In detail: do-it-yourself repairs to apartments 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 By purchasing a fresh apartment in a newly built multi-storey building, you get literally bare walls and budget communications. It is clear that it will be necessary to bring it to a living condition on its own or with the help of hired personnel. Regardless of whether you begin to do major repairs in a new building with your own hands or contact specialists, you need to have a good idea of the sequence of work, so as not to spend extra money on alterations. Hence, our goal is to tell you how to gradually renovate a new home from scratch to finishing.
Not from plaster, as a person who is ignorant of construction will immediately say. High-quality apartment renovation on a turnkey basis is a difficult procedure that requires an integrated approach and planning. Otherwise, its final cost will be transcendental. You need to start with an audit: find out what has already been done in the apartment and does not require revision, and determine which elements need to be changed (for example, cheap windows or unnecessary interior partitions). Then draw up a plan that reflects all the steps in the process.
The initial state of the dwelling in a new building
We present a universal step-by-step instruction that you should follow to successfully carry out repairs in a new building:
Project development, selection of materials and budgeting.
Preparation of the facility for renovation work. Calling gages for doors and windows, laying utility lines on the floor.
Leveling of ceilings, their priming and painting. Construction of new partitions (if necessary).
Waterproofing the bathroom floor, applying plaster to the walls and preparing the floors for the rough screed.
Installation of doors and windows, balcony and loggia glazing. Replacement of heating devices, filling the screed on the beacons.
Laying of engineering networks - pipes, electrical wiring and freon lines for the air conditioner in the plaster furrows. Toilet installation installation.
Wall priming and sanding, balcony finishing. Installation of a bathtub and various plumbing elements hidden behind the cladding. Facing the bathroom with tiles.
Cleaning the screed surface and adjusting it using bulk mixtures.
Applying a primer to walls and wallpapering. Final finishing of the ceiling.
Floor laying, installation of interior doors, built-in furniture and skirting boards.
Installation of sockets, switches and clean plumbing - sinks, toilets and so on.
Advice. Decide how many items from the list you are ready to implement on your own, and what kind of work is better to entrust to builders or communications installers. Then find out the price of these services and add them to the estimate.
Why it is important to follow exactly this procedure when arranging a new apartment, the famous master will tell in his video:
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This includes the first 2 items of the presented list. The project and estimate is what you should start with renovation in a new building in order to clearly present your costs and the timing of finishing work. Design, in your case, is sketching and thinking over cladding options in order to make the best choice of materials.
Advice. In the first years after construction, the building shrinks, therefore, for the initial arrangement of housing, it is better to do with inexpensive materials. After a few years, it will not be a pity to replace them with more solid ones.
It all starts with garbage collection
The project should provide for the type of cladding, its quantity and even the size of tiles and wallpaper, so that less waste is left when gluing. Visit several stores and find the right finish along with fittings and fittings. Re-plan the rooms and make the doorways wider if necessary. Then start preparatory work in the following sequence:
Provide lighting in all rooms, power supply for the tool, and water supply.
Bring cleaning tools and bags for debris, buy protective equipment (respirators, gloves) and overalls.
Dismantle unnecessary partitions, cheap radiators and windows, widen doorways.
Remove dust and debris. In a one-room or two-room apartment, you will cope with this task on your own, and for large dwellings it is worth engaging a specialized team for the removal of building materials waste.
Expansion of the opening is not an easy task, it is necessary to install reinforcement
Note. If the developer has laid polypropylene heating lines, they should also be dismantled. These polymer pipes have a bad feature of flowing at the joints after 1-3 years after a poor-quality installation (and you cannot check it). Therefore, it is not recommended to lay them in a monolithic screed.
Not the best option for wiring for monolithic
Measurers from firms selling windows and doors should be invited at the beginning of the repair, because they need 1-2 weeks to make. If you want to order furniture for the kitchen, then the craftsmen should also be called at the preparation stage so that they have time to communicate their requirements for the supply of water supply and electrics to certain points.
After dismantling the economical heating option in the form of PPR pipes in the floor, you need to lay the lines on a new one. To perform this work, it would be right to buy high-quality pipes made of metal-plastic or polyethylene and invite specialists who know all the nuances of such an installation. More information on this topic can be found in the following video:
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This procedure should begin by sealing the joints between floor slabs, which are traditionally not laid too evenly. The seam alignment technology is described in detail in the corresponding article of our resource. The next step is to apply a deep penetration primer to prepare the surface and keep it dust free.
An important point. If you are rebuilding room partitions, for example, making a studio apartment, then their construction should be preceded by the lining of the ceilings.
It is convenient to apply priming with a roller on a long handle.
There are several ways to quickly finish the floor, with minimal costs:
staining with water-based compositions;
plastic sheathing;
gluing wallpaper or decorative foam panels.
The first two options are good for corridors, balconies and kitchens, but they look too mundane in the living room and bedroom. A common method is to decorate ceilings in a new building with foam panels, which can be done without problems with your own hands. There is a simple technology: tiles are glued to the prepared surface along diagonal lines drawn between opposite corners. The result is pretty decent, as shown in the photo.
Advice. The finishing cladding of ceilings is done after plastering the walls, so these processes will have to be alternated.
At the same stage, waterproofing of the floor in the bathroom is done. The procedure is simple: fill up the irregularities with cement mortar, prime thoroughly and apply a waterproofing polymer mixture with a wide brush. It is necessary to apply 2 layers with a break for drying, and the protective coating should go to the walls, as shown in the photo.
We are considering this method of interior decoration for two reasons:
High-rise buildings sit down for several years, which is why cracks form in different places. There is a good chance that costly repairs will be ruined.
Due to cheap plumbing materials and poor-quality installation from the developer, breakouts and flooding of apartments are possible at first. The result is similar.
For plastering the walls, you will need a ready-made construction mixture based on cement or gypsum, a reinforcing mesh - serpyanka and a deep-penetrating primer. In a panel house, it is necessary to pre-seal the rusts between the slabs (especially in the corners) with cement mortar. Further, the sequence of work is as follows:
Remove dust from surfaces as much as possible and apply a primer in 2 steps. On smooth concrete walls, cut with a chisel for better adhesion to the mortar.
Using the building level, install beacons made of metal profiles with a step of 1.5 m, securing them with plaster mortar.
Prepare the plaster mixture and scatter the first layer with a trowel, leveling it with a trowel. Then drown the mesh in the solution and after setting, apply a second layer, stretching the mixture with a rule to the level of the beacons.
When the surface hardens a little, the beacons should be removed and the remaining grooves repaired. The last operation is grouting, which is carried out for the final leveling of the wall, as shown in the video:
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While the plaster in the rooms hardens, the entrance doors and all glazed windows should be installed. The next stage according to the plan is the preparation of the floors and ...
The technology for arranging a concrete floor is similar to plastering, only it is performed with a cement-sand mortar (it is better to purchase a ready-made mixture). The set of tools is similar: a flat bar, beacons, a mixer for a drill and a trowel. The correct screed in a new building is done like this:
Carefully cover the cleaned and leveled surface with a primer.
Take a little dry mix, add gypsum powder there for quick hardening and make a small batch of the solution. Use it to place beacons made of galvanized profiles at intervals of 1-1.5 m.
Prepare a working cement-sand mortar and lay it on the floor, stretching with a rule. Pay special attention to the corners of the room.
After 12-14 hours, when the screed has set, use the same rule to clean the excess mixture, then remove the beacons and seal the traces on the surface.
Metal beacons for filling
Note. The height of the screed in the bathroom should be 3-5 cm lower than in the rest of the apartment. A thick layer of mortar (over 80 mm) is recommended to be reinforced with a masonry mesh.
Subsequently, when the concrete floors are completely hardened, they can be additionally leveled with a special mixture and prepared for laying laminate or other material. This operation is performed after finishing the ceilings. The screed device is clearly demonstrated in the video:
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Work on laying communications is divided into 2 stages - rough and finish. The first is done after plastering and pouring the screed, the second after finishing. A rough cut includes the following operations:
cutting grooves (grooves) in the plaster layer for electrical cables, water and heating pipes;
installation of valves and installations for a wall-hung toilet;
laying pipelines in grooves and grouting;
fastening heating radiators;
laying electrical wiring with the installation of socket outlets, which is described in this article.
Advice. When pulling cables, do not forget about low-current networks - twisted pair for the Internet and cable TV, signaling and video surveillance. These types of wiring should also be hidden in the walls and then bring out the appropriate connectors at the right points.
If it is planned to install a household split system in an apartment, then you will not find a better moment for laying freon pipes. Determine, together with the air conditioning master, the suspension points of the outdoor and indoor units, and then lay the lines of the required diameter between them, hiding them in the grooves of the walls, as shown in the photo.
Fine installation of engineering networks is the installation of plumbing fixtures and room sockets with switches. His turn is one of the last on the list: work is performed after finishing (gluing wallpaper and tiles, lining ceilings).
If you focus on the repair plan in a new building, it becomes clear that each type of work - plastering, screed, panel finishing - is not done entirely, but in parts. For example, it is undesirable to lay laminate flooring on the floors until the ceilings and walls are finished, otherwise you can spoil the material. That is why it is important to follow the sequence of work, then nothing will have to be redone.
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 carried out, 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 would like 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 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 repairing 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 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.
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