Make repairs in a private house with your own hands

Do not believe that it is possible to make repairs in a private house at an inexpensive price? Have you phoned all the ads, walked through the construction bases and even looked at the objects that had not yet been put into operation - and everywhere they called you astronomical sums? Yes, that's the way it should be. But did you know that this figure can be at least halved? All you need to do is roll up your sleeves and use the finishing technologies we have indicated. Believe me, it is not the gods who burn the pots - this is what Forumstroika readers do.

Well, so how to make repairs in a private house in an inexpensive and beautiful way? - This question was probably asked by everyone, regardless of social status, income level, and even the presence of their own housing. Firstly, the tenants also want to live beautifully, and secondly, having learned how to implement decent design projects for a penny, you can earn good money by helping others with the arrangement of housing. After all, saving is the same profit.

A cursory glance at such a problem, any more or less experienced financier will notice that the solution of any desired production process requires three mandatory components: Time, Labor and Capital... And a decrease in any of these indicators automatically leads to an increase in the other two. Therefore, by cutting the budget, we agree by default with the fact that we will have to work ourselves, and finishing work will take a little longer. Well, what to do? You always have to sacrifice something.

If you are planning to make a beautiful renovation in your private house, then the first thing you have to decide on is the interior style. Since we are running out of money, and the services of a designer can pull up to 20% of the estimated cost of the project, we will have to do without them. As a result, goodbye to original author's ideas from Fedor Arzamanov or Olga Amlinskaya. Greetings to you, Google and Yandex search. If you ask the right questions, you will find on the web thousands of photos with solutions from the best designers in the world, which can be creatively processed to create an interior for yourself.

We only advise you to immediately abandon conservative classical and neoclassical styles, minimalism and hi-tech that are popular today, and, perhaps, extravagant avant-garde. The latter, although it will be cheaper than the above-named neighbors on the list, but it will require you to have specialized education. Combining incompatible on a whim, it is very easy to screw up the sides.

Better pay attention to such "rural" designs as Provence, chalet, rustic, as well as Scandinavian style. All of them involve the use of relatively inexpensive natural materials, and simple, even somewhat rough furniture. If such repairs were available even to the inhabitants of the rural outback, it will not ruin you either.

Also take a close look at the loft. In terms of renovation, it is economical, but is only suitable for finishing spacious, preferably studio premises. House 4 × 5 meters not under the "attic" scope.

But a designer's job is not limited to creating a beautiful drawing. To transfer a masterpiece from the canvas to the three-dimensional plane of the brick walls, you also need to select suitable building materials and technologies for their application. Let's start analyzing the situation from the ceiling and gradually move towards the floor.

Don't laugh, but it is stretch ceilings that top the list of the most affordable floor finishes today. So what? There is no need to make a complex metal frame for them, they do not need a finishing finish, and the cost of the PVC canvas itself, with the arrival of a Chinese manufacturer on the market, you will not particularly scare anyone. You will have to pay only for the film and for its installation. This is where the main problem lies. We agreed to do the repairs ourselves!

At the same time, working with stretch ceilings requires the use of a heat gun, which probably does not gather dust somewhere in your closet, and buying such an expensive inventory at once is irrational.

We also pass by and near the popular today rack ceilings, although a child will probably cope with their installation. But cheap plastic panels are short-lived and not environmentally friendly - these cannot be recommended for use in living rooms. This product is the maximum for a bath or toilet.

A lot today costs at the exit and plasterboard ceiling. Especially if the project involves the manufacture of a two or three-level frame for it. But in the meantime, this type of finish will suit you perfectly. The fact is that the materials themselves for its manufacture, and these are metal profiles, gypsum panels and gypsum mixtures are quite affordable, and the customer pays for installation and painting work. If you are ready to do them yourself, the savings will be from 50 to 70%.

Lighthouse floor plaster will not send you to the bank for a loan. This is a very time consuming but inexpensive type of finishing. It is rational to use it with a height difference of up to 20 mm.

If we consider the wall planes, then two global questions arise at once. This is a rough and fine finish. The second follows the first, and therefore we will consider them in order.

It's good if the house is new and your walls are flat, not yet finished with anything. In this case, ordinary lime plaster will be the simplest and cheapest option for you. It lies down easily, is inexpensive, and also has good vapor permeability and excellent bactericidal properties. Savvy entrepreneurs have already begun to pack and sell them with triple wrap. But you order the mixture at RBU or prepare it yourself. You just need to know that plastering with lime-sand mortar occurs in three stages and each of them has its own recipe:

• Splashing (mixture 1: 2)
• Priming (mixture 1: 3)
• Nakryvka (mixture 1: 5)

But what if the plaster is already there and its quality does not suit you at all? There are exactly three options:

Dismantle the old plaster layer, throw away the garbage truck, and apply a new one according to all the rules. This is the most solid, correct, but not very attractive idea. It takes a lot of time and effort. The whole house turns into a dusty hell, And in it, by the way, then you still have to work.

The second option is to arm yourself with an ax, a rule and cut down only fragments that enter the future plane, and throw holes in the pits with a shukaturka. In this case, there will be less dust, the plaster solution will also be used up a little, but the headache will increase, more than enough. Thoughtlessly hammering with a puncher in this situation will no longer work. First, you have to align all the corners, and then carefully, like a sculptor, form planes along them. The problem is still the same.

Well, the third path is for the laziest. Here you only need to cut down well, very serious influxes. And then the walls are primed and pasted over with plasterboard. True, you will lose a lot of space, but still less than if the same gypsum board was twisted on a metal frame. Yes, and the material will not be such an expense.

But to form a plane is only half the battle, it still needs to be somehow refined. And tapestries are still the most budget technology here. The walls do not need to be "licked" under them, and the design there can be really matched to any interior.Just try to choose material without selecting a pattern. There will be fewer clippings, which means less waste.

An alternative to paper can only serve as an increasingly popular "liquid" wallpaper. It is also an inexpensive type of finish that is highly maintainable, waste-free and undemanding to the surface to be treated. All minor flaws wet wallpaper will hide with a bang.

And so, little by little, making repairs in a private house with our own hands, we gradually got from the ceiling to the floor. There are disputes today around two main materials. Parquet boards and laminate. The latter is stronger and cheaper, the board is more beautiful. As for us, the choice for budget renovation is obvious, especially since those who really pursue beauty prefer block parquet.

Linoleum is the only real alternative to laminate. Chemistry is of course still the same, but when you have only a penny in your pocket you don't have to choose much. But it is also not worth rushing to the other extreme and buying everything that is not hitting. We advise you to take a closer look at semi-commercial linoleum. It has good wear resistance at a fairly affordable price. Commercial samples, however, are even more reliable, but for their installation you need a special soldering iron, which no one will give you for free.

Well, and finally, we want to give some advice for owners of small summer cottages. When the existing house has a size of only forty squares, the question of how to make repairs in it with your own hands is necessarily inexpensive no longer so acute. Here it would be to lay out all the functional zones necessary for a comfortable life in the available space, so that you do not have to combine a bathroom and an office or a bedroom with a dining room.

But it is not enough to find the right planning solution, you still need to somehow add visual squares to the rooms, or, as an option, keep the existing ones to the maximum. Here 5 proven interior design techniques will help you.

1. Maximum of white or blue. These colors visually expand the space. Just do not get carried away, you need to leave at least the floor as a reference point, otherwise the house will resemble a hospital.

2. Glass furniture - glass walls. Transparent interior items do not clutter up the space, and a showcase instead of a wall will expand the boundaries of the room into the courtyard.

3. Same gender. It will help to visually expand the walls and one flooring pattern throughout the house. It so happened that we more often look at our feet than at the ceiling, and it is by the floor that we measure the space.

4. For the same reasons, we advise in small houses to choose furniture only with legs. The more of your laminate or linoleum is visible, the easier it will be to fool the tightness.

5. And, of course, mirrors will help you. The world of Lewis Carroll existing in them will complement the interior space and create the illusion of spaciousness.

The sequence of repairs in the house with your own hands: Step-by-step instructions from scratch with a rough finish + Photo and Video

Are there any plans for renovation in your house? Where to start, how to finish, how to carry out the work so that one does not interfere with the other and does not spoil it? First of all, it is necessary to draw up at least an approximate plan of all work, to derive an estimate of costs. It should cover all planned activities, including dismantling of old elements - batteries, lamps, window sills, switches.

In the event that it is planned to replace interior and exterior doors, windows, it is important not to forget about the subsequent cleaning and disposal of construction waste. This is a pretty big expense to consider.

Before starting construction activities, it is necessary to determine the amount of work to be done and their approximate cost, and correlate them with your own capabilities.

It is highly undesirable to make significant adjustments after the start of work.All important design decisions are made and approved in advance, because it is not always possible to change them later, but it is almost always costly.

Usually, after completing the preparatory phase, the homeowner finds himself in an empty room, in front of completely bare walls. It is still quite difficult for him to navigate the forthcoming volume of work and expenses. But he already has an idea what color solutions are preferable for him, where what will be located, in which part of the house household and other appliances will be installed.

Need to pay attention on the number and location of windows, the level of natural illumination, because the need for artificial lighting in the room depends on this. Why is it important? The fact is that any repair most often begins replacement or re-equipment of power gridsincluding future locations for lighting fixtures, outlets and switches. This also applies to old, already inhabited houses, and those built not so long ago.

Every average household today has many different technologies that need a powerful, optimized branch network. Additional sockets and numerous extension cords are very inconvenient to use.

If it is planned to install an air conditioning system, then it is carried out in the same period. At the same time, all the necessary heating system fasteners.

In parallel, a number of works related to drilling, chiselling, making recesses, grooves and booms... This also includes other work, in the process of which it is necessary to "disfigure" the ceiling, walls and floor, as a result of which a large amount of various construction waste is formed: dust, pieces of gypsum, brick and concrete.

When all this garbage removed, you can start preparing the subfloor.

There are different options:

• preparation for underfloor heating;
• installation of a sub-floor from edged boards;
• leveling with a concrete screed.

The next stage of work refers to the windows. They are replaced if necessary.

If they completely satisfy the homeowner, then he simply checks the sealing of the cracks, the presence and condition of thermal insulation and window slopes. It is also checked whether the doors close and open well, whether there are distortions and other defects. After plastering and painting, it will be much more difficult to put them in order.

It is advisable to protect the inner window sills with a film from splashes of finishing compounds. This type of work is allowed to be carried out when installing doors, but the proposed option is more practical.

If the walls in the house need alignment and other necessary procedures, then the amount of compounds and mixtures required for this must be calculated in advance.

Materials tend to end unexpectedly at the wrong time - it is advisable to protect yourself from this.

The owners are constantly faced with various fundamental questions.

There can be no two answers to this question: before moving on to finishing the walls, you need to complete the preparatory work with the floor.

After cleaning, it must be prepared for the final, decorative coating.

The coating itself, regardless of its type and type, is done last.... This applies to self-leveling floors, parquet, laminate, linoleum and other types.

And at this stage, the prepared base is protected with foil, cardboard or several layers of newspapers. This will greatly facilitate subsequent cleaning and cleaning.

Even before moving on to plastering work, you should complete all the proposed activities with drywall. Niches, additional partitions, functional and decorative details are finished completely before moving on to the next stage of finishing work - Wet... It is advisable to perform all work of this kind within one working cycle, so as not to return to them again later.

Then you will be able to prevent errors during their installation, as well as get a minimum gap between the floor plane or threshold and door leaves.

Door installation is a high-tech process that does not use adhesives and compounds that can contaminate or damage the new floor. The tools used, provided that they are handled skillfully and carefully, are also not capable of damaging it.

This applies specifically to the door.

However, it is quite possible to mount the door frame a little earlier, even before the walls are aligned.... In this case, flaws, defects and cracks near the opening will be reliably masked.

If the existing walls do not need improvement, being already flat and smooth, the installation of the box can be carried out later. If the box is pre-installed, be sure to consider the thickness of the potential floor covering.

The same applies to painting the walls. Although the opinions of experts sometimes differ. Adherents of a different method are sure that wallpaper should be dealt with after completing work on the floor and fixing the ceiling plinth. They believe that wall decoration can be easily replaced at any time without touching the baseboards above and below.

In their opinion, it is enough to evenly cut the edges of the wallpaper along the skirting boards on both sides.

They switch to painting the ceiling after the end of fixing the ceiling plinth. With this order of work, it is quite convenient to correct all the irregularities and defects of their connections, and only after that paint the ceiling and baseboard in one go. The simultaneous dyeing allows them to look solid and elegant.

If speak about old house renovation sequences, it is worth dwelling on the installation of a stretch ceiling.

This habitual element is enjoying steady popularity. The specificity of the device of such ceilings allows their installation at the final stage of all activities, after wallpapering or painting wall surfaces. Ceiling installation can be considered a clean-up operation that does not pose a threat of damage to the floor or walls.

The principle of “top-down” priority does not apply to this case. It applies mainly to the usual repair work. The emergence of new technologies brought some changes to their course. Even the teams involved in the installation of stretch ceilings suggest inviting them to actually complete the repair.

Let's try to compile a short list of the order of work in any given room of the house. So:

• Electricity of the net;
• Air conditioning and heating systems;
• Arrangement of the sub-floor;
• Installation (if necessary, with preliminary dismantling) of windows;
• Working with walls - preparation for painting or pasting;
• All works with the ceiling;
• Finishing of walls - pasting or painting;
• Final floor covering;
• Door installation;
• Arrangement of floor skirting boards and thresholds;
• Stretch ceiling installation.

Of course, this order cannot be considered an axiom. Various reasons, including the original technology or the characteristics of the materials used, may violate it more or less.

All specialists choose their own algorithm of actions, which is convenient for them in each specific case, but the approximate sequence of events may be just that.