If you do not have personal experience with the builders yet, and friends persistently advise those who did repairs from them, think twice. Similarly, with a familiar brigade, the leader of which is your friend. Why - tell in the article.
If you decide to make repairs, firstly, you need to prepare the design project of your apartment. Secondly, find a good builder brigade. Where to look for her? "The safest thing is to ask familiar, because you will not let you down," you might think. And give your apartment in the trusted hands of the brigadier. Or aren't they really reliable? What underwater stones can wait for you when repaired, tell me in the article.
1 brigade specializes in other tasks
Ideally, the brigade should be able to perform all types of work with those types of materials that are provided for design project. If the builders for your acquaintances masterfully laid out the floor with a tile, and you are planning to lay a laminate - ask the brigadier to give the contacts of the people who they did such a job or show the results of the result. So you will protect yourself from non-professionalism and the lack of relevant experience.2 There are individual features and rules that you did not take into account
Your friends could not encounter problems that will wait for you when repairing. For example, they have builders lived in the apartment and did the repair by day, and it is convenient for you to come and spend noisy work only into the hours permitted by law. They made repairs in the new building, and you have a Khrushchev, and among the neighbors - pensioners who will cause the police so that you "stop it disgrace."
If you want to avoid problems, let's say in advance organizational issues. Do builders have permission to work if they know what time it is permitted to make noise. Be sure to warn the neighbors from the bottom and on the staircase about the upcoming repair, exchange contact with them just in case.
3 Easy to lose control
When working with friends, people often forget about precautions, especially in the issue of money and estimates. Before starting work, make the estimate and propagate the timing. Push all stages of work. If you send money online - ask to provide check-out checks. Compare the cost of materials on the Internet with those that the foreman is voiced. Independently pretend, whether it will really need such a number of materials and alert if they are constantly lacking.
It is also important not to lose control over the location of important engineering nodes and when transferring communications. Learn schemes for overlapping water cranes, which valve it applies to. Sign each or stick next to the cranes. You must have access to them. You also use the electrical shield scheme, which sockets and switches to which lever are related. Also sign each switch or hang the circuit nearby.
4 brigade can delay deadlines due to the lack of a contract
When working directly with the brigade, there is a possibility that the repair times will be tightened. And this is due to the fact that, hiring builders by acquaintance, most often neglect the contract or do not discuss fines for transferring deadlines. In this case, the incentive to perform work on time may not be. The common cause of such delay - the brigade has not yet found the following clients and the foreman so as not to arrange the weekend, stretches the current repairs.
5 foreman will not meet your trust
Even if you personally know the brigadier and all builders, remember that people are different, and the attitude to work is also different. If there is no possibility is at a construction site every day, at least check at the end of each stage, whether everything is in order. Do not be afraid to point out the shortcomings, but also do not roll in mutual claims. In your interests before the start of finishing work, sign, where what tile goes, which layout will be. If you have a design project, explain all the moments, do not think that the foreman will understand everything yourself. He will understand, but as it is easier for him, and not the way you have conceived. Sign all the materials: where exactly, in what order, it is best to clearly show how you see the result.
6 There is a temptation inattentively refer to the acceptance of work
Do not be afraid to offend a familiar barbell, carefully examining every corner of the apartment at acceptance. And also do not allow repair on samonek, better in the process, track the following important points.Plumbing
When installing plumbing, clearly mark on the tile, where and what should be. Which height should be attached to the sink, toilet, watering can. Check that the plumbing shift the protective film in places where it is adjacent to the tile and sealant is applied. Check the pipe wiring for water supply is connected using a collector, otherwise yours is waiting for a unpleasant surprise in the form of boiling water in the shower when someone from home decide to wash the dishes or go to the toilet.
Wiring and sockets
Be sure to take a picture or mark on the plan of the apartment, in what places the wiring passes. When in the future you want to hang a picture or regiment, this information is very useful to you. Also check, there are outlets on that place. Otherwise you have to connect everything into one outlet, because the second turned out to be exactly behind the cabinet.
Floors
Laminate has a property to expand in the summer and so much in winter. This is due to the heating season and dry air. If the repair is made in the summer - control so that there are no big gaps between the laminate and the wall - otherwise you can pay the formed gap at the plinth. If the renovation in winter - make sure that the jack between the board and the wall is 2-3 centimeters. Otherwise, in the summer, you will be waiting for a swollen floor - laminate will swell and there will be no place to move.
Walls
Be sure to look ready for the work only in daily good lighting. You will not notice shortcomings with artificial light or soft pre-order. Redo the flaws will have to take place, so it is better to spend more time once.Doors
Do not listen to the promise of the Proba, that the door is not going anywhere and will stand in the place where you left her. The time will pass, again the change of seasons, the material will expand or die, and you will have an ever-closing door. If planning to put the limiters, take magnetic.
Take care of your health, do not be nervous because of each little things, and there will be a lot of them. Remember that repairs will pass and, in the end, everything can be corrected, there would be money and time.
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