Diagnostic study of the apartment before starting repair work: the value of this procedure and its conduct.
With which they just did not compare repair, and with a fire, and with a flood, and with an earthquake! However, the most faithful, perhaps, would like it ... Diseases. After all, repairs, as well as ailments, there are different, lightweight, protracted, sluggish and even (fortunately, rarely) incurable. What needs to be done before starting treatment? Right diagnose.
About the benefits of diagnosis
So, it will be about the diagnosis of objects to be repaired and the reconstruction of objects. Why is it needed? Suppose you started repair and have already hired the brigade of the masters. Those who have passed through it will be able to imagine everything very much. After watching the dwelling, the builders with a serious view say that, in addition to the complete dismantling of the floor covering, it is necessary to eliminate the old tie. It sounds very convincing, but for such work there is a ceiling price, and you begin to look for other "specialists". Of course, they are. Jue is offered to knock down only the borger detected by them, and the screed is slightly ready. There are also third, which will be proven that it is not necessary to do anything, it is enough to align the surface of the plywood "on the screws" (on the new technology). Who is right? In addition, notice, everyone is evaluated by eye.So before allowing ripples and walls and fill the containers in the yard to the edges of the building garbage trash, wait and think. After all, it can be, and the old plywood, and the old parquet will be useful for further work. Why throw them away? Having done it, you will most likely carry unjustified losses. Avot in the contractor's pocket will arrive. IK him will not be adhering to: he fulfilled his task, everything destroyed, everything threw out. Determine what to break the diagnosis will help.
Diagnostics are needed in order to obtain a clear detailed idea of the construction task as a whole and in particular. The problem of diagnosis can be found if you have to change the heating risers, it is safe to leave the old electrical wiring, or it must be remade, and yet, what walls in the apartment "fall", and which there are no, and whether there are cracks in them. Among other things, you are accurate to 90%. Set the upcoming consumption of materials.
Modern houses are built mainly on well-thought-out engineering projects. More problems arise with old. However, not all planes in the apartment for calibration turn out to be uneven, not all partitions are worth it even when re-planning. Some walls may have "okal", some are not. Often, after the diagnosis, it turns out that, for example, the tiery works should be carried out locally only in the "wet" rooms, that is, on an area of 5-6m2, and not 50m2, as it was assumed before. (For reference: Equipment on average in Moscow is estimated at $ 8 for 1m2, dismantling - from $ 2 to $ 4 for 1m2).
Diagnostics will reduce the repair time, save draft and finishing materials. Relying on its results, you can determine which class of craftsmen need to be invited to meet the existing amount (that is, on which qualities in quality indicators you agree). Also before the start of work, it will be clear whether the existing problems with decorative design methods will be solved, or the help of an engineer will be required.
Diagnostics will determine the stages of repair, based on the validity of a particular engineering solution, the value of the materials used, the prices of the upcoming works. After all, some not too aesthetic tube that does not like the hostess can be transferred to another place, spending a lot of time and money, and you can simply cut off or hide in the gypsum cardboard. Having on the hands of the apartment's research results, you will more confidently communicate with the designer and will even provide it with a service: knowing the possibilities of this living space, he will not fantasize on the topic of impossible. Introducing my work and for what technologies should be done at the facility, it is not necessary to invite large construction companies to repair, which often have an unreasonably overestimated prices, it is enough to hire a private brigade. IS "private traders" you will already speak differently, from the position of a person, armed with knowledge.
Good started
We hope we managed to convince you of the usefulness and need for diagnosis. Now about how to organize it. Firstly, before contacting any firm, the customer should formulate my requirements, determine what he would like to see an apartment after repair. Secondly, a diagnostic firm is obliged to have a license. Often this kind of service provide organizations carrying out technical supervision and control over the quality of repair and construction work, as well as carrying out the expertise of the work already performed. Experts who come to the object must be equipped with appropriate high-precision devices and equipment, possess knowledge of both traditional and the latest technologies and materials. Experts make the necessary measurements using laser or water appliances (the so-called level diagnostics), spell point cuts and severity in walls and overlaps (if necessary). Finally, thirdly, the result of the work done by their work should be a detailed report containing an objective assessment of the apartment. This includes:
1. Description of the current state of the apartment, which reflects the exact geometric parameters of the planes, the area of the premises, the change in the heights of the ceilings and floors around the perimeter of the room, the condition of the windows, doorways, communications (ventilation, sewage, water supply, heating), leakage.
2. Expert assessment of the state described above (conclusion about the suitability or unsuitability of old structures, materials, livelihood systems). Based on the results of the study and in accordance with your wishes, a diagnostic firm can provide recommendations on the methods of dismantling partitions, floors IT.D., as well as on the methods of building walls with specified quality criteria and reference to a new construction task, layout, finishing .
In addition, at the end of the diagnostics, the company provides the Customer with engineering drawings (plans) of the apartment: a full range of drawing with detailed painting on rooms of walls of walls, floors, ceilings, side meters of window slopes to be processed; as well as a plan on which digital quality coefficients of existing planes are affixed. Drawings and plans show the presence of "bubbles", pit, "dodes" (with the values of deviations from the plane).
Having received the conclusion of experts, the customer will be able to properly assess the scale of future repair work. It is possible that you otherwise imagined the condition of the surfaces of the walls and the ceilings of the apartment and assumed that the simple "cosmetics" would be enough. Perhaps on the contrary, the walls will be much stronger and even what you thought. Depending on this, the appropriate complex of repair services will need.
Why are we talking about everything so detailed? The fact is that, referring to a particular organization for the purpose of repair, you will inevitably enter the relationship "Customer-contractor". ATEI RELATIONS is governed by the legislation of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. There are quite clearly spelled out the rights and obligations of both the customer and the contractor and the concepts of a household and construction contract are determined. It turns out that there are differences between them. If the repair does not require redevelopment, re-equipment of engineering systems and is limited to finishing works (or simply "cosmetics"), then you conclude a household contract with the workshop team (Article No. 732 of the GCRF). If global alterations are assumed (with dismantling of partitions, transfer of sanitary equipment IT.D.), then your repair falls under the definition of a construction contract (Articles No. 743, 744 GKRF).
It is important to know because the contract on the domestic contract may be and is considered valid without the attached design and technical documentation. The agreement on the construction contract without a project and estimated technical documentation is invalid and, in the event of a conflict situation, it will not be powerful as a document. Hence the conclusion: it is difficult to determine without diagnostics, an agreement on what contract to conclude with builders. Based on the diagnostic data, you are more accurate to formulate the task and for the projector (architect, designer), and for the engineer, and for the estimator. Asostulation of a full-fledged task, as it turns out, not only the right of the customer, but also his holy duty (see Civil Code).
Today, the diagnosis of objects is today a limited number of companies, among them "Construction Conductors", "Construction Service Control Center", a construction assistance fund.
Professional opinion
For their considerations about the conduct of diagnostic research at construction and repair facilities, the Director of the Foundation for the Construction of D. P. Prasolov:
"Diagnostics Before starting work, even those builders you hire. Of course, if it is licensed brigades, competent, professional. It can be regarded as the first stage of construction and repair activities. But only it is necessary to continue that this stage ends with the execution of the report mentioned above. . Intruticate, with this decision you can wait for pitfalls. Builders are interested in ensuring maximum scope of work. This is their bread, their earnings. As a rule, the contractor tries to overestimate the consumption of materials and starts pulling out the money from the customer. Next is the slip.
That is why, probably, it is better if the diagnosis will be carried out by specialists of an independent organization. In this case, they will be responsible for the correct examination. But the customer must prepare for the fact that the hired builders will be unhappy with the results of "foreign" diagnosis and its perseverance. Nothing can be done, other levers of impact on the contractor, except for money and awareness of the process of repair work, you do not have.
By the way, about money. Like any work, the diagnosis must be paid. Your construction team may include it in a common estimate. If you used the services of an independent company, the examination will cost approximately $ 200-300, depending on the area of the apartment (average Moscow prices).
Aishche, the diagnosis is applicable and desirable for those who want to make the repair of economy class, and not elite housing. Having spent some means, you save more. "