Personal experience DIY repair

In detail: personal experience DIY repair from a real master for the site my.housecope.com.

Not a single person in their right mind would undertake repairs without convincing themselves of the absolute inevitability of the final result - radiant, extremely useful and extremely necessary. A few tips from someone who has mastered part of this path may help beginners.

My husband and I, knowing the scale of the future pogrom, did not start a global renovation and decided to renovate only the hall and common areas. But in this case, the repair area turned out to be rather big - about 40 m 2.

The situation was complicated by the fact that it was necessary to change all the doors (six interior and entrance), all plumbing equipment (including a shower and a rather large countertop in the bathroom), all kitchen furniture and appliances, adding the previously missing hood, dishwasher and garbage shredder.

It was comforting that the floors (with the exception of the bath and toilet) did not need to be changed - the tiles in the kitchen and in the corridor looked perfect, their installation quality was never satisfactory, the color and texture fit perfectly into the new design project. A refrigerator, washing machine, microwave oven and coffee machine, fortunately, are also ready to serve us for many more years. Now I understand that these factors were not decisive, but they adequately supported our shaky optimism.

A little over a month ago, my husband and I and the cats - we have two of them - returned to our renovated home.

It cannot be said that everything was done in six months of renovation, but the kitchen, toilet and bathroom are fully equipped, interior and exterior doors are in place, the apartment has been cleaned. You can live and, most importantly, with pleasure. After catching my breath, calming down and feeling sufficiently all the charm of the results obtained, I decided to summarize my personal repair experience, which can be useful to many.

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The designer, a young energetic woman, impressed us not only with an interesting vision of a familiar space, but also with the exceptional practicality of ideas, taking into account our wishes to the maximum. It was our designer who insisted on the hood, garbage grinder, full-size dishwasher, stone countertops and windowsill. Only regular use of all of this showed us how right she was. Our Soviet youth and my husband did not teach us to seek and value, above all, the comfort of living.

We were offered four options for the kitchen and three options for the bathroom / toilet, as well as several colors for the hall and corridor, based on the need to preserve the floor tiles.

For the dark, northern cuisine, a bright sunny flavor was chosen. White side and interior walls of furniture, white chairs with red seats, a wide white window sill, a white tile apron with cheerful red-green decors and borders, a bright green tabletop perfectly matched the pale yellow color of the walls, light-colored floor tiles and a calm beige tone of facades and screens for batteries.

With the help of our clever designer, I have selected and ordered excellent interior doors. She sent links to the sites of five "door" firms. Of these, I deliberately chose three places not far from the house where it was possible to "touch and smell" the doors of specific models. We ordered everything within an hour.

The situations were similar when choosing a stone for countertops, plumbing fixtures, plafonds, etc. It is difficult to overestimate the participation of a good specialist.

In our case, everything was even simpler. The guys from the invited construction team worked at our dacha for two seasons, building there a lot of useful things for reasonable money and good quality. There was an experience of communication and mutual trust.There were some incidents, but everything was decided through negotiations. Even in our almost ideal case, we had to strictly control everything, especially from the moment the kitchen was dismantled, when we were forced to move out of the apartment.

Again, our designer helped a lot with this, regularly arriving for copyright control. Builders have always clearly “saluted” when it appears.

I sent out the drawings of countertops made by the designer to a dozen companies. I asked to comment on the use of materials of the desired color, to make a calculation taking into account possible discounts, to suggest options for installing various types of sinks, etc. Two responded.

The head of one of these small firms, as it turned out, had previously worked with our designer. He volunteered to drive up the next day with samples of materials. During the visit, I discussed with the designer the design features of a complex kitchen countertop, figured out the possibilities of cutting with maximum material savings - so that the price was minimal.

Additionally, I advised on sinks and options for their attachment. When ordering two countertops, a cover for a bedside table and a large window sill, he offered a substantial discount, gave the measurer's phone number and said when to call him, based on the progress of our repair. Everything was done very clearly and professionally.

Only with such an attitude is there a reasonable hope for a worthy result.

And this is not only due to the fact that something was not taken into account and not included in the estimate. Many things show up directly during the renovation process. The reasons can be very diverse - from changing GOSTs for door frames to love for pets, not to mention fluctuations in the exchange rate and rising prices for imported equipment and materials. A good design project and budgeting will allow you to be more protected from any financial surprises, but you will not be able to completely avoid them.

My husband and I decided to be philosophical about the situation and try to avoid only unjustified expenses. Everything that goes to improve the mental and material comfort of an apartment, find the right money, remembering a reasonable approach and saving.

Kind older children, a daughter and a son-in-law, provided our (and kitties too) an apartment for five months. It was great happiness! Living in repair with animals, while working intensively, is impossible without significant damage to health and mental balance. No, it's just impossible!

The builders did not disappoint with the deadlines. All renovation work under the watchful control of both our side and the designer's side was completed within a month.

But the master who contracted to make us the kitchen is a separate story. He is a wonderful master. In our apartment, in the apartments of older and younger children, at the dacha - everywhere we have his furniture of excellent quality, made for more than reasonable money. True, yes, all this was done practically without reference to a deadline. But when it is impossible to live in your own apartment and it is not known when it will become possible, everything becomes very complicated.

During preliminary negotiations, I persistently explained that an apartment is not a summer residence, that we need to live and work in it, that deadlines are very important. The master nodded his head, fully agreed, but the kitchen was made in an hour by a teaspoon, with alterations due to unaccounted planning features, with the departure of the master with his family on vacation to hot countries, etc. In fairness, I must say that my husband and I then went on vacation, since the vouchers were bought in advance. For almost a month no kitchen work was carried out due to our absence.

Of course, it is necessary to conclude agreements with employees that regulate the behavior and responsibility of the parties. In the case of our master, this was impossible - a cruel joke was played by many years of practice, when everything was done (and mind you, it was done very well!) By oral agreement.

In other cases, we, of course, concluded contracts for work, the terms were controlled everywhere and practically adhered to. The exception is the supply of interior doors, but there I demanded the payment of a penalty.

In the process of repairing, problems surround from all sides, and there is very little positive. In many cases, it is my tired soul and body that thicken the dark colors. Efforts must be made to seek and capture positive emotions.

The obvious cost savings are very consoling. For example, the preserved flooring of the hallway and kitchen, interesting and very positive collections of Russian tiles, good interior doors made in the provinces at quite budget prices, the reuse of the frame of natural wood cabinets in the hallway.

Decent discounts are given when ordering several things in one company

The purchase of various high-quality and necessary things for promotions and sales makes a significant contribution to cost savings. Plumbing, shower system, sinks, an excellent chandelier for the kitchen - all these are items of my acquisitive pride.

Do-it-yourself reduction of clutter in the apartment brings great pleasure at the final stage of the renovation. Having lived in isolation from my packed things, I clearly realized how little needed and completely unnecessary many of them are. I easily parted with a mass of unused dishes and kitchen utensils - gave boxes to relatives and everyone who wanted to. I sorted the books: they took out something to the dacha, and most of them gave it to the 8 factory people's library.

More than two months late! But the kitchen is full of shine! The stage of buying various small things, such as dividing inserts in drawers, new cans for bulk products, various hooks and boxes, bread bins and cutting boards in the color of the interior has finally come.

All this reconciles with a hallway without shelving, without cabinet fronts, without a new bedside table and chest of drawers. You will laugh, but they are made by the same master. I'm not at all worried about the delay in making furniture in the hallway: a month or two, and the hallway will be completed. It is not important. Everything vital for my husband and me and cats is available. The process goes on, life goes on, the future is still bright!

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I will not say that the renovation in my apartment lasted for years - all the work took four and a half months. During this time, a complete dismantling of the floor (up to concrete floors) was carried out, the bathroom and toilet were combined, additional partitions from foam blocks were erected, the walls were aligned and painted, the windows were changed, all the electrics were installed, plumbing was installed, tiles and flooring were laid and even assembled kitchen and curtains matched. But it seems that all this time I did not live, but survived. The last two months were especially terrible - there was not a single evening (including on weekends) when I was not in some building hypermarket, in IKEA or, finally, in an apartment.

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