To perfectly paint the walls, windows and not spoil all the furniture and nerves, we will use fineness from painting masses. With them, any repairs will pass painlessly and like oil.
Spent repairs from repainting walls or furniture? Excellent. But before you wear an old T-shirt and take for a roller, try these Lifehaki. They can save the apartment from ugly spots, and you are from claims from the second half for poor-quality work.
1. How to remove old wallpaper carefully and without traces
Before moving to painting, you need to get rid of the old decor. In order not to mess with chaotic pieces of paper sticking to the wall, treat the old wallpaper with air conditioning for washing. To do this, dissolve a couple of tablespoons of the softener in a bucket of warm water and sponge to wallpaper.
2. To paint on the wall lay down the perfect layer without "bubbles" ...
... you need to make sure that there are no dust on the surface. The wall does not prevent the spelling (no matter how strange it sounds), and after walking the wet towel. It follows the painting only after the wall is completely dry. And then the layer of paint will be perfectly smooth, without irregularities and roughness.
3. We protect against paint screws and loops
Current Council when painting doors and walls: If you do not want to paint small parts, treat them with vaseline. Fat consistency of the cream will not miss the paint, and after it can be removed with ease. At the same time, the door hinges will stop to creak.
4. If the paint fell on the skin or rubber ...
... Rather, go to the kitchen and finish with olive oil. The oil will perfectly cope with fresh paint stains and does not harm a capricious leather or rubber surface.
5. How to replace the greasy scotch when painting windows or cabinet
If you forgot to put a tape in the basket at the Stroyarket Cashier, find a couple of unclaimed newspapers. Cut them to the desired size, moisten in water and glue the glass. After painting the frame, the newspaper can be removed and enjoyed clean result.
6. How to get rid of the obsessive smell of paint
Add to the pallet or container with paint a little vanilla liquid extract. This culinary supplement will not affect the consistency and properties of paint, but the aroma will become more pleasant. By the way, keeps even after drying.
7. In order to gently glue the small details of the aerosol paint ...
... Put the subject in a large cardboard box and ruin right in it. So the floor and other furniture items will remain unharmed and without klex. It is only better to carry out the entire procedure in the fresh air, and otherwise you can "breathe".
8. How to remove the surplus paint with the brush and do not sleep everything around
A jar with paint wrap a tight rubber band as in the photo. Just spend on the rubber band with a tassel, and everything will be superfluous back into the tank.
9. The perfect cable for storing roller exists
And this is a box from the famous "Pringles" chips. More precisely, not a box, but a very even tube. And if it is necessary that the roller is not backing between paintings (for example, if you are coloning in two approach with the difference per day), then wrap it with a food film, and after "package" into the tube. So the roller will remain a little wet and ready for work.
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Repair of the apartment is a costly and dusty event, but always gives a positive result in the form of a neat and aesthetic arrangement of personal area. Many new buildings or old residents wishing to update the situation are not ready to pay for the work of the repair team. This can be associated with cost savings or a low degree of confidence in unauthorized people.
Whatever it was, useful tips on repairing an apartment with their own hands is a very valuable tool in the event of a small awareness or lack of experience of such actions.
Starting with the recommendations of specialists who know all about the starting stages of repair. Where to begin? How to isolate the rest of the space from dust and dirt? Where and how much to buy materials? The most popular questions will find their solution in this article.
So, the most important advice for the preservation of your material values \u200b\u200band nerves is to endure everything from the repaired premises. The rest largely large closes the film and fix the scotch.
It is always worth starting from the ceiling, and the stages of its finish can be classified as:
- dismantling and removal of old materials;
- alignment with special mixtures or drywall;
- Padraska / Watching / Facing.
The next board - after the ceiling, proceed to the walls immediately. It is important here to follow a pre-prepared project and the same plan of action as when repairing the ceiling. Removing old coatings, alignment and strengthening, finishing staining or cladding selected material.
The floor is usually repaired at the end of all works, and the installation of plinths can be considered the finish repair.
The most valuable advice on the repair of the apartment with their own hands, always contain a number of recommendations regarding the sequence of work in different premises. So, you need to start with the most distant from the exit, gradually moving towards the corridor.
The hallway should be closed a list of repaired objects in the apartment, since it is a passing and fast contaminated room.
Now I want to stop in detail on many operations faced by amators. In the helpful advice on the repair of the apartment with their own hands, rarely note the importance of the removal of the source materials with simplified methods. But this will help at times cut the time, and make many manipulations cleaner and more efficiently.
The sealant used in the bathroom is easy to remove with a special knife with an angular cross section. Such are sold in construction markets and ensure the dismantling of the thick layer of the material.
The solvent is applied to the remaining "influx", leave it for several hours and wipe it with a cloth. If this method is not suitable, then the residues can be removed using an abrasive cleaning agent.
Removal of paint from a wooden surface or a wall can be mechanical, thermal or chemical method.
The most secure and fast - the latter, in which the special composition is applied with a roller or tassel, and after exposure time - remove the scraper.
Thermofen is as popular, but not a safe way. Its use will create the least costly removal of old paint, but if you do not have a hair dryer - use foil and iron. The layer heated under the foil layer quickly softens, after which the spatula is removed.
Removal by grinding machine or grinder - dust and troublesome. But as a backup option is worth considering.
If a fugue between the tiles changed the color, has emptiness or melbok settled in it - it must be removed and replaced with a new one. Here you will help a special solvent for grouting, which does not damage the surface of the tile.
The dissolution follows in a mask and gloves, since all reagents may cause an allergic reaction and are toxic.
Do you want to remove the old carpet, which is tightly glued to the floor? Here you have two options: a solvent from the construction market or water + watering can.
The first method is made according to the instructions indicated on the package with the selected agent.
The second is easier and cheaper: soak the carpet with warm water, we stood out the film for a day and - Hurray! - cut the wallpaper knife and remove the segments convenient for you.
Pokes from the walls and the ceiling is not removed in a dry form. Otherwise, in the room you can just suffocate. To remove it, wet the small sections of the ceiling or wall (no more than 1 sq. Meter), and remove the "porridge" with a spatula to the very base.
If it does not work at once - repeat this manipulation on the same site until you see the clean surface. And only after cleaning one site, proceed to the following.
Tricks where without them
It is not necessary to bypass the attention and lifehaki, which are widely used by masters of their business. I advise you to repair the apartment with your own hands, many rely on their ways to simplify this event as much as possible.
Namely:
- creation of a portable container for primer / paint from a plastic bottle with a handle, where in the lid it is easy to make an incision and fasten the brush / tassel there;
- gluing a small magnet on the base of the hammer. For the weight of the tool, it practically does not affect, but nails are now always with you;
- In order for the tile does not give chips during sawing, it is soaked in cold water for several hours. This method guarantees even and pure cut;
- Self-tapping screw easily enters the wood, if it is pre-lubricated by ordinary soap;
- If you need to shorten the bolt, and there is no grinder at hand - use two nuts and a screwdriver. One rolls on the cut line, and the second fixes it. After pinching the second nut with a screwdriver, it is enough to make a metal pink and turn on the tool.
If you do not plan to deploy large-scale work, but you want to refresh your apartment, use the following tricks:
- Paint batteries, do not hesitate to use bright colors, gradients;
- decorate the wire with decorative clamps in the form of birds, butterflies and leaves;
- beat the switches, placing pictures, kashpo and collages around them;
- Refresh lighting, change textiles, change the mats.
At the end of the article, I would like to once again note that no repair budget will endure a stupid allocation of resources without a prior plan.
The latter should include absolutely everything: from replacing the wiring to finishing floor. It makes sketches or visualization created with the help of special programs. Make markup and create scaling to afford to correctly calculate the desired amount of materials.
Buying equipment stands within one, maximum of two construction markets. Availability of shares, discounts, the ability to return and exchange goods - all this serves to your hand if experience is still not enough. Yes, and absolutely everything you need in one place is also expensive.
Do not chase savings when replacing wiring, pipes, heating and plumbing. All this is purchased for many years, therefore should be an exemplary type and quality.
Trying the fastening segment, try to acquire pieces, it will relieve you from the rest in the form of dozens of boxes in the future.
Take black, not brilliant fasteners for all cases when you plan to close its head. Learn in advance about all free services that provide construction hypermarkets.
Try to maximize the use of loyalty programs that often offer trading networks. All this is slightly, but still helps to save an extra penny.
Video: Apartments repair facilities do it yourself
1. I do not need to combine the toilet and the bathroom, if there is no "dubler". In the morning, such an avral happens! And at all, it is not aesthetically aesthetic, one in the bathroom splashes, the other to the toilet is impatient ...
2. Thenoleum, it is terrible, and the ceiling is doubly stupid.
3. Do not trust the repair of my wife. Let her do it under the direction of the designer. And then most of the apartments of my friends do not differ from each other.
4. Want painted walls? But in everyday life they may be impractical. Especially in the field of switches - fingerprints remain.
5. In the kitchen, it is better to provide a box under corrugation for an exhaust.
6. Never climb the space under the bathroom!
7. Never separate the cutting area of \u200b\u200bthe kitchen with the cooking panel!
8. Never put carpet! Allergy to dust is provided.
9. Never need for bathroom use serogolube, blue and malachite shades!
10. Never hang top cabinets kitchen above eye line!
11. I do not advise the laminate or parquet board in the kitchen. The first leakage and Kerdyk ... and indeed skeptical to the laminate. From a purely practical point of view - any fallen object forms scratch or chip. And ultimately the laminate turns into complete ugliness.
12. Do not put a white or very bright tile in the bathroom, the feeling as if you are in the hospital.
13. In vain, the kitchen furniture along the entire wall in the rectangular kitchen is much more convenient - to arrange an angle.
14. Do not save on the plumbing and tiles - will be slaughtered to look for several years, and you will not be able to redo
15. In vain made a small dressing room, so that more space remains in the room. This half-meter is not saved by the meter, and when the dressing room is broken by a bit, you will not build the other.
16. For nothing, it is not necessary to make a wiring of electricity in the apartment, without making a pre-plan for the placement of furniture - and the final plan that will no longer change !!!
17. It is terrible - dark floor and dark tile (especially on the floor in the bathroom). Any dirt is visible - each dust and drop, especially from the washing machine. You need to clean several times a day.
18. Many open shelves with a bunch of souvenirs. This is an unreal dust collector!
19. Do not install the sockets "in the floor." Very uncomfortable, constantly open, dust will be copied and it is impossible to wash the floor normally.
20. Machines are better to put on every high-refrigerant electricity, the monster so that it is not to suffer with the lack of light due to the inclusion of the complex "TeanetistralColovolovsky".
21. Do not forget to install sockets right in the bathroom for a hair dryer, an electric set for manicure and razor. One can one, but then select the mirror in which the sockets are also built into the extension manner.
22. Provide referee (dimmers) in the child's bedroom, so that the light is not inclusive, and slowly.
23. Make a warm floor. In principle, at first it can not even be included, but it is better to do it right away. It would be nice in the hallway too.
24. No need to buy chandeliers with flat horizontal open beams - there so much midges will be copied, you get tired.
25. Halogen lights are better to choose with an angle of inclination, and not firmly fixed.
26. If the wiring is old - it is better to completely replace. By the way, it would be nice to write (or take a picture with measurements) its location, and then it is in the wiring and fall.
27. Provide the entrance to the apartment for all possible cables (wide cable channel).
28. Switches all "euro" (at an altitude of 80-90 cm) - so that children can turn on the light, not jumping.
29. Light on the balcony and a socket just in case. It can be useful.
30. Backlight in the kitchen right above the working surface (built-in lamps in the kitchen visor - it is beautiful, but not functional).
31. Use two switches / light switch - when entering the bedroom and the bed in the bedroom, so as not to get out of bed, wanting to turn it off.
32. Do not put on the floor in the hallway and the kitchen tile rough. It is impossible to wash! The rag is torn, and dirt is so hard!
33. The floors are warm necessarily supply the timer if you turn on in the morning, then you do not have time to warm up.
34. Immediately decide where the kitchen furniture and the refrigerator will stand, it is impossible to lay a warm floor. My girlfriend has a depth of outdoor cabinets 60 cm, and the floor does not heat 1 meter from the wall. Stand, cook, and the legs do not heat. And under the refrigerator heats. And the hallway is better to warm the whole - so that the shoes of the sink.
35. Windows is better with microwing function - so safer for children and animals.
36. The place under the counter must be chosen in advance. If the counter unsuccessfully hangs, over it to drill the wall of scary - wires. And the position of the switch in the hallway must be carefully measured so that the hole in the furniture under it is not cut into it.
37. The doors with a glass insert personally broke out if the child falls asleep in the room, the light in the corridor selects.
38. In the nursery, think the sports complex in advance and strengthen the holes for the Swedish wall.
39. About warm. Refractory materials should be placed near the hot surfaces. We have a polypropylene finish near the fireplace tube of glass on the wall - melted.
40. Batteries do not need to sew too much, leave access to their overlapping.
41. Many regret that they did not find space for the boiler in time in case of disabling hot water or its extremely low temperature.
42. Another point - I do not have a special delight in relation to perfectly smooth walls, so never uttering for their particularly thorough alignment. But if you are going to make built-in wardrobes or chests to order, it is necessary to smooth the walls!
43. It is necessary to think over the little things in advance. If, for example, after repair, buy a water heater for 80 liters and decide to put in the toilet - you will need a socket, so as not to strob in new wallpaper or cafél, pride it in advance.
44. In the kitchen there was too slippery floor tiles and covered with light grout (first it was very beautiful, and now the rubble went stains, not washed out on the view of the horror)
45. When installing the bathroom, borders were not laid on the wall, where it goes on with a tile, and simply clutchly with silicone sealant ... As a result, water always stands in the corners.
46. \u200b\u200bSorry for the warm floors in the kitchen and the corridor, did it only in the bathroom, now regret? Justification one. By the end of the repair of money was not at all, the estimate swept to the disgrace.
47. Pipes to batteries pass in the floor. In the bath, the sleeve sensor was put too close to them. Outcome - When you turn on heating, the thermostat has only two modes: off or at full power.
48. Too rough tile on the floor in the bath. It is time to care (poorly washed).
49. Sewing in a drywall ceiling too narrow ventilation for exhaust. The result is the drop in suction power at the exhaust.
50. When dividing gender in the kitchen on the working area (tile) and recreation area (parquet), put too many tiles. Conclusion: it is necessary to plan carefully and taking into account the volume of future furniture.
51. The waterproof was made according to a consistent scheme and did not make plumbers to remake. Before the start of the work, this moment was not thought about, and they did how it was easier.
52. In the kitchen, the tile is very beautiful, but one minus, very deep chamfer, there every dirt quickly accumulates and is poorly washed away. It was necessary to choose absolutely smooth, but not glossy and to almost the champers.
53. Rosettes better do more than then on new wallpaper to stick. Immediately plan wherever there is at least a hint that you ever have something to stand here. It is better not equal, and double, at a price almost the same thing, but then do not redeem.
54. It is very cool that switches made in the corridor and bedroom. In the corridor, it is not necessary to walk there in order to turn off the light, and in the bedroom the light can be turned off lying on the bed.
55. Windows installed badly. Watch very well, so that there are slopes, so that everything is carefully propening, and the outside wept as it should be so that not a single hole is !! Otherwise it will blow.
56. When installing the bath, make sure that the tilt of the bowl is done to the plum, and the water almost does not leave if the bath is installed.
57. Forced the Proba to make the outdoor tile flashes in the bathrooms and the kitchen. Those. If the water comes under the bathroom or kitchen furniture leaks, it flows into the middle of the room (you can immediately score the alarm)
58. When choosing a tile (especially ours), collided with a variety of problems: the difference (tortured to lay the color palette), a different size (up to 3mm), non-stalking pattern. With Spanish and Italian there were no such problems.
59. If the funds were allowed, it would be replaced by all (and not only one) windows, lowers, slopes, etc. Our house has the cheapest glass windows and installation quality appropriate. I had to warm myself and close the gaps.
60. Do not forget how I am, about a towel resistant !!!
61. The sewer pipe is very noisy when the neighbors use the toilet from above. All are good plastic pipes, but they are nozzhen pretty, so do sound insulation - wrapping her something.
62. If there is a little curious baby, it is better to make keys or punctures on all doors, especially in sleeping. And keep the dubls higher, but in an affordable place.
63. If you yourself buy corners in your clothes, then take care of them from scratching and damage during transportation.
65. Stretch ceilings Make immediately to the entire apartment and tramble in the firm where you will order (if you have a decent metrah - from 50 sq.m.);
66. And all the same, in my opinion, most importantly at the time of the start of repair have a complete picture of the arrangement of furniture. Planning the kitchen immediately. Summary of many communications depends on it.
67. I would never have done an angular dryer in the kitchen - very uncomfortable.
68. It would not be to do a monophonic light floor in the bathroom - each Musorinka is visible, at least once every hour. And my dark hair on it .... just a nightmare !!!
69. Problems with a boiler arose, no one warned that it was dangerous to hang on the plasterboard wall. So we are now without a boiler.
70. I must first think - do you want to change the windows, and then make cosmetic repairs in the apartment. Replacing glass windows after sticking wallpaper - that still stupidity ...
71. Do not use a white grout for tiles in the kitchen - it will look dirty.
72. First you need to consider the wiring of electricians in the bathroom, and then put the tile.
73. Be sure to put the warm floor in the bath and the toilet - it is such a pleasure!
74. Do not save on Watergery - buy a cumulative at least 80 on the family, and better than 100 liters.
75. It is better to make a bathroom in warm colors. For the first time I live in such now - it seems that the temperature is above the degrees at 56.
76. Now I would have forbidden to tumble to a stainless steel kitchen appliance! My grated damn knows what it is, now on the exhaust scratch.
77. I would bought a non-parquet board, and the parquet is real, because A few years later, the board, even very expensive in my case, began to get out slightly, and the seams between the boards were expanded slightly.
78. Sockets !!! Do not regret. I read this advice earlier, but the husband slowed me for the sleeve (died appetites), as a result, there were extension cords that would very much like to avoid.
79. Warm floors: wherever there is a tile, be sure to. We are stuck and very happy. In the kitchen - for some reason they love to lie and draw on the floor, in the corridor - after the street, all wet overalls and jackets lay out on the floor and they dry very quickly, the same with shoes. In the bathroom and the toilet - be sure. You still need to be provided in advance, where the furniture, plumbing will be standing, etc., and already in these places the warm floor does not hold.
80. Doors: When the interior doors were installed, it never even came to mind that the switch should be near the handle operating the door. And we hung them so that the switch was from the loop side. Now you have to include the light (HP, in the bathroom, toilet, storage room), and then go to the handle and open on the other side. The little thing seems to be, but so uncomfortable !!!
81. Storeroom: If there is at least a place that can donate in favor of the storage room, do it! Vacuum cleaners, rollers, sledges, skiing, Christmas toys, mops, basins, buckets, household appliances that do not use every day - everything is there.
82. Parquet: We have a dark parquet Merbau. It looks very nice, but on such a dark floor, especially on a sunny day, each dusty is visible, so you have to clean every day.
83. Ceiling: Promach - made a glossy ceiling in the living room, but did not take into account that under it another ceiling level with the inside lamps - all these lamps now do not dispel the pleasant light around the perimeter of the room, as it was assumed, and reflected in the ceiling, as in Mirror. Horror!!! All exhaust, as they say, is obvious.
84. In the toilet, bathroom (and wherever there is a lot of moisture) necessarily need a stretch ceiling. Nothing will not swell, not falling off, but most importantly - if the neighbors flooded you, the water does not bloom widely in the apartment, but is going to the ceiling itself. The ceiling saves, and the water remains inside. Then the masters were filmed part of the ceiling, merged water, and it was installed back.
85. Loggia (or balcony): You need to withdraw the lighting and necessarily a socket! I adapted to the shopping room, sushi and ironing there.
86. In the bathroom sockets should be moisture-proof (with a cover) - a washing machine, a hairdryer, a razor is simply vital.
87. Need forced exhaust in the bathroom. Now it turns on us automatically when light ignition. And only now I realized that it was necessary to make a separate switch. And it annoys it so much, but it is impossible to turn off.
88. It was a bombardment of her husband, and in the end did not make hidden places for storage (for example, buckets, rags, chemistry and other hosts. Verds), although it was possible to beat some options with built-in lockers. He so wanted some "glamorous" species imposed on the magazines, and that people live in the apartment and cleaning, did not take into account.
89. From what was done correctly: 1. In the guest bathroom put a shower cabin. It is necessary to quickly, wash themselves there, and still very convenient to wash the dog; 2. Warm floors, boiler, insulated loggia (with warm floors, light and outlet); 3. Many boxes and closed shelves + wardrobe in the nursery, there is an all children's economy; 4. Built-in dishwasher - a dream.
90. I would have won the designer to immediately see the whole picture! Many things do not like exactly because of the unprincipled.
91. When planning sleeping places, it is necessary to take into account the direction of drafts.
92. And I got the buttons-plugs and joints on the plinths - we do not like terribly. It seems to be picked up. And the sister, they were in the same collection - they are not visible practically.
93. Door handles with sharp corners - periodically someone hurt their hand or something else, it hurts and clothing rushes.
94. Vinyl wallpaper under the painting of Ukrainian production - in the same room a sirdora was stuck - horror horror! German - super blocked on another.
95. You should not enter the apartment with unfinished repair and lack-fitted furniture. Then the process will delay .... it seems to be used to it, but the time is always missing so as not to finish everything.
96. Single sockets are just funny! Now with hated tees I live.
97. About the light grout on the floor is already so much written !!! But, apparently, I had little ... a very untidy look.
98. I will never glue in the children's "fluffy" wallpapers that can be pulled off - in the process of falling asleep. Children all the time they pick themselves with her finger - they hated everything near the bed.
99. All accurate dimensions of furniture need to be recognized before repair.
100. We experienced overhaul and realized that most importantly - do not save on materials - wallpaper, paint, adhesives - everything should be a good quality!
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Repair of the apartment is a painstaking process that requires accounting for all sorts of trifles. We are talking about a thoromal action plan, counting estimates, choosing materials, tools and inventory, without which the repair is impossible. Therefore, the question is where to start repairing the apartment with your own hands, relevant.
You can instruct the task to the master or brigade of repairmen. As a result, questions will decide without your participation. In an effort to save, people make repairs in a new building or secondary on their own. If you are thinking to save, housing repair advice will be useful.
Step-by-step action plan
I will not delve into every little thing, otherwise the discussion will delay. Instead, focusing on the main councils. After reading the material, you will find out where to start repair, so that it is faster, because success depends on the correct sequence of actions.
- Make a repair plan . Will be the basis for further actions. Think in what premises, and what character needs to be needed. Repair may be capital or cosmetic. The first type provides for alignment of walls and ceilings, redevelopment, flooring, and the second is reduced to replacing the finish.
- Clean the estimate . Repair is accompanied by material costs, so the estimate is the first after planning, which is recommended to do. Calculating the costs, get the amount that will need to be repaired. It depends on the type and quality of building materials. The value of costs is determined by the result that you want to get.
- Choose inventory and materials . If there is no confidence in the wizards repairing apartments and plan to do everything yourself, army with a set of spatulas, sandpaper, hammer, rollers and other construction devices. Buy stucco, putty and primer.
- Prepare the premises . Remove the shelves, chandeliers and lamps, end the furniture, whether it is a sofa or wall. If there is no such possibility, leave furniture items on the side and cover with tarpaulom, film or matter.
- Doors and openings . If the repair is scheduled in one room, interior doors and openings close using wet rags. As a result, the dust will not penetrate the space.
- Working with the ceiling and walls . From the surface, remove the old finish: paint, blotch, wallpaper. With the help of emery and spatula, it is easy. Work with the use of protective agents, including glasses and respirator. If you have difficulty with removing wallpaper, wet warm water.
- Spatula and hammer . To remove irregularities, paints and tubercles, use a spatula and hammer. The painted surface is cut down by a hammer and clean the spatula. In the event of difficulties, paint is treated with solvent. To remove whitewash, use a spatula and water.
- Primer . After removing the old finish, the surface is treated with primer. After drying, potholes and deep gaps close up plaster. A putty is suitable for the elimination of small grooves. After drying, the surface is cleaned with sandpaper and again pass the primer.
Video instructions
With the help of the instruction, you can easily prepare housing to other repair and finishing works that interior transform. If you intend to use the services of the repair brigade, I recommend to complete the preparatory stage yourself to save a round sum.
Where to start repair in a new building
People who have become happy apartment owners in a new building face a problem due to the need to make repairs. It is recommended to carry out repairs in the new housing, taking into account the various factors that are not known to everyone.
If you plan to put a new accommodation in order, I do not recommend using expensive materials for finishing apartments. For several years, the structure is prone to shrinkage, as a result, finishing materials are deformed and covered by cracks. By doing repairs, get ready for this issue in a few years.
Repair of the apartment in the new building depends on the structure of the building. In monolithic houses of apartments with a free layout, represented by free space, limited by externally walls. The arrangement of such housing is complex and is large-scale, since during repair it is necessary to act in accordance with the construction norms.
Rules are prohibited to equip closed loggias with a heating system, dismantle the ventilation channels or to transfer the sewer riser without negotiation in the relevant authorities.
You can purchase accommodation in the panel house. The developers take apartments to operation with partitions and a tie, which facilitate repairs. In some cases, the apartments are equipped with wiring, pipe wiring and rough finish. If you do not plan to dismantle everything, repair work yourself.
Holding the living area in the panel house, consider that the building's shrinkage takes place at least two years. Therefore, be sure to rein the walls using the grid. I do not recommend at first repairs to put the tile. Better use plastic panels. Ceilings and walls in such apartments at first are covered by cracks.
Stages of repair
Let's talk about the steps of repair in the new building. There is nothing complicated in this if there are certain skills and skills. Otherwise, the housing arrangement instruct professionals.
- Question with planning . If you want the apartment to be comfortable and original, at the initial stage, demolish unnecessary partitions and take new walls at discretion. For this purpose, plasterboard sheets are used.
- Sequence of work in a new building . Depends on the level of staffing. If the accommodation has sewage, plumbing and wiring, it simplifies work. If the apartment is deprived of these things, use the wizard services that will install.
- Screed . The standard screed leaves much to be desired, I do not advise you to leave it, since problems will arise in the process of laying outdoor coverage. To begin with, align the floors, and then cover the plastic composition. To organize floors, use a parquet board or tile.
- Sound insulation in new building . If you do not want to hear the conversations of the neighbors, take care of the sound insulation of the apartment, paying attention to the ceilings and walls.
- Alignment of walls . Swipe plaster works, and then apply the finishing material. During the choice of building materials, take into account the shrinkage. Professionals are advised to use silkographic wallpaper to finish the walls. They are characterized by a high density hiding small cracks.
- Ceiling design . For this purpose, stretch ceilings made of fabric or plastic, which are not deformed and are not covered by cracks. To get the original design, complete the drywall finish.
- Doors . Install the last place. The exception of only the window and the entrance door are mounted which at the initial stage. The rules for the choice and installation of doors for the new building is not. Buy the product at discretion.
Video advice
Now you have an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat to start repair at home. The sequence of work is known. Interior and style choose with thematic forums or magazines.
How to save
In conclusion, I will tell about savings. After the preliminary calculations, a terrifying amount will turn out, but this is not a reason for experiences. Such is the cost of living in a comfortable, cozy and renovated apartment. From any situation there is an output. Instead of burning nervous cells in vain, think how to save. With the right approach, save a decent part of the money.
Use cheaper construction and finishing materials.. There are many solutions on the market offering an acceptable price and quality ratio.
Save on the equipment. Just save on plumbing, electrician, ventilation and heating I do not advise. By installing low-quality instruments, spend money on repair or purchase replacement.
With limited budget repair make yourself. If there is no time, look in a brigade of repairmen who do not chase for great profit and do not overestimate the cost of services.
To save, follow the following rules.
- Before repairs, call stores and make a list of outlets that offer building materials at competitive prices.
- Buy materials on ads. Usually, with their help, the materials that remained after the repair, which affects the cost.
- For painting window frames, doors and elements of the heating system, use the usual paint. The use of expensive paints and varnishes will not provide the best effect.
- To finish floors in the kitchen, use the tile in the toilet and the bathroom. At first glance it will seem that it is expensive. But if you consider that even high-quality linoleum will lose its original appearance in a few years, the costs will pay off.
- To put the walls before finishing with wallpaper, use a gypsum putty. It will not provide such a smooth surface as an acrylic putty, but with such an finishing decoration it is not required, the wallpaper will hide small disadvantages.
- People trying to make the interior of the apartment perfect, buy expensive borders. Instead, buy a roll of striped wallpaper and dissolve on separate strips. As a result, the border will turn out.
- Do not dismount the wallpaper for painting. They are more expensive than a paper counterpart, but wider and longer. And after a few years, the interior of the room can be changed using the paint of another color. Clear can be glued through home braes.
- When placing a children's room, do not use wallpapers with animals and characters from cartoons. This is an expensive pleasure from which the eyes get tired. Take advantage of the "fabulous wallpaper" roll, complemented by a cheap one-photon accompaniment of a pastel shade. Super!
I decided this time not to write big and smart text, but simply gathered short, but extremely useful tricks that would save money to the owners in the repair process.
1. Wholesale cheaper. It is not necessary to crush repairs into several stages in the hope of finding the cheapest performers for each type of work. The smaller the scope of work, the more every performer will ask, and this is justified, since the new master will need to re-undergo the organizational stage at the beginning of work at the facility - buy "one-time", consumables, tools, and so on. In addition, the masters are deprived of the possibilities of "relement" work and thereby optimize work at the facility. Accordingly, the total time increases, and in this case, in the literal sense - money is divided by the general director of the online booking service for repairing Priceremont.ru Andrei Lyamin-Borodin.
2. Saving with a margin. Purchase rough materials, according to expert, better with a small margin. Delivery of the two or three missing bags or a simple brigade will cost more. The same can be said about the finishing materials - such as tiles, flooring, wallpapers - even if the planned volume is enough, it is better to have a small margin in case if you have to replace the spoiled element, because after a while on sale it may not be your series .
4. Catch discounts.To save on chistoral materials, it is worth monitoring the shares and special offers of dealers and large construction networks, Lyamin Borodin indicates. So, warehouse residues can be bought with a significant discount. You can also choose materials with economical flow. For example, a monophonic tile requires a smaller supply on trimming than patterned, and wallpaper with small pattern will be required in a smaller volume than a large print wallpaper.
Although on the other hand, the small irregularities of the walls can hide the wallpaper with a large pattern, the Deputy Director for Marketing "Kashirsky Dvor" Olga Karpinskaya adds. In this case, it will be possible to do without aligning the walls by plaster, that is, to save on the draft works.
5. Price list forward. If you do not have an apartment design project, almost inevitably an unplanned additional work will arise. Therefore, it is better to immediately request from the masters a price list for all types of work so that the price does not form spontaneously already in the process, and so that it can be checked and independently calculated.
6. Repair is better to do in winter. Repair service market for seasonal, peak of the number of orders and price level - summer, indicates the expert Priceremont.ru. Accordingly, if there is an opportunity to make repairs outside the season, you can save on this, as many, even good specialists, are sitting without orders and are ready to reduce prices for their services.
7. Insist on bonuses. When you have already reached an agreement with the repair team about a certain amount of work and the cost of this contract, ask to include small, but the necessary services, such as the bonus, and the necessary services. "Most likely, already" putting a large order in his pocket, the performers will not give up a small info. By the way, the builders themselves use the same admission, when the client doubts and delays the decision, "the agency's interlocutor notes.
Minor work a penny guard, agrees Karpinskaya. You need to buy in advance or at least to take part of household appliances to have a power outlet during the repair process, cut the holes in the tile (for example, under the hose of the washing machine in the bathroom). In general, in places where the trim is tiled, it is better to immediately ask the masters to fasten all the hooks, shelves, holders. The fact is that such works in the composition of large volumes can go with a discount or for free, a bonus. But an independent attempt to drill the tile can lead to her cracking and as a result - re-work.
8. Repair with a guarantee. Work with those performers who give a guarantee for their work. The warranty should be enshrined in the contract and its deadline should be, preferably, at least a year. Even with a good execution of work, there is a chance that something will go wrong, and the problem will "get out" during operation. This is especially true of what is not obvious at first glance - engineering systems.
With this agrees Karpinskaya. She notices that, for example, in no case can the warm floors in the apartment for central heating. "This is an administrative violation, you will have to pay a considerable fine. If the workers offer it to do, do not associate with this brigade," the interviewer insists.
Having a warranty on the repair made, you will be released from unplanned additional spending, adds Lyamin Borodin.
9. Characteristics are more important than brand. In some cases, the fame and high cost of the brand does not always mean that he has no more budget and good alternative. So, when installing the batteries, the expert of Kashirsky Dvor advises to pay attention to their technical characteristics, and not on the origin of the brand. "Some domestic manufacturers represent an excellent product much cheaper than overseas analogues. In metal radiators, by the way, above the heat transfer, therefore it is better to give preference to them," Karpinsky indicates.
Ourselves with hands: how to avoid mistakes when repairing an apartmentIt is perhaps that the majority of Russians in the current economic situation are chosen on its own in the current economic situation, when the budget is cut due to the rise in building materials. However, in the process of independent repairs, various defects, marriage and mistakes are often arising, how to avoid them and decided to remind the site "RIA Real Estate"."Also, if you do not plan after a year or two redo repair, think the colors used in the interior. First of all, it all depends on your temperament, but more often bright colors are still rapidly bored, unlike calm pastel tones," it turns out Karpinskaya.
Leave samples of wallpaper and tiles after repair in case you have to patch something, for example, after flooding an apartment. "As a rule, the collection of collections in stores occurs once a quarter, besides, the same shades of wallpaper or tiles from different parties can differ significantly, therefore, without having samples, you will not be able to choose the goods you need. This can lead to The fact that you have to completely change the design of the apartment again, "explains the expert of the Kashirsky Court.