Apartments in houses are usually rented with a rough finish. To bring home to mind, you need to invest a considerable amount of material resources. Finishing work done by professionals is very expensive. Therefore, to save money, you can do something yourself.
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Repair of an apartment from scratch in a new building
The modern construction market offers a huge selection of finishing materials for every taste. Comparing price and quality, you can choose what you like and create your own design project. This will be the first step towards creating your own cozy nest.
Thinking about where to start repairing in a new building, first of all, you need to study the prices and assortment of materials in the nearest stores and markets and draw up a design project for the room that you plan to repair.
It is necessary to start the repair stages in a new building in the following order:
- Purchase of materials, tools.
- Replacing entrance doors.
- Wiring electricians.
- Wiring plumbing pipes.
- Plastering and leveling walls.
- Screed and filling the floor.
- Installation of plumbing equipment.
- Door installation.
- Decorative wall decoration.
- Finishing the ceilings.
- Finishing the floor.
- Finishing the balcony.
As a rule, builders rent a room in which there is an entrance door of very poor quality, walls, windows, heating. Summed up water, sewage and electricity. In some cases, there is gas. However, in high-rise buildings with more than 12 floors, it is forbidden to use household gas. In this case, the installation of an electric stove is necessary.
The new apartment has a floor, which is a concrete slab, which must be leveled with a screed. Modern technology suggests floor alignment in various ways:
- cement pouring;
- bulk floor;
- semi-dry screed, etc.
Electricity developers usually start with a small shield with one or two machines. It is necessary to pave the walls and lay the wiring using special cable channels. The project can be obtained from the developer or, if you have done it yourself, taking into account the advice of familiar electricians, coordinate with the supervising energy sales company.
Heating is a community property. Usually there are batteries, shut-off and control valves. Replacement of pipes is made at the request of the owner at his own expense.
From the risers with cold and hot water, brought into the apartment, bends with sealed meters are opened. You need to buy pipes and make the necessary connections.
Finishing sequence
All the necessary connections for electricity, heat and water have been completed. Now you can start to bring beauty. Behind remained the most complex work of a phased repair in a new building.
When repairing a new building, the following approximate steps must be observed work procedure:
- alignment of walls;
- ceiling finish;
- decorative wall decoration;
- tiled work;
- installation of plumbing;
- floor coverings.
The listed steps can be combined. For example, when performing tiled work in the bathroom, you can simultaneously perform plastering of walls.
This will significantly reduce the time during the phased repair of an apartment in a new building.
Wall, ceiling and floor options
When decorating the walls, the following steps are taken, without which you won’t get a beautiful smooth surface:
- plastering;
- stripping;
- putty;
- painting or wallpapering.
Modern methods offer many different decorative finishes. For example, liquid wallpaper, wallpaper for painting, decorative plaster such as the Venetian, painting the walls with water-based paint, etc.
Ceiling can also be done in various ways. These are slatted ceilings, decoration with polyurethane panels, stretch ceilings, whitewashing, water-based paint, wallpapering. Each method has its pros and cons. Therefore, choosing a finishing method, you must proceed from your financial capabilities.
Flooring is also full of variety. The most popular are the following types of flooring:
- parquet;
- tree;
- linoleum;
- laminate;
- carpet;
- ceramic tile.
The cost of repairing an apartment in a new building may depend on the quality of the selected material. The screed and plaster are among the longest stages of finishing. Screed floors dry for more than one month, plaster - from two to three weeks. The duration of the repair work depends on the correct choice of the season. If you need to shorten the repair time, you need to choose a drier season, for example, summer or early autumn.
If the rains have already been charged, then for work with building mixtures it is better to wait for the heating season, and in the off-season you can do electrical work or install pipes for plumbing.
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