How to prepare for apartment renovation?

Moving to a new apartment soon? Or maybe it's just time for you to update the renovation in your old apartment?

Life goes on as usual, everything around is changing, sometimes what surrounds a person for many years just gets bored, wears out, so you can upgrade the apartment, change the flooring, wallpaper, change furniture or buy a new one.

Where to start apartment renovation? How to properly prepare for it? What are the essentials? We tell in detail in our article.

Decide on the store.

There are many large hardware stores in big cities. Before starting to make repairs, we are looking for stores where future purchases for the apartment will be made. Perhaps it will be the market for building products.

What should you pay attention to when choosing a store for purchases?

- time spent on the road;

Not all stores are located near the house, some will have to go.
If you work according to the standard schedule of 5 working days and 2 days off, then you will need to go shopping on weekdays in the evening or on weekends in the morning. And here and there - there will be traffic jams.
In large cities, you can lose a lot of time just to get to the store.

– are there any discounts?

There are stores that offer discounts to regular customers. You will have to buy a lot and always while repairs are in progress. Discount cards will help save the family budget.

- range;

The assortment in the store should be large: texture, color of the product, the proposed material.

– prices;

Prices vary from store to store. If the store has a website, then you can go to the page and get acquainted with the prices of the goods. If not, then it is better to spend time, come to the store and see where the prices are for the same product. You can take a picture of them or write them down in a notebook.

The larger the store, the more goods it buys. This means that the suppliers of the goods offer a large discount, which means that the margin on the goods will be small.

– parking;

Is there an entrance to this store, especially in winter, is the snow cleared? Is there parking and how big is it?
In many places parking is paid. Time in the store is usually from an hour or more, so in addition to basic purchases, you will also have to pay for parking.

- Are there samples?

In large stores, you can unwind the wallpaper, see its texture, and most importantly, cut off a small piece and take it home.

- master classes;

Stores draw attention to their product and therefore show master classes.
How to use mounting foam? How to style laminate or tiles? The schedule of master classes can be found on the store's website.

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Essentials.

If you came to the store for exploration, then you can buy essentials. Their prices are about the same.

What are these things and what are they for?

- brushes;
Brushes are needed to paint something, for example, you can paint an old pipe. In order to apply a special impregnation on the walls before wallpapering, it will better keep the wallpaper in the room.

Glue on the wallpaper is applied with a roller, but it is best to apply with a brush.
Sometimes, the ends of the wallpaper peel off and here it is better to use small brushes.

- large garbage bags;
When repairing an apartment, large garbage bags will come to the rescue. They contain all construction debris.

– protective film on the floor;
Before the start of the repair, a protective polyethylene film is covered on the floor or on the furniture.
After repair work, it is rolled up and thrown into a large garbage bag along with the garbage.

- buckets;
Special mixtures are kneaded in buckets.

- disposable gloves;

They are made from different materials. Some are rubber and some are textile.

The goods will be worn from the car to the entrance, then to the apartment. Not everything has a protective film and packaging. To keep your hands intact, not to scratch or get dirty, we use disposable gloves. You can also use them when gluing wallpaper, laying the floor and other repair work.

- adhesive tape and masking tape;
A great helper in many things during the repair.

- nails;
When repairing, a lot of things will have to be hammered in with nails, so it is better to take nails of different sizes.

- screwdriver;
Needed for tightening and unscrewing fasteners (screws, screws, self-tapping screws, dowels).

- flashlight;
When replacing an old chandelier with a new one, as well as to find something in hard-to-reach places.

- carton boxes;

Everything related to repairs can be put in cardboard boxes so that all the material is in one place.
You can also cut the handles on the side of the box and take it with you to the store for purchased goods.
It is more convenient to carry goods in a box than in a bag. The force of gravity is distributed evenly.

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Design project.

Repairs in the apartment begin in the farthest room.

We draw a sketch of the future room. A sketch is a template for a future room. You can draw the location of the furniture, or you can remove the interior partition and combine the balcony and the room or the room and the kitchen. You can draw a view of the future room from above, from the side.
Think over every step, every element in the apartment, you may want to change the location of electrical sockets.

What will hang on your windows? Roller blinds or regular curtains? Blinds? Display your desires on a future sketch.
It is convenient to make a sketch on a sheet of paper in a cage and draw with an ordinary pencil, if something is wrong somewhere, you can erase it with an eraser, redraw it.
To see the future design of the room project in color, you can paint over or shade with colored pencils.
You can also make a sketch in a special design program.

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Materials.

First of all, think about the soundproofing in the apartment. In new buildings, the walls are thin and you will hear everything that happens at the neighbors behind the wall. It is worth spending money, because it is a guarantee of your health and sound sleep.

If you have children planned in the future, then you should also think about soundproofing, because the crying of children will interfere with the neighbors' rest and sleep. Soundproofing is also worth considering if you like to sing karaoke or listen to the TV loudly so as not to quarrel with your neighbors.

What your repair will be made of depends primarily on the financial component, as well as on how much you like this material.

We study special literature, read information on the Internet, and also on our website decortop.techinfus.com/en/ provides a lot of useful information on decor and interior design.

Let's talk about some materials for the apartment.

Pipes.

First of all, it is worth replacing all the pipes in the apartment if the repair work in the apartment has not been carried out for a long time. Over time, they wear out, rust, and in order to prevent them from bursting and having to call a plumber and pay him money, it is better to change the old pipes in the apartment for new ones.

Floor.

On the floor, you can put tiles, parquet, laminate or linoleum. Each material has its pros and cons. Need to see what kind of room it is? Hallway, bathroom or nursery? See if she's cold? Then you can install underfloor heating, tiles are used for this.
Linoleum is now rarely used anywhere, it is mainly installed in an elevator, in a country house and in a kindergarten.

Wallpaper.

The main types of wallpaper are paper and vinyl. Paper ones are inexpensive, but they are thin, short-lived and can tear. On sale you can find from 90 rubles per 1 roll.
Vinyl. This type of wallpaper is much better than paper.

What else should you pay attention to when choosing wallpaper?
To the drawing. If you take wallpaper with a pattern, you will constantly have to look for a continuation of the pattern on another part of the wallpaper, which means that half of the wallpaper will simply be cut off and thrown away. It is best to take wallpaper where the picture is in the middle. Then the time for wallpapering will be reduced, which means that the repair will move faster.

Large stores have roll samples. The packaging is open, you can take them, touch the texture, rewind and imagine how they will look in your room. You can take scissors (in large stores they always hang nearby) and cut off all kinds of wallpaper that you like. Then come home and ask to attach the wallpaper to the wall or secure it with tailor's pins. Evaluate visually how much they fit the sofa, closet, do you like them, do they not irritate you with a shade, pattern?
For a room, it is better to use light-colored wallpapers, so the room seems lighter.

Material calculation.

Have you decided on the material? Now take a pen and a sheet of paper. We measure the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe room with a tape measure and write it down on paper. Now we go to the store, select the material and consider the required amount per room. It is best to take the material with a margin. Because sometimes a marriage comes across, sometimes you can ruin it at home.

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Purchase.

In our free time, we go to the grocery store. But here, too, there are many things to consider.

- elevator;
Not all houses have a freight elevator. The standard elevator is very small. High plinths, boards simply will not enter it. The way out is to carry it up the stairs on foot or saw the boards in the store. This is an additional service and costs money.

- car;
If you do not have delivery of goods to the apartment, then you need to measure your car, what is the maximum height and width of the product that will fit in the car? We write down the parameters.
If you have a delivery of goods, then discuss the timing, cost, delivery to the entrance or apartment? Have a contact phone number to call in case there was supposed to be a delivery, but it was not.

The goods are bought, now we start repairing the apartment.

It is best to make repairs in the summer, because in winter it will take longer to dry.
Repairs on your own will be cheaper than hiring specialists in this field.But if you have money, then in order to save your strength, it is better to entrust the repair to specialists.

Remember that there is a law about silence and a certain time when you can make noise, and when you can’t do it.
Do not disturb your neighbors with loud noise at the wrong time, otherwise there will be penalties.

 

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