In detail: do-it-yourself rough repairs in an apartment from a real master for the site my.housecope.com.
They buy an apartment from a developer, often conclude a contract without finishing or with a rough finish. This is not only a way to reduce payments, but also to do all the work with high quality. Although renovating an apartment from scratch in a new building is a long and costly business.
If you purchased a property from a developer without finishing, you will need a step-by-step work plan. To a person who is not particularly familiar with construction, the repair procedure is not at all obvious. And since renovating an apartment from scratch in a new building will require going through all the stages, a plan is simply necessary.
Apartment renovation technology in a new building - it all starts with a plan
To determine the scope of work, you need to know where you will start. What you will receive after the commissioning of the object is spelled out in the contract. Therefore, we take it, read it carefully, then you can start planning the order of work. Usually an apartment in a new building without finishing is rented in this condition:
Installed windows (usually double glazed windows) and entrance doors (cheap and not very reliable).
Unfinished walls (concrete or brick, building blocks), internal partitions - depending on the contract: they may or may not stand.
Renovation of an apartment from scratch in a new building: everything there is - entrance doors, walls, windows, heating, water supply, sewerage and gas
Only the kitchen can have one plastered wall - gas workers require a meter to be installed
Basically, this is all you have before you start renovating an apartment from scratch in a new building. Everything is in its infancy, but all communications have been brought up.
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You should immediately decide on the partitions. Decide where and which ones will stand, which ones will need to be removed / moved. If there are already partitions and you are going to redo something, you need to get permission and only then proceed with the transfer. If there are no partitions and you will install them yourself, the contract specifies what materials you can make them from. It is better to adhere to the recommendations, otherwise you can get penalties, and they are considerable.
Developing an apartment plan
After the approval of the apartment plan, you first decide where you will have large-sized furniture, appliances, plumbing, etc. You will need this data to prepare a plan for laying engineering systems (water supply, sewerage, lighting, if provided - ventilation). When the plan is more or less ready, you can proceed with the repair itself. The sequence of actions is as follows:
Installation, transfer of partitions according to the approved project.
Apartment renovation technology in a new building: we put partitions
Cold and hot water pipes, sewerage
Wall plastering - quality is important
Putty is almost a fine finish
We level the floor with a screed. Renovation of an apartment from scratch in a new building is almost finished
This is the procedure for renovating an apartment from scratch in a new building in general. There are particulars, but they are individual. Then, depending on the situation, shift or swap the stages.
VIDEO Self-repair of an apartment from scratch in a new building will take a lot of time. If you have it in stock - not a problem. If you want to move into new housing faster, you will have to hire builders. This is where questions often arise. Whom to hire for repairs in a new building - a team that promises to do everything "on a turnkey basis" or individual specialists for each type of work? This issue has already been discussed hundreds of times, but no consensus has been reached. Both options have their supporters.So that you can decide, briefly about the advantages and disadvantages of both solutions.
Renovation stages in the apartment replace one another
If you hire a team that will do all the work from start to finish, you may not be satisfied with the quality of their work. All promise quality and speed, but few actually do all the work at the proper level. Very often you have to terminate the contract and look for someone who will complete / redo. This task is even more difficult than the search for the first brigade: no one wants to correct other people's mistakes. It is long and troublesome. These are the cons.
The advantage of this decision: the hired people are responsible for all stages of work, up to the finishing (if you so agreed). If you don't like something, you can try to force it to be redone, but it is better to control each stage of the work. The second positive point: repairs are progressing faster, since there is no need to look for performers for each new job. These are the pros.
Another moment of the organizational plan. When drawing up a contract, write down the cost of each stage of work. Then, upon termination, you will know exactly how much to pay. Otherwise, they will begin to prove to you that most of the work has been done, and that nonsense remains.
If you choose to hire separate specialists for each stage of the work, it is difficult to predict the end result. Since you have to complete a certain amount of work and leave, there is a possibility that workers will not try too hard. And each next specialist can say (and usually say) that mistakes were made before him and demand additional payment for their correction. There is only one way out: constant and tight control at all stages of work, clear execution of agreements with clarification of what you want to have at the end of them.
The result is not guaranteed
If you do not do some work yourself, then the total cost of paying for work by individual specialists will be higher. But the plus of such a decision is that you can "stretch" the spending over time. There was money - they did a certain amount of work.
Renovation of an apartment from scratch in a new building has its own characteristics. the new house will “sit down” for several years, the foundation, walls, and ceilings will move. All these movements lead to the appearance of cracks, and they can damage the finish coat. Therefore, there is advice: to use not the most expensive finishing materials, which you will not mind replacing in three to four years with new, better quality ones.
The choice of materials is a daunting task
Most of the questions arise with the tiles laid on the walls and the screed. Cracks in them are most noticeable, and pleasure is not cheap - both in terms of the cost of materials and the price of work. Therefore, the screed is made floating - without connection with the walls, and instead of tiles on the walls in the bathroom and toilet, they are finished with vinyl wall panels.
Tiles on the walls and floors are often laid in the kitchen, and they try to choose the most attractive collections, which cost a lot. There are two ways out. The first is to use a plastic or furniture board instead of a tiled apron in the kitchen, and lay linoleum on the floor for now. Second, lay the tiles, but have a certain amount in reserve to replace the broken tiles. After all, it is not a fact that in three or four years the same collection will still be produced. Yes, even if so, then the color to pick up one to one is unlikely to succeed.
Many of the owners of new apartments simply do not think about how quiet their home will be. Not yet before. But by the time you enter, it will be too late. The current trend in multi-storey construction is to make the construction as easy as possible in order to save on the foundation. Lightweight materials are great, but the problem is they conduct sound well.
Soundproofing in an apartment is an important point
As a result, it turns out that the repair is completed, and you, if you wish, can take notes of the conversations of your neighbors, and they are yours.Far from being a rosy prospect. Therefore, it is worth thinking about soundproofing. Yes, these are additional costs and considerable, but silence is more important.
VIDEO Not so long ago, those who received a warrant for an apartment in a new building could move in and live in peace. Today, before moving into a new home, the owners will need to make repairs. Most housing is rented out without finishing. This is a way to reduce the cost of an apartment. Residents are given the opportunity to acquire their own corner at an affordable cost. The result is an economy option. The most popular type of housing is studio. The owners buy the walls without finishing, partitions. You will need to paint the walls, install plumbing, level floors, surfaces. The new settlers carry out a complete roughing and finishing work. The owners should not forget about the pre-finishing work. The correct procedure for repairs in a new building without finishing is described below.
When starting to renovate a new building, keep in mind that the finishing will be done from scratch. This is especially true for a studio apartment. Many people plan to make expensive repairs using expensive materials, which is unacceptable. The reasons for this are as follows:
the structure undergoes shrinkage for the first year, due to which cracks appear on the surface for the first time;
cracks are formed on the walls, ceiling, floor;
due to deformations, the decoration and repair of the apartment in a year will have to be done again, which will cause numerous problems.
It is necessary to start repairs with the following processes:
distribution of sanitary pipes;
wiring bookmark;
underfloor heating installation, screed filling;
leveling the surface of the walls;
construction of suspended ceilings.
The procedure for performing repair work in a new building cannot be changed.
In the first year, you need to do the rough, dusty work with your own hands, go to the pre-finishing work, then the finishing work is done. It is recommended that you do the dirty work after you receive your keychain. This is not done by chance, new settlers who have received the keys to the apartment pay for a container for collecting construction waste. The whole house will be serviced.
The management company gets rid of the garbage within six months. If you do not start repairs right away with all the tenants, then you will have to take out the garbage, then you will have to yourself. Further export is no longer included in the cost of services.
Another important plus when performing rough, preparatory work after receiving a bunch of keys in a new building - no one lives in the house, which means that it is allowed to boldly make noise, work with a puncher, knock with a hammer at night and in the morning, which cannot be done later. After the completion of the main work, a fine finish is performed, you can stick inexpensive wallpaper, lay ordinary linoleum and for the first year after delivery you can be content with this for now. This economy option is suitable for young families starting from scratch.
The main work has been done, the house has become clean, comfortable, you can take a break. There are a number of works that tenants in a new building want to do, but experts strongly recommend giving up, otherwise then you will have to redo it again, both from the preliminary and all subsequent work, that is, to start from scratch.
It is not recommended to engage in the first year in a new building:
ceilings, make the walls in a studio apartment out of plasterboard, putty on finishing, take advice not as an economical option, take into account that at first all the seams are cracking;
laying tiles for the bathroom, any fine finish will do, poor tightness will lead to water flowing to neighbors, mold will appear from high humidity.
The tiled bathroom floor will be a barrier to other renovations.
The phrase that the miser pays twice is incorrect.The first year, such an economical solution will help save finances, especially for those who start from scratch.
If you still want to live immediately in normal conditions, then any repair work should be done by professionals. You can do it yourself if you are confident in your skill. It should be borne in mind that cracks may appear over time, but you can reassure yourself that they will be visible only when a person is resting on the couch.
In order not to have to redo something, it is necessary that any rough, fine repair work is carried out in a new building, and it does not matter whether it is a studio apartment or not, in a certain sequence. Seeing the bare walls of their home, each owner immediately has a question: "Where to start?" The repair procedure is as follows:
planning the space is simple to do. Even before the rough work is done, you need to draw a plan of your apartment on a piece of paper (or using a computer program). Decide immediately on the place of plumbing. It is necessary to outline the place of the bath or shower stall, toilet. The photo on the left shows exactly how you can install plumbing. Outline the kitchen, corridor. Especially accurately, everything needs to be planned in a studio-type housing;
insert windows if they have not been inserted. Usually new buildings are rented already with inserted windows. But if there was an agreement that only the walls will be built, then you need to immediately think about which company windows to choose and immediately decide whether the installation will be done by yourself or by specialists. It is more profitable and more convenient if the work on installing windows will be entrusted to professionals. Ideal - if the apartment is already rented out with windows;
to lay out pipes for water supply, sewerage. The wiring starts from a common riser and is carried out for all plumbing. Install a toilet, washbasin, shower stall. Collecting the sewer is easy with your own hands. Uncertain owners should contact specialists;
carry out the installation of electrical wiring - the work must be treated with maximum responsibility. Usually, in new buildings, the wiring is done, but it is not always of high quality. Check everything, if in doubt, change it. Electrical appliances may occasionally be present, but these are usually also of poor quality. Therefore, it is better to do it yourself at your own discretion. The economy option is inappropriate for this work;
making a floor screed - arrangement in a new building is an important stage in the repair. If the building is made of concrete, then pouring the screed is necessary. It is necessary to fill the subfloor with concrete mortar, then level everything out. The lightest and most popular wet screed. The owner can make it with his own hands. With its help, the unevenness of the surface is eliminated, the cracks are smeared;
to align the walls - to do something grandiose with the walls in the first year is not worth it. The house will shrink and cracks may appear. For the first time, it is better to purchase inexpensive wallpaper for an apartment. It should be borne in mind that in a year you will again have to trim the walls, grease the cracks, that is, you have to start doing all the repairs anew. If the plaster or other fine finish has not been done, then it must be done, then leveled, putty cracks, irregularities. Additional finishing is not needed yet;
to make the installation of the ceiling - this work is one of the difficult ones. The ceiling can be anything. But experts do not recommend making a plasterboard suspended ceiling in a new building. With the shrinkage of the house, distortions may appear, and cracks may go along the seams. To get started, you can simply putty, level the surface and paint. For the first renovation, such a finish will be enough;
install doors - you need to install doors before wallpapering or painting the walls. When the ceiling, floor is decided, the doors are installed. Great attention should be paid to the entrance doors. It is not worth saving on them, here such an economical decision would be inappropriate. Solid ones with good sound insulation can be installed immediately.
The studio apartment began to be in great demand. Economy option for a young family. Housing turns out to be inexpensive and young families can quite afford it. Before starting repairs in such an apartment, you must immediately outline where the recreation area, kitchen, corridor, and bathroom will be.
Often the owners receive apartments with main load-bearing walls. This allows you to make a special layout, to show imagination. Someone is satisfied with the studio option, someone needs separate premises. Partitions are made of plasterboard. Layout options may vary. The main thing is to decide during the renovation where you need to locate a particular room so that you do not have to redo it in the future.
New housing is a huge joy. Do not be afraid of self-repair work. This approach is a profitable solution. The owners immediately equip their own corner. You should not be in a hurry with repair work. Before you start, you need to consult with experts.
All stages of renovation work in a new building.
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Almost always, new housing is acquired by a happy newcomer from the developer's company without interior decoration and repair, but with communications brought into the apartment. Firstly, such housing in a new building will be cheaper, and secondly, almost always the repair and arrangement of an apartment by the developer is performed extremely carelessly, using cheap materials. Thirdly, there is a desire to complete some stages of apartment renovation with your own hands or with the hands of good craftsmen.
First, you need to make an audit and inspection of the apartment, to establish problem areas of walls, ceilings and floors. Then we proceed in the following order. We determine what requires repair and finishing in the first place. If the time and money for a complete renovation of the apartment is not enough, it is necessary to put in order first of all:
Front door and windows, apartment ventilation;
Perform full and highest quality electrical wiring and wiring of sockets around the apartment. This stage must be thought out in as much detail as possible, draw up a connection diagram and a circuit for laying wires into walls;
Connect the water and collect the sewerage system in the bathroom and toilet, install a toilet bowl, washbasin and shower cabin;
If the start time of the renovation of an apartment in a new building coincided with the heating season, be sure to check the degree of heating of the aluminum registers with a remote thermometer.
In the process of carrying out the listed preparatory work, you can calculate the sequence of repairs in a new building.
Much in the repair of housing in a new building depends on the availability of time and money resources. Having bought a "bare" apartment and having issued the necessary documents for the right of ownership, you automatically start paying rent and housekeeping, for using the adjacent territory, for the removal of household waste and construction waste. After connecting electricity and water, a new apartment in a new building began to bring you a loss in the form of costs for its maintenance and decoration. The longer the repair time for an apartment in a new building, the more it will cost you.
There are two main options for approaching the issue of finishing a new apartment in a new building:
Planned renovation and finishing of the apartment. In this case, the owners draw up a detailed map and a schedule for finishing work, in which all the main types of finishing and installation of devices are prescribed in stages. Such repairs, as a rule, are carried out from scratch to completion by one team of craftsmen. The completion date of a repaired object may take several weeks or months.The disadvantages of this approach include the constantly growing price and cost of work, sometimes exceeding the cost of the estimate by more than two times. As a result, if due to unforeseen circumstances there are not enough funds, the repair can be delayed for an indefinite period.
Fast renovation from scratch. In this case, all the above stages of repair in a new building are carried out by the hands of hired craftsmen with direct control of the quality of work on your part. An apartment in a new building within a week will be prepared for further decoration of the rooms. In addition to communications, the smallest room of the apartment is finished and equipped with temporary linoleum and wallpaper. In such a room there are still no amenities, but it can be used as housing - a temporary hut and a warehouse for building materials. All other work is performed as free funds and time become available.
The first option is well suited if the family has small children or elderly people who need to provide some comfort and convenience. The second option is considered more economical and quicker, especially if, after finishing the kitchen, bathroom, toilet and one room, housing is rented, with the consecutive bringing the remaining rooms of the new building to condition.
Among the most popular horror stories for new buildings, it is customary to consider stories about the shrinkage of the walls of the house and its foundation. In reality, a similar process for a multi-storey building should finally be completed by the time the building is put into operation. This period is on average no more than 18 months. If, after 1.5 years, cracks form in the corners, the ceiling or at the joints and in the masonry of the walls, the tiles in the bathroom fall off, and the doors are deformed with skewed doors, this means that the new building has certain problems with the stability of the foundation. With the repair, you should wait until the main thing is clarified - what is happening with the new building.
Before starting work, first inspect the lock on the front door. The model and standard equipment of the door can be subject to separate agreement. Indicate in the addendum to the contract which model of door and lock you want to install. If it becomes necessary to take additional security measures, first of all, change the lock supplied when the new building was handed over.
At the next stage, it is necessary to resolve the issue of installing an electrical switchboard, connecting an electric meter. This will make it possible to start using a power tool when renovating an apartment. To get rid of the need to use a large number of carriers and extension cords, plan the layout of the electrical wiring in the apartment. When doing this, consider the following:
For kitchens and bathrooms, wiring must be laid in sealed hoses and sleeves;
Lay a separate wire cable to the bathroom for connecting a boiler or washing machine. The cable cross-section must be rated for a current of at least 25 A;
An additional wire must be laid to the place where the air conditioner is installed;
It is necessary to lead a wire to the bathroom, to the kitchen, to the hall, which will be connected and used in the future when organizing additional grounding.
In addition to electricity, in order to create more or less normal conditions, it is necessary to connect hot and cold water meters and collect sewage in the bathroom and toilet. It is necessary to start work with the installation of a toilet and a washbasin.
Considering that good plumbing is expensive, for the first time you can install an inexpensive version of the toilet, assemble and connect plastic sewer pipes, a bellows and a washbasin sink. During the renovation of an apartment, plumbing can be replaced at any time. The installation of expensive plumbing increases the risk of damage to it during the repair; it must be installed at the final stage of the renovation of a new building.
To lay a plastic water supply using a perforator, we pierce channels in the walls of the bathroom, toilet, kitchen with a depth of 2.5-3 cm. Next, you need to solder the water pipes and connect the leads to the cistern and washbasin. Finally, we will install and connect cold and hot water meters to the domestic water supply system.
Before starting work, you will need to perform a large amount of cleaning the remnants of concrete and mortar. The main part will be for rough cleaning of walls, floor, ceiling, their chasing, alignment and trimming of seams. Such work gives a large amount of dirt and dust, so it will be necessary to organize good ventilation and wet cleaning inside the new building.
A separate point is to highlight the preparation of floors in each of the rooms for finishing. During the repairs in the apartment, it will be necessary to close up all the cracks, holes in the seams between the slabs, in the floor, in the interior walls of the new building. The most difficult thing will be leveling the floor with a cement mortar screed and reinforcing mesh. This procedure will need to be performed upon completion of the preparation of the walls and ceiling for finishing.
We will perform similar work in the kitchen, bathroom and toilet.
After rough cleaning, it will be necessary to prepare the walls in the kitchen and toilet for laying tiles on the walls and floors. Facing tiles can be laid with your own hands, but it is troublesome and takes a lot of time. Therefore, it is better to entrust the laying of tiles to masters specializing in this kind of finish. While the tiles are being laid, you can do your own repairs in one of the rooms of the apartment. The best option would be to lay decorative plaster or liquid wallpaper on the walls. If at the time of the start of repairs in the apartment of the new building the double-glazed windows in the windows were in a satisfactory condition, then you can start applying plaster on the walls of the room immediately.
Upon completion of the laying of tiles on the floor and walls in the kitchen, bathroom and toilet, you need to lay inexpensive linoleum in the corridor connecting these three rooms and the room in which the renovation was carried out using decorative plaster. This will reduce the amount of dust being raised and make cleaning the apartment easier.
Before finishing the walls in the apartment, it is necessary to align, and if a defect is found, to repair the interior doors. If your future plans include wallpapering, normally closing doors are essential for high-quality wallpapering. After the wall decoration is completed, we proceed to laying linoleum, laminate or carpet on the floor of the apartment. The most practical is considered to be a laminate for living rooms; for a corridor, an office version of linoleum with increased abrasion resistance. This type of work does not require special qualifications and is easily done with your own hands during the renovation of a new building apartment.
The final stage of the renovation is the connection of lamps and the installation of furniture in the apartment. Approximately 70% of the volume of work during repairs in a new building is quite available for doing it yourself. And only when performing special types of finishing - laying parquet, installing stretch ceilings, installing double-glazed windows or entrance doors in a new building, you will need the services of specialists.
VIDEO Buying an apartment in a new building is unlikely to be able to immediately move in to live in it. And it’s difficult to call it an apartment. More like a stone or concrete bag. No plumbing, no amenities, nothing that is customary to see in modern comfortable housing.
All there is is a concrete floor, brick walls, windows and doors that will most likely need to be replaced. The new settler immediately plunges into a long, painstaking renovation in order to create his own comfortable, cozy home.
The main rule in the repair: do not rush ... Moreover, if this is an apartment in a new building.Do not forget that the new house will shrink for about two more years. If you make a quick repair, then cracks can go with the shrinkage of the house. Therefore, everything is done slowly, as a last resort before a major one, a light cosmetic, inexpensive repair is done.
Before starting the repair, a plan is drawn up, including:
Moving walls (except load-bearing).
Apartment layout.
Design and style are determined.
Arrangement of furniture.
Places of installation of electrical appliances (the placement of the wiring depends on this).
Location of plumbing and washbasin (for planning water supply and sewerage).
The types and sizes of interior doors, doorways, threshold heights are agreed upon.
Clarifies what materials the walls, ceiling and floor will be made of.
After carefully planning everything and thinking it over, you can make an estimate, calculate the amount of materials needed and the approximate cost.
Repair should start with dirty work:
Transfer and dismantling of partitions is in progress ... If some kind of rough finish has been performed, all this is removed.According to the drawn up plan, wiring and pipes for water supply and sewerage are laid ... It is not recommended to save on materials here. Wires and pipes will be embedded, and if they turn out to be of poor quality, it will be very difficult to replace them. To do this, you will have to break the walls and, accordingly, do the repairs again. Therefore, it is better to buy good materials right away, let it cost a little more.Windows and doors are changing (those that are installed in new buildings are of very dubious quality).Level the floor if necessary or bring it to one level throughout the apartment, a cement-sand screed is made.
There are many communications in the bathroom: an extractor hood, water supply, and electricity. Repair in the bathroom begins with their installation.
Key Recommendations :
For electrical wiring, only whole pieces of wire are used and with a margin of power. They must be either plastered or located under drywall sheets.
Junction boxes are installed outside the bathroom.
If the water pipes are to be installed in a wall, it is recommended to use plastic or polypropylene pipes. They are more durable and reliable than metal-plastic pipes on corner joints (fittings).
Tiles are traditionally laid on the bathroom floor. You need to pay attention:
After leveling the floor and completing the concrete screed, it is imperative to make waterproofing using a special impregnation or mixture.
When laying tiles, pay attention not to form air pockets.
Do not skimp on grouting. A high-quality grout will get rid of mold and mildew.
Bathroom walls are plastered or sheathed with sheets of moisture-resistant drywall ... Covered with tiles, plastic panels or wallpaper. Many people think that wallpaper cannot be used in the bathroom due to moisture and hot steam, but this is not the case. Vinyl, liquid, moisture-resistant washable wallpaper, fiberglass, are quite suitable for these purposes.
For the ceiling, plastic panels, aluminum profile ceilings, synthetic stretch ceilings are used ... It is not recommended to level the ceiling with plasterboard. Even moisture-resistant sheets will last no more than 10 years in a humid room. The most budgetary way to level the ceiling in the bathroom is a moisture-resistant putty followed by painting.
After the completion of the repair, plumbing fixtures, sockets, switches are installed, furniture is brought in.
Rough finishing of walls and ceilings, first of all, includes leveling the surface.
There are two primary alignment methods:
Wet. Solutions based on dry building mixtures, plaster, putty are used. This method is very laborious and dusty, the thickness of the plastered surface should not be more than 80mm.When finishing with mixtures, 3 types of mortar are used:
Plaster. It is used in cases where the surface has strong drops. Ceiling plaster is made on the basis of gypsum.Putty ... Designed for patching up small irregularities, chips, cracks. There is a starting putty (for rough surface treatment) and finishing (for final leveling and creating perfectly flat and smooth walls and ceilings).Primer. Deeply impregnates the surface, improves adhesion.Dry. Walls and ceilings are leveled with sheet materials, most often drywall is used. The disadvantage of this method is that the useful area of the room is "eaten up".Wall and ceiling decoration always starts from top to bottom. When leveling the ceiling, it is necessary to immediately measure the maximum difference in height. If the difference turns out to be more than 50 mm, then it is advisable to use the dry method, especially since here, you can use not only drywall sheets, but also stretch ceilings.
After finishing work with the ceiling, the walls are leveled. Which method to choose is not important. Everyone decides for himself what is more convenient and faster, or based on the price of materials.
Floor work is done last. There are many options for flooring in an apartment:
Ceramic tile. Most often used in kitchens and bathrooms, but can be used in other rooms as well. Differs in strength, reliability, durability. A wide range of prices makes it affordable for all categories of the population.Parquet. An environmentally friendly type of coating, made from natural wood, but difficult to install, requires additional processing and maintenance.Laminate. In appearance it resembles parquet, only it is cheaper and much easier to install.Linoleum and carpet ... Used for quick repairs and cost savings. It has an attractive appearance, soft, warm, but easily deforms and tears, especially if laid on an uneven surface.This is not a complete list, but only the most commonly used floor coverings. They are all suitable for a residential apartment. When preparing the floor for laying the floor covering, a screed is made. The thickness of the coating and the thermal insulation layer (expanded clay or other material) must be taken into account - this will make the floor on the same level throughout the apartment.
After finishing work with the floor, you can start installing the doors ... It is not necessary to purchase the complete set straight away. If there is little money left for repairs, and there are still many costs ahead, you can buy and install only boxes and platbands to start with. It is not difficult to buy and hang on the door hinges to match the size of the door frame.
Installation of skirting boards - one of the final stages of repair. Even 10 years ago, wooden ones were very popular, and now plastic ones are more often installed. They are more convenient to mount, a large selection of colors, there are skirting boards with a groove for wires.
General Tips:
If you need to save money, you can make repairs yourself, occasionally taking friends for help.
Hire workers only in official firms with a good reputation. There is no demand for free workers working without a contract.
If in doubt, do not hesitate, seek help from friends or specialists. Even if it is a paid consultation.
Be wary of saving. Always remember that cheap material may turn out to be of poor quality and will harm the entire repair.
Adhere to the correct sequence of work.
Try not to stretch the repair for a long period of time. Better to be patient, save some money, and, without delay, carry out all the work. Otherwise, there will be no novelty effect.
After a tender for the repair work, a contractor company is selected. In rare cases, new settlers can choose their own contractor.
As a result of such repairs, an apartment is obtained that is quite suitable for living. Installed sockets and switches, a bulb in a socket, inexpensive plumbing, there is even a stove in the kitchen.
The quality of materials and work performed is far from ideal, and you don't have to choose a design, what is - that is. On the other hand, there is ready-made housing for free, and if you wish, you can save up money and redo the repairs with more expensive materials and to your liking.
The price for apartment renovation consists of many components:
Are the design and project drawn up independently, or will a specialist be hired?
Are the repairs done on your own, or are people hired?
What types of materials will be used?
What are the types of coatings?
Plumbing, wiring, domestic pipes, or more expensive imported ones?
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These and many other components affect the final price. ... Therefore, it is possible to calculate the cost of repairs only in each specific case, after drawing up a project and an estimate.
