Where to start repairing the apartment? Instructions for successful repair

How to competently make repairs? In what sequence to produce work? Where to start repairing the apartment to succeed and avoid unnecessary financial and temporary losses

So, you finally became the happy owner of our own housing or simply decided to drastically change your interior. Among the many logical issues that have arisen in connection with this leads the main one: how to organize everything correctly to implement all ideas into reality and forget about the subsequent repair for many years?

Of course, with a question of repair work, you can easily deal without any problems, resorting to the services of the professional workshop of masters, but everyone knows that this pleasure, especially in the era of the financial crisis, is far from every family.

In addition, it is much more pleasant to transform your favorite housing with your own hands, putting a part of my soul to repair. 

Capital or cosmetic?

Apartment repair can be divided into two groups: overhaul and cosmetic. The difference between them is the initial state of the housing and your own desires. 

Overhaul involves redeveloping rooms, installation or disassembly of electrical wiring, replacement of windows, doors, plumbing, alignment of ceilings, floor and walls, communications. Such a sequence of repair of an apartment in a new building or in a dwelling, whose layout you want to change dramatically. 

Cosmetic Repair provides for a change in the appearance of housing without global destruction: putting the walls, plating wallpapers, reconstruction of ceilings (or installation of mounted / stretch), painting or restoration of windows and doors, replacement of flooring, plinths and platbands. 

Apartment repair sequence: Step-by-step instructions

Step 1. Decide with the design

Well planned – half done, so first of all, you need to understand what exactly you want.

In order to decide on the layout, design and style, get visual information: Polyista interior design catalogs and decor ideas, take care of what your friends and acquaintances have done in their apartments, because they are much more profitable to learn more than on their own mistakes. 

When choosing a style, pay special attention to the color solving of the rooms, because from what color you choose, comfort, mood and even the health of you and your loved ones will depend on.

Psychologists have long been proven by the system of influence of color to the mental state of a person:

• Salad and green colors in the interior are toned, improve brainwriting (such a solution is perfect for the office, a schoolboy room or student);
• Yellow, coffee, cream shades create sensations of heat and comfort, and therefore ideal for bedroom, living room, kitchen and hallway;
• Blue and gentle blue colors in the interior are set up for tenderness, relax and calm and soothe, and therefore are often used for bedrooms and children’s rooms;
• But with red, orange and bright purple colors in design should be used extremely careful, as they are able to act exciting and create effect «Pressure walls». Such color solutions are suitable only to creative and expressive images. 

In parallel with the choice of color scheme, decide what and where you will have. Here the arch will appear instead of an ordinary door, in this room – a stretch ceiling with a starry sky, and here it is certainly a parquet floor ..

Then it will be necessary to estimate, from which materials it will be going on, and then it is to determine the manufacturers of these materials and calculate the price, but about it a little later. 

Step 2. Make a plan of the apartment

Inspired by the idea, should not strive to run to the construction store for materials. Preferably make a clear housing plan, make measurements of the rooms, the width of the door and window openings, the location of risers, batteries, wiring to the kitchen cooker and t.

Even if you take advantage of the plan of the apartment plan from BTI (by the way, if you are planning a major overhaul, you will need permission from this organization), you still need to double all the protrusions in the apartment. Often the walls are slightly twisted, and in the documents such nuances are not fixed. 

Step 3. Calculate the budget

To monitor the amount of financial costs, it is very important to make a estimate, rationally calculated the number of necessary materials and their cost. 

What should be included in the list:

• Building materials (putty, primer, tile and wallpaper adhesives, dry mixes, plaster, nails, plumbing and electric wiring and other);
• Finishing Material (Wallpaper, Stretch Ceilings, Decorative Panels, Outdoor Coatings, Windows, Entrance and Interior Deries, Plumbing Devices and Elements, Paints, Sockets, Cables, and T. D.);
• The cost of the necessary equipment and tools (however, they can be rented or asked for a time of relatives, friends or neighbors);
• The cost of work of professional masters (and without them can not do if, for example, you are going to replace the windows or install stretch ceilings);
• article «Unforeseen costs»: As practice shows, it is impossible to predict all the needs 100%, something will certainly have to buy, so you will have to have some amount «Reserve» of money. 

Important advice: Purchase building materials approximately 10-12% more from the initial plan. Believe me, even skilled workers are not insured from non-accurate use, errors and incorrectly calculations. 

Step 4. Prepare space for activity

Before starting «Active action», Free the apartment from personal belongings and furniture, transporting them to another place, for example, to the cottage, to the neighbors, in the attic. If there is no such possibility, carefully pack all existing things (leaving only the most needed that you need during repair) in cardboard boxes and tie them to scotch.

Furniture, carpets, chandeliers, paintings Gently wrap in multiple layers of polyethylene – Believe me, caustic building dust and paint is subsequently almost impossible to extract from delicate coating things. 

If you are planning to stay in the apartment during this period, do not forget to leave personal belongings (clothes, shoes, dishes and t. D.). 

Step 5. Make a repair work plan

Now, having in front of the list of materials, the plan of the apartment, the placement of furniture in it, wiring and sockets, we make a plan of sequence of work when repairing rooms in the apartment.

It should look like this:

• dismantling partitions, wall coatings and ceilings;
• Device of window slopes, replacement of windows and window sills;
• reorganization of life support systems (wiring of communications and electricians);
• Alignment of walls, ceiling and floor in the rooms, in the kitchen, in the corridor and storage room;
• Alignment of walls, ceiling and floor in the toilet and bathroom;
• Facing walls and floor in the kitchen, toilet and bathroom;
• finishing in the bathroom;
• finishing ceiling and walls in rooms, corridor and storage room;
• baguette sticking;
• installation of plumbing;
• applying decorative plaster or painting ceilings and walls in rooms;
• Installation of interroom doors (if they have thresholds);
• stacking wallpaper;
• Installation of sockets and switches;
• laying outdoor coating;
• Installing interroom doors without a threshold;
• Mounting plinths. 

Repair work on the balcony or loggia should be made last time, because it is there that it is convenient to store tools and equipment, remnants of materials and other. Well, if you are forced to live in this apartment during the period, you should start working with the longest room, gradually moving towards the exit. 

And of course, do not forget that in order for the result to justify hopes, not only finance should be investing, but also common sense, fantasy and a lot of hard work. Successes to you in this creative process!