We tell how to choose high-quality materials in the right amount and establish the procurement process and delivery so as not to slow down repair work.
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Tips for choosing materials
1. Find out which materials you need
To buy exactly what you need, and do not overpay, you need to decide which work you will spend. This includes a repair plan.
The design project also eliminates you from the flour of choice. Architect or designer explains in detail, the materials of which colors and textures are needed - it remains only to buy them.
When choosing finishing materials, you need to pay attention, for repairing what particular rooms they will be applied. For example, different types of wallpapers are suitable for different rooms: it is better for the kitchen to take moisture-resistant, and for the bedroom - environmentally friendly paper or fliseline.
2. Decide where and who will buy materials
If you want to save, it is best to go to construction hypermarkets: most of the goods they sell at the most competitive prices. But different little things, like brushes or fasteners, you can buy on the market - large networks sometimes overestimate prices for such products.
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As for manufacturers, it is always better to give preference to well-known and proven brands. So the risk to run into poor-quality products is lower.
3. Carefully learn packaging
Often already by packing is clear, the original in front of you or fake. On the packaging of a quality product, information about the manufacturer and the number of quality conformity certificates must be specified. If something causes a suspicion, such as blurred pattern, errors or typos in words, such a product is better not to take.Packaging will help determine the condition of the material. Look at the shelf life, pay attention to how the packaging itself looks like, whether it does not deteriorate: some materials may be spoiled due to improper storage.
4. Save with the mind
Optimization of spending is one of the main tasks of competent repair. So, the floor of a natural tree may well replace a democratic laminate. At the same time, you should not put it in the wet premises: the material simply will not stand and repair and repair will have to redo. Sleep in the bathroom tile - it may, and it will cost more, but it will surely serve longer.
Another principle of smart savings is not to chase suspiciously low prices. The likelihood is great that too cheap materials will be fake or delay.
5. Choose Safe Materials
What exactly should not save, it's on health. So try to give preference to environmentally friendly materials that do not emit harmful substances. This is especially important when repairing in children's and bedrooms.
Be particularly attentive when choosing potentially hazardous materials. For example, choosing plasterboard, examine its surface on the subject of the chances - it is distinguished by harmful gypsum dust.
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Some materials at first glance look harmlessly, but potentially dangerous. Among them are high-pile floor coverings: if not ready for constant thorough cleaning, do not lay them in the same children's and bedroom.
Purchase Tips for Materials
1. Calculate the number of materials
In order not to overpay, the amount of materials necessary for repairing is calculated in advance. The easiest way is online calculators, although the calculation with their help can be approximate. In any case, it is always better to buy materials not backward, but with a reserve (about 10% of the total volume).2. Decide who will buy materials
At the stage of concluding a contract with the Contractor, it is necessary to decide who will buy draft and finishing materials. As a rule, the first buy the contractor, the second is the customer.
Large construction companies often acquire materials at wholesale prices, so it is more profitable to delegate this task to them.
To avoid downtime during repairs, list payments in time (if it buys materials) or calculate your time so that the materials appear on the object on time.
3. Make a scheduling schedule
At the same time bring all the materials in the repaired apartment is irrational: they will interfere with the workers and only slow down the process. It is more logical to supply materials gradually, in the repairs. To properly create a chart of delivery, check out the sequence of work.
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4. Order materials in advance
Materials from abroad or items that are performed by an individual order, it is better to buy in advance - for their delivery can leave a month or more.