is quite possible to use a paint roller mounted on a long handle. In this case, you will not need a stepladder. However, for painting individual protruding fragments (for example, heating pipes, covers and doors of switchboards), brushes are still indispensable.
In addition, it will not be superfluous:
- building level;
- putty knife;
- a cord for beating the dividing line (if not the entire wall is painted, but the panel is being made);
- colored crayons;
- broom;
- a hammer;
- construction tape (useful when painting window frames).
Naturally, one should not forget about things that provide normal conditions for workers - gloves, a respirator, a gauze bandage. They will be especially necessary when cleaning surfaces from dust.
Work sequence
Even with a satisfactory condition of the previous wall covering, it must be properly prepared for painting. If water-based paint is chosen, then before starting work you need:
- thoroughly clean all surfaces from contamination;
- eliminate paint stains;
- putty the identified recesses.
Old paint will have to be removed with a spatula.
Worst of all, if the walls of the entrance were once plastered. Then you need to evaluate the quality of the plaster: if it lags behind or is already missing somewhere, then such problem areas should be removed with a hammer, and only then putty.
Separately, you should deal with the cobwebs on the ceilings and flights of stairs. A broom with a long handle is useful here, which you need to walk through all hard-to-reach areas - this is where the cobwebs are the most.
After that, it is desirable to disinfect the walls of the entrance. Otherwise, very soon dark spots from a fungus may appear on the painted surface, which is easily formed during sharp fluctuations in temperature and humidity. Such treatment can be done using either an aqueous solution of copper sulphate (the substance is poisonous!), Or a conventional cleaner for sinks and toilet bowls (Bref, Domestos, etc.). Rinse the floors in the entrance well enough, and then also treat them with disinfectants.
Gypsum putty is most suitable for filling walls and floors in the entrance. It is universal, inexpensive, suitable for any subsequent coating, able to easily cope even with fairly deep irregularities.
Puttying the walls is rational only when they are subsequently completely painted. If it is planned to paint only the panels, then the remaining areas will have to be plastered, and this already significantly complicates the repair work and increases their cost. Therefore, oddly enough, it is much more profitable to paint the entrance completely than to decorate the panels on the walls.
When assigning the order of work, it is worth recalling that the painted floor creates the greatest inconvenience to movement. Therefore, it should be painted in the evening and only after the painted walls are completely dry.
Work is usually carried out with a paint roller. This will provide the desired performance and allow the final coating to be more uniform. Lastly, already with the help of a brush, hard-to-reach areas of the floor and walls are painted. It is better to paint floors and walls in spring or autumn - this period of time is most comfortable for these works.
9 mistakes in the choice of color that should not be made during the repair.
Painting everything pink is not the best design decision.
Professional interior designers and decorators shared the most important principles for creating a beautiful home interior.
Mistake #1: white ceiling
It is the largest surface in the home and has the greatest impact on the entire atmosphere. Traditional white ceilings arose solely out of poverty: lime has always been the most affordable dye.
But pure white contains a gray tint that makes the room visually lower. Choose cream shades for painting the ceiling. And entrust the painting of ceilings to professionals: irregularities on the ceiling are especially noticeable and spoil the whole impression of the repair.
A good solution would be to purchase a stretch ceiling, this will save you the trouble of leveling it.
Mistake #2: Literally Matching Colors
How to choose the color of the walls in the apartment? It is very tempting to choose a paint in the store that exactly matches the color of the upholstery of your furniture. Do not do this: the room will become dull and small. The color of the walls should be slightly darker than the upholstery when it comes to pastels and creams. And much lighter if you have dark furniture.
Mistake number 3: make everything bright
You will curse this decision after a week of living in a freshly renovated room. It will ripple in the eyes. Never paint all walls in bright colors only. How to choose wall paint color? If you want it to look “rich”, leave a few splashes of color in gray or white on a bright background.
It can be columns, arches, inserts, doors and door jambs - calm colors are needed to alternate with variegation.
Mistake #4: Make everything neutral
The other extreme is to wash out all the colors in a safe range. It will be too boring. What wall color to choose? Be sure to make some bright color accents.
Mistake #5: Changing color schemes from room to room
A high-tech bathroom, a hippie bedroom, a neutral classic living room, and a cartoon nursery. You are simply sick of living in such a house. It is clear that you want to try everything, but then you have to live with it. What wall color to choose for the kitchen and other rooms? Plan your renovation so that you do not get the impression that each individual room came to visit this house by accident.
Mistake #6: Paint everything the same
Again about extremes. The style should be consistent, but you should change the shades to a little more or a little less warm from room to room. The whole interior in the same colors creates a motion sickness effect no worse than the psychedelic variety.
Mistake number 7: forget about texture
The texture of the finish is very important. A slightly more or slightly less rough surface, from minor unevenness to a “broken eggshell” texture, significantly changes the impression of the interior.
Dark colors tend to look flatter, so choose a textured finish for them.
Mistake #8: Choose a One-Dimensional Hue
The simpler and shallower color you choose for painting the walls, the more your room will look like a fence around a transformer box.
Mistake #9: Too many details and illustrations
When you look at the wallpaper in the nursery with a thousand Dalmatians, you like it in the store. And now mentally imagine that there will be 100,000 of them in the room, along all the walls. It will really merge into a monotonous ornament.
All the same applies to wallpapers for adults. A good choice is to buy wallpaper without small patterns that would have meaning in themselves, just with an abstract, unobtrusive ornament. And give all the drawings a narrow border ribbon.
Mistake number 10: make a curb in the wrong place
The rule is simple: the higher you put a horizontal line on the wall, the more the ceiling will press on you. And you will feel like a dwarf. The ideal level is at the level of your groin. And vice versa - try to put a color dividing line at eye level and you will feel like a drowned man every time you enter the room.
Mistake #11, Final: Always Stick to One Color Scheme
Conservatism, of course, is good, but why do you need to make repairs if the house remains the same from year to year?
Instruction
As a rule, there was no repair in our entrances for a long time, so the whitewash on the ceilings and walls has practically disappeared. Take a broom or mop and sweep away the remaining whitewash from the walls. In inconvenient places, sweep the web with a round brush attached to the pin with tape. After that, moisten the ceiling and walls with water from the spray gun and let the room dry.
The next stage of work is cleaning the panels from the old paint. Take a spatula or any other sharp tool and scrape the old, weak paint off the walls. If the plaster separates from the surface of the wall, then knock it down with a hammer to the very foundation in order to subsequently strengthen it with a new layer of plaster.
Prime all the places that you have cleaned on the walls with primer and let the room dry. After that, proceed to the plaster of those places that you beat off. Dilute the dry mixture and apply to the wall area. If you need to plaster twice, then let the first layer dry and only then apply the next layer. Do not forget to moisten the wall with water before the second layer, otherwise the plaster will not hold, but will fall off.
While the plaster dries, putty the walls. Take putty, putty the walls in one go and let dry. Then putty them again. As a rule, the walls are puttied twice, but if necessary, this can be done a third time.
When all the preparatory work is done at the entrance, proceed to whitewash the ceiling. Cover all floors in the playgrounds with cardboard, and ask the residents of the entrance to cover their doors. After that, you can safely proceed to whitewash the ceiling. Dilute the oil putty in water, it is more "opaque" than whitewash. To check the quality of the whitewash, dip your finger into the solution. If a thick coating of whitewash remains on it, then the solution is suitable for work, if not, then the solution is considered weak and putties should be added to it. Now strain the solution through cheesecloth into a clean bucket and use a spray gun to whiten the entrance twice. Do the whitewashing with the help of an assistant, because it is difficult to do this work alone.
After the whitewash dries, sand the puttied places on the walls, as well as the whitewash that got on the panels, otherwise the paint will not stick to these places. Now beat off the lines on the panels along which the painting border will pass. Do it this way: take a string, roll it in blue and attach it to the marked points on the panels. Pull the cord tight and release it sharply. There will be a trace of blue on the wall. The height of the panel should be 150, 180 cm - this is the optimal height so that residents do not get dirty with whitewash.
For painting entrances, oil paint is used to make it easier to keep the entrance clean. Take the paint and pour it into one container. A lot of paint will be required, because in addition to painting the panels, fragments of the flight of stairs will also have to be painted. It is desirable that everything be painted in one color, otherwise the entrance will look unsightly.
Take the paint and pour it into a bucket. Dip the flute in the paint and draw an even strip 5 cm wide along the intended line, do the same at the floor of the panel. Do this around the entire perimeter in the entrance, or let your partner do it. At this time, you take a roller, dip it in paint and roll it on a cuvette. Now put it against the wall near the floor and drive the roller up the panel, blending the paint along the wall, then across. Try to wet the roller in the paint more often, paint over the panel without gaps. After first painting the panels, let the surface dry, then paint the walls a second time. Oil paint spreads easily and covers the surface well, so you can easily do this job.
The last stage of repair in the entrance - painting windows and railing fragments. Take some white oil paint, stir it up and paint the window frames twice. Also paint over the railing fragments twice.
Before starting repairs it is necessary to distinguish between major and cosmetic repairs. The first one includes:
- restoration of faulty elevators;
- full or partial replacement of water, heat, gas, electricity and sewerage systems;
- repair of basements and attics;
- wall plastering, etc.
Even if these systems are territorially located in the entrance, work on their repair is paid from the Overhaul Fund, which is formed in each region of the Russian Federation from the contributions of homeowners (Article 166 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation).
Entrance renovation in progress:
- simultaneously with the overhaul of the entire house, which is carried out according to the schedule drawn up by the district Administration;
- at the request of the tenants by the Management Company.
In the first case additional contributions from the owners will not be required - it is enough to pay receipts for overhaul in a timely manner.
In the second case the procedure for raising funds for the restoration of entrances is regulated by the Federal Law No. 185 of July 21, 2007 "On the Housing and Utilities Reform Assistance Fund", according to which owners are required to pay 5% of the cost of all work.
Redecorating public places are required much more often than capital and implies:
The management company should perform these works once every three to five years., while apartment owners do not have to make additional funds: all work is paid for by a contribution to the maintenance and repair of the dwelling.
Where to apply? To put the entrance in order, residents at a general meeting must draw up a list of necessary work, attach it to the application and submit documents to the Criminal Code.
Repair of the entrance is the responsibility of the management company. The company is obliged to draw up a work schedule for the year, to raise funds(if the contributions of the owners are not enough) and repair the entrance.
Work will be carried out in strict accordance with the list, therefore it must be carefully considered.
Who will do?
Having received an application with a list attached to it, the Criminal Code proceeds to draw up an annual plan and develop an estimate, which includes the costs of purchasing building materials and remuneration of workers.
Who is responsible for repairing the entryway? Work can be carried out:
- by the staff of the Criminal Code;
- third party contractor.
By law, both options do not require additional contributions from tenants. and, moreover, participation in the work.
In practice, the Criminal Code often offers tenants on their own:
- wash the walls after whitewashing the ceiling;
- cover the floor with newspapers when painting the walls and then remove the paper;
- take out construction waste;
- wash windows and floors after completion of work.
However, according to the Decree of the Gosstroy of the Russian Federation No. cleaning after repair, as well as maintaining cleanliness throughout the year, must be carried out by the Criminal Code.
There are cases when tenants, considering the cleaning provided by the Management Company to be insufficient, refuse it and clean the entrance themselves. This can be referred to by the Criminal Code, urging the owners to clean themselves after the repair.
But cleaning by tenants of common areas is not related to cleanliness after painting / whitewashing: the repair is considered completed after the demonstration of the repaired clean entrance and the signing of the Acceptance Certificate by the tenants.
Management Companies repair only common areas. Landings on the floors, common corridors and vestibules must be maintained in order by the residents.
Repair on your own initiative
Residents can get work done in two ways.: enter into litigation with the Criminal Code (usually it takes a lot of time) or independently organize the work: do everything at your own expense or hire a construction team.
The second option allows you to quickly put in order the space in need of repair and choose all the necessary materials yourself: from the quality of the plaster to the color of the paint.
Also, residents can determine for themselves what part of the work they will do on their own and save on the wages of hired workers.
Who pays for repairs in the entrance of an apartment building in this case? Residents will be responsible for all expenses., that's the minus of such a solution to the problem.
You can return part of the money spent after the completion of the repair. For this you need:
- draw up an Act on the state of the front door before the start of work;
- draw up a budget;
- purchase materials, keeping all receipts;
- carry out repairs;
- draw up an acceptance certificate;
- write an application for reimbursement of expenses to the Housing Office, attaching all documents;
- apply to the court in case of refusal;
- provide evidence of the need for the work performed.
Chances are you won't be able to fully recover your expenses., especially if expensive materials were purchased, the work was mainly aimed at improving the security or improving the appearance of the front door (for example, tiles on the floor and walls, installation of video cameras, etc.).
The administration, the Housing Inspectorate and the court will take into account the need for each procedure, so if you want to fully return the money spent, you need to repair only what threatens the life and health of citizens.
No one can oblige the Criminal Code to pay for the painting of the stairs “for beauty”.
So let's sum it up. Who makes repairs at the entrance of apartment buildings and pays for it? According to the law, the Criminal Code must independently control the state of the front and decide on their repair. In practice, such a responsible attitude on the part of the Criminal Code is extremely rare.
Most likely to bring the entrance in order Residents need to be active: from collecting signatures and drafting documents, to purchasing materials and carrying out work.
Residents of apartments of small and high-rise buildings know firsthand what dirty, unkempt, littered entrances are. But this is the common territory of all residents, where everyone monitors the cleanliness of their own housing. So why not transform your entryway?
Repaint the walls, make decorative drawings on them, or even involve your children in this activity, who will be no less interested in taking part in the common cause, arrange pots of flowers, chairs or small sofas where you can sit and chat with a neighbor, where it will be cozy and beautiful . And most importantly, from this the mood of each tenant will be good in the morning.
Repairs at the entrance are best done in the warm season, when it is possible to open windows and entrance doors for ventilation. When choosing paint for walls in the entrance, it is necessary to give preference to wear-resistant, durable, environmentally friendly paints. Now the most popular are acrylic paints. Entrance wall paint Belinka is distinguished by a high degree of durability, and also walls painted with Belinka acrylic paints, thanks to the components in their composition, are easy to wet clean, do not absorb dirt, dust, prevent the formation and reproduction of fungus, mold, and maintain a favorable indoor microclimate.
Repair of the entrance can be sequentially divided into several stages:
- cleaning the entrance from debris, cobwebs, dust, dirt;
- removal of old paint, rusty leaks, whitewash on ceilings and parts of walls. As a rule, repairs in many entrances were made back in Soviet times, and one of the most time-consuming processes is the removal of old, peeling paint from the walls. It is necessary to carefully clean them mechanically so that there is a flat, smooth surface;
- removal of mold, fungal infections on the walls. In no case should you miss this moment: leave the mold under the paint. Affected parts must be treated with a bactericidal agent against mold and fungi Belinka. After 12 hours, they are easily removed with a spatula, metal scraper or brush;
- plaster, putty, primer walls and ceilings. If the plaster peeled off on the walls, then it should be done again to level the surface. Further, protected, plastered walls, the ceiling must be treated with Belinka universal primer. On the ceiling and that part of the walls where there is whitewash, it is also necessary to carry out preparatory work, because if you apply acrylic wall paint in the Belinka entrance to the whitewashed surface, it will peel off after a while and it will be a waste of work. The primer penetrates deeply into the surface, gives good adhesion of the wall paint in the entrance to the surface, and also significantly reduces the consumption of acrylic paint. After application, the primer must dry for at least 12 hours;
- painting walls, ceiling in the entrance. Now, after carrying out all the complex, preparatory procedures, you can proceed directly to painting the entrance. You should start from the ceiling, and not from the walls, since the paint can get on the walls when applied to the ceiling, it can then be painted over from above. Next, skirting boards, railings, and last but not least, windows and doors are painted.
The Belinka entrance wall paint can be applied in one or two layers, depending on the chosen color and the desired result. On the surface of the ceiling, as a rule, white or light colors are selected, which can be applied in a single layer, but at the same time carefully painting over the places of convergence with the wall and corners. Belinka colored paints are recommended to be applied with a two-layer coating. It is worth considering that the second layer should be applied no earlier than after 5 hours. Colors have a huge assortment, so the main background, as well as for decoration, murals can be selected from the general preferences, desires and imagination of the residents of the house. The main thing is that when entering the entrance of your house, everyone feels home comfort, a positive atmosphere.
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