In detail: do-it-yourself step-by-step repairs in a new building 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 Have you finally got the keys to your dream apartment in your new home? You open the cherished door, and there are empty walls, a gray screed on the floor, no doors and no lighting. On the one hand, this is a huge space for us to maneuver and the ability to organize our own space from scratch, on the other hand, it is fear of costs, worries, wasted time, and the question - where to start? Many owners of new buildings have such thoughts, the dream has come true - you are the owner of a brand new apartment of your own. Now you need to decide where to start repairing in a new building in stages in order to do everything correctly and avoid mistakes. We will talk about this in this article.
Detailed interior design should be developed at the damp stage. It is not always as easy as it might seem. On the one hand, we know what we expect from our apartment, but we do not have the slightest idea of where to start arranging it. Experts propose the following work plan, how to repair an apartment in stages in a new building.
Planning the location of the walls ... You can remove unnecessary walls or build new walls or partitions at this stage. Not all partitions can interfere, you cannot demolish the load-bearing walls of the building, all types of pipes or ventilation.Electrician - you need to determine if the apartment has a sufficient number of electrical outlets and if they are all in the right places:
planning additional lighting or changing its current location;
adding light switches on the stairs - a very convenient solution in houses with a large entrance hall;
additional sockets;
we plan various sockets in the kitchen, including a socket for a dishwasher, hoods, lighting under cabinets, a socket for an induction hob and an oven;
in the living room, we plan the points of connection to the cables and the places for laying the antenna cable, wired Internet, cable from the TV, while some of the cables can be hidden in the wall, and some in the baseboards.
All of this work must be completed before the final painting of the walls in the bathroom and in the kitchen prior to laying the tiles.
Plumbing - check the hydraulic connections, whether the radiators are located in the places where you planned - if not, there is still time to rearrange them. Plumbing work can be done before, after, or at the same time as electrical work.
installation in the kitchen of pipes for a dishwasher, a sink (masking pipes, displacement of connections to the right, left);
installation of pipes in the bathroom, depending on whether we want to install a bath or shower, for a shower, a rather popular solution is a shower drain or a drain line;
installation of toilet and bidet installations (water supply and sewerage connections).
Laying floor tiles ... It should be remembered that tiles must be installed before we start laying parquet or laminate flooring. We position the tiles at the desired height, adjust the height of the tiles to the height of the wooden floor or laminate (if the floorboard has a height of 14 mm, the tiles are placed at a height of 15 mm, an adhesive layer with a thickness of 1 mm is applied under the parquet board with a thickness of 14 mm).Preparation for painting and painting walls, ceilings. As a rule, developer walls and ceilings are poor and require renovation (they have visible scratches, air bubbles, holes, etc.). Depending on the condition of the walls, the following works are performed:
plaster;
grinding of walls and ceilings;
primer (reinforcement of the substrate);
one-time painting of walls.
Floor surface preparation (grinding concrete, and if it is boards or parquet, laying film, insulation, cork, etc.).Parquet work / installation of flooring - After installation, a wooden floor must rest for 2 weeks, if we have chosen a laminate, then you can use it immediately after installation.If necessary, final painting of walls, wallpapering, etc. Installation of sockets, switches.
When it comes to interior design, it is best to start with the kitchen and bathroom at this stage. In the bedroom, you can sleep on a mattress on the floor, in the living room, you can sit on ottomans, but to quickly move into your apartment you will need a kitchen and a bathroom.
Installation of sanitary equipment and plumbing fixtures, taps and mixers in the bathroom.
Carpentry - planning kitchen furniture, installing a bathroom, planning cabinets, measuring and ordering interior doors.
Kitchen design - installing furniture, connecting a refrigerator, dishwasher, oven, hob, sink and mixer.
Installation of interior doors, skirting boards and electrical equipment.
Selection of curtains, blinds for windows.
It is advisable to conclude an agreement with a contractor in writing. In the event of a dispute, such a document will become the basis for compensation for damage. It is worth discussing:
Parties, the subject of the contract is the scope of work and the timing of their start and completion.
Remuneration of performers, terms and methods of payment. You can pay according to the assessment of the planned work, or at a flat rate - based on the agreed amount of the assessment of the work. The second option is more profitable for you - the contractor cannot demand an increase in wages.
A statement from a contractor who undertakes to perform the work in accordance with the rules and building standards.
Penalties, if the contract is not fulfilled or improperly fulfilled by one of the parties, as well as the condition of the possibility of claiming damages.
Signatures of the parties.
The contract should indicate the amount of payment and the deposit for the contractor. Enter the caution that if he fails to comply with the terms of the contract, you can demand from him to pay a double deposit.
Advantages of turnkey finishing from the developer:
you save time while shopping;
there is no need to look for and control performers.
rarely, the customer agrees with the quality of finishing materials and work performed;
limited choice of performers;
disagreements in design decisions and the choice of materials.
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 carried out 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 completed 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 decoration 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 of 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, the 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 of all, 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, 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 toilet bowl, 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 a new apartment is a joyful event for any person. It is especially pleasant to get ownership of an apartment in a new building, in which no one has lived before. As a rule, apartments in new buildings do not have any repairs. The owners can see the walls without any decoration, electrical wires and plumbing pipes. To turn rooms with bare walls into cozy and comfortable rooms for living, you need to make some effort, gradually completing a number of important activities.
DIY repair in a new building
This is what a newly built apartment looks like.
Bare walls - plenty of room for action
Do not buy expensive building and finishing materials for the first renovation in a new building. The building will shrink for several years, under the influence of which the finish can significantly deform and even completely collapse. In view of this, experts recommend giving preference to unpretentious and plastic materials.
New high-rise buildings will shrink for a few more years.
Plan your renovation carefully. It is not necessary to draw up many drawings detailing various sizes and important nuances. Simple sketches will suffice. Think about whether you will be redeveloping the apartment, what materials, in your opinion, will best fit into the interior of the premises, where lighting fixtures and sockets should be installed, etc.
Remember: proper preparation before starting work will save money, effort and time in the future.
It is best to start repairs in a new building with a rough surface preparation. Align the ceiling and walls. For these activities, you will need spatulas, a trowel, and different sized rules. Pre-clean surfaces from dirt and dust. Perform leveling with ordinary plaster mixture. Recommendations for the preparation and use of the formulations are usually given directly on the package.
Plastering walls on lighthouses
Throw in the solution along the markup
We do the markings, pull the guide threads and install a few more beacons
We throw the solution onto the new wall of your apartment
We rub the grooves with a solution
Before plastering, the walls must be impregnated with a primer. It will provide a better and more reliable adhesion of the plaster to the surface.
If the thickness of the plaster layer is more than 3 cm, it is recommended to carry out the work in two stages. At the first stage, the surfaces are simply leveled, at the second, they must be carefully ironed.
Apply the first layer of the mixture with a trowel. Thoroughly level the plaster and let it dry completely. Apply a primer to the dry layer of plaster, let it dry, and then apply a second layer of plaster. The application procedure remains the same, but this layer must be smoothed as efficiently as possible. Periodically check the evenness of the plaster with a spirit level.
Piping in a new building
Plumbing installation is a rather difficult stage of apartment renovation
After the surfaces are completely dry, you can proceed to the finishing decoration of the walls and ceiling. However, before that, it is recommended to install plumbing fixtures, and, if necessary, mount (replace) double-glazed windows and doors, so as not to damage the finish in the future.
The rough preparation of the walls has already been completed, therefore, in the future, new door frames and double-glazed windows will not be stained with plaster and putty. If there are doors, dismantle them together with the frame, because new canvases usually come with their own boxes.
Plumbing installation can also be done in-house. Domestic users most often prefer toilets with horizontal outlet. The installation of such a toilet bowl is reduced to its connection to the sewer pipe. The legs are usually rigidly screwed to the floor. Usually, installation instructions are included with the toilet, so there will be no special problems with this.
The installation of the remaining plumbing fixtures is at the discretion of the owner.
Installing an acrylic bathtub
Diagram of connecting the sink and bathtub to hot and cold water and sewerage pipelines
Choosing wallpaper for the room
In the previous steps, you leveled the surfaces and prepared them for finishing, so you don't have to carry out any additional preparatory measures.
For wall decoration in living rooms, wallpaper is usually used. Choose the finishing material for the ceiling yourself. During the first repairs in a new building, it is better to limit yourself to ordinary plastering or painting, because the building, as noted, will shrink, as a result of which the finish may collapse. It is better to use more expensive finishing options within a few years after buying an apartment.
The technology of applying paint to the surface in several layers
When painting walls, fantasize
Make the walls in the kitchen and bathroom at your discretion. Typically, such premises are decorated with ceramic tiles.
In the bathroom we put tiles on the wall and floor
In the bathroom we put tiles on the wall and floor
Laying tiles on the wall with your own hands
When choosing a ceiling finish, start from your preferences and available budget. Inexpensive finishes can be done using:
paints;
whitewash;
wallpaper;
foam tiles.
Styrofoam ceiling tiles
How to glue ceiling tiles
How to glue ceiling tiles
Ceiling tile gluing options
The surface must be leveled before using any of the above finishes. As a standard, putty and primer are used for leveling.
installation of plasterboard structures. First, guide profiles are attached to the surfaces, after which drywall sheets are fixed to them. Using drywall, you can equip both simple single-tier and complex multi-tiered curly structures. Also, this finish allows you to hide the wiring, elements of the ventilation system and other communications, which is very convenient;
arrangement of stretch fabrics. The PVC film is stretched and secured to the pre-assembled frame. The installation procedure is more complicated than in the case of plasterboard structures, because when performing repairs, it becomes necessary to use a special heat gun;
plastic hinged structures. Also attached to the frame. The main advantages are: ease of installation, high assembly speed, low cost and beautiful appearance.
Stretch ceiling installation diagram
Scheme of a two-level plasterboard ceiling
As a rule, when a newly built house is delivered, there is wiring in it, but there are no electrical appliances, or their quality leaves much to be desired.After finishing the ceiling and walls, proceed with the installation of outlets, switches and lights. Remember the elementary precautions: you can work with an electrician only after the apartment is completely de-energized. Choose the location for the installation of sockets and lighting devices at your discretion.
Remember safety precautions!
Repair in a new building traditionally ends with the arrangement of the floor. As a rule, the condition of the floors in newly commissioned houses is poor. If the house is built of concrete panels and the apartments were handed over in a draft version, the screed must be poured.
Screed cracks (new building)
A screed is a layer of concrete mortar poured over the sub-floor and necessary to level the base. There are several types of this alignment. The most popular and easiest to do it yourself is a wet screed. All work comes down to eliminating irregularities and cracks with a concrete solution.
In a new building, it is enough to make a strong and even screed.
Before pouring the screed, the bottom of the walls should be covered with a protective edge band.
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Allow the screed to dry completely, apply a topcoat of your choice and install the skirting boards.
