Preparation before commencement

Home decoration is an important event for every family. This is mainly reflected in the following aspects:

1. From an economic point of view, urban home decoration, according to the difference in construction area, varies from tens of thousands to more than 100,000 or even more. For most people, this renovation cost is not a small amount.

2. Home decoration is a matter of whether a family life is comfortable and healthy. After a family buys a house, it is basically renovated once, and it will not be renovated a second time in years or even decades. Therefore, the quality of decoration is directly related to the quality of life in the future. Even the decoration pollution problem that currently complains more will affect the health of family members and seriously threaten life. The hidden dangers caused by the renovation of some hidden projects are related to the safety of the family. It cannot but be taken seriously.

3. During the renovation process, the owner must participate in the design process of the house. After all, your home is for you. If you design your home exactly according to the designer's design, it is probably just someone else's home. In the course of your future life, if you find that your living environment is out of tune with your aesthetic or living habits, it will be a painful thing.

Almost all people have a point of view over the renovation: decoration is a regret project, so before the renovation, we must do enough preparation, the decoration will be blocked outside the home.

The preparations for renovation mainly include the following seven aspects:

First, psychological preparation

Most people who have experienced renovations often talk about renovations. People who are interested in it will find that, in endless topics, there is not only the proud work of their own decoration, but also the “bitter water” in the decoration process. Renovation, for many homeowners who buy new homes and get new house keys, is more exciting and novelty, and overlooks the difficulty and complexity of renovation projects. Therefore, before the renovation, decoration must not be taken lightly. It is a very easy thing to think that there must be enough psychological preparation to meet the various difficulties and problems that may arise during the renovation. Only in this way can we see the move in the decoration process. Owners who are about to renovate may wish to ask themselves the following questions:

1. How much do I know about the decoration process?

2. Is there enough reserve for the purchase and installation of building materials furniture?

3. In the process of purchasing building materials and furniture, I have faced price traps, quality traps, and merchant sales traps at any time. In this regard, do I have enough solutions?

4. I am not satisfied with the design of the renovation project. Has it been re-introduced when it has already started?

5. How will the decoration company delay the schedule?

6. Does the weather during the decoration construction run into rainy days or severe cold affect the construction quality?

7. During the renovation construction process, what workers need to pay attention to the work that is easy to do?

8. How do construction workers cut corners and slip and slip? How to deal with them?

9. What hidden works do I know during the renovation?

There are so many problems. After reading these questions, it may not be easy for people who are eager for renovation. However, seeing problems and seeing difficulties does not mean that we are afraid of difficulties and we cannot keep up. In short, strategic contempt, psychological attention, with enough psychological preparation, let us begin to decorate their own home.

【User Experience】

"Highly valued, prepared, correct attitude, and precautions" are my sixteen words of decoration.

It is highly valued: Chairman Mao and the elderly said that they strategically despise the enemy and tactically attach importance to the enemy. This sentence also applies to the decoration, only with enough emphasis on the decoration, you can learn from the details and understand the problems that may be encountered in the decoration.

Prepare yourself enough: With enough attention or not enough, we must prepare for the renovation from all aspects. If you go to bed and go to sleep, your mind is full of decoration events. Congratulations, you are in an initial state. Of course, don’t go too far. In order to make up for insomnia overnight, it may not be worth the loss.

Correct mentality: All those who come to the renovation have an experience, that is, during the renovation process, your plans will be perfected. If you are thoughtful, you will still have problems and you will still encounter headaches and troubles. At this point, we must correct our mentality. Do not think that all thoughts should be thought in advance. During the renovation process, there will always be places that you did not expect because you face not only a pile of materials, but also these materials. It is normal for people who have a direct influence on your decoration effect to deal with various problems. Therefore, you must correct your attitude and your troops will flood the water with water. Complaints are useless, problems arise to solve the problem is to deal with the decoration of the king!

Careful precautions: During the renovation process, it can be said that there are always traps and misunderstandings everywhere. Moreover, starting from the preparation stage, it is said that preparation of decoration knowledge, and listening to one of the words on the Internet, may be misunderstood, because for others is not necessarily suitable for your own, the design stage, the designer there is a trap , The free design of free meals may not be delicious, or even appetite, buy building materials, decoration of the guerrillas, the construction team to cut corners ... ... there are traps everywhere, so we must be careful to prevent, hurt the heart can not have, prevent People's hearts are not free!

Second, the preparation of home improvement knowledge

It's not enough to be psychologically prepared for practical action. The first step is to get us started with home improvement knowledge and arm ourselves with knowledge. This will be something you may face in the future in the face of decoration companies, building material traders, and renovation workers. Various traps are a powerful weapon to fight. The preparation of home improvement knowledge is nothing more than these aspects:

1. Online accumulation

At present, the Internet covers a vast amount of knowledge and it is easy to search for a great deal of home improvement knowledge. However, how to get rid of the essence from these vast amounts of knowledge becomes a problem that lies before everyone. This requires diligent efforts to organize and accumulate knowledge. After learning about the general home improvement knowledge, visiting the home improvement forum is a good choice. If you encounter problems that you don't understand, you can consult with friends at any time and you can experience online home improvement. In the same way, you can tell your lessons at any time, and receiving assistance and helping others is two-way. At the same time, on the Internet, you can also pay attention to the activities of group purchases and home improvement lectures organized by netizens. While preparing for knowledge, you can also purchase a part of furniture and building materials simultaneously.

【User Experience】

The first step you can go to the home improvement section of some professional home improvement websites to get a complete understanding of home improvement; during this time, problems that you do not understand must be written down in a timely manner.

The second step: besieged. For questions that you do not understand in the first step, you can use search engines to search and eliminate these problems. If it cannot be solved, there is a third step.

The third step is to soak the forums, find a good point of home improvement experience exchange forum, seek the help of everyone on the forum to the prawns, there are many enthusiastic people, oh, especially the decoration over people, they tell you can be practical experience, of course If you do not believe that books are better than no books, you must not completely believe what others have said. You must adhere to your own basic routine. Finally, you must be open-minded when you soak up forums. Others have answered questions for you and do not forget to say “thank you”.

Best of all, let's tell you a shortcut to gain knowledge of the system's home improvement: Look at your friends' home diaries. This is a summary of valuable experience!

2. Ask people for renovations

Such as their own colleagues, relatives, friends, classmates, home improvement, must not miss the opportunity to consult. From them you can get the most direct home improvement knowledge. Often they will show you what they have done during the renovation process. Of course, they will also take the opportunity to give you a lot of hard work. This is a good opportunity for learning. Their painful lessons are of direct reference. In the process of understanding home improvement knowledge, you will also accumulate information about the decoration company and the construction team.

【User Experience】

Listen to the experience of co-workers and friends, but they should be treated differently. The general rule is: Clear the package, say that xx is good and can not believe, that xx bad should believe, because people will not easily deny Own; For half a pack of people, say xx should believe, say xx can not be good faith or not, because people are often more picky about others.

One of my teachers is my co-worker who has been renovated or has been renovated. Of course, they are mainly negative teachers. During the renovation period, people’s behavior is more or less changeable. One of them is to talk to you about the decoration of his house. Progress, from what they hear, is mostly negative opinions, including the tricks of decorating the company's deceptions; the slovenly tricks of migrant workers; the unworthy brands and their own failed choices. General speaking about the package of experience, speaking of many ideas, half-wrapped questions, talk about regret. For big bags, my colleagues are not yet big ones.

3. Visiting building materials city, consulting decoration company

Visiting Building Materials City mainly focuses on obtaining building materials furniture knowledge. If you shop around, you can get a general understanding of the categories, brands, workmanship, and possible price traps of building materials.

Consulting decoration companies, mainly consulting their designers and construction team chiefs, of course, some decoration companies you do not see the foreman. Through them, you can get home improvement design knowledge and refer to some design schemes to get the attention of the construction.

【User Experience】

First visit the building materials city near your own home, first visit the new building city near the new home, first visit the supermarket building materials city, first visit the building materials city above mid-range.

The street needs to record, note where you went today, see what things, about what price, js is located in the stall number of the building materials city, the best conditions to buy a camera with a picture. Just need to open the window to ask questions, do not know to ask, do not be afraid js joke you, but js boast their own things are good, do not believe, saying that other people's things are not good, we must remember.

In fact, the teacher who first taught me decoration knowledge was js. At that time, I didn't understand anything. When I visited the mall with my wife, I often asked js to ask some questions that are now very weak. It should be said that most js are very good, even if I Tell him clearly that if I don’t sell anything, I will look at it. He will also introduce you warmly to his products, and send you some promotional materials, which may also detract from your peers. Of course, the level of js is different, and some are very professional. I like to chat with professional js. When I am interested, I will sit down and give him a good cigarette.

4. Visit the model room

This depends on the actual situation, not everyone has such an opportunity. In general, for decoration companies, owners who intend to select them may arrange for them to visit the showroom. Since it is a model room, it is of course well-placed for everyone to visit, and some of them are even model projects for which they do not make any compensation. If you choose this construction team, your home improvement effect is not expected to exceed the model room. The advantage of visiting the model room is that you can get the most intuitive decorative effect and have the most intuitive picture of the space arrangement for your own future home improvement. It's good for you to make a good manuscript in the next design. It is also a good opportunity to visit a decoration company.

【User Experience】

Visit the model room: Ask some things on the spot that the students cannot learn. During the visit, I only paid attention to what I had seen at home. Is it still the same as the feeling of building materials city? Can the owner's proud creativity learn from it? Of course, the most important thing is for me to look and find a decoration team. When visiting, it is advisable to bring a tape measure to measure the division of the space at any time.

5. Buy books, magazines to learn

After your decoration knowledge has accumulated to some extent through the above ways, you can also buy some books or magazines to learn, of course, mainly to learn the style of decoration design. If you have high aesthetic requirements, this step is even necessary. . Because books, magazines have always followed the trend of the introduction of decoration style. Good pictures can be cut with scissors for reference.

【User Experience】

When your decoration knowledge reaches a certain level, it is best to look at the relevant books. After reading it, you will find that your level has a qualitative leap. Book reading is not a substitute for online reading.

Third, pick up

Picking up the keys is one of the preparatory tasks that must be done before the renovation, and it is also easy to make a dispute or even cause a stoppage in the decoration.

Take the first step: check the "two books and one table", remember!

The so-called two books refer to: "Residential Quality Assurance Certificate" and "House Use Instruction". This is the basis for future maintenance if quality problems arise. A table is "Completion Acceptance Record Form."

Take the second step: volume room

The developer is required to provide the nationally recognized professional surveying unit's actual measurement data on the area to see if it is different from the agreement in the purchase contract so as to solve the problem as soon as possible.

For the owner: First, the owner should check whether the drawings in the sales contract are consistent with the actual conditions of the house; whether the structure of the house is the same as the original plan. Secondly, we should check whether the housing area has actually been measured by the real estate department and whether there is any difference in the area signed with the contract. If problems arise and are resolved in a timely manner, it is necessary to resort to the law if it cannot be solved by the developers.

Receiving the third step: Paid room and then paying, check-in is the normal procedure for collecting the house.

However, at present, developers do not have many formalities for the buyers to check the room. The usual practice is to allow the owner to sign the house receipt document first, asking the owner to make up the rent first (if the area goes up), pay the public maintenance fund (2% of the total amount of the house) and the deed tax (1.5% of the total amount of the house), and pay One year's property management fees and property agency fees, etc., can be checked in, the house keys and related materials can be collected, and the house can be checked. The owners went into the room and found that there was a problem with the quality of the house and the complaint was very passive. Responsible developers will be proactive and unprincipled will implement delaying tactics to allow owners to work hard. This is unfair to owners. In order to avoid this situation, the owner shall insist on the first-stage inspection and post-processing procedures, and shall present the problems of house quality, excessive indoor harmful gas, unfair public rental and other issues found in the inspection of the house to the developer in writing and allow him to sign for it so as not to leave behind. future trouble. Or you can indicate on the house receipt document that "the indoor situation is not clear" or "the condition of the building is not known."

The fourth step: home inspection

Some of the most easily failing places are:

1. Whether the slope of the bathroom or kitchen can drain the water.

Inspection method: On-site pouring inspection.

2. Does the bathtub seep?

Test Method: Some minor cracks may be difficult to detect with the naked eye. Put a cylinder of water into the bathtub and leave a mark near the horizontal line. Check the water level the next day. The water level may slightly decrease due to evaporation. However, if the drop is too obvious, it may be the bathtub water seepage.

3. Is the platform straight?

Test method: Can not just look at the surface, especially the long plank floor, may cover the uneven platform. Carefully tap the floor, if there is a hollow echo, it may be uneven.

In addition, there are some details that need attention: such as keys, electrical appliances, doors, windows and windowsills, terraces, walls, floors, ceilings, kitchens, toilets, faucets and pipes, electrical installations, telephones and antennas. When the owners repossession, they should also bring a good sales brochure and a sales contract to check the materials and equipment inside and outside the building.

If you have conditions in your home inspection, it is best to have friends who have experience in repossession to help provide advice and identify problems.

[essential tool]

1. There is a camera with a date display function in order to take a picture of the problem as a proof.

2. Pen and paper, record the problem found immediately.

3. Stick a piece of sticky note, write down the problem and maintenance advice, and stick it to the place where the problem occurs so that the maintenance personnel can find out.

4. One flat three-plug electric appliance (such as a hair dryer, electric hair dryer, etc.) is inserted into each power outlet in the house to check if the power supply is fully connected.

5. A square, measure the wall, the floor is straight.

6. The sales brochure shows whether the equipment provided in the kitchen, bathroom, etc. matches the developer’s original commitment.

Fourth, capital preparation

Renovation is a great investment for most families. Therefore, budget should be prepared to reserve this money. Generally, the total cost of renovation should be 10% to 20% of the housing price.

This part of the content will be discussed in detail in the plan budget, not much to explain here.

V. Preparation period

Since decoration is related to the future quality of life of a family, most people have adopted the situation of clearing or half-bundling. No matter which form they take, it is unavoidable to pay attention to on-site construction. This is a contradiction for office workers. Therefore, how to properly arrange the construction period is a matter to be prepared in advance. If it is a couple's decoration, how to reasonably arrange the time for the two people to look at the scene is a good issue to discuss in advance.

【User Experience】

Taking two rooms and one living room as an example, under normal circumstances, the construction period is about 30 days. If other factors are taken into account, such as changing the design plan, it may be up to 40 days.

During the two-month renovation process, there will be numerous problems waiting for you to solve. It will certainly affect your normal work. In order not to be fired, you must give the leadership a shot in advance, whether it is sugar coated shells, bitter meat or tears. Hysterical, as long as you can achieve the purpose of relaxing restrictions.

Sixth, other preparations

1. Physical preparation: It is undeniable that decoration is also a manual work. Eyeing the scene one day, it is backache and leg pain. Visiting the building materials market does not work well without good physical strength. Sometimes you need to spend half a day visiting the city. Therefore, it is necessary to dispatch their own physical strength before the renovation and adjust the body to the best state of combat effectiveness.

2. The positioning of the role of the couple's decoration: This issue can be very big or small. If it is well positioned, it may not be a problem. If the positioning is not good, the house is completely renovated. The two people may even divorce or break up. Tragedy. Therefore, before the two people in the decoration must discuss the question of who is the owner who assists, according to the different stages of the renovation of different roles and functions is very necessary, such as who visits the building materials city, may wish to divide the work: good wife at the price Responsible for the inquiry and price, while the husband is in charge of transportation work. Also, on the question of the positioning of the design style, the opinions of the people are the main ones.

【User Experience】

The decoration is really tired, from the psychological to the physical, no good physical quality is not enough. A friend on the same floor, due to continuous staring at the construction site, together with the running of the building materials city, was unable to get enough rest. Once he stared at the scene, he stumbled and fell. This can be a lesson of blood. Even if the body is of good quality, it will be a bit too much for the general decoration. So we must have a full understanding of the problems with the decoration