Where to start repair of apartments

It is necessary to make repairs someone inspire this idea, and someone was frightened, because repair – it is expensive and complicated undertaking, which includes a lot of different tasks. To repair ceased to seem universal catastrophe, it needs to be carefully planned. So, where do you start repairing the apartment? Let's try to answer this question.

If you want to save, and to repair their own hands, you have to learn several trades – plasterer, plumber, electrician, tiler, tilers and others.   advance supply of essential tools: screwdrivers, saws, brushes, rollers,   screwdriver, spirit level, a drill, grinder, knife and others.   Benefits repair their own hands ( unless of course you are not limited in time), you can decide for yourself with the time to make repairs that most closely matches your requirements, and save considerable money. However, if you can not boast of having free time or necessary skills, it is better to use the services of construction crews. Firstly,   to   to whom to make a complaint, if something goes wrong, and secondly, the experience of the professionals more, and all the necessary tools available (many tools are not cheap, so buy them yourself can be quite expensive).

Planning for repairs

First, inspect your home and determine what kind of repair is required. Check out the fashion trends of repair. The most common cosmetic involves replacing boring wallpaper, painting windows, replacement of flooring, ceiling whitewash, it will require less investment and time. Overhaul, more time-consuming and costly financially, includes the complete replacement of electrical wiring, replace plumbing, leveling floors and walls, sometimes even alterations to the apartment. Important! - The new rules harmonize redevelopment of apartments.

Conventionally renovated apartment can be divided into several stages. Every project begins with budgeting. If you understand that you can not do all the work yourself, it is best to consult a specialist. Before starting the repair shops must-see building: ask the price to the prices for building materials, choose your favorite materials and tools. Call the offices of the companies, find out the price range of their services, rummage on the Internet. You can order materials through   online stores, but you should have a solid lead time: no stock goods, delays in shipment or delivery eventually lead to « downtime » works and you do not have time to invest in the schedule. By the way, do not be amiss to think about where your family will live during repair, especially if coming global changes. Expenses for rental housing also need to enter in the budget. Mark the maximum amount you are willing to allocate to repair and work according to the budget plan.

Design Project: luxury or necessity?

If you find it difficult to decide what you would like to change in your apartment or house, it is best to contact the designers who will present to your court several versions of   the design project. Professionals can help you smash your functional area into zones, will pick the right color and texture solutions, to make the technical project, which will take into account all the details.

• When replacing the wiring need to calculate in what place will be connected to electrical appliances, to choose the right location of sockets, plug   electrocommunications   the whole apartment or home;
• When replacing radiators professionals will help calculate the number of radiators for your area is optional wiring « floor heating », specifies other nuances;
• Do not be amiss to consultation and the replacement of plumbing: you present a new layout of the pipeline (it is a must if you plan to purchase additional sanitary equipment: for example, a new sink or shower), even with the choice of materials for walls or floor professionals can help . However, you can trust your own taste and, in fact, in the end, then your apartment;
• Very important is the question of thermal insulation of apartment: determine what you do in the first place – balcony or exterior walls,     should think in advance about the replacement of windows in the   energy efficiency;
• Upon request, the technical project can be specified even placement of sockets, lamps, paintings, furniture and other interior elements. Seeing in front of a visual « guide » his apartment in 3D, is much easier to define your preferences.

Several important nuances

On repair building works an immutable law: if you want to start work, then do not rush out and stock up on expensive materials. House during the year can result in significant shrinkage, so that expensive Italian tile immediately put not worth it, because of the movement of the walls, it simply does not hold out to them. If you want to hire a construction crew to put their ideas into practice, it is better to do it in winter, when the construction market and freezes the builders reduces the amount of repair orders. On the insulation and the heating system is, of course, does not apply.

Making repairs on their own, distribute work, immediately schedule a room from which you start the transformation of his apartment. Businesses are advised to start with the back room and the last to pay attention to the corridor, because that is where construction debris will accumulate. Before you start repairing the door of the room it is necessary to hang cellophane that will protect them from dust and dirt, and protect against mechanical damage. Furniture is also good to hide under the polyethylene film, after moving it to the center of the room. You kill two birds at once: will save your furniture from dirt and     will have uniform access to all the walls of the room. Not recommended to cover the furniture fabrics as they pass dust and moisture. Necessarily it is necessary to move the clothes, appliances and other items     in the other rooms so that they are not damp and smelling of construction materials.

Pre-allocation of responsibilities during the renovation among the members of the family, then to not be disputes. Babies can be charged a fine job,     men need to take the most difficult part of the repair and heavy, women – cleaning, wallpapering and other works. But in the end you can say with pride that made repair the whole family!

Also important a factor as counting time, try to keep within the planned schedule. Plan period and add a 20% contingency and thoroughly shall describe all the steps in the repair table. Try to keep within the specified time frame you or your repair will become a long-term construction and pretty tired of you and your households, but at the same time do not put impossible tasks, everything must be done carefully and plan the scope of work for each day.

Phased repair

If you plan to major repairs, it is best to start it with the replacement of the floor. If     you have purchased a house in the secondary market, you will surely need to remove the old flooring and replace, in some cases it may be necessary and a new concrete floor screed – it will become the basis for floor – linoleum, laminate, parquet and others. (See. - What is the best laminate or linoleum?)

Before pokleit wallpaper, the walls need to align, even the most expensive and textured wallpaper will not be able to hide the irregularities and imperfections of the walls, you just mess up expensive materials. Walls should be necessarily oshkurit iprogruntovany. If you do repairs in the building, then do not buy directly expensive wallpaper, the walls will shrink as it applies to the tile, which is not desirable to put on such surfaces throughout the year. But to the wall panels of this statement is not true, they can be installed immediately.   More -   The alignment of the walls with his own hands.

Also, a good solution would be fabric wallpaper – they are stretchable, so do not have to worry that there will be skewed or unattractive cracks. As a last resort, there's always the opportunity to paint the walls, adding to the interior decorative patterns under the stencil, stickers and other original thing.

Also important and repair the ceiling. Some inexperienced repairmen polyurethane paste tiles, which hides all the flaws, forgetting that in the course of the year begins to turn yellow tiles and becomes a breeding ground for dust and damp room, or in the case of non-compliance begins to come unstuck. In recent years, increasingly used   plasterboard, which work with the power of even the novice master. For new buildings fit ceilings, because for them the shrinkage of the walls is not a threat, they take any form.

Particular attention should be given to electrical wiring, ventilation, plumbing, heating – this work is best left to professionals. If you install in new windows, no need to worry about their safety, installers do in such cases the gaps in the joints, which prevents deformation of the windows. It plays an important role and sound of your apartment. To reduce noise, recommended cork panels, which significantly reduces the noise level and are not afraid drawdown home.

Here are the basic nuances that need to be taken into account in preparation for repair. We hope that your repair was easy and smooth, and became a pleasant event for your entire family!

See also:

• Typical errors in the repair of apartments
• How late can make repairs?
• Liquid wallpaper in the interior