Where to start repairing an apartment so that the repair work does not stretch out for an indefinite period, and the end result undoubtedly pleases you, this is what will be discussed in today's article. Renovation of the apartment requires serious preliminary preparation. The most important point is drawing up a detailed plan for future repairs, taking into account the smallest nuances. Consider, point by point, the advice of professionals on the correct organization of repair work in houses and apartments.
First of all, you need to decide on the complexity and volume of future repairs. To make the apartment bright and clean, sometimes it is enough to carry out cosmetic, superficial repairs: replacing the wallpaper, whitewashing the ceiling, changing the old linoleum, painting the walls, etc.
If you want to completely get rid of everything that is boring and old, decide on a major overhaul with the replacement of windows, leveling the walls, installing new floors, modern ceilings. Your home will be transformed and become new and beautiful.
You should not refuse the help of experienced specialists when carrying out major repairs. This is especially true for the creation of a modern design for your apartment, including redevelopment and the demolition of some walls and partitions.
Plan renovations based on your financial capabilities.
First, decide on the interior and design of each individual room that you plan to change in your apartment. You can seek advice from a professional designer, which will slightly increase your total financial expenses for repairs. For rooms where renovation will be carried out, it is necessary to complete detailed drawings of the successive stages of repair work.
We recommend that you complete five detailed renovation sketches for each individual room. In the first drawing, display the top view of the room, and in the other four, each wall. Complete each drawing with a detailed description and a plan for the sequential implementation of repair work, which will avoid omissions and inaccuracies in the work.
In the repair plan, you need to indicate the desired finishing option: wallpapering the walls, painting, etc. To divide a room into separate zones, designers recommend painting one of the walls in a different color in order to focus on it and visually divide the room. These moments also need to be reflected in the plan.
According to the advice of experienced specialists, in order to avoid unnecessary dirt and dust during repair work, it is recommended to first of all carry out repairs in the rooms farthest from the front door. The final stage of the repair, it is advisable to choose passage rooms and a corridor through which building materials and tools are constantly sweeping. This is necessary in order not to stain or scratch the finish of the already repaired wall, not to damage the new floor.
An additional protection of the repaired room can be a cellophane film (fixed on the outside of the door), which will reliably protect the room from construction dirt, dust, plaster, paint, and accidental damage.
Do not carry out all repairs yourself. At your request, the execution of all repair work or only the performance of particularly complex repair operations can be entrusted to qualified specialists. Firstly, experience and knowledge will allow them to carry out repair work quickly and efficiently. Secondly, you do not have to additionally buy expensive tools, with the help of which the screed is ideally poured onto the floor or the tiles are laid out.
Even if the installation of an interior door seems easy to you, the slightest inaccuracy is unacceptable here. Of course, you can hang and arrange kitchen furniture, level the walls and paint a little yourself. But entrust more complex repair work to specialists so that you do not have to redo it, which can significantly increase your financial costs for repairs.
#one. After the final choice of the design of the appearance of the rooms, furniture and interior, it is necessary to draw up a complete list of the necessary building materials. Their number and total cost depends on the amount of repair work and how they are carried out. If the budget allows you, you need to purchase building materials with a small supply.
# 2. Make a separate list of decor items: holders, shelves, mirrors, paintings, etc. Start your purchases with the selected decor elements. If the planned decor element is not available, you can quickly change or create a new design version of the apartment renovation.
# 3. Make a list of the building tools you need to complete the renovation. To do this, you can use the advice of a sales assistant in hardware stores or qualified repairmen.
When the preparatory work has been carried out: plans and sketches of the repair have been drawn up, lists of the necessary materials and tools have been prepared, a decision has been made about the possibility of self-repair or with the help of repair specialists, you will be able to calculate the approximate total cost of the planned repair.
You should not rush to purchase all the materials when you visit your first store. In the compiled lists of materials and tools, put down the prices of different stores, which will allow you to make purchases at a minimum cost.Carefully consider the choice of repair crew services. Pay special attention not only to the proposed cost of repair work, but also to the feedback from your friends about the quality of repair services.
To protect furniture from damage, construction dirt and dust, collect it in a central area of the room. Then carefully cover with plastic wrap. This will free up access to the walls and ceiling. Move expensive equipment and clothes to other rooms.
Repair work should start with the most dusty ones: replacing window blocks, window slopes and installing new window sills. This will avoid dirt and dust during painting work, when it is forbidden to open windows in order to avoid temperature extremes and an increase in humidity. When windows, slopes and window sills are installed, cover them with plastic wrap or hardboard to avoid accidental mechanical damage and contamination.
Mark the installation locations of additional outlets, make the electrical wiring. Do not install sockets or plug them into the enclosure at this point.
In the case of welding work (for example, when replacing heating radiators), do them at the same time in different places of the apartment in order to quickly complete this dusty and difficult stage of work, sometimes including breaking down walls.
Before repairing walls, floors, ceilings, you must check their condition with a laser or water level. Begin by applying the thickest layers of mortar. As they dry out, you can carry out other minor repairs without downtime.
After completing this preparatory stage, proceed with the repair work, performing them in the following sequence: repair of the ceiling, walls, floor. Initially, work is carried out using putty, cement, gypsum mixtures. Then they begin to work on the installation of the floor, doors, slopes.
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Redecoration is a concept that is interpreted by everyone in different ways. I call a cosmetic repair a set of works that does not affect the capital structures in the room, and also is not related to the replacement of communications (electrical wiring, water supply and sewerage) in the room. Redecoration does not affect the floor screed, does not imply the installation of plasterboard structures, the replacement of doors, the installation of drywall arches.
The stages of cosmetic repairs, which I will discuss in this article, include the restoration of the previous state of the apartment without carrying out work on changing the types of finishes. This includes re-gluing old wallpaper, re-painting ceilings, painting window frames, painting doors, skirting boards and platbands if necessary, as well as replacing simple flooring (linoleum or laminate flooring). All the work included in a simple cosmetic repair, if desired, free time and basic skills, it is quite possible to do it yourself. In the article, for example, consider the renovation of a room.
4. Remove the front panels from the sockets and switches, and cover the sockets and switches with paper masking tape. Do not forget to disconnect all electrical circuits from voltage beforehand.
stages of cosmetic repair: Dismantling work
Old wall, ceiling and floor coverings are removed.
Start by removing existing coatings. There are ceiling coatings with water-dispersion paint, and lime whitewash in old buildings. Ceilings painted with enamels (oil or alkyd) are rare.
Ceiling blur and rustic jointing
Water-dispersion paint and enamels cannot be washed off with water (they do not dissolve with water). Therefore, remove the flaking areas of the coating with a steel trowel, expand the cracks with the corner of the trowel.Sand the enamel with coarse sandpaper to roughen and increase adhesion to new coats of finish.
Wash off lime whitewash to the base. The bottom layer of putty does not need to be removed. The technology of this process is not complicated, but laborious and messy. Using a roller, moisten the ceiling with water, then scrape off the whitewash with a spatula. After cleaning the entire ceiling, rinse the ceiling with a sponge with warm water solution.
The technology for removing old wallpaper does not differ from the technology for removing lime whitewash. Peel off the peeled fragments of wallpaper "dry", soak the rest of the firmly glued areas with warm water and remove with a spatula. If there are many layers of wallpaper, be patient and peel off layer by layer to the primary base.
Remove old paint, platbands, window frames and doors only if it is severely peeled off. The process is laborious, but necessary.
Choose from two methods of removing oil (alkyd) enamel: chemical and thermal. In the chemical method, the paint is softened by special chemical compounds, they are called "removers", and the paint is removed with a hard spatula or scrapers. Ready-made washes are sold in hardware stores. With the thermal method, the softening of the old one is carried out with a jet of hot air from a special construction hair dryer, do not confuse it with a hair dryer. The paint softens in small patches and can also be removed with a scraper or trowel.
After removing the old ceiling and wall coverings, it is necessary to correct the defects of the walls and ceiling. Expand (stitch) the cracks. Completely remove loose and dull-sounding "bubbling" areas of the plaster. The surfaces prepared in this way must be treated with a primer. Primers provide uniform drying of the applied materials and their better adhesion to the surface.
Sealing cracks with gypsum plaster
After the primer has dried, fill deep potholes and places with broken plaster with plaster-based plaster mortar such as "Rotband", "Prospectors", TIGI Knauf. Perform this operation with a rectangular stainless steel trowel. For large plastering areas, use the building rule of the required length.
stages of cosmetic repair: Plastering work
Prime the plastered areas and level the surfaces with a putty, for example, "Vetonit KR" (up to 1 mm) or "Vetonit LR +" (up to 3 mm) (Weber). This operation removes small surface irregularities and fills in small cracks.
Remember, a large thickness of the putty layer is provided by applying several layers, with each subsequent layer being applied after the previous layer has completely dried.
I recommend gluing serious cracks in the ceiling with strips of plaster fiberglass mesh with a mesh size of 2 × 2 mm. The technology for gluing the tape is as follows: a layer of putty is applied to the ceiling section, the fiberglass mesh is pressed into the putty with a spatula and rubbed in. Remove excess putty, squeezed out through the mesh cells, with a spatula and return to the container for further use.
Whether it is necessary for a cosmetic repair, to putty the walls and ceiling completely, or you can limit yourself to leveling individual sections.
My answer is as straightforward as possible. Completely putty the ceiling at least 1 time. When gluing dark and heavy wallpaper, walls can be limited to partial putty, with light and thin wallpaper, putty at least 1 time, when painting the walls, the topic is not a cosmetic repair.
The likelihood of cracks appearing on ceilings with rustication (rustic connection of floor slabs), as my practice shows, is very high. For your peace of mind, I recommend using the "cobweb". "Gossamer" is a fiberglass ceiling wallpaper. The spider web is sold in rolls and has a thickness of up to 2.0 mm. The considerable thickness and loose structure of the cobweb does not allow the resulting cracks to appear on the ceiling.
The technology of gluing the "spider web" is the same as gluing wallpaper in the joint.
For very uneven surfaces, as well as wooden floors, I recommend that before gluing the cobweb, completely covering the ceiling surface with a painting net with 2 × 2 mm cells. The mesh is putty, sanded, primed with diluted wallpaper glue and pasted over with a cobweb like wallpaper. This multi-layer "cake" will provide maximum protection against further ceiling cracking.
Preliminary result. After the works listed above, you will receive:
Plastered wall and ceiling defects.
Cracks glued with a paint (plaster) mesh or all surfaces (it rather depends on your desire).
The surfaces are putty in 1-2-3 layers (the amount depends, also on the expected result). They turned out to be smooth and white. It's time to paint the ceiling!
Finish the ceiling with a new medium-bristled polyamide paint roller. I do not recommend using foam and velor rollers. Foam rubber curls, velor does not stain. When painting, use a special tray (cuvette) to squeeze out excess paint.
stages of cosmetic repair: Painting the ceiling
Prime the prepared ceiling with water-dispersion paint diluted with water. This is done in order to identify defects that are almost invisible on the putty. After filling and sanding ("zero" sandpaper) defective areas, paint the ceiling with undiluted paint.
Determine the paint consumption in advance. This is important when painting the ceiling with colored paints. The amount of pre-tinted paint should be enough for 3 stains. Do not re-tint paint. When using a spider web, paint consumption is increased by 25%.
After painting the ceiling in 2-3 layers, proceed to wallpapering. If you are planning to glue the ceiling plinth.
Before gluing the wallpaper, prime the entire surface of the walls with wallpaper glue, diluted as indicated on the package with the glue: preparing the glue for priming the surface.
Using a long building level or plumb line, draw a vertical line to guide the first blade. Wallpaper is traditionally glued from the window, but with modern butt-gluing, this does not matter. Can also be glued from the door.
Wallpaper is cut into canvases with an allowance (5-7 cm) along the length. When cutting canvases, take into account the frequency of repetition of the pattern (rapport). Be careful when selecting adjacent canvases in height to match the pattern. If the wallpaper is "no match" then you are a little lucky.
The wallpaper is glued in two ways.
Cover the sheets of wallpaper with glue (with a paint roller or paintbrush), naturally from the end side. Fold the canvases in half (with glue inward, edges in the middle). Soak in this state for the time indicated on the glue package (usually 3-7 minutes). Do not hold the canvases. Better not to hold than to overexpose. Be especially careful when using thin paper wallpapers. If they get too wet, they will simply creep in the hands.
The canvases impregnated with glue are applied to the wall at a previously marked vertical level. Smooth out wrinkles and bubbles with a pressure roller or stiff brush. I do not recommend using a rag, because some types of paper wallpaper may erode paint.
When gluing non-woven wallpaper, the glue is applied to the wall. The wallpaper itself can be cut into canvases according to the size and selected pattern. Apply the glue to the wall with a roller and glue the canvases back to back, making sure to align the pattern of adjacent canvases.
Since the pieces were cut with an allowance along the length, after gluing the canvases under the ceiling and near the baseboard, cut off the excess wallpaper with a construction knife along a metal ruler or with a special wallpaper cut that resembles a spatula. Watch the sharpness of the canvas. The dull canvas tears and pulls the paper of the canvases.
Glue the upper part of the canvases, up to the planned curb. Beat the horizontal marks of the level of the curb around the entire perimeter of the room. The "end" of the line should meet the "beginning". Using a sharp knife, use a metal ruler to cut the canvases around the perimeter. Glue the border to the cut edge. When doing this, do not glue the bottom of the curb. Glue the lower canvases, winding them under the curb. Glue the lower part of the border, after cutting off the excess from the canvas.
You can glue the border without such "bother" -in the "overlay". In this case, use a special glue for gluing the borders.
Clean up the room. Don't open windows! Avoid drafts until the wallpaper is completely dry! Wallpaper glued!
You can read about floor repair in the "Floor Repair" section of the blog.
These are all stages of cosmetic repair. That's all!
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Where to start repairing an apartment so that the repair work does not stretch out for an indefinite period, and the end result undoubtedly pleases you, this is what will be discussed in today's article. Renovation of the apartment requires serious preliminary preparation. The most
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