There is such a winged expression - "Repair is worse than the flood." As a rule, when someone starts repairing an apartment, the surrounding people throw sympathetic glances, and neighbors anticipate annoyance from noisy work. But if you plan everything in advance and plan, the repair may well go smoothly.
How to start repair?
- To begin with, it is necessary to decide what kind of repair you want to do, because cosmetic repair is fundamentally different from the capital repair, it will help you to start the "restoration" correctly.
- Visualization. Ideally, try to visualize as much as possible your future repairs. Even if you do not have the skills of an artist, sketch schematically, but with all the details in mind. This step will greatly help you to correlate your desires with your capabilities. One of the most common problems during repairs is a lack of financial resources, when a person "swinging" at one, overlooks another, and then simply does not have enough money to finish the repair.
- It is worth determining when it is better to start repair. Every season has its pluses and minuses.
- It is necessary to decide which room to begin repair. If you are planning a cosmetic repair, start with the bedroom. A healthy sleep is a guarantee of health. It is better to sleep three days on the couch, and then all the remaining repairs have a full place to relax. In addition, you can move to the bedroom clean things and drag some furniture.
- We make the estimate. The estimate is a very important stage in the repair process. Even if you are going to do repairs yourself, allocate money to a qualified planner, in the future it will save your budget and your nerves significantly.
Cosmetic repair involves minor interventions, such as repainting walls, or wallpapering, painting the ceiling , etc. Such repairs should be done every 5-6 years. If finances are allowed, then you can often, because a renovated apartment will positively influence your psycho-emotional state, which will undoubtedly give you new vitality.
Overhauling is much more serious than cosmetic, because it provides for the replacement of wiring, the insertion of new windows, replacement of doors, sanitary ware, etc. With such repairs, to great joy, we have to face not often, about once every 20 years. The beginning of the repair in the new apartment is practically no different from the overhaul of the old apartment.
Winter is not a season for construction brigades and companies. Hence follows the following, in winter the lowest prices for building materials and for repair teams. But you have to understand that replacing plumbing and batteries, leading to the shutdown of risers with warm water, in addition to personal discomfort, it will also bring to you the anger of neighbors.
Spring is the first heat. As a rule, prices do not yet have much time to grow from winter, but there are not so many free hands of masters. This is the ideal time to start repairs in a new apartment, that by the summer everything was ready.
Summer - heat, stuffiness, dust. The time when I want to go to the sea, and not stay in a stuffy city and control the repair. Prices for building materials soar to the heights, although most people prefer to do repairs in the summer, because in summer it's time to leave, and, as a rule, you will certainly be in time for the cold weather.
Autumn is often a time of work and work, and in the case when there are children, then the beginning of the school year. Prices for materials still hold, but prices for repair work are gradually falling.
Do not know where to start repairing the bedroom - start with a selection of safe, non-toxic building materials. Plan the design so that a damp, light cleaning does not cause trouble.
If it is a question of overhaul, then ideally it should start immediately in all rooms. Repair is done by the principle of top-down, that is, you should start from the ceiling. Begin with leveling , stripping, then putty and so go through the entire ceiling in the apartment.
Thoroughly having planned everything, you can go for building materials-now you know where to start repairing the apartment. The main thing to remember is that during the repair, do not acquire enemies in the face of neighbors, do not make noisy work on the weekend.