How to start the repair of the apartment. How to make a repair plan

Sooner or later you need repair in any apartment. There are several basic types of repair: cosmetic , capital , repair with re-planning .And what kind of repairs are you going to do? From this decision, all your further actions will depend.

Action Plan for Repair Planning

- What do you want to get as a result?

Before the start of active activities, it's good to look through specialized literature, to walk around sites that show beautiful interiors. Particularly useful is the section of the interiors of apartments. There you will see real interiors made not with the help of professional designers and construction teams, but by the owners of apartments.

After in the head all the desires are added to the real picture, take a pencil, paper and draw your apartment on a scale. It is necessary to do this in order to correctly imagine the future alteration and to calculate the need for materials.

- Finance. How much money are you willing to spend on repairs?

If you have not decided in advance on the amount required for repair, then make a preliminary cost estimate. But in any case, boldly increase it by about one and a half times. It is never possible to clearly calculate the expenditure part.

Do not forget that in addition to basic finishing materials( tiles, wallpaper, laminate), there are also auxiliary( adhesive, cement, substrate).You have to pay for the work of specialists and side expenses.

An exception is the situation where for repair you hire a construction team. As a rule, this is done during major overhaul. Then you sign with the contractors and a ready-made accurate estimate.

- Acquisition of consumables for repair

When you are certain of the new appearance of the apartment on paper, start purchasing materials. You have already calculated the need for them, but be sure to consider the reserve. That necessary minimum of materials, which will go to fit or damage, in the process of work( anything can happen).So that you do not have to run around in search of a pair of tiles or several laminate boards. It happens that the batch is already sold, and it is difficult to choose the right color or structure of the material.

Where to buy? Today there are quite a few places where construction and finishing materials are traded. Want to save money, have to run and look. The habit of thinking that the market or the Internet is cheaper is not relevant. Huge hypermarkets often arrange sales and promotions. There, the goods can be cheaper than in the market.

Tip. If everyone likes to inspect and touch with your hands, then purchase materials in real stores and markets. If you have enough descriptions or you know the real appearance and quality of the material, then buy in online stores. They can be ordered and delivered. Often, depending on the volume, it can be free. All the same savings!

- Distribution of duties when repairing the apartment

If you decide:

• to change windows,
• to install a balcony frame,
• entrance metal door,
• to replace communications,
• to change wiring,
• to correctly level the walls,
• to make the flooring and soundproofing of the floor,
• make stretch ceiling,
• lay out bathroom with ceramic tiles

Unambiguously call specialists! The fact is that to perform these works, you need knowledge of technology and work experience. Moreover, if you do something wrong, you will lose not only an expensive thing, but also do not achieve the desired result. And in the case of wiring, the illiterate performance and ignorance of the basic safety precautions can lead to fire, damage to household appliances and even injury.

But with wallpapering, laying a laminate or linoleum, painting, replacing interior doors, sanitary ware and laying tiles in the work area in the kitchen - you can manage yourself. There are a lot of useful lessons on the Internet, after seeing which, you will perform such work yourself. And also save.

- Repair in the apartment. What should I do first?

If you repair the apartment completely, then start with the dirtiest kinds of work. This is a floor screed, leveling walls, laying tiles on the floor and walls, replacing communications, wiring.

If you live in an apartment where there is a repair, then do not bomb everything at once. Make rooms gradually. For example, a fully equipped bathroom or kitchen. Move from the most voluminous and dirty works to finishing finishing.

Finishing rules: ceiling, walls, floor - not always suitable. If you do not level the walls, but simply re-paste the wallpaper? And the ceiling is going to do stretch? Then first glue the wallpaper, and then mount the ceiling. Everything depends on the finishing materials used.

In any case, make a step-by-step plan. And divide each item into columns. In them, enter the list of works, the necessary materials, the cost and who will perform. So you will not get confused, you will be able to calculate the costs and competently buy materials without making extra walks.

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