It is really hard and tangled to inspect the decoration company, especially for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder and difficult choices. Therefore, this paper hopes to help the small partners who intend to choose the decoration company. ?
Mentality: calm down! Calm down! Calm down!
Inspect the decoration company to be calm! Note that this is the investigation stage, not the selection stage! Don't be carried away by the activities, discounts and sales of the decoration company, pay the deposit and sign the contract. The first principle of inspecting the decoration company is: just look uncertain!
What decoration mode do you want to use?
First of all, I want to determine what kind of decoration company I want to use, semi-package, large package, full package and clear package. ?
1. At present, there are many decoration companies for big bags on the market, and then they have developed into wrapped big bags. 699,799,899,999,1099,1199 ... are all confused with 9. The advantages of this method are obvious, saving time and effort, saving brain and physical strength; The shortcomings are also obvious. Small flexibility, limited brand of main materials and common accessories. Many of them are not included in this scheme. If you don't do your homework in advance, the later add-ons will surprise you.
2, half a package, that is, only basic decoration is done, and the main materials are purchased by themselves. The advantages are flexibility, high degree of personalization and strong controllability, while the disadvantages are simply time-consuming, laborious and brain-consuming.
3, the whole package is also an all-inclusive upgrade. On the basis of all-inclusive, furniture, household appliances and even other soft clothes are also handed over to the decoration company. Compared with all-inclusive, the advantages are more prominent. This way is more time-saving and labor-saving than all-inclusive, and even furniture and home appliances don't have to worry about soft clothes, which can basically reach the level of carrying bags. Of course, the disadvantage is that the degree of autonomy and personalization is low.
4. Not to mention cleaning the package. Basically, we seldom choose to clear our bags. If you have made clear the decoration mode you want to choose, then before the inspection, first screen out the companies with corresponding decoration modes through channels such as the Internet; If we haven't decided which mode to use, we will gradually understand it during the inspection. ?
Construction! Construction! Construction!
Everyone treats the decoration differently. Some people value design and style, some people value materials and environmental protection, some people value price and cost performance, and what I value most is construction! Because construction is the foundation of decoration, it will directly affect the presentation of design and materials. Without good construction, the rest can only be castles in the air and the moon in the water. Therefore, when inspecting, my first choice is to inspect the construction, design material price and so on.
It is natural to inspect the construction site. However, you don't have to go to the construction site at first. You can check the construction photos released by some decoration companies in local forums or other platforms. Those photos are not standardized and rigorous, just delete them directly. (Many editors of decoration companies don't know anything about construction, and the photos are published, and they still feel beautiful and tidy. I really don't know how big the psychological shadow area of their boss is, so once I saw a very irregular photo posted by Bian Xiao in a company's official WeChat account, I passed by this company that thought it was a good construction.
When visiting the construction site on the spot, it is best not to let the sales or designers take them to visit the construction site to avoid selective visits. We can consult with the decoration company about which communities have construction sites. Let's visit them in person. Rest assured, the workers will not refuse to visit. However, what if the layman can't understand the construction site?
In fact, through some main aspects of construction that can be directly seen, we can also judge the construction level of this decoration company.
Masonry (detailed masonry specifications are in my other article)
1. There are three lime-sand bricks at the bottom of the wall, and the top is blocked with lime-sand bricks.
2, the new and old wall junction hanging wire mesh?
3, planting Rachel reinforcement
▲ Bottom lime-sand brick, top lime-sand brick with oblique plug and steel wire mesh?
▲ planting tie bars
Hydropower?
1. Is there no transverse groove on the wall or only a few transverse grooves?
2. There are gaps when the strong and weak currents are parallel, and they are wrapped with tin foil when crossing.
3. The bend of the catheter is a big bend.
4. The kitchen and bathroom circuit is on the top. If the kitchen and bathroom waterway is on it, it will give this decoration company extra points (the waterway is on it in my question and answer).
If the waterway reaches the top, the water pipe will be wrapped with thermal insulation cotton.
▲ Try not to open the horizontal slot on the wall?
▲ Strong and weak current are separated in parallel time, and wrapped with tin foil when crossing, and bent into a big bend.
▲ Kitchen and bathroom circuits go to the top, and it is recommended that waterways also go to the top. Is the waterway covered with thermal insulation cotton?
We can't accurately judge whether the bricklayer has done a good job in laying tiles only by naked eye observation. Many decoration companies send overall photos of tiles to their friends to prove how well their workers have built them. We just want to say, this is bullshit! Even from the detailed photos of tile paving, we can only roughly see the advantages and disadvantages of construction, not to mention a photo of the overall tile effect. ?
Judge the quality of tile paving, hollowing and flatness verticality, without tools. Whether the opening of the socket box and the nozzle is flush, whether the external angle treatment is straight, and whether the gap is consistent are our most intuitive judgments.
Woodworking craft
Woodworking mainly lists several construction specifications of suspended ceilings. ?
1, corner l-shaped gypsum board
2. V-shaped groove treatment at the joint
▲ L-shaped gypsum board in the corner, V-shaped groove treatment of gypsum board joints?
Putty and latex paint construction need a ruler to check whether the specifications meet the requirements, not to mention it.
Generally, decoration companies that can do this will not have much problems in construction specifications. Many people may say that the construction specifications are also expensive. In fact, there are many small and medium-sized decoration companies, and the construction is also very standardized, because there is no large amount of advertising and a large number of business personnel's investment, and the cost performance is very high.
After the inspection, the completed decoration company can be included in the shortlist and continue the next inspection. ?
Understand the basic situation of alternatives
This step is an interview with the salesman or designer to learn the basic situation of some alternative decoration companies.
From the professional level of the salesman, we can also see whether this decoration company is reliable. If the salesman keeps instilling marketing information in your ear, such as: choose me, I will give you a discount, the activity will end immediately, or try to get you to pay a deposit, it will be disappointing. In formal and rigorous companies, salesmen will also explain their construction specifications, processes and materials. So if a salesman or designer shows you around their construction site, be sure to pay attention to what information they send. Sometimes you may go beyond the salesperson and talk to the designer directly.
In any case, we need to know some basic information before further conversation. The dialogue with the designer will be detailed in the next step. ?
How to decorate?
What kind of decoration method is the object of investigation, and what contents are included.
Materials used (auxiliary materials, main materials)?
It is necessary to find out what brand is used, even the model of each material. Generally, decoration companies will have material manuals, so you can take one home and study it carefully. If not, ask one by one and write it down. Finally, the following table summarizes the materials of various decoration companies at a glance.
Companies with big bags should especially ask about the details of the main materials, such as tiles, and how to calculate the cutting fee; For example, how many meters are limited to cabinets and ground cabinets, and how to calculate the excess.
Activity discount?
Decoration companies generally have preferential activities, but we must not be blinded by those dazzling activities, many of which are flashy and sharp-edged. Only by consulting more materials, asking more questions and studying more can we gain insight into the true face. ?
After understanding the basic situation of these aspects clearly, you can filter out a few more. ?
It's time to talk to the designer.
Let's talk about design again. The designer is the most important person before we officially start working. I think the designers of decoration companies are generally divided into these categories: internship designers, sales designers, closed-door designers, ordinary designers and Daniel designers.
● The intern designer is practicing with you. It is easy to see that it is an internship in the conversation. For such a company that arranges internship designers for you, just refuse. Don't try to be a good person, give the intern designer a chance. You will also put your love nest in an awkward position. ?
● There are many sales-oriented designers, which generally appear in bag-type big bags or self-contained decoration companies. A designer is actually a salesperson, constantly using various sales techniques for you, and all he thinks about is how to improve his performance. One of my personal experiences, a well-known local company in Yantai, wanted the salesman to arrange a visit to the construction site, but the salesman insisted that he talk to the designer first, so to speak. This designer is so "responsible" that he regards my house as his home. During the conversation, she didn't think of us at all. She planned to arrange everything according to her idea. Of course, as expected, it was followed by a hard push for their set meal, speechless, extremely disgusted, and directly passed the customs. Does such a designer still have the energy to design well? This kind of package company, the design is generally produced in batches and models, so there is no design at all, and personalization is out of the question.
● Designers who build cars behind closed doors. Any designer must be familiar with the construction site. Designers sit in the office every day, don't know the construction site, don't know the needs of customers, and can only build cars behind closed doors, and there will be many unreasonable and unscientific designs. Don't choose a designer whose theory is not integrated with practice.
There is no difference between these three designers and draftsmen. A designer assistant may be competent for drawing. The intern designer is still inexperienced and needs to learn and hone, and may become an excellent designer in the later stage. Sales-oriented designers focus on sales, so how to design drawings? Behind closed doors is a completely negative working state. ?
● Ordinary designers and Daniel designers are the objects we can choose. Ordinary designers are not necessarily inferior to Daniel designers. They just have relatively little experience, and some ordinary designers are also very talented and insightful in design. ?
Then how to choose a good designer, a designer who suits you? I think there are only two points: one is to look at his own ideas and inspiration, and the other is to see if he can accept your ideas well and transform them, and eliminate those seemingly good ideas that are divorced from reality. I think these two points are enough to see whether this designer is a good designer.
How to get designers to design your home very brilliantly? Communicate more, tell designers their own needs as much as possible, and find more materials similar to their own ideas and needs. Only when the designer fully understands the needs of the owner can a good design appear.
Drawings are very important! Renderings? No, no, no. It's a construction drawing! Many decoration companies only produce renderings without construction drawings? ! How to construct without construction drawing? By feeling? By imagination? By experience? Therefore, when the installation friend inspects the decoration company, he must ask if there are any construction drawings. This is a sentence of the workers' construction and the basis for the supervision and management of the construction site.
A complete construction drawing generally includes: original structure drawing, floor plan, wall demolition drawing, wall size drawing, floor paving size drawing, ceiling layout drawing, ceiling size drawing, lamp positioning drawing, switch layout drawing, socket layout drawing, furniture size drawing, elevation index drawing, detailed floor plan and elevation drawing of each position. ?
Managing services is very important.
Perhaps many small partners feel that the decoration company is very pitted in terms of management services and prices. The management service mentioned here mainly refers to the management of the construction site, the attitude of handling disputes, whether it is honest, whether it is cutting corners, and whether it is routine. However, the investigation in this respect is really difficult, and it can only be judged simply from his population evaluation and the appearance of the construction site. Now many decoration companies will build a number of owners' sites. You can ask for a casual look at the chat content of these groups and see what the owners and decoration companies are talking about in the group.
One thing that must be mentioned is supervision. Some companies are called project managers or other names. Basically, the most important person to us after construction is the supervisor. The coordination and overall planning of the whole construction site, quality control and supervision all depend on supervision, and you will find how worry-free it is to have a good supervision. But the reality is often that the number of times that the small partners have seen the supervisor at the end of the construction site is more than ten fingers, and they can only be helpless.
It's time to study the quotations.
Inspection decoration company, ultimately to implement the price, even if the company is no matter how good and reliable, the price is unbearable, but also in vain. Whether the price is within our tolerance is not what we want to talk about. What we want to say is how to judge whether the decoration company is reliable from the quotation. ?
Looking at the quotation sheet is not only about the price directly reflected in the table, but more importantly, it is necessary to judge whether there will be additional projects and construction technology materials in the later period through quotation. ?
Look at the quotation. What exactly do you want to see?
● General quotations are not allowed from decoration companies, but we can write down several major unit prices and compare them with many companies. Of course, simply comparing the unit price is of little significance. There are many factors that affect the total price. Design style, materials, management fees, design fees and other expenses will affect the total price. Management fees, design fees and ground protection fees are generally available, and some decoration companies also charge materials loss fees and garbage clearance fees. These all need to be carefully looked at and asked.
● Besides the expenses reflected in the price list, more attention should be paid to the additional items. Many decoration companies offer very low prices in the early stage to attract customers. In the later period, various additional projects emerged one after another, and the final cost was not low at all. How to judge whether there is addition? We should study the quotation given by the decoration company. The quotation sheet given by a good decoration company must be clear and clear, and the materials used must be clearly listed. One of the most important things is to have a column of project characteristics (the name may be different) to describe the specific content of partial projects. For example, the name of the partial project is: block wall, and the engineering feature may be: 1. Wall type: filler. Maybe the other item is also called "block wall", but the wall thickness 100mm, the price is definitely different.
How important it is to carefully check the content and characteristics of the project. For example, if you want to lay the floor in your home, but there is no floor leveling in the quotation, then there is no doubt that it is added later; For another example, the bathroom is waterproof, and the shower wall is waterproof at least1.8m. The project features may be written within1.8m. This will be done later, which is undoubtedly a supplement. For this kind of missing items, or stealing columns from the project characteristics, it is the usual means for decoration companies to add items, which requires us to do our homework in advance. ?
Refer to third-party evaluation
All of the above are in direct contact with the decoration company. Many things have not been actually renovated by this company, so it is impossible to judge and only rely on the information of third parties. Check the construction quality, reputation and service of decoration companies online. Of course, many of them are entrusted by decoration companies, so we can't trust them completely. ?
You can also ask used friends, such as construction quality, word of mouth, service and so on. Friends' advice is still more reliable than online comments. ?
The contract is also an inspection.
Briefly talk about the points needing attention in the contract.
1. First check whether the relevant qualifications of the decoration company are complete, especially the business license and construction qualification.
2. When signing the contract, it depends on whether the official seal is consistent with the company name on the contract.
3. Whether the brand, name, specification and model of the materials are clearly marked in the contract (or in the quotation sheet, which is also a part of the contract and stamped with the official seal).
4, time limit for a project agreement, should pay attention to the payment time.
5. Whether the project budget and construction drawings are complete.
6. The acceptance criteria are clearly defined. ?
7. The warranty is clearly stipulated.
8. Other issues should be clearly defined in the supplementary provisions. ?
The above is my experience in choosing a decoration company.
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