How does the repair in the room begin

The very first thing to do before starting repairs in any room is to understand what we want to achieve as a result.

Ask yourself a few questions:

1. What should the room look like after repair?
2. What would you like to leave unchanged?
3. What does not suit in the first place and requires changes?
4. What kind of wishes do people have for using the room (for example, other family members)?
5. Do you need major repairs or will there be enough cosmetic?

You can think through the details of the appearance of the room yourself. If this is difficult, you will have to turn to a professional designer. This stage should not be postponed until later, they say, we will begin the repair, and then we'll see what happens. A lot depends on how we want to see the room - from the choice of materials to the performance of a very different type of work. It’s better to think through everything in advance than to redo it later.

Preparation stage

So, the future view of the room is thought out. Before you begin any manipulations in the room, you need to take the following steps.

• Describe the repair sequence as detailed as possible.
• Examine the information about the materials that you plan to use, and about all types of work that you are going to do yourself.
• Select the start and end date of the repair, highlight the period for preparation. This is necessary so that the goal is clearly defined, and the repair is not delayed for many months.
• Calculate the amount of necessary building and decoration materials.
• Select and buy all the building materials and tools that you will need throughout the repair.
• Decide who will carry out the repair. Think about whether you will do everything yourself, find helpers for yourself, or trust certain types of work. hired professionals.
• Order windows and doors in advance so as not to delay the work due to the fact that we have to expect their manufacture.
• Consider how and where the trash will be taken out. In any case, there will be many.
• Mark the new location of the switches and sockets.

Tip: you should always buy building materials with a small margin.

Preparing the room for repair

Consider the option of major repairs in the living room, involving not only a change in wallpaper, baseboards, updating the paint on the ceiling and walls, but also replacing windows, doors, electrical wiring and other large-scale activity.

Before starting the repair itself, you need to:

• to free the room from furniture and other things - the room should remain completely empty;
• remove from the walls and ceiling everything that can be screwed to them, leaving them empty;
• remove old wallpaper, remove the tile, the old floor covering (if the floor remains unchanged, care must be taken to preserve it, for which it should be covered with a durable film);
• hang the doorways with a damp sheet so that subsequently construction debris does not scatter throughout the apartment.
• remove the door;
• remove the old wiring, not forgetting to turn off the power;
• dismantle old heating radiators in case of a decision to replace them.

Repair sequence

The repair plan of the room is made individually, depending on what work will be carried out. In order to compile it, you need to know where to start. Experts recommend an approximate sequence of actions, which is not necessary to adhere strictly, but keep in mind.

• It is advisable to start by replacing windows, including window blocks, window sills, slopes. After installation, in order to avoid pollution and scratching, the windows must be closed with plastic wrap, window sills are covered with hardboard.

• The electrics are changing. The old wiring has already been removed; the channels for the new one are ditched. Then the cable is laid, and the channels plastered.

• Heating radiators are installed.

• The ceiling and walls are leveled, rough floor preparation is carried out (screed, insulation).
• The ceiling is fully finished, up to painting and gluing the baguette.

• Finishing of walls and slopes of doors begins.
• Sockets are installed and switches.

• If selected as a floor covering parquet or laminate, it is laid after wallpapering. Piece parquet is laid earlier, is cycled and covered with the first layer of varnish. Then you need to glue the wallpaper, and only after that the parquet is covered with subsequent layers of varnish.
• New doors are being installed. You can change windows and window sills not only at the very beginning, but also at this stage.
• Glued wallpaper.

• Skirting boards are attached. and platbands.
• Holes for wall shelves, cornices, paintings, etc. are drilled.

To make repairs in the room from beginning to end is a rather long, laborious business, requiring a wide variety of skills and, in addition, patience. But when arranging furniture in a renovated room, you will be pleased to understand that it was worth it.