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The sequence of apartment renovation. How to draw up a consistent repair plan in the room where the installation of a stretch ceiling is supposed to be? The procedure for repairing a room with a stretch ceiling

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 there is not 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 - it doesn’t matter, you can carry out repair work in the order that seems more convenient under the given circumstances. 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. Removal 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;
  • Performed decorative trim walls, ceiling plinths are glued, 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

Finishing masters 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 the involvement of qualified specialists in the work. 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 my 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.

Correctly performed cosmetic repairs make it possible to save on future volumes overhaul For example, performing a screed on the base of the floor 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 on the basis of standard recommendations of building materials manufacturers, increasing the stock 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 embedding front door 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 of floors, always accumulates in considerable quantities in the room.

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 a small amount 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, then it will be enough to remove the top layer of whitewash.

The situation is more complicated if the ceiling in the room is painted with water-based paint or whitewashed 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 a lot of 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 sockets, break through the "glasses" for the sockets and install the sockets 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 residues. plaster mortar, 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 acrylic paint light tones.

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 OSB boards, after which you can lay linoleum or any other type of flooring 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.

L Anyone who has ever faced the need to repair an apartment, a house, even one room, knows that often a situation arises in which work already done interferes with subsequent operations. And how long it takes to find a way out of the situation, wasting time, and often nullifying the work of the previous hours. , what does this sequence depend on, how is it related to the type of premises and the complexity of the repair? We will answer all these questions here. But first, consider such a strange combination as the sequence of repairs in a new building.

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The sequence of repairs in a new building

Strange as it may seem, such a phrase, a person who caused the construction of the Soviet era, it will not surprise one iota. Yes and modern building often poses just such a task for the newcomer - to repair what has just been built.

In fact, there is nothing surprising here, because repair work is absolutely similar to general construction work and differs from them only in the need for preliminary dismantling of old structures, eliminating the consequences of any destructive effects, etc. The same, or pasting surfaces with wallpaper (or), with from a technological point of view, both in repair and in new construction, they are absolutely identical. And newly built buildings (unless the building was designed in detail to meet the requirements of the future tenant, moreover, built under his personal, at least periodic control) will be subjected to alteration to one degree or another, consider repair. Before settling, during, or after it - it does not matter.

The sequence of repair of living rooms

Let's start the apartment renovation sequence with the simplest, or rather general, option and consider the living room renovation sequence. Since, as already mentioned, repair is not much different from new construction, the start of repair work will be to bring the repaired premises into a state similar to that in which it was before the construction of the structure to be repaired. Simply put, if we decide to change the wallpaper, then the room must be brought into such a state, as if there was no wallpaper here.

Preliminary stage of renovation of living rooms. Exemption of the premises

At the preliminary stage of work, we free the room from all interior elements that can be removed, disassembled and carried out without the use of tools that are more complex than a conventional screwdriver. After the room is empty, we carefully inspect the condition of the elements that form it. There are few of them. First of all, building construction, which include door and window fillings, finishing elements, floor structures (base, coating, skirting boards, etc.), wall and ceiling structures. Further - network engineering, usually limited and, rarely supplemented by the system centralized ventilation. Finally - built-in furniture.

Repair in the apartment raises a lot of questions, especially for those who first decided to do such a responsible business, relying on own forces. Our recommendations will help to plan the work correctly, so as not to correct the mistakes made later.

Preparing for renovation - planning and design selection

Correctly chosen sequence of repairs in the apartment will help to make it in a short time, without unnecessary worries. Initially, you should decide what kind of repair is to be done. Perhaps it will be cosmetic: it will be limited to changing wallpaper, painting and other individual operations. If a major overhaul is needed, planning is indispensable. After all, he may touch windows, doors, affect walls, floors and ceilings. Maybe you want to do the redevelopment of the premises, remove the walls.

Careful consideration is required for the layout and design of the premises. For each room, consider what material will be needed for walls, ceilings, floors. Perhaps you will change windows or want to rearrange furniture. It is impossible to keep everything in your head, so you need to make a plan. We measure all the rooms and make drawings on separate sheets. You will need six of them for each room: one for the floor and ceilings, four for each wall separately. On the plan, indicate the location of windows, doors, sockets, switches, lamps.

Write down on each sheet what materials will be used. For example, the floor in the kitchen: linoleum with insulation - 12 m 2, brown. Ceiling: 12 m2, water-based paint, White color. The first wall: 6.1 m 2, align - satengips starting, finishing, primer. Painting: water emulsion, peach color, colorex, primer. Replace the door with a new one, leave the trim. It is advisable to indicate how much of which material will be needed, based on consumption rates, it would be nice to indicate the price. If you do not undertake any work, you will involve a specialist, indicate this in the plan. This is only an indicative planning, you can fix whatever you see fit. A start has been made - the work has been planned.

Continuation of preparation - furniture moves, unnecessary elements are dismantled

An ideal option if it is possible to completely free the apartment from furniture and interior elements for repairs. But, most likely, it will have to be moved to one of the rooms so that it does not interfere with work. We stack compactly, pack with stretch film. Renovation begins with other rooms. When at least one room is ready, the furniture is transferred there, arranging as the rooms are ready.

The next step is the dismantling of the elements to be replaced. If the repair is cosmetic, remove the layer of old linoleum, remove the wallpaper. During a major overhaul, you may have to remove interior doors, remove partitions, change door installation locations, create special niches in the walls, remove plumbing, etc. If you are not going to change the floor, but only update it, do not forget to cover it with a film so as not to damage it.

Time to dismantle old windows if you are going to install new ones. After installing the windows, do not remove the protective film from them. Let it remain for the duration of the repair and protect the glass from scratches, dirt, dust, inevitable during repairs. If redevelopment is planned, there is a desire to start from scratch, we demolish non-bearing partitions.

Water, heating, electricity - we repair, install a new one

Having finished dismantling, in stages. We start with communication systems. The overhaul time is the most suitable for replacing electrical wiring, heating radiators, pipes, installing exhaust hoods, and air conditioning. Communications should be planned in advance, especially wiring. If you are going to build new partitions, the work should be done before wiring, pipes, so that you do not have to break and redo it later. AT frame house wiring, pipes are better to hide in the walls. On the walls of another material, strobes are made, where the wiring is hidden.

Residents of panel houses should keep in mind that walls in such houses can only be ditched in a vertical direction. We breed wiring under the ceiling or in the place where the walls and floor are joined. We hide the wires under or behind the plinth. Do not forget to run cables for the Internet, television, intercom at the same time as the wiring. We do not immediately install switches, sockets, lamps, we only prepare places for them. Installation of devices is carried out after the completion of all work.

We are engaged in plumbing: we install pipes for supplying water to washing machine and outlet to the sewer. We also make connections to faucets, bathrooms, showers, dishwashers, toilets. Already now it is important to know the dimensions of the bathroom and shower cabin, the places where water and sewerage are connected. It's good when they are already bought, but you can also find out specifications in the store where you are going to buy equipment.

Finishing work - scope for a flight of fancy

We carry out finishing, starting from the top - from the ceilings to the walls and floors. With this sequence, damage to the repaired parts when working with others is excluded. Stretch ceilings are an exception: they are made last. If you want to make a floor, start by leveling the screed. We use an economical method - a cement-sand mixture. If possible, use self-leveling floors. They are more expensive, but the result is worth it. If you are going to install a floor heating system - it's time.

Let's start leveling the walls. The duration of work, the amount of material depends on the condition of the surfaces. You may need several layers, or you can get by with one. The walls are leveled, mainly with their own hands. Using machine alignment in conditions ordinary apartment impractical. Manual alignment is performed in two ways: visual and by beacons. We align the walls that are being prepared for painting with beacons, which ensures the best quality.

Having finished plastering, we proceed to the final work - puttying. Putty should be carefully to close up all the bumps, places of wiring communications. Finally preparing the surface for finishing. The choice of a primer is important - a high-quality one will avoid problems when puttying, painting, pasting. If you are going to install decorative elements like stucco, do it now.

Then we move on to the wall tiles. It is important to plan which tile to use on which wall. If possible, we make an installation diagram on a computer or draw on paper. So we will find out exactly how many tiles will be needed, how many will have to be cut, in order to reasonably plan the purchase of a stock. Variety of colors, patterns, finishing materials allows you to make the apartment unique. Except ceramic tiles at this stage, decorative mosaics, bamboo tiles, 3D elements and much more are used.

Approaching the finish line - the last important touches

We install plumbing - all the connections are made earlier - and proceed to laying the flooring or decorating the walls. Most builders prefer this order: first start laying the final floor: laminate, parquet, linoleum. Next, we are installing interior doors. We select the door in advance in order to prepare, if necessary, doorways of the desired height and width. We install boxes, hang door leaf. We close the clean floor with a film and deal with the walls. Options at your discretion: painting, wallpaper.

It is not necessary to fasten the platbands immediately, it is better to do this after we paint the walls or wallpaper them.

We complete the process by installing fixtures, switches, sockets, fixing skirting boards.

Summing up - sequence of actions

So, summing up all the tips, we will outline the sequence of repair work in the apartment:

  1. 1. We are considering what kind of repair is needed: cosmetic or major, we choose the design. We draw drawings, specify materials.
  2. 2. We take out, take out furniture and everything that will interfere with the repair, dismantle unnecessary elements on the floor, walls.
  3. 3. We are engaged in dusty work: we remove old windows, install new ones, tear down partitions and install new ones. We bring communications - electrical wiring, pipes for connecting household appliances and plumbing.
  4. 4. Finishing work: we plaster the walls, we make a draft floor. Puttying, priming, laying tiles. We do the finishing floor, decorate the walls.
  5. 5. We install plumbing and appliances, hang the door. We fasten skirting boards, platbands.

We start the repair from the most remote room, so that garbage and dirt are not applied to the repaired premises. The corridor is being refurbished. Garbage, building materials are carried through it and there is a big risk that the walls, floor, ceiling will be accidentally damaged. We close the renovated room, we hang the door with construction film. In this way, we will prevent the ingress of dust, debris, building materials from the premises in which repairs are ongoing.

If you are going to make a serious repair in a separate room or apartment as a whole, you should draw up a complete work plan and cost estimate, including items such as the dismantling of old equipment (batteries, window sills, lamps, switches). If windows and doors are to be replaced, include cleaning and removal of construction debris in the list of works. In most cases, this is a significant expense, especially in an apartment building within the city.

It is very important to determine the actual scope of work and correlate them with your financial capabilities. It is highly undesirable to make adjustments after the start of repair and finishing work - for example, after painting the walls, you want to lay parquet instead of laminate or stick wallpaper instead of decorative plaster. Therefore, all design and design decisions must be made before the actual repair work begins. Redoing is expensive, time-consuming and sometimes impossible.

Where to start renovating a room?

Having coped with the preparatory process and found yourself in front of bare peeled walls, you still do not fully imagine the total amount of upcoming expenses and work. However, it is already possible to find out where and what will be located, what colors are optimal in a particular room and where a computer, TV and other electrical equipment will be installed. Be sure to pay attention to the location of windows and the need for additional lighting in rooms. What for? Because repairs should begin with equipment or re-equipment of the electrical network, including the location of fixtures - main and additional.

This should be done both in old apartments, which are completely renovated, and in new buildings. It's no secret that in new houses the wiring is installed without taking into account the wishes of the owner. Each newcomer invariably has a desire to maximally adapt housing to their needs. The abundance of electrical technology requires an optimized high power grid with many branches. very uncomfortable in new apartment unwind all kinds of extension cords and install additional sockets.

Parallel to electrical network it is necessary to mount the air conditioning system and the fastening elements of the heating network devices. It is also necessary to perform work that requires chiselling, drilling, grooving, chiseling, recesses and other mutilation of walls, floors and ceilings, accompanied by the formation of dust and fragments of brick, concrete and gypsum. Then we calmly remove the debris and proceed to prepare the base of the future floor. There are several options here:

  • installation of a rough plank floor;
  • pouring concrete screed;
  • preparation for installation of a warm floor;

What's next?

The next stage of repair work concerns windows. If a replacement is required, we change it. If the windows have already been installed and satisfy your request, then we skip this stage, not forgetting to inspect the condition of the slopes, the presence of thermal insulation, and the sealing of cracks. It is worth checking how the doors open and close, if there are any distortions, what are the vertical and horizontal levels. It is very difficult to eliminate these seemingly obvious flaws after plastering and painting walls or wallpapering. It is also desirable to install internal window sills. Plastic wrap will help protect them from splashes of paint and putty.

Of course, this work can be done later, when installing interior doors, but this option is more practical.

If the walls in the room require additional leveling and a significant amount of work before painting, then calculate the total amount of mortar required to process all the walls to be repaired. Building materials, despite the high cost, should always be taken with a small margin. It is very inconvenient to run after a bag or two of putty, which, as a rule, ends at the most inopportune and crucial moment.

The sequence of work on the repair and decoration of the room: frequently asked questions

What comes first: floor screed or wall plaster/putty?

The answer to this question is unequivocal - before starting to finish the walls, it is necessary to complete all the preparatory work with the floor. It should be ready, after cleaning, for the installation of decorative flooring.

The floor covering is mounted last, whether it is a laminate, parquet or self-leveling floor with a 3D effect. The prepared floor base is covered with cardboard or film - this will make it easy to remove traces plastering works, and these are inevitable.

Prior to the start of puttying and plastering, all manipulations with drywall, if any, must be completed. All partitions, niches, decorative and functional details must be done before the start of the “wet” finishing phase. All work of this kind, including leveling the ceiling, must be done in one technological cycle in order not to return to them, remembering, for example, that “somewhere here” a niche for storing skis or installing a safe was conceived.

What comes first: flooring or door installation?

Flooring of any type should be laid before installation of interior doors. This will help to avoid errors during their installation and achieve a minimum gap between the threshold or floor plane and the door leaves. Installing the door is a clean and precise job that does not require the use of mortars, adhesives or other substances that can stain a clean floor. The tools used in this case cannot damage it, with careful work.

But this applies directly to the door. The door frame can be put earlier - before leveling the walls. This will remove all the cracks and bumps near the opening. If the walls and openings are initially ideal, you can postpone the installation of the box for later. When installing the box ahead of time, it is important to take into account the height of the future flooring!

What to do first: glue wallpaper or lay laminate (parquet, carpet)?

Wallpaper of any type on the prepared walls is glued before the start of laying the decorative flooring. This is also true for wall painting.

True, there are different opinions on this issue. Supporters of the second option answer this question in the same way as the question of what comes first: paint the ceiling or glue the ceiling plinth. According to their position, the wallpaper is glued after the installation of the floor and ceiling plinth, because you can replace the wall decoration at any time without touching the skirting boards either from below or from above. And the edges of the wallpaper can be simply cut evenly to the level of the plinth.

The ceiling is painted after the installation of the upper plinth. In this case, it is very convenient to eliminate all the unevenness and looseness of the connection, and then the baseboard and ceiling are painted in one go and look monolithic.

What first: stretch ceiling or wallpaper / painting?

The specificity of stretch ceilings allows you to install them at the final stage of repair work, after painting the walls and sticking wallpaper. This work is very clean, and it is quite difficult to damage the walls or floor while doing it.

The principle of order of work "from top to bottom" in this case does not work. It concerns, mainly, traditional repair works. New technologies are making their own adjustments. The experts themselves, who install stretch ceilings, recommend inviting them to the end of the repair.

If you make a short list of the sequence of repairs in the room, then it will look like this:

  • wiring;
  • heating and air conditioning system;
  • floor preparation;
  • dismantling / installation of windows;
  • preparation of walls for wallpaper or painting;
  • ceiling (all works);
  • wall painting or wallpapering;
  • finishing floor;
  • door installation;
  • rapids and floor plinth;
  • stretch ceiling.

This order is not an axiom. Each master chooses the sequence that is convenient for him. But in general, the sequence looks something like this.

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Repair in the room: where do we start?

The very first thing to do before you start renovating any room is to understand what we want to achieve as a result.

Ask yourself a few questions:

  1. What should the room look like after renovation?
  2. What would you like to keep unchanged?
  3. What does not suit you in the first place and needs to be changed?
  4. What wishes do the people who will be using the room (e.g. other family members) have about the look of the room?
  5. Do you need a major overhaul or will a cosmetic one suffice?

You can think through the details of the appearance of the room yourself. If this is difficult, you will have to contact a professional designer. This stage should not be postponed until later, they say, we will start the repair, and then we'll see what happens. Much depends on how we want to see the room - from the choice of materials to the execution of the different kind works. It's better to think things through beforehand than to redo them later.

Preparation stage

So, the future view of the room is thought out. Before you start any manipulations in the room, you need to take the following steps.

  • Describe the sequence of repair work in as much detail as possible.
  • Learn about the materials you plan to use and any work you intend to do yourself.
  • Choose a start and end date for the repair, allocate a period for preparation. This is necessary so that the goal is clearly defined, and the repair does not drag on for many months.
  • Calculate the amount of necessary building and finishing materials.
  • Select and buy all the building materials and tools you will need throughout the renovation.
  • Decide who will do the repairs. Think about whether you will do everything yourself, find assistants for yourself, or still entrust certain types of work to hired specialists.
  • Order windows and doors in advance so you don't delay work by waiting for them to be made.
  • Think about how and where the garbage will be taken out. In any case, there will be a lot.
  • Outline the new location of switches and sockets.

Tip: building materials should always be bought with a small margin.

Getting the room ready for renovation

Consider the option of a major overhaul in the living room, which involves not only changing wallpaper, baseboards, updating paint on the ceiling and walls, but also replacing windows, doors, electrical wiring and other large-scale events.

Before you start the repair itself, you need:

  • free the room from furniture and other things - the room should remain completely empty;
  • remove from the walls and ceiling everything that can be screwed to them, leaving them empty;
  • remove old wallpaper, remove tiles, old flooring (if the floor remains unchanged, you need to take care of its safety, for which you should cover it with a strong film);
  • hang doorways with a damp sheet so that later construction debris does not scatter throughout the apartment.
  • remove doors;
  • remove the old wiring, not forgetting to turn off the power supply;
  • dismantle old heating radiators in case of a decision to replace them.

Repair sequence

The plan for the repair of the room is drawn up individually, depending on what work will be carried out. In order to compose it, you need to know where to start. Experts recommend an approximate sequence of actions that does not have to be strictly adhered to, but must be kept in mind.

  • It is advisable to start with the replacement of windows, including window blocks, window sills, slopes. After installation, in order to avoid contamination and scratching, the windows must be covered with plastic wrap, the window sills are covered with hardboard.
  • Electrical is changing. The old wiring has already been removed, the channels for the new one are being cut. After that, the cable is laid, and the channels are covered with plaster.
  • Heating radiators are installed.
  • The ceiling and walls are leveled, the rough preparation of the floor is carried out (screed, insulation).
  • A complete ceiling decoration is carried out, up to painting and gluing a baguette.
  • If parquet or laminate is chosen as the flooring, it is laid after wallpapering. Strip parquet is laid earlier, cycled and covered with the first layer of varnish. After that, you need to glue the wallpaper, and only then the parquet is covered with subsequent layers of varnish.
  • New doors are being installed. You can change windows and window sills not only at the very beginning, but also at this stage.
  • Wallpaper is glued.
  • Skirting boards and platbands are attached.
  • Holes are drilled for wall shelves, cornices, paintings, etc.

Making repairs in a room from start to finish is a rather long, laborious task, requiring a variety of skills and, in addition, patience. But when arranging furniture in a renovated room, you will realize with satisfaction that it was worth it.

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How to start apartment renovation and finish it as soon as possible

Where to start repairing an apartment so that the repair work does not stretch for an indefinite period, and the end result will undoubtedly please you, this is what will be discussed in today's article. Repair in the apartment requires serious preliminary preparation. by the most important point is to draw up a detailed plan for future repairs, taking into account the smallest nuances. Consider, point by point, the advice of professionals on the proper organization of repair work in houses and apartments.

First of all, you need to decide on the complexity and scope of future repairs. To make an apartment bright and clean, sometimes it is enough to carry out cosmetic, surface repairs: replacing wallpaper, whitewashing the ceiling, replacing old linoleum, painting walls, etc.

If you want to completely get rid of everything boring and old, decide on a major overhaul with replacing windows, leveling walls, installing new floors, modern ceilings. Your home will be transformed and become new and beautiful.

You should not refuse the help of experienced professionals during the overhaul. This is especially true for creating modern design your apartment, including redevelopment and demolition of some walls and partitions.

Plan your renovations according to your budget.

Decide on the interior design and renovation plan

First, decide on the interior and design of each individual room that you plan to change in your apartment. You can seek the advice of a professional designer, which will slightly increase your total financial expenses for repairs. For rooms where repairs will be carried out, it is necessary to make detailed drawings of the successive stages of repair work.

We recommend that you complete five detailed renovation sketches for each individual room. In the first drawing, display the view of the room from above, and in the remaining four - each wall. Add each drawing detailed description and a plan for the consistent implementation of repairs, which will avoid omissions and inaccuracies in the work.

  • Think about the location of the furniture. Those walls that will be most striking need to be given special attention and apply the highest quality finish.
  • Think about where it is best to place lamps and chandeliers so that the light illuminates the room as much as possible.
  • Given the location household appliances, indicate the places for sockets. To then competently design the installation of electrical wiring in all rooms.
  • Think about the location of the main decorative elements: paintings, mosaic, brick wall.

In the repair plan, you need to indicate the desired finish option: wallpapering the walls, painting, etc. To divide the room into separate zones, designers recommend painting one of the walls with a different color in order to focus attention on it and visually divide the room. These points also need to be reflected in the plan.

Determine the order of renovation of rooms

According to the advice of experienced professionals, in order to avoid excess dirt and dust during repair work, it is recommended to first carry out repairs in the rooms most distant from the front door. As the final stage of the repair, it is advisable to choose passage rooms and a corridor through which Construction Materials and tools. This is necessary in order not to stain or scratch the finish of the already repaired wall, not to damage the new floor.

Cellophane film (fixed on the outside of the door) can serve as additional protection for the renovated room, which will reliably protect the room from building dirt, dust, plaster, paint, and accidental damage.

Repairs will be carried out independently or with the help of specialists.

Do not carry out all repairs yourself. At your request, all repairs or only particularly complex repairs can be entrusted to qualified specialists. Firstly, experience and knowledge will allow them to carry out repair work quickly and efficiently. Secondly, you do not have to additionally buy expensive tools with which the screed is ideally poured onto the floor or laid out tile.

Even if it seems easy for you to install an interior door, the slightest inaccuracy is unacceptable here. Of course, hang and arrange kitchen furniture, you can level the walls and make a little painting yourself. But trust more complex repairs to specialists so that you don’t have to redo it, which can significantly increase your financial costs for repairs.

Make a list of required materials and tools

#one. After final design selection appearance rooms, furniture and interior, it is necessary to draw up a complete list of necessary building materials. Their number and total cost depends on the amount of repair work and how they are carried out. If your budget allows, you need to purchase building materials with a small margin.

#2. Separately, make a list of decor items: holders, shelves, mirrors, paintings, etc. Start shopping with the selected decor elements. If the planned decor element is not available, you can quickly change or create a new one. design option apartment renovation.

#3. Make a list of the necessary construction tools to carry out repairs. To do this, you can use the advice of a sales assistant in hardware stores or qualified repairmen.

Cost Counting

When the preparatory work was carried out: plans and sketches of repairs were drawn up, lists were prepared necessary materials, tools, a decision was made on the possibility self repair or with the help of repair specialists, you can calculate the estimated total cost of the planned repair.

You should not rush to purchase all the materials when you visit the first store. In the compiled lists of materials and tools, put down the prices of different stores, which will allow you to make purchases at the lowest cost. Carefully consider the choice of services of repair teams. Pay special attention not only to the proposed cost of repair work, but also to the reviews of your friends about the quality of repair services.

Exemption of premises

To protect furniture from damage, construction dirt and dust, collect it in the center of the room. Then carefully cover with plastic wrap. So you free access to the walls and ceiling. Move expensive equipment and clothes to other rooms.

Where to start repairing a separate room and what is the sequence of work

Repair work should begin with the dustiest: replacement of window blocks, window slopes and installation of new window sills. This will avoid dirt and dust during painting work, when it is forbidden to open windows in order to avoid temperature fluctuations and an increase in humidity. When windows, slopes and window sills are installed, cover them with plastic wrap or hardboard to avoid accidental mechanical damage and contamination.

Mark the places for installing additional sockets, make an eyeliner electrical wires. At this stage, do not install sockets and do not connect them to the shield.

In the case of welding work (for example, when replacing heating radiators), perform them simultaneously in different places in the apartment in order to quickly complete this dusty and difficult stage of work, sometimes including the breakdown of walls.

Before repairing walls, floors, ceilings, it is necessary to check their condition with a laser or water level. Start by applying the thickest layers of mortar. While they dry, you can carry out other minor repairs without downtime.

After completing this preparatory phase proceed with the repair work, performing them in the following sequence: repair of the ceiling, walls, floor. Initially, work is carried out using putty, cement, gypsum mixtures. Then proceed to work on the installation of the floor, doors, slopes.

Final repair work:

  • Ceiling wrapping or painting.
  • Wallpapering or wall painting.
  • Floor covering installation.
  • Installation of skirting boards, sills, platbands.

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Where should you start renovating a room?

Room after renovation

"Do you have a plan, Mr. Fix?" This is a phrase from a very popular earlier cartoon. But it contains the answer to many questions. So, if you do not know where to start renovating a room, then think about what you want to do in this room and make a plan for the work to be done.

The general order of work in the room is published on this site, but in addition to the order of all the work that we have planned, we need to know if we have enough money to carry out repairs. And this requires at least a primitive estimate for finishing work in the room. How to draw up the entire estimate for finishing work, you can see on this site.

What materials will be needed for repairs in one room

Studio room

So, you already know how you want to see your room. Make a simple estimate for the cost of purchasing materials and paying specialists for work that you cannot do yourself. How to make an estimate for repair and construction work, you can see here, on this site. For now, let's just see what materials you will need for the repair so that you can include them in the estimate.

You will need plasterboard sheets, most likely, only for ceiling installation, since installation drywall sheets takes to the walls free space and we don't have much of it. So, you need a drywall ceiling.

Since the drywall needs to be hooked to something, you will need to make a frame for which you will need CD profiles, UD profiles and mounting brackets for the profiles. To assemble the frame and hang the sheets, you will need dowels and screws. You will also need baguettes.

You may want a ceiling made of MDF panels. In this case, you will need the MDF panels themselves and a decorative strip to go to the wall. The frame for MDF panels is usually made of slats. To do this, you need rails and, again, mounting brackets for attaching the rails. To assemble the frame and the entire ceiling, you will need dowels and screws. And to attach MDF panel to the rail, you will need clamps.

Laminate floors in the room

To putty walls and ceilings, you will need two types of putty - starting and finishing. Before applying the putty to the surface, a layer of primer must be applied to it. And at the end of the putty work you will need paint.

If you decide to lay laminate floors, then you need to prepare a subfloor for them. And this, as a rule, is the pouring of the screed, for which you will need sand and cement, and in order for this screed to be even, you need beacon profiles. And for laying the laminate itself, you need a substrate, and to complete the floor - a plinth.

If you want to glue the wallpaper, then you will have to level the wall with a starting putty, for which you will need lighthouse profiles and a primer. For direct wallpapering, you also need a primer and, of course, glue.

You may need to replace the window and interior door. The cost of the window includes all components and work, but to install the door you will need a door frame, hinges and a lock. You will also need screws of different lengths, dowels and polyurethane foam.

You may want something else that is not on this list. But the principle remains the same - in order to drive a nail into a wall, you need not only a nail, but also a wall and a hammer.

Beginning and short sequence of repairs

Wallpaper in the children's room

Based on experience, I can say that at the beginning of the repair, it is best to change the window. Then proceed to cleaning the walls, ceiling (if you putty on the slab) and dismantle the old floor. Then fill in the screed. Make the wiring and install the door frame. Hang the door later.

Carry out a rough finish of the walls (starting putty) and make slopes on the window, and then take care of the ceiling. Do the ceiling to the end, up to painting and glue the baguette, and only after that proceed with the fine finishing of the walls and slopes. Lay the floor and then hang the door. Install sockets and switches after finishing the walls.