Make cosmetic repairs in the apartment. Inexpensive room redecoration

Even the most sophisticated interior begins to get bored over time, and you want novelty. No matter how expensive Decoration Materials have not been used before - they all have their own "age", that is, they begin to deteriorate, lose their attractiveness, decorative and operational qualities. Other unforeseen circumstances can also bring their own “negative adjustments” - leakage of the roof or from the upper neighbors, walls torn off or painted by children, indelible stains accidentally placed on surfaces, mold, etc. That is, there can be a great many reasons to think about interior renovation.

This is said to prove that redecorating in the apartment, the full instructions of which will be presented in this publication, sooner or later each owner has to carry out. Therefore, most owners have a fair question about what activities are included in this process, where to start putting the rooms in order and in what sequence to perform finishing operations.

What is cosmetic repair and its features

What is the difference between cosmetic repairs and when it is carried out, what work does it include, and what are its features? In this section of the article, we will look for answers to these questions.

Cosmetic transformation of the premises is carried out after a certain period after the overhaul. Of course, there are no set deadlines for its implementation, and there cannot be. It is usually planned in cases, one of which is faced by every owner of any housing:

• If you want to change the design of the interior.
• During the period of operation of the rooms, the flooring was damaged, the design of lighting fixtures, sockets, furniture and other interior elements became obsolete.
• It is required to put the apartment in order before selling it, in order to give the premises a more respectable appearance.
• Decorating surfaces after a major overhaul.

For comparison, it is worth mentioning the work that is included in the capital reconstruction of the apartment - this is the need to make their heat or sound insulation of surfaces, cleaning the walls of old plaster, leveling the walls and ceiling, with plastering and arranging the floor screed, with preliminary cleaning them from old coatings, replacement electrical wiring, sewer and water pipes and much more.

It is quite obvious that there are stages that can be included in the list of both major and cosmetic repairs. For example, this is the dismantling of old and the installation of modern doors and windows that match the design of the new interior and create more comfortable living conditions.

Features of the repair work:

• Works can be divided into preparatory and finishing. Each of these two stages must start from the top, gradually moving down.
• First, all dirty and labor-intensive work is performed, that is, the principle of their implementation is from dirty to clean processes.
• If cosmetic repairs are carried out in a multi-room apartment, then it should be started from the room that is farthest from front door. The final step is. It is advisable to follow this sequence in order not to damage the lined surfaces in the rooms where the repair has already been completed, when building materials are carried through them, and not to spread dirt through the already finished premises.
• It is recommended to hang the doors of the room in which the repair has already been completed when working in other rooms of the apartment plastic wrap or an old wet sheet.

To know where to start putting the apartment in order, you need to figure out what stages the cosmetic repairs consist of, and in what sequence they are carried out:

• Drawing up a work plan, i.e. full list what is planned to be done.
• Development of sketches of the desired interior.
• Taking measurements and preparing estimates.
• Purchase of materials.
• Clearing the room of furniture.
• Removal of old windows interior doors and installation of new ones.

• Cleaning walls, floors, if necessary - and ceilings from old coatings.
• Surface priming.
• Ceiling finish.

• Puttying and re-priming the walls.
• Wall decoration with selected decorative material.
• Installation of sockets and switches, as well as lighting fixtures.
• Floor covering flooring.

Of course, this order is not a dogma at all - there may be certain changes in the sequence in it. But they still try to maintain the general “direction” of works approximately the same.

Instructions for cosmetic repairs - step by step

The main stages of work on the cosmetic renovation of rooms were named above. But in each case there are nuances associated with the characteristics of a particular room. Some of them will be described in the instructions presented in the table below.

Illustration	Brief description of the stages of work
	The first thing to do when starting repairs is to draw up a general plan, including everything that needs to be done. If at this stage the design direction has not yet been finally determined, it is advisable to make several sketches for the design of each of the rooms. This will help to personally assess the appearance of the premises after completion of work. It is best to think over even two or three similar “mini-projects” and execute them in different color scheme and with possible options for arranging furniture.
	Next, measurements are taken of the areas to be updated. Are determined linear dimensions each wall, ceiling and floor. Separately, the area of ​​​​door and window openings is calculated so that, if necessary, it can be subtracted from the total area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe wall. In addition, it is necessary to count the number of electrical outlets, lighting fixtures, switches, taps, door handles, locks and other elements requiring replacement.
	Based on the data obtained, as well as after studying the average prices for materials in local stores, an approximate estimate of future repairs is drawn up. The resulting amount should be increased by another 15÷20%, since usually, even with marginal savings, the costs exceed expectations. The estimate includes the name and quantity of materials, as well as their approximate cost. It is best to perform it in the form of a table, so it will be easier to make calculations. If some or even most of the operations are planned to be carried out with the involvement of craftsmen, you will have to take into account the payment for the work, which is usually no less than the cost of materials. So it is more profitable to focus initially on your own capabilities.
	The next step is to free the room from everything that will interfere with the repair or can be damaged by building materials. Items that cannot be removed from the room should be covered with plastic wrap. If it is not planned to replace the flooring, then it is recommended to cover the floors with cardboard, and then with a film that can be fixed around the perimeter with masking tape.
	After the space is vacated and prepared, the old window frames are dismantled and new window frames are installed, if this is included in the redecoration plan. a special article of our portal will help the reader. Usually such work is carried out by teams of the window manufacturer. But the owners need to prepare for a sufficiently large amount of garbage, which will also have to be immediately removed from the premises.
	When the windows are installed, the exterior and interior slopes are finished. Technological gaps between the window frame and the wall are filled with mounting foam, which is sensitive to ultraviolet radiation. Therefore, finishing the external slopes is no less important than putting in order. internal walls around the window. It should be noted that finishing slopes, especially external ones, is not an easy task, therefore, if there is no experience in carrying out this process, then it is better to entrust it to professionals. The outer slopes of the windows of high-rise buildings are finished with plaster mortar for external work. Interior walls can be decorated different ways- this is leveling with plaster, and then with putty, plastic panels or, for example, pasting with cork sheets.
	If you plan to ennoble the slopes with plaster mortar, with further coloring, it is recommended to purchase “spider line” fiberglass for reinforcing surfaces, and for the outer corners of openings - a metal or plastic perforated corner, it is possible with “wings” from a serpentine mesh fixed on it. First, at the outer corners of the opening, using finishing putty are fixed metal corners. Like the corners themselves, so perforated or mesh "wings" should be hidden under the plaster.
	After the final alignment of the slopes and the drying of the putty, fiberglass is fixed to the slopes with special glue. After impregnating it with glue, it will not only hide minor flaws in the putty layer and strengthen the surface, but also give it a pleasant roughness. When the glue dries, the slopes can be painted with water-based paint. But painting is usually postponed until later - when the walls of the room are brought into the final form.
	Drywall is also an excellent choice for finishing slopes, as it performs several two functions at once - this is surface leveling and additional thermal insulation. The sheets are easily cut and fixed to the wall with a plaster-based adhesive. On the primed drywall, it will be possible to subsequently stick wallpaper or cork, paint the slopes with water-based paint.
	Another option that has become increasingly popular in recent years is cladding slopes with plastic panels. The convenience of this material is that its installation is quick, since there is no need to wait for the solution or glue to dry. But, in addition to the panels, for their accurate installation, it will be necessary to purchase special profiles - the starting one, fixed to the window frame and the corner that decorates the outer corner of the opening. Since the panels are fixed to the crate, and free space is formed between the wall and the panels, it becomes possible to insulate the slopes. But before choosing this cladding method, it is imperative to check whether the window will fully open after installing the panels. Much more detailed is considered in the special article of our portal.
	Further, the interior doors are dismantled - this process can be done independently. The first step is to remove the door leaf from the hinges. For convenience, you can use a nail crowbar as a lever. This tool will also be required when removing the door frame, which is dismantled after removing the canvas from it. If you do not plan to reuse the door frame, then the easiest way to remove it is by sawing the vertical posts in the middle part in two.
	Installation new door You can also do it yourself if this service is not provided by the manufacturer of the product. The door frame, together with the door, is placed in the wall opening above the threshold height by 3 ÷ 5 mm and aligned with the building level. To fix the structure in the required position, in the gaps between the wall and the box, in two places on each side, linings are installed - pieces of timber or boards, depending on the width of the resulting space. These additional details must be prepared in advance. The wooden inserts must be wide enough for a fixing screw to pass through each of them when fixing the box to the wall in a predetermined position. After the box is securely fixed in the opening, the gaps around it are filled with mounting foam, the excess of which will need to be cut flush with the wall surface, after it expands and dries. The gaps around the door frame are masked by decorative overlays - platbands. For safety, it is best to immediately cover the hinged door with plastic wrap for the rest of the repair. If planned, then the instruction article to which the link leads will help.
	Now you can proceed to work on the preparation of the ceiling surface. If a decision is made to install a drywall construction or system " stretch ceiling”, and the surface is not damaged by mold or fungus, and there are no unstable fragments of the finish or ceiling visible on it, then it is not necessary to clean the old coating from it. But when wallpaper, paint or ceiling tiles are chosen as the finish, the old coating will have to be removed. Whitewash can be scraped dry or wet with a spatula, depending on the thickness of its layer and the strength of its adhesion to the surface. The wallpaper will also need to be removed, since the ceiling must be absolutely clean to finish with all the above coatings.
	In order to finish the most dirty work as soon as possible, after cleaning the ceiling, it makes sense to immediately move on to and to free the walls from the old finish. There are several ways to carry out this process, the one that is more suitable for a particular case is selected from them. Sometimes it is enough to pick up the wallpaper with a spatula, and it is completely separated from the wall. In other cases, you have to soak them with warm water, moreover, applying it several times, after which the wallpaper is also cleaned off with a spatula. Another commonly used way to separate the canvases from the wall is to treat them with wet hot steam. For this purpose, a special steamer or an iron with a steam supply function is used. The process of removing old wallpaper is quite tedious, but even a small piece of material should not remain on the walls, otherwise it may show through the new finish.
	Harder to get rid of old paint, which still covers the walls in some kitchens and bathrooms. It is especially difficult if it is oily. But for this purpose, there are also several ways. The simplest, but at the same time dirty and time-consuming method of cleaning is abrasive, that is, using metal brushes, manual or in the form of attachments for power tools. You can use a chemical wash - applied to the wall special composition, which softens the paint, after which it can be easily cleaned off with a spatula.
	Another way is to heat the coating with a building hair dryer. P Under the influence of high temperatures, the paint also softens and separates from the surface, so it can be easily cleaned off with a regular spatula or the nozzle included in the dryer kit.
	Now that the entire room has been cleared of the old finishes, it remains to remove the flooring, if, of course, it is planned to replace it as well. The first step is to dismantle the skirting boards that hold the material around the perimeter. A mount is also suitable for this purpose. If linoleum is laid on the floors, it will be easier to remove it than any other coating, even if it is fixed with special glue. The flooring must be separated from the floor on one of the narrow sides of the room, and then, peeling it off the surface, immediately rolled up.
	Dismantling the parquet will take more time, but it is also easy to remove it - just hook on one of the lamellas. For this work, the mount is also suitable. If the parquet is in good condition, then it should be removed more carefully, as it can be reused for flooring.
	A more difficult task is to remove ceramic tiles from floors or walls, especially if they were laid on high-quality glue. This work can be done manually, using a hammer and a special chisel for this, or using a puncher, on which a similar nozzle is also installed. After the decorative coating is removed, the floor surface must be thoroughly cleaned of glue and debris, as the surface must be clean.
	When the surfaces are cleaned, they should be inspected for cracks that need to be repaired, otherwise they will definitely appear through the new finish. Cracks widen and deepen as far as possible. Then they should be cleaned and treated with a primer - it is better to do this with a spray gun, so the primer will penetrate the damage on the wall to the full depth. After waiting for the soil to dry, narrow cracks are filled with concrete or putty mortar, and wide ones, more than 15 mm, can be filled with mounting foam with an average expansion coefficient. When the foam expands and dries, its excess must be cut to the level of the wall. The process is very messy and tedious, but should not be ignored or simplified. Read more about this in the article to which the recommended link leads.
	Before proceeding to the next stage of work, it is necessary to de-energize the room and remove sockets and switches. The empty sockets remaining from them are best sealed with masking tape. Now that the room is ready for pre-treatment for decorative coating, a deep penetration primer is applied to the ceiling, walls and floors. It is able to bind the surface of the base material and penetrate to a depth of 10 mm. If you apply two or three layers of soil, then the quality of processing will only increase. Each subsequent layer is applied after the previous one has completely dried.
	If the ceiling is even, and it needs to be prepared for painting, wallpapering or foam tiles, then it is covered with a thin layer of putty, which will hide minor flaws. The work is done with a wide spatula. Further, the surface prepared for wallpaper is polished using a construction grater with an abrasive nozzle (mesh or sandpaper) having a medium grain, approximately P160. We will not describe the details here - a separate article of the portal is devoted to this.
	If the ceiling is planned to be painted, then it is recommended to stick a fiberglass “spider web” on it. This will greatly simplify the process and improve the quality of the finish.
	Then, after painting, the ceiling will have a pleasant texture, uniform matte surface, which is quite difficult to achieve by applying putty, especially in the absence of experience in this work. We advise you to pay close attention to this interesting material -. He will help out more than once! More about it - in a separate publication.
	The next step is to putty the walls. The number of applied layers and the quality of processing depends on the selected decorative coating. Before painting, the surface of the walls should be perfectly smooth, but if something went wrong, then the same “spider line” can save, which will disguise small errors. For wallpapering, the wall should be even, but perfect smoothness can not be achieved.
	To ensure that shortcomings are clearly visible during puttying, experienced painters use backlighting. Properly set light will reveal even the smallest unevenness, as it will cast a shadow.
	After the putty layer has dried, it is sanded with a construction float. The process is carried out in a circular motion, counterclockwise, without strong pressure on the surface. Sanders are also used, belt, vibration or eccentric. But since they give a huge amount of dust, such an operation should be carried out only if it is possible to connect the equipment to a construction vacuum cleaner. It is written simply, but in fact subtle is a very difficult task. To deal with it - read the recommended article-instruction.
	Finished puttied and sanded surfaces are recommended to be primed again. This layer will increase the adhesive ability of materials, so the paint on the coating will lie more evenly, and the wallpaper will be easy to stick to the wall.
	Further, if it is provided for by the plan, a stretch ceiling is mounted. The process is complex and unsafe, and it requires special equipment, so this stage of work is best left to specialists.
	If it is planned to paint the ceiling or paste over it with wallpaper or tiles, then a ceiling plinth is marked and glued along its perimeter. To fix it, one of the polymer adhesives is used, and many craftsmen even use a diluted solution of finishing putty. Framing will limit the areas on which decorative cladding will be applied. So that by chance, paint or wallpaper paste does not get on the plinth, it must be decorative materials should be covered with masking tape.
	The ceiling surface is painted using a roller with a fur nozzle. The ceiling is painted in two layers - the first of them is applied from the window to the door, parallel to the longer walls of the room, the second is perpendicular to the first, that is, parallel to the wall with the window opening.
	If it is planned to use wallpaper with a certain embossed or color pattern for facing the ceiling, then it must be taken into account that it is much more difficult to combine it on the ceiling. Canvases can be glued both along and across the room - this choice depends on the preference of homeowners for the location of the wallpaper decor. But still, it is recommended that the connecting seams be located from the window to the entrance - this way they will become less noticeable.
	When cutting wallpaper, they must be made longer by 50 ÷ 100 mm, and they are glued with a small allowance on the baseboards, combining the pattern if necessary. After gluing the canvas, it is easy to trim it - press it with a spatula exactly along the plinth line, like a ruler, and then cut off the excess with a knife.
	Expanded polystyrene tiles are all mounted differently. Some people think that the skirting board is better to stick on top of the tiles. This is wrong, since sometimes the glue is not able to withstand such a load, and both the baseboard and the tile can immediately move away from the ceiling. Therefore, the plinth should only be glued to the ceiling, and the tiled flooring is already adjusted to it. To ensure that the tiles are evenly distributed on the ceiling, before installing them, the surface must be marked. Usually, two perpendicular lines are beaten off on the ceiling, which intersect at the point where it is planned to place the chandelier. Focusing on them, and stick the tiles - on glue or on the finishing putty. If necessary, the side plates glued along the plinth line are trimmed.
	Next, you should finally finish with the dirty work, which includes leveling the floor for a new coating. The surface of the floor must be primed again and dried. A damper tape is glued around the perimeter of the entire room along the plinth zone, which is designed to compensate for the expansion of the screed or self-leveling floor when temperatures change.
	To quickly level the surface of the floor, which has minor errors, special bulk self-leveling solutions are used - they are commercially available in a wide range. The prepared composition is poured into puddles on the floor and spread over the surface first with a wide spatula or doctor blade. After that, the master puts on spiked paint shoes, takes a needle roller on a long rod and finally evenly distributes the mortar over the floor. The composition tends to occupy all free spaces, that is, cracks and dents, and its surface independently occupy a perfectly horizontal position, as it should be for a liquid. Now it remains to wait until the updated floor hardens - and you can proceed to the next stage of work. How to choose and how - in a separate publication of our portal.
	The walls are painted using a roller with a fur or foam nozzle, depending on the desired effect. The paint is applied to the surfaces starting from the ceiling plinth with up and down movements, gradually covering the unpainted areas. To get an evenly painted wall, at least two layers of the paint composition must be applied to its surface.
	Wallpaper is pasted starting from the corner of the room. At the beginning of the wall, stepping back from the angle of 20 ÷ 30 mm, a perfectly even vertical line is beaten off, the first sheet of wallpaper will be aligned along it, and the first sheet of wallpaper will be glued. The upper side of the canvas should be 20 ÷ 25 mm on the skirting boards, so that it is possible to align the drawings or patterns, and at the same time not leave an unglued strip on top.
	In order for the top edge of the wallpaper to be even, it should be pressed against the plinth with a spatula and carefully cut off the excess part with a sharp clerical knife. For work, it is best to use a spatula with a width of 250 ÷ 400 mm with a smooth edge of the blade. The process is not as simple as it might seem. The nuances of this finishing stage are in a separate article.
	When the wallpaper is dry, sockets, switches, and wall lighting fixtures are installed in place.
	The last stage of work is the arrangement of the floor covering. It is started when the self-leveling floor curing time recommended by the manufacturer is fully met. If a laminate is chosen for finishing, then it is mounted on a special substrate, which will reduce the noise from steps along the coating and give the necessary level of depreciation. A special article-instruction posted on the pages of our portal will help to carry out qualitatively.
	Unlike laminate, linoleum must lie down and straighten out before fixing it on the floor, this takes about a day. The coating is spread in the room for which it is intended and left for the above time. After that, the evenness of the laying is additionally checked, then the linoleum is pressed against the junction of the horizontal and vertical planes and excess strips are carefully cut off from it. There should be a gap of 5 ÷ 7 mm between the wall and the coating, which is necessary to compensate for the thermal expansion of the material. Previously, linoleum was certainly glued to the base, but today this installation technology is rarely resorted to. Often quality material fit as described above. About the technology with all the details - a special publication at the link.
	Another material option that is becoming increasingly popular is cork tile or rolled flooring. Tiles are laid on the principle of laminate, and roll material fixed on a special glue applied to the prepared base.
	The coating will not look properly if it is not framed with a plinth. Similar trim parts may have a different design and Various types fasteners. It is important that the skirting boards fit well into the overall interior design in terms of color and harmonize with the flooring. At the same stage, the threshold is fixed in doorway, which also presses the edges of floor coverings in adjoining rooms.

The result of cosmetic repairs should be neat, ready for furniture arrangement and further operation.

Agree that most operations, except for some specific ones (which, by the way, may not be at all in the general plan of work), can be performed independently.

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In this article, only short description stages of work replenishment of cosmetic repairs. But on the pages of our portal, in the section, each of the mentioned processes is given a lot of attention. In this array of information, the reader will find not only detailed instructions on carrying out repair and finishing works, but also recommendations on the choice of necessary materials, with a comprehensive consideration of their characteristics, advantages and disadvantages.

And in conclusion, for an example, watch a video on redecorating an apartment.

Video - Quick and not very expensive cosmetic repairs in the apartment

The issue of repairing a room almost always rests on the budget for future work. Most often, the owners of an apartment or house are faced with a choice - to do a cosmetic renovation of the room with their own hands, without putting it off indefinitely, or to plan a major restructuring with redevelopment and a major design update for an indefinite future. Most masters in such a situation recommend a redecoration of the room, during which the vast majority of problems with the interior of the room can be solved.

How to approach the organization of repairs in one room

Starting repairs in a room is always inconvenient and even scary, especially if you don’t have enough experience, and of the assistants at hand, there is only a cheat sheet on doing a do-it-yourself room renovation for beginners. But, as a rule, uncertainty and doubts pass when the scope of future work becomes clear and the question is resolved in what sequence to make repairs in the room.

Therefore, the first step is to draw up a master plan for cosmetic repairs, and most importantly, before trying to make repairs in the room, it is necessary to draw up a detailed estimate for the purchased materials and consumables. This is a prerequisite, even for repairs in a small room you will need to make a list of several dozen items.

Where to start repairs in the room is not important, you can carry out repairs in the sequence that seems more convenient in these specific conditions. Traditionally, do-it-yourself room repairs begin with the most “dirty” or rough work and end with fine finishing procedures.

A typical list of work or a sequence of repairs in a room is as follows:

• The old finish is removed from the walls, ceiling and floor. Removing the floor covering gives the largest percentage of dust and dirt, so it is removed first;
• A rough preparation of the floor is being carried out for further laying of a new floor covering;
• Wiring is being repaired, lamps, switches are being moved and hung, corrugations are laid out for television and Internet cables;
• Walls and ceilings are cleaned and plastered. If the plans for cosmetic repairs involve changing the wallpaper to a more modern type of finish, then you will need to level the walls gypsum plaster;
• The ceiling surface is leveled in a similar way. For whitewashing or painting with a water-based emulsion, the ceiling is overwritten, plastered with a lime-gypsum mixture and a decorative coating is laid;
• Decorative wall decoration is being carried out, ceiling plinths are being glued, the lining of interior doors is changing;
• A new floor covering is laid, skirting boards are installed, lamps are hung, switches are being installed.

Of course, at each stage of repairing a room, a photo, a large amount of debris and dust will be generated. Not only will you have to regularly clean the room and take out rubbish blockages, you will need to try to cover areas with already completed repairs with a protective plastic film to avoid dusting the surface.

What not to include in a room remodel

Master finishers often call redecoration work "for three days", in order to update the interior in a room, more, as a rule, is not required. The list of repair measures does not include the most expensive work:

• Redevelopment of premises with the transfer of interior partitions;
• Replacement of the heating system;
• Installation of expensive multi-tiered suspended ceilings;
• Balcony glazing and replacement of windows with double-glazed windows;
• Underfloor heating equipment in the room.

It is clear that all of the listed components of the repair require serious financial costs and recruitment of qualified specialists. It will take more than a day or two to carry out such serious events. In addition, such is the specificity of the repair in the room that, willy-nilly, dust and construction debris spread throughout the apartment. Therefore, the situation is regulated in this way - either cosmetic repairs are made in a single room, or the entire apartment “gets up” for major repairs.

In general, the redecoration plan includes everything that can be done in a couple of days with your own hands for relatively little money.

The main task of cosmetic repair

The main goal of repair work is to refresh the interior of the room, remove minor defects and damage accumulated over the years, which are insanely annoying and interfere with everyday life.

In rare cases, cosmetic repairs are the result of force majeure, for example, the flooding of the room by the neighbors on the floor above or the preparation of the premises for rent. There can be many reasons, but the main thing is still maintaining the premises in a comfortable condition for living.

Properly performed cosmetic repairs make it possible to save on the volume of future overhauls. For example, performing a floor base screed and leveling the walls will at least reduce the time and effort spent on preparing for a major overhaul, of course, provided that the repair of the room with your own hands is done as conscientiously and efficiently as possible. .

The next stage of repair, distribution of costs and loads

One of the most difficult stages of redecoration is fairly considered to be budget planning and material procurement. Especially if you plan to do most of the repair procedures yourself. The reason is simple - amateurs and novice craftsmen have no idea at all how much specific material is required for a particular area of ​​work.

In this case, the problem is solved in two ways:

• Compiled List works and estimates can be shown to an experienced craftsman who will help calculate the expense by squaring the room;
• Calculate flow based on the typical recommendations of building materials manufacturers, increasing the supply of glue, plaster mixtures, wallpaper, flooring by 10% of the calculated indicators.

In the latter case, the cost of purchasing materials will increase significantly, but in the end, the remains of cement, dry plaster and glue can be used to redecorate other rooms in the apartment. In addition, the presence of a list often helps to get a wholesale discount, so there should not be significant gaps in the budget for a future cosmetic renovation of a room with a competent organization of the purchase.

Preparatory stages of repair in the room

The first, most time-consuming stage has always been and remains the rough peeling of the walls and ceiling. Usually, repairs in a room begin with the removal of furniture and sealing the front door with a protective awning. You can use thick plastic wrap or an old blanket. An impromptu curtain will protect the rest of the apartment from noise and dust, which even with very careful work, the use of a vacuum cleaner and wet cleaning floors are always accumulated in the room in considerable quantities.

Before repair, lamps must be removed, instead of a chandelier, a cartridge with a light bulb is left in the room. If double-glazed windows are installed in the room, then it will be useful to tighten the window opening with foil before repair. It is clear that the floor covering is also covered with a film, it is easier to roll up the laid polyethylene than to wash out the dirt in the room every evening.

Removing old finishes from walls

It takes about a third of the planned time to prepare for cosmetic repairs. During this time, you will need to remove the whitewash and wallpaper from the walls of the room. If there are areas with damaged plaster, it will take another day to knock the plaster off the walls.

Old wallpaper is removed either with one panel or scraped off in small pieces for a long time, it all depends on the glue used. Before removing the wallpaper, the surface is moistened with a spray bottle with a small amount of water. After 20-30 minutes, the tapestries can be removed in patches. For particularly strong adhesives, boiling water and steam are used. In any case, after peeling off the old trellises, you will need to go through with a vacuum cleaner and a stiff brush to remove dust and glue residue.

Stripping and restoration of the ceiling surface

The ceiling is freed from the decorative coating much faster and easier than the walls. If the plans for cosmetic repairs include the sticker of polystyrene plates or laying plastic panels, it will suffice to remove upper layer whitewashing.

The situation is more complicated if the ceiling in the room is painted water-based paint or whitened with lime. In this case, it will take at least a day to remove the durable layer of the old finish.

The most common option for restoring the ceiling during cosmetic repairs involves leveling the plane of the ceiling. In any room of any apartment, floor slabs lie with a trim of several degrees, which leads to a difference in ceiling height near the opposing walls of the room from 2 to 5 cm.

If the time and budget for cosmetic repairs allow, then it is best to level the ceiling with high-quality gypsum plaster.

To do this, plastic slats are sewn onto the ceiling and the plane is tightened with a plaster mesh. Reiki-lighthouses are glued with alabaster, guided by pre-stretched marking horizontal cords. The mesh is sewn on dowels. The total time required for the final leveling of the ceiling in the room is 5-6 hours of work.

In one working day, you can complete a complete ceiling repair. The next day, you can rub, prime and paint the surface.

Cosmetic repairs to the walls of the room

During cosmetic repairs, the walls are leveled and plastered only in exceptional situations when the situation requires it, for example, the appearance a large number cracks or chipping of plaster. In addition, the total area of ​​​​the walls of the room, as a rule, is three times the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe ceiling, which in itself requires high costs time and materials.

Therefore, during cosmetic repairs, the preparation process is limited to cutting small cracks, followed by puttying and grinding the surface. Sometimes, in order to level the plane of a single wall, especially problematic areas are subjected to grinding with an electric grinder.

In addition, at this stage of the repair work, it is not difficult to change the profile and configuration of the electrical wiring in the room. It is enough to drill channels in the lower part of the walls to the installation site of new electrical outlets, break through the "glasses" for the undercuts and install the outlets themselves. Corrugations with wiring laid in channels can be rubbed with gypsum or alabaster mass. All work will take a maximum of 2-3 hours. At the end of the preparation for finishing, the surface is vacuumed and primed.

Rough floor preparation

After the completion of the most time-consuming work with the preparation of the ceiling and walls, you can proceed to cleaning and preparing the floor. If the floors are concrete, with a laminate-based floor covering, then cosmetic repairs may be limited to re-laying laminate boards, with or without replacement of the lining material. Most often, damaged plates are changed in the room, after which the coating is polished using wax mastic.

During cosmetic repairs, linoleum coatings are cut out, the base is cleaned to concrete, primed and covered with a heat-insulating lining based on polyethylene foam.

If the room has wooden floors, then first of all the floorboards themselves are cleaned and repaired, then the joints are clogged and minted, after which the surface is polished and prepared for painting.

Don't forget about debris and dust

Any repair work, even the most simple and superficial, is always accompanied by the formation of a large amount of debris and dust. Before repair, you need to prepare two or three polypropylene bags, in which all the garbage from the room will be collected daily. At the end of the day, after each finishing operation, the walls and floor are cleaned of crumbling crumbs and plaster residues, and before finishing, the walls are vacuumed or wet brushed.

If it is supposed to level the walls of the room with gypsum plaster, then the amount of garbage will increase by five to six times. It will be necessary to think in advance and find a way to collect and remove from the premises 150-200 kg of cement-sand garbage screenings. You cannot send it to the garbage chute or garbage cans; you will need to order a special service for the removal of construction waste.

Fine cosmetic repairs in the room

The first is the finishing of the ceilings. Usually, the repaired and sanded surface is primed and painted with light-colored acrylic paint.

If wallpaper is used in the interior of the room, the ceilings can be decorated with non-woven or vinyl wallpaper to match the future wall decoration. A common practice for decorating lamps and chandeliers is the use of imitation styrofoam moldings and decorative ceiling plinths.

The fine finishing of the walls in the room is considered one of the most responsible and at the same time time-consuming cosmetic operations. Even taking into account the fact that half of the walls in the room will be covered with furniture, a certain part of the walls will still be clearly visible to everyone in the room. If during the cosmetic repairs it was not possible to qualitatively level the surface of the walls, you can hide the flaws only under the wallpaper. Best of all, tapestries on a fabric basis or with a pronounced embossed textured surface. It will take 7-8 hours or a full day to paste over the room.

Repair of doors and floor in a small room

The wooden plank floor of the old layout often has to be hidden under linoleum or laminate. In this case, the surface of the floorboards is polished with a sander, and the joints are sewn together with nails hammered at an angle to the board. At the next stage of the repair, the floor surface is sewn up with OSB boards, after which linoleum or any other type of flooring can be laid in the room.

The situation becomes more complicated if the concrete floors are aligned with the level of the screed throughout the apartment. In this case, any floor covering in the room will lead to the appearance of a threshold, so the laying of laminate or parquet must be planned simultaneously in all rooms.

The final stage is the restoration of interior doors. The hatch and the door itself, if they are in good condition, can not be changed, but restored with cleaning and polishing of the surface. The outer lining of the door frame during the repair is traditionally replaced with a new one. The replacement of doors with a carrier frame is planned for a major overhaul, usually so that the entire apartment or house has doors of the same style and design.

Conclusion

Repair of a room, even in a cosmetic version, requires careful preparation, first of all, in the details of the future interior of the room, the method of decorating walls and floors. Any attempt to postpone the decision to the future, to do it randomly, as it happens, will lead to a significant increase in costs and increase the time required to restore the room by two to three times.

From this article you will learn:

• What are the stages of a room refurbishment?
• How to prevent the recurrence of cracks after cosmetic repairs
• How to save money by renovating a room
• How much does a room refurbishment cost?

Quite often, the redecoration of a room in Moscow drags on for many months, it begins to seem too costly, impossible and boring. However, any routine can be turned into an interesting and even exciting activity. Redecorating a room is not as difficult as it seems at first glance. The main thing is to think carefully in advance and strictly follow the plan.

Stages of redecorating a room

Redecoration of the room involves only updating the finishes. The refurbishment of the room does not include any major changes in the heating, electrical, air conditioning and ventilation systems. Minor repair work on the replacement of door and window blocks is possible.

Carrying out the correct redecoration of the room is subject to several principles:

1. Redecoration of a room is always done from the ceiling to the floor, that is, from top to bottom.
2. Sequence of operations "from dirty to clean": first the most time-consuming and dirty.
3. If repairs are made in a multi-room apartment, you should start from the room farthest from the front door and gradually move towards the exit, the final stage is a loggia or balcony.
4. Start repair one-room apartment can be directly from the kitchen or room.

First, draw a sketch of the room

The sketch will help to imagine the future interior and draw up a plan for redecorating the room.

If you are not familiar with computer program to build volumetric images, you can simply print a photograph of the room and overlay a sheet of tracing paper on it. Then, with the help of pencils and felt-tip pens, experiment and choose the right shades for the ceiling and walls. Decide what color you want to get in the room: warm or cold, colorful or plain. Decide if ornaments are needed in the future interior, and if so, what kind and size.

Probably, drawing a sketch, you will want to rearrange the furniture, change the upholstery or curtains. The resulting drawing will help you see where you need to focus, complement or diversify the space with decor items.

In the drawing of the future interior, it is desirable to indicate:

• Location of furniture. Highlight the walls that will constantly be in your field of vision in order to decorate them with the highest quality, pleasing to the eye, finishing materials.
• Optimal placement of lamps and chandeliers for the best lighting.
• Availability of electrical outlets at the installation sites household appliances so that later it was possible to design a competent installation of electrical wiring in all rooms.
• Carefully thought-out arrangement of various decor items(for example, paintings, posters, mosaics, etc.).

The correct room redecoration plan contains information about the selected finishing option: wallpapering, painting, etc. The division of rooms into separate zones is also reflected in the sketch. For example, for visual zoning, sometimes they focus on one of the walls, painting it in a different color.

Prepare your room for a makeover

Before starting cosmetic repairs, you need to take out the furniture or cover it with plastic wrap, moving it to the center of the room.

In order to additionally protect the already repaired room from construction dirt, dust and damage, a polyethylene film is hung and fixed from the outside of the door.

Before redecorating the room, it is necessary to prepare all surfaces that are planned to be painted or wallpapered. Old wallpaper after their abundant wetting is removed with a spatula. The paint is also peeled off with a spatula. If irregularities, cracks or dents are found, they are puttied. After that, the surface is primed.

The walls and the stream for painting are prepared especially carefully. Sometimes you have to putty several times, followed by sanding with sandpaper (dry) or a damp sponge (wet).

When redecorating a room involves finishing with overhead building materials (drywall, panels, plywood, etc.), it is enough to make sure that the surfaces do not need additional leveling.

In preparation for the redecoration of the room, the frames are removed from the electrical outlets and the plinth from the floor. Window sills, door and window panels are sanded with sandpaper, puttied and primed if necessary.

How to make an inexpensive redecoration of a room with your own hands

Not everyone has enough money to hire a construction team. In addition, where is the guarantee that the specialists found on the ad will perform the work efficiently. Therefore, if a radical “coup” of the interior is not planned, then you can make cosmetic repairs with your own hands. This is a fairly simple and interesting job. The most important thing is to buy the necessary materials in advance, strictly follow the sequence of actions and do everything carefully and in a good mood.

Before starting the redecoration of the room, you must purchase:

• Wide and narrow spatulas.
• Primer.
• Dry putty or ready-made.
• Wallpaper.
• Flat brush, rag.
• Skirting boards for ceiling and floor.
• Flooring(linoleum, laminate, etc.).
• Roller with a long handle.
• cuvette.
• Glue for linoleum (if necessary).
• Plastic film and adhesive tape to cover furniture.

Preparatory work, wallpaper removal

To make it more convenient to carry out redecoration of the room, it must be freed from furniture. Non-lifting cabinets can be disassembled or moved away from the wall and carefully covered with a film, fixing it with tape or a stapler.

When everything superfluous is taken out of the room, you can start dismantling. First of all, skirting boards are removed: wooden - with a nail puller, and plastic - with a screwdriver or a screwdriver.

Then remove the old wallpaper, prying them with a spatula below. If they are difficult to remove, then with the help of a roller they are moistened with hot or warm water. After about ten minutes, the wallpaper comes off with a “light movement of the hand”. Now a special tool is being sold that can be used to facilitate this work.

Wall alignment

This process is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. Besides, it's quite entertaining. With self-decorating the room, you can verify this. The required amount of primer is poured into the cuvette, the roller is lowered into it. The primer is applied to all walls.

The primer composition dries quite quickly, after an hour you can proceed to puttying the walls. In the store you can buy a ready-made mixture. It is sold in sealed bags.

Dry putty is also sold in paper bags. Before use, it is poured into a bucket, filled with water in the ratio indicated in the instructions, and thoroughly mixed with a construction mixer. In the absence of a mixer, the putty mixture is prepared in small portions with a spatula.

After a short infusion of the composition, you can begin to level the walls. To do this, with a small spatula, the mixture is applied to the entire blade of a large spatula, then applied to the wall and smeared evenly over the surface. So continue to do until the complete elimination of irregularities.

At the end of the alignment of the walls, the putty should dry out within a day. The cracks that appear at this time are moistened with water and rubbed with a spatula. After 24 hours, you can start pasting the walls with wallpaper.

1. Ceiling renovation.

Without wasting time, while the walls are drying up, you can do a redecoration of the ceiling. It's easy to wrap it up PVC panels. They start work from the center, having previously drawn a straight line that divides the ceiling into halves.

It is necessary to apply glue to the back of the tile around the entire perimeter and in the center. After attaching the panel to the marked line on the ceiling. Then, having smeared the second tile with glue, install next to the first, trying to make the seam less noticeable. If the redecoration of the room is performed by one person, then it is more convenient to apply the adhesive on several tiles at once and then attach them to the ceiling.

Seeing that a solid tile does not fit near the wall, you need to cut off a piece of the desired size. The tile is easily cut with a construction knife. The tiles near the window and on the opposite side are cut in the same way. After gluing, the tiles can be painted with paint, water-based or latex. Such a coating retains its original appearance longer and attracts less dust.

wall decoration

Having planned the redecoration of the room, they purchase wallpaper for pasting the walls in advance. You need to buy taking into account a small margin, so that you definitely have enough. If the wallpaper is patterned, their consumption increases to fit the pattern.

The industry now offers a huge range of wallpapers. Before buying, it is a good idea to read information on the Internet and see samples. This will help determine what you need for the redecoration of the room: paper wallpaper, non-woven, vinyl or paintable. For each of these types, special adhesives are sold. There is also a universal wallpaper glue suitable for any type of wallpaper.

Wallpapering begins by measuring the height of the wall from ceiling to floor. It should not be forgotten that you need to glue the wallpaper from the window to the right.

The resulting wall height is set aside on the wallpaper and cut off. In accordance with the instructions, the adhesive composition is prepared and applied with a brush to the wrong side of the wallpaper. When gluing wallpaper that is dense in texture, it is recommended to coat with glue the section of the wall where the prepared segment is applied.

Doing a redecoration in a room with your own hands, it is more convenient to glue the wallpaper together. In the case when the redecoration of the room is carried out by one person, you can move the table closer to the wall to be glued or put a stepladder.

The upper part of the wallpaper is applied to the top of the wall, carried out over this area with a clean, dry soft cloth. Then, using the same rag, carefully press the wallpaper in the middle and, making movements from the middle down at an angle of 45 degrees, glue the middle and lower parts. Then, having adjusted the pattern, measure and cut off the next piece and paste it in the same sequence.

So all the walls are pasted over. Particular attention is paid to the places where the wallpaper joins. It is better to stick wallpaper not overlapping, but end-to-end - this way the seams are less noticeable. Insufficiently high-quality gluing of joints can be corrected with a special glue for seams.

When pasting wall sections where electrical sockets and switches are located, turn off the mains voltage and remove the housings of electrical appliances. At the end of the cosmetic repairs of the room, they are mounted in their original place.

floors

When redecorating a room where the floor parquet boards are in excellent condition, but the varnish is already outdated and uneven, the floor is cycled. It is quite difficult to work with a manual cycle, so it is better to buy or rent an electric one. After removing the old varnish, the parquet is thoroughly vacuumed. Then, to improve its appearance, a piece of paint mesh is drawn along the boards in the direction of the fibers.

Parquet cycling must be carried out after all cosmetic repairs in the room, but before wallpapering. Otherwise, it will be possible to scrape the floor only with a manual scraper or glass, and this is too laborious a process. The thing is that during the operation of an electric cycle, a lot of dust is formed, which is almost impossible to remove from the wallpaper.

Cover parquet floor better varnish made on a water basis. It is odorless, dries quickly and is not as harmful as synthetic. After applying the first layer of varnish, it is allowed to dry for 40 minutes, then covered with a second layer. Four hours later, the parquet is varnished for the third time.

Laying laminate is a great alternative for redecorating a room when there is no way to scrape the floor and buy expensive construction equipment. By the way, the laminate can be laid on the old base, if it is sufficiently even.

With independent cosmetic repairs in a small room (for example, in Khrushchev), you can save money by laying linoleum. Before laying, he is allowed to straighten, then glue is applied and glued. For irregularities on the floor, use a solid substrate (for example, plywood sheets).

Skirting boards

When redecorating the room, after the final drying of the wallpaper, ceiling plinths are mounted. PVC tile adhesive is applied to the wrong side of the plinth, pressed against the wallpaper in the right place and held for 10-15 seconds. Then glue the next one in the same way.

The floor plinth is fastened with screws, wires are laid in its groove, then the upper part is put on.

How to prevent cracking after redecorating a room

As practice shows, cracks quite often appear on ceilings with rust (joints of floor slabs) after cosmetic repairs. Therefore, experts recommend using a "spider web" - this is fiberglass wallpaper, the loose structure of which prevents cracks. It has a thickness of up to 2 mm and is sold in rolls.

At wooden floors or large irregularities, it is recommended to completely cover the surface with a masking grid with cells of 2x2 mm before gluing the "cobweb". It is puttied, sanded, primed with diluted wallpaper glue and pasted over with a "cobweb". Such a "pie" reliably protects the ceiling from cracking.

How to save money by redecorating a room

To save money when redecorating a room, you must adhere to the following rules:

1. Work hard and not be lazy, and also not be afraid of new types of work.
2. Everything capital that has lost its appearance, if possible, does not need to be changed, it can be slightly retouched, updated.
3. When redecorating a room, you should try to extract the maximum savings where it is not conspicuous and does not impair the quality of work.
4. distribute cash and labor costs in time. For example, when planning a redecoration of a room in the summer months, up to this point you need to gradually prepare in order to do everything quickly at the appointed time. In addition, the cost of cosmetic repairs of 200-300 thousand rubles is quite tangible for the budget, and breaking them down into parts and investing small amounts throughout the year is quite feasible.

Instruments

It's no secret that good professional tools make work easier. However, they cost a lot of money, so buying them is unprofitable. It is less expensive to rent all construction equipment for redecorating a room.

Season

The best time of the year for redecorating a room is the beginning and middle of autumn. It is still warm outside during these months, and you can do outdoor work, with interior decoration- open windows. In addition, before the winter recession of repair work, the cost of building materials is significantly reduced. Consequently, savings can be up to 15% when selling summer non-liquid items. These are considerable sums. For example, with the planned cost of redecorating a room at 200 thousand rubles, you get a good “bonus” of 30 thousand.

Construction sales

Separately, mention should be made of illiquid assets. The main expenses for redecorating a room are for finishing materials (putty, plaster, mounting glue, sealant), which have a limited shelf life. Construction companies try to sell them before the expiration date. Sometimes the prices are just “symbolic”, stay tuned for sales. For example, professionals will not take a package of 50 kg of Aquasloy, which will become unusable in a couple of months, and this amount is quite enough for you to redecorate a room, and even save it.

Plumbing

When redecorating a room with your own hands for beginners, one of the most pressing issues is the replacement of plumbing. If it has lost its aesthetic appearance, but functions normally, it can be cleaned and painted. But if there are cracks and chips, you will have to change it.

Often new settlers (especially elite new buildings), entering new apartment, do overhaul and change the installed plumbing to a more prestigious and expensive one. And absolutely new equipment ends up in a landfill. On this landfill scavengers have created a profitable business.

On the phone, of course, strangers do not consult. Only through "ours and ours" they are invited to the back room and offer a choice of carefully washed sanitary ware at a cost equal to 1/3 or 1/2 of the market price.

Construction garbage

An equally acute issue that arises when you independently perform a major overhaul of a room is the removal of construction debris. The procedure is quite costly, besides troublesome. An easier and easier way is to collect garbage in plastic sackcloth bags at the end of the redecoration of the room and put it in a barn, closet, etc. Then gradually throw it into a garbage container near the house, there is no crime in this.

Laths, boards, timber and plywood

During the redecoration of the room, plywood and wooden slats. In order to save money, you can buy non-planed slats, slabs. The croaker is sold raw. It is necessary to purchase it in advance in March-April and keep it until autumn in a dry room. Then you will get raw materials that are not inferior to edged lumber in terms of wood quality.

For redecorating a room, plywood may be required. Waste packaging plywood from used containers can be made water resistant as follows:

1. We buy a ten-liter canister and two PVA putties; it is cheap and the consistency resembles a very liquid PVA glue.
2. We cover the floor in non-residential premises (in the country house, in the barn, etc.) with plastic film. The air temperature should not be lower than +13 degrees.
3. We lay the plywood, pour a puddle of putty into the center and disperse it over the entire sheet with a brush.
4. We cover the plywood with plastic, lay the next sheet, putty, etc.
5. On the resulting stack of plywood impregnated with PVA, we put a heavy load (pieces of concrete, metal, bricks, etc.), evenly distributing it over the entire area.
6. A week later, we repeat the procedure, turning each sheet of plywood over.
7. After two weeks, the waterproof flat plywood will be ready for use. Additional exposure under oppression will only improve its quality.

Quite often they post ads for the sale of used cargo pallets. It is easy to get thick timber and boards from them, which may be needed when redecorating a room.

Materials for redecorating a room

Sheathing walls and ceilings with laminate or MDF is a very cheap option for redecorating a room. When using a wooden slab crate, in most cases, surface leveling is not required, which also saves money, time and effort.

You will get an even more profitable option for redecorating a room if you sheathe the wall with laminate only up to half, and paste it over with non-woven wallpaper up to the ceiling. Here there is savings, simplification of labor and practical benefits - the most problematic sections of the wall are reliably protected by durable material.

To cover the floor during the redecoration of the room, the most advantageous material is marmoleum. In the vast majority of cases (90%) no pre-treatment is needed. However, it is categorically not suitable for bathrooms and toilets.

If you want to have a floor in the room that looks like a plank, you can use a laminate. It is slightly more expensive and requires leveling the base.

The walls of the bathroom during cosmetic repairs can be pasted over not with tiles, but with laminated hardboard. It is quite hygroscopic and does not require preliminary surface preparation.

Where it's hard to save

When carrying out cosmetic repairs of a room, there is a type of work where it is impossible to do without specialists - this is the replacement of electrical wiring. You can hire an electrician to service your home. Then it will turn out to save a little, and hacking is not in his interests.

Cooperate with the company "My Repair" - it is reliable and prestigious. The people who work here are professionals. the highest level. The company "My Repair" operates throughout Moscow and the Moscow region.

The usual everyday business: the apartment clearly needs repair, but there is not enough money. How to do inexpensive repair do-it-yourself apartments It seems to be the simplest, obvious way: surface cosmetic repairs. That is, plywood wallpaper, whitewashing the ceiling, painting, fixing the creaky floor; Possibly window replacement.

However, if you calculate the labor costs and consumption of materials, it turns out that by increasing labor costs by half, and spending money by a quarter, you can give the apartment a completely different look, and for a long time. How much you need to invest specifically depends on the prices in the region, but the general methods by which you can make an apartment cozy and elegant inexpensively are the same.

Saving Money when repairing an apartment with his own hands, he stands, like the Earth in ancient legends, on three whales and a slowly hurrying turtle under them:

1. We are not afraid of work. Nothing comes from nothing. Either money or labor.
2. Wherever possible, we do not change the capital, but the old one that has lost its appearance, but renew it.
3. We attribute the maximum savings to where it will not affect the quality of work and will not be visible.
4. We spread the costs of labor and money over time: having conceived repairs in the summer or autumn, we spend a year on preparation, and then we pile on and quickly do everything. To lay out 200-300 thousand rubles at once is a problem, but it is quite possible to break them up in parts for a year. In addition, there will be time to measure seven times - cut once.

Where it's hard to save

The only area where you have to invite a specialist is to remake and strengthen the electrical wiring if it is old and weak. Here, the only way to save money is to negotiate with the DEZ electrician. He will do the work in pieces, in his spare time, but the likelihood of hack work will be even less than that of “branded” specialists: after all, he will then serve all this.

It is better not to save on electrics and wiring, however, some points, such as installing sockets, can be done independently.

Tool

A good specialized tool makes the job much easier and cheaper. But it's hard to buy. Therefore, it is better to rent a tool as needed. In terms of costs, it will come out a little if you decide in advance on the design and draw up an approximate work plan for yourself.

Season

Plumbing

A sore point with independent cheap repairs is the replacement of plumbing. If it is still “alive”, only filthy, then it can be cleaned and painted. How to do this will be described below. But if there are chips and cracks, then, if you like it or not, you need to change it.

For such a case, here is some information for you: new settlers, especially in houses above the budget category, often start a major overhaul immediately upon entering, and excellent, completely new faience and cast-iron plumbing equipment ends up in a landfill. Landfill operators (simply - landfill scavengers) have long turned this circumstance into a profitable business.

They do not make direct contact by office phone with strangers, but it is quite possible to get through to them using word of mouth methods. The rate is from a third to a half of the factory price for a household item. And do not think that they will take you to the dump and show you where it lies. In the back room you will be offered a choice of clean, carefully washed products, which you can sit down on at least immediately.

Construction garbage

The next sore point is the removal of construction waste. The operation is not cheap, and requires paperwork. Exit: basement, barn, cottage or closet and a few bags of used plastic sackcloth, bought for a penny. Construction debris does not sour and does not rot, it can then be poured into a container in a garbage dump in a bucket. There is nothing illegal in this.

After reading the recommendations, cosmetic repairs can be done even by those who have never held a spatula in their hands. The article was written based on personal experience. If a non-professional woman was able to update the room, then you will succeed all the more.

Not everyone has the means to hire a construction team to carry out repairs. In addition, people who are not always found on the ad will really do everything in good faith. If you do not need a global reorganization of the premises, you can do the cosmetic repairs yourself. This is a very fun and easy process. The main thing is to purchase everything you need, follow the phased work, do everything carefully and with soul.

Necessary materials, tools

Here's what you need to purchase before you start your redecoration:

• Spatulas - wide and narrow;
• Primer;
• Putty (dry or ready-made);
• Wallpaper;
• Ceiling tiles and glue for it;
• Flat brush, rag;
• Skirting boards for floor and ceiling;
• Floor covering (linoleum, laminate);
• Roller on a long handle;
• cuvette;
• Glue for linoleum (if you lay it);
• Film, adhesive tape for covering furniture.

Preparatory work, wallpaper removal

Remove furniture to free up space. Put things from the cabinets in large bags, bags and also transfer them to another room. If the cabinet is heavy, there is no way to tilt it to another room, disassemble it by carefully folding the components. If this method does not suit you either, move the cabinet away from the wall, cover it on all sides with a wide cellophane film, secure it with a stapler or tape.

After everything unnecessary has been removed from the room, proceed to dismantling. First tear off the old skirting boards. If they are wooden, it is convenient to remove them with a nail puller. If these are plastic skirting boards with screws, a screwdriver or screwdriver will help.

If you are doing Khrushchev repair with your own hands, you want to save money, you can lay linoleum on the floor. To do this, it is rolled out, put with the wrong side up, allowed to rest, then glue is applied, turned over and glued to the base. If the floor is uneven, you can lay a solid underlay, such as plywood.

When the wallpaper is completely dry, drape the top of the wallpaper with a ceiling plinth. To do this, apply glue for PVC tiles on its wrong side, attach to the desired place and hold for 10-15 seconds. Once you've glued the first one, move on to the second one.

You will remove the wires in the wall part of the floor plinth, screw it onto the screws. After that, put on the top of the plastic plinth.

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Here's how to make inexpensive DIY repairs. The renovated room will certainly please and will cheer you up every time.

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