How to make inexpensive repairs in an apartment with your own hands

What do we mean by inexpensive cosmetic repairs?

To start cosmetic repairs, you need to decide what it will include:

1. Preparing walls and ceiling, cleaning them;
2. Minor repairs and priming of the ceiling and walls;
3. Their wallpapering or painting;
4. Coloring the floor.

For carrying out cheap repairs with their own hands you will need

1. Putty putty and finishing;
2. Set of spatulas;
3. Primer;
4. Coating adhesive;
5. Wallpaper;
6. Paint;
7. Brushes and rollers;
8. Tanks for liquids and putty;
9. Toolbox.

Preparing the room

To ensure that the furniture does not interfere with the repaired premises, and the repair does not last too long, it needs to be removed. Well, in the absence of such an opportunity, you need to demolish all the furniture in the center of the room and use a film and tape to properly cover and seal it so that it does not hit and does not damage construction debris.

Preparing the ceiling for repairing the

Repair should begin with cleansing of old wallpaper and ceiling paint.

To clean the ceiling, it is necessary to water it with water and allow time for old whitewash and putty to be easily removed, exposing the plates. After this, the ceiling needs to be washed thoroughly.

Now the ceiling is ready for repair. All the cracks should be cleared and, if possible, deepened. After their priming and shpaklyuem. When the putty dries, it will need to be sanded and primed again. Now the ceiling is ready for painting or wallpapering.

Inexpensive repair in the apartment: preparation of the walls

After finishing the repair of the ceiling, it's time to move on to the walls.

To prepare them for wallpapering, you must perform the following actions:

1. Remove old wallpaper. This can be done by wetting wallpaper with hot water or a special solution. After getting wet, the wallpaper will be easily removed with a spatula.
2. After the wall has dried after the procedure, you can proceed to repair it. It must be carried out on the same principle as the repair of the ceiling.

We paint the ceiling or pasted it with wallpaper

After the works you can start to glue the wallpaper on the ceiling.

If you decide to paint the ceiling, then it takes a water-based paint. Dilute according to the instructions. And the ceiling is painted twice.

In order to save money on repairs, you can buy paints, primers and wallpaper of domestic production. In terms of quality, these goods do not give way to foreign analogues, but have a lower cost.

Kleim wallpaper

Before the wallpapering, paint the windows and doors. Only after the paint has completely dried, you can begin to glue the walls.

The final step of the instruction "How to make repairs in an apartment is inexpensive" - ​​painting the floor

All the furniture that remains in the room to be repaired must be covered with a paint tape or scotch tape so that they remain clean.

If necessary, carry out spot repair of the floor and, finally, its painting.

After that, the repair in the apartment can be considered finished.