Pay attention to spring decoration, and experts will help you avoid 7 traps.

The weather is getting warmer and the home improvement industry is gradually entering the peak season. Major decoration companies have issued a limited number of model houses "collection orders", which makes many Hangzhou citizens ready to decorate new houses picky. Listen to the designer's elegant and classical, or fashionable and modern creativity, who is not moved?

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Typical trap-making fake business licenses and qualifications to defraud the deposit.

Mr. Jin contacted a home improvement guerrilla through the Internet. After several exchanges, Mr. Jin, who felt good, paid a deposit of 5,000 yuan, but since then the company has "vanished". The company's business license, qualification and ID card of the person in charge were also verified to be false.

Experts suggest that when choosing a home improvement company, the owner should first look at whether it has the construction qualification, business license and after-sales service ability, and then look at whether its management is perfect and whether the construction team is stable.

Typical trap renovation contract, many promises can't be fulfilled.

Just before the wedding, Mr. Li initialled the renovation contract with a decoration company, and verbally agreed that in addition to the basic hard clothes, the company guaranteed that the designer would go to the construction site three times a week and carry the decoration materials for free. However, during the construction, Mr. Li found that the agreement had not been fulfilled. As there is no restrictive clause in the contract, Mr. Li Can can only suffer a dumb loss.

Expert's suggestion: Sign a formal contract text, and write the Zhejiang local standard "Quality Specification for Home Decoration Engineering" into the contract. The contract should explain the specific requirements of decoration in detail as much as possible, and specify the decoration period.

Typical trap-using "free design" as bait to force consumers to sign the bill.

Mr. and Mrs. Song wanted to find an excellent designer, but found that many companies' designs were "free". However, after a preliminary discussion, when the couple came up with a detailed design, the designer asked for an extra design fee. However, he also said that the cost can be deducted from the project payment after the start of construction, which induced the Song couple to sign a contract with the company.

Expert's suggestion: the owner should stick to his own design requirements in the design stage, and in addition, he must go to the building materials city for on-the-spot investigation to have a basic understanding of the materials.

Typical trap-submit low-budget bills and raise prices in disguise through construction.

Mr and Mrs Zhang bought a new house. After repeated comparisons, they chose a brand home improvement company with a relatively cheap quotation. At the beginning of the project, the couple found that the actual materials used in the project were much higher than the budget, with twice as many wires and 10% more paint, and all these materials needed to be paid extra, which made the couple hooked up.

Expert advice: carefully check whether the decoration project has been fully included in the budget, and the drawings should be consistent with the budget when signing the contract. If necessary, it can be stipulated in the contract budget list: "In the case of fine-tuning the design scheme, the actual materials are allowed to deviate from the budget by 5%, and payment will be refused if it exceeds this range."

Typical trap-colluding with material suppliers to raise material prices and get kickbacks.

Ronaldinho is ready to decorate, and the designer of the signing company told him that the company can purchase materials with good quality and wholesale price. But then Ronaldinho found that some materials recommended by designers were even more expensive than shopping malls.

Expert's suggestion: Some designers collude with dealers to raise prices under the guise of "purchasing materials to facilitate customers" in order to get kickbacks. So, after listening to the designer's recommendation, don't blindly believe him. It's best to carefully record the recommended material model and price, and go to the market to inspect it, so as to know fairly well.

Typical trap-the concealed work cuts corners, and the homeowner pays more.

When Mr. Yu signed the renovation contract, he indicated that the wall coating should use a certain brand coating. However, in the actual construction, the original 420 yuan primer was changed into a top coat of each barrel 120 yuan. As a primer, this paint is neither alkali-resistant nor moisture-proof. After the check-in, the wall of Mr. Yu's house soon blistered and peeled. In addition, the interface between wooden products such as cabinets and wardrobes and walls began to turn black because there was no moisture-proof treatment.

Expert's suggestion: For detailed and concealed works, the owner should make clear the technical treatment requirements when signing the contract and supervise them on site. Conditional can hire a third party supervision, after the completion of professional acceptance, don't let the decoration company as a referee and an athlete.

Typical trap-seeing the buyer's eagerness, transfer the superior products to the inferior products.

When Mr. Chen bought the floor, he took a fancy to a sample of a shop, and the merchant promised that the products were superior. Mr. Chen, who was anxious to go on a business trip, paid the money in a hurry, delivered the goods home, and did not open the box for inspection. When he came back from a business trip, Mr. Chen found something was wrong. The newly paved floor tiles are very different from the samples he saw at first. Not only are the colors different, but the wear is also obvious, which is obviously defective. Mr. Chen tried his best to return some goods, but the already paved floor could not be replaced.

Expert advice: when delivering goods to your door, you need to unpack and inspect them in time, and carefully check whether the delivered goods are consistent with the selected goods; Let the merchants issue formal invoices, and indicate the words of superior products and qualified products on the invoices, so as to solve the quality problems.