Principle of saving money: just enough.
First of all, save money from the choice of materials.
1. Now the cheapest wall brick is glazed tile with a specification of 200x300mm. The floor tile is 300x300 non-slip brick, which is generally not a big problem. Of course, you have no reason to use non-slip bricks in the living room and bedroom. I suggest using vitrified brick with strong anti-pollution ability. You can't save this money, or there will be endless trouble.
2. If your carpentry uses mixed oil, you can use white bark and thread, which are very cheap materials. Although its surface is rough, it is also a style. How much money have you saved? White wood is half cheaper than red beech. .
3. If you buy latex paint, you can buy ordinary goods of well-known brands. At present, many problems of latex paint are caused by too much water. No matter how much water is mixed into the best material, its performance is worse than that of ordinary goods.
4. If you buy a wooden floor. From the perspective of saving money, buying a 300x300 parquet floor will not be much worse than 760x95x 18, but the price will be several times worse.
2. Strictly control the budget. There should be an additional clause in the contract: the final accounts of the project in the contract should not exceed X yuan, which is aimed at the losses of some unscrupulous businessmen with low budgets and high final accounts.
[How to save money in decoration]
Whether the design scheme is reasonable is the key to saving money.
Reasonable budget scheme can control the total amount of decoration.
● Reasonable material selection can save money.
Excellent construction personnel can improve the utilization rate of materials.
[Inevitable money for decoration]
● Money for safe electricity use cannot be saved.
● The money for waterway reconstruction cannot be saved.
● Doors and windows, furniture and hardware fittings cannot be saved.
● The money for decoration and pasting can't be saved.
[Know how to identify the quality of floor tile laying]
● Check the floor tiles for defects such as hollowing, missing corners and scratches.
● See if the surface of the floor tile is polluted by cigarette butts, oil stains and cement.
● See if the floor tiles are flat and have no color difference.
● See if the four corners of the glazed edge of four bricks are on the same horizontal plane.
At present, there are many teams engaged in home improvement. According to relevant statistics, there are tens of thousands in Beijing alone, including three situations: one is a unit with two certificates (business license issued by the administrative department for industry and commerce and qualification grade certificate issued by the administrative department for construction); One is a certified unit (business license issued by the administrative department for industry and commerce); The last one is unlicensed units, which is often referred to as decoration guerrillas.
The first two types of units have fixed business premises, articles of association and corresponding management institutions. If there is a problem, they can find the place and personnel to solve the problem, which is much more reliable. The decoration guerrillas do not have the above conditions. Therefore, family decoration must not find street decoration guerrillas.
1.toyobi: The partition of the shoe cabinet should not be at the top. Leave some space for the ash of shoes to leak to the ground floor, and install lights above the sink and gas stove. When determining the location of the bathroom floor drain, we must first think about it and measure the size. The floor drain is best located on one side of the brick. If it is in the middle of the brick, the floor drain will not be the lowest point no matter how inclined the brick is.
2. There is no switch in the bathroom and air conditioning socket. Especially for the electric water heater in the bathroom, it is advisable to adopt a plug two-level switch. If you want to turn off the electric heater, it is dangerous to unplug it.
3. In the final analysis, the external corner treatment of brick still depends on the level of workers. If the bricklayer is good and the tools for grinding ceramic tiles are better, you should not hesitate to choose the method of grinding 45 degrees. In terms of effect, as long as the grinding is good, grinding the outer angle of 45 degrees is the most beautiful! If the level of workers is really not good, then you'd better choose to use an angle ruler, because the bad 45-degree angle grinding method is not as good as using an angle ruler.
It is also important to test the pressure after the water pipes are arranged. Everyone must be present during the test, and the test time should be at least 30 minutes, preferably 1 hour if conditions permit. 10 kg pressure, and finally passed the test without reducing energy.
5. When making a plastic door, be sure to calculate the size of the plastic door frame protruding from the wall surface and inform the installer, so that the final door frame and the tiled wall surface are flat, which is both beautiful and hygienic.
6. The carpenter's doorcase and the bricklayer's tiling should also be coordinated. When wrapping the door cover, you should consider whether the ground below (either side of the ground on both sides of the door) should be leveled with ceramic tiles or other cement mortar, because if the door cover is nailed before tiling, it will be wrapped all the way to the ground. When cement is used in the future, if the cement and the door cover are stained, it will lead to water absorption and mildew of the door cover wood.
7. The bottom of the mattress and the bedplate must be breathable. Generally, it is best to use fir boards as bed boards.
8. Try to use paper tape when drawing.
9. Pay attention when buying lamps: generally try to use glass, stainless steel, copper or wood (shelves). Generally don't buy any iron with other coatings and paints on it, which is easy to fade.
10. The washbasin should use ceramic basin as far as possible, and the glass basin is difficult to clean.
1 1. Hydropower reconstruction should be planned by themselves, and they are required to drive in a straight line. I watched them draw their own lines, and they all followed them. You must personally check and accept every project.
12. Waterproofing must be done well, and water must be tested!
13. Many verbal agreements in construction have become a gap when checking out, so be sure to write them clearly in black and white. Be sure to ask clearly about the added or reduced items and write clearly the price!
14. If the floor is installed on the ground, the ground should be re-cemented and leveled.
15. For the kitchen door, it is best to use a carpenter who wants to decorate it into a wooden rail door.
16. Install as many power plugs as possible in the living room.
17. There is a partition outside the shower in the bathroom. You can't save yourself by pulling the shower curtain. Actually, it was very inconvenient, and the water spilled all over the floor.
18. Doors and doorframes shall be made of fine-grained materials.
19. Make sure that your waterway is OK before installing the cabinet.
20. Don't choose white for kitchen and bathroom floor tiles.
2 1. The ceiling should pay special attention to leveling putty before plastering Dulux.
22. Don't have too many lights in the living room, it's better to be concise, otherwise it will be like a lamp shop! ! !
23. Buy things that need to be installed and try to install the goods. It really doesn't include installation. After installation, you must insist on paying the full amount! !
24. When decorating, bring the business cards of the manufacturers and merchants you collected before.
25. It is best to remove the protective film of aluminum gusset plate before installation.
26. It is best to use shutter doors for shoe cabinets to prevent odor. A socket can be left next to the shoe cabinet for inserting and airing shoes.
27. A small lamp can be installed in the place where vegetables are cut.
28. If it is convenient, the restaurant can also install an exhaust fan, so that when eating hot pot or barbecue, the ceiling of the hall will not be dirty.
29. It's best to arrange a cabinet for sundries at the door, which can be placed on the shoe cabinet. It is convenient to put common things there, such as umbrellas, bags, scissors, change, medicines and so on.
30. There is absolutely no need to use expensive smallpox. If you are not too worried about humidity and oil fume, it is recommended to brush waterproof paint with moisture-proof gypsum board. A guest guard of my family made this. It's very beautiful. If you must use aluminum gusset ceiling, it is recommended that 1 not be too expensive. 2. Use solid colors, especially the kitchen ceiling. Pure white will do. Unless it matches the decoration style, it is easy to be uncoordinated. Make up your mind and don't trust the eyes selling ceiling flowers. Their eyes are really corny. 4, staring at the scene, it is very important to close the edge, don't let them be careless, or leave a black seam, which is ugly.
3 1. Third, if you need to punch holes, continue to stick tiles, and the exhaust holes of range hoods and water heaters should be pre-punched. It's inconvenient to wait until the tile is pasted. Therefore, before the renovation, you must choose a range hood, a cooker and a water heater to determine the size of the hole.
32. Considering that the customized cabinets are beautiful, but not durable, after synthesizing the opinions and experiences of some students on the Internet, the floor cabinets are made of cement, with ceramic tiles inside and outside, marble countertops, hanging cabinets and cupboard doors made of wood. The cabinets made by this method are durable and moisture-proof. And it doesn't cost much Many neighbors read it and said yes, I didn't blow it.
33. After making the door cover, the plasterer began to install plaster lines and paint the walls. The wall of my house was originally flat, and 2-3 roads could be approved. When approving the ash, it is to polish it once, then brush the primer, polish it again after brushing, and finally brush the top coat twice with ICI. The whole wall looks smooth and flat, which is really correct. After the wall smallpox project was completed, the carpenter began to make wardrobes. The wardrobe is made of 18cm Ye Wei brand core board with decorative board outside. Although it is not as beautiful as the furniture store, it is durable and the quality should be better than the one bought. I'm not afraid to stand on the board of the cabinet. I'm afraid not. The backboard is also thick, and I bought it very thin.
34. Other students must pay attention to the following points when pasting tiles: ① It is best to be on site; ② Some imperfect tiles can be pasted by workers in some invisible places in the future, such as cabinets, sinks and mirrors. Be careful not to let workers paste them in the above positions, otherwise nothing will be seen in the future and money will be wasted. (3) Before the wall brick and floor tile are pasted, the soaking time must be enough. (4) The floor drain must be plugged with something to prevent the cement from falling and blocking. The floor drain in my house is blocked by falling cement. Looking for the management office to clear 30 doors and get a lot of mud. ⑤ Workers will not waste too many tiles when people are on site. My family wasn't there when I put up the tiles. Later, when I went to see them, a lot of bricks were wasted, which was very painful. All sweat and rice.
35. Length and height of the wall. If a bathroom has four walls, the length and height of each wall should be measured. Then deduct the area of a window and door. Finally, calculate the area of the ground. After you have measured your size, you can also take it to the shop selling tiles, and they will help you satisfy it again. Just add a 5% loss.
36. It is best to control the ceiling lamp in the bedroom, one by the door and the other by the bed, so as to avoid lying in bed and turning off the lights in winter.
37. The location, height and spacing of sockets must be calculated. Occasionally, the position of the card holder was hit by steel bars first, and then the card holder was found to be blocked by TV cabinets, microwave ovens and desks, so we had to move the position of the first two pieces of furniture higher. Finally, it is found that not only the height is not ergonomic, but also the stainless steel cabinet feet can't be bought properly, so they can only be made into aluminum feet.
38. Just install a light at the corner of the aisle, which is bright and effective.
39. I didn't consider the position of the dining table when I installed the lamp. Now the light is not in the middle of the table.
40. Don't use bathroom tiles in Tai Su. First, it is easy to get dirty, and second, it is too dull after a long time!
4 1. More sockets should be installed, furniture should be bought outside, the floor should be dirt-resistant and safe, the model rooms should be seen more, and the principle should be adhered to.
42. There is no need to buy expensive aluminum gusset plates. Very cheap aluminum gusset plate is far superior to PVC, and no matter how much it costs, there is no obvious difference. Pay special attention to the keel rather than the aluminum gusset itself when buying aluminum gusset plates (the goal of aluminum gusset plates is too big to be easily tampered with), and ghosts often end up on the keel.
43. It is difficult to find a satisfactory color for the floor tile, so it was not found. However, I can achieve a satisfactory result by crossing two unsatisfactory colors at a 45-degree angle. This is a good suggestion put forward by the bricklayer himself.
44. If you hit the cabinet on the top of the balcony, add a layer of foam plastic board behind the cabinet, which has a very good heat insulation and waterproof effect. It is best to use fire-proof boards for balcony doors. The environment of the balcony is relatively poor.
45. If there is no suitable wood thread, it may be customized. The customized quality seems to be better than the sample. And customization is more personalized.
46. Stainless steel feet used in bathroom cabinets are profiteering, and it is very cheap to find some places on the back of the store.
47. When installing the door lock, you should pay attention to some wax on the lock tongue. If it is damaged, it will be too late to wax it. If there is no door suction, pay attention to prevent the handle from hitting the wall and being damaged. 48.Paco floor is very good. I like it. The only thing to remind is that it may be better to talk about the price directly with the boss than with the operator.
49. matte paint is just more beautiful than highlights.
50. If you decorate again, you will choose the finished putty instead of talcum powder.
5 1. The installation of leakage protector and air switch junction box cannot be omitted, and it should be placed indoors, not outdoors. Originally, I wanted to save money by using the old junction box outside the door. The electrician suggested putting it indoors and replacing it with a new one. Now I think his advice is very valuable.
52. Leakage protectors and air switches should be famous brands. I used "Mei Lan Ri Lan". If you want to buy the real thing, it's simple. Just call the headquarters of Meilan Rilan, and then call the local branch. 53. The basin under the stage is more exquisite, beautiful and easy to clean than the basin on the stage. Pay attention to the faucet under the platform. Considering the thickness of the basin edge, the faucet mouth should be longer.
54. The top corner of the wall is beautiful, without any decoration, but when looking for a painter, you should clearly ask the painter in advance. The top corner line helps to straighten the top corner line.
55. It is very important to treat the cement surface of the trunking before the putty is approved, and it is very appropriate to treat the weak surface with cleaning balls.
Gypsum is suitable for filling big holes in the wall. Of course, if the hole is too big, cement is needed.
57. Be sure to protect the paint on the back of frosted glass, which is difficult to clean!
58. The faucet of the vegetable basin must be turned on and off with the back of your hand. It is not easy to keep clean with your fingers, and it is difficult to turn with oil on your hands.
59. The price of luxury automatic clothes hangers is too high. After comparison, it is found that some unknown brands are better than the first-line brands in structural design, but their prices are much lower.
60. Consider using a metal socket installed on the ground. This kind of socket 100 yuan, but it is very convenient. Usually flush with the ground, you can pop up when you step on it. Suitable for living room. Or installed under the dining room table, used to insert hot pot (to prevent hanging wires when walking back and forth)
6 1. Storage room. TX mentioned it, but I didn't make a cupboard door, which looks not very beautiful, and the cupboard where clothes are put is also easy to get dirty.
62. The starting frame of the bed (is that what it is called? I bought a cloth bed from a professional bed company, and I spent 350 yuan to add this thing. When you pull the handle at the end of the bed, the bed board will turn up, exposing the storage space below. Great!
63. Unpractical double-knife towel rack! At present, as with single pole use, towels are basically not hung on the inner pole.
64. I don't think the trash can in the cupboard is practical enough. It's better to put it outside. In addition, do not install door trash cans and countertop trash cans. Opening the cupboard door in summer will stink. You'd better put the trash can outside.
65. The small cupboard near the dining table is nice, and it is convenient to put something.
66. Personally, the performance requirements of mop bucket are not high. You can build one by yourself, laying tiles or mosaics to match the surrounding environment, which is both beautiful and economical.
67. The bathroom can be hung with hooks.
68. The bathroom is designed with a small cupboard for clothes, so you don't have to worry about forgetting to take clean clothes when taking a shower.
69. The belt drying of washing machine is seriously unrealistic, except for the only yellow mildew day in a year. Thick clothes, bath towels or dry, let the sun disinfect. I'm overdrawn and need to deposit some money.
70. I made a laundry pool in the laundry room to wash some things by hand. I felt that I used less, so I bought a cheap terry faucet. I didn't expect this washbasin to be so convenient that it became the most commonly used washroom in my home. What rags, socks and floor towels are all washed inside, and even hand washing is mostly there.
7 1 .. optical tape is really not practical. It hasn't been opened since the renovation. Lights up when guests come. I forgot to install this thing myself. I wanted to have a romantic party, but now I don't have much chance to turn on the light.
72. The biggest lesson is that the simpler the decoration, the better, less pollution, less money and peace of mind.
73. Practical things: ① A reasonably designed storage room. (2) The sink on the north balcony. It is different from the washbasin in the bathroom and the bucket for washing vegetables and dishes in the kitchen. (3) You can pull the faucet to wash your hair in the bathroom. TX, who never washes her hair in the basin, is an exception. (4) Easy-to-clean floor and suitable cleaning tools. (5) Kitchen countertop work light.
74. When you buy a toilet, you must measure your hole spacing. Otherwise, it really is ...
75. It is best to measure the elevation of the kitchen floor tiles before they are dried to see if the lowest point is a floor drain, or if they are squabbled with the decoration team after drying, many cells will die.
76. The nacrite of the Great Wall used for the window sill is made of 800X800 tiles. Manufacturers cut and grind the edges, and masons stick them together. The pattern looks good.
No radiation.
77. The shower room in the bathroom must be large enough to use transparent glass, so that bathing in it will not be cramped.
78. Tile jointing should not use white cement jointing. In less than a month, it turned into a black seam, which was ugly. As a result, I bought a sealant and hooked it myself. I was tired.
79. There should be a backboard under the artificial stone in the cupboard. Results It was found after installation. Now I dare not cut meat on it. I promised to fix it for almost two months, but I haven't installed it yet (I only polished it once).
80. Don't believe the designer's bewitch. Of course, you can visit several decoration companies and extract something really useful from each design. The key is what you want to dress up as.
8 1. If the original developer of the floor drain has installed that "bowl", don't take it out.
82. Try the water after the tile on the bathroom floor is pasted, and rework it as soon as the running water slows down. The running water in my house was very slow, and my heart softened at that time. There is always a little water in the shower now, which makes the shower nozzle of our main defender idle for hundreds of dollars. Now I've been thinking about how to remedy it.
83. When installing the wash basin, we should consider the relative position with the mirror, the shelf for putting the toothbrush cup and the towel rack.
84. When buying a mirror, you should consider the position of the mirror headlights. If you don't want to install the reflector headlight for the time being, the size of the reflector should be able to cover the reserved line of the reflector headlight.
85. Make a small cabinet on the balcony where the washing machine is placed, which is convenient for putting some sundries, such as those in washing powder. Beautiful and practical.
86 .. Be sure to pay attention to the upstairs to make it waterproof ... or it will drip down upstairs and make the hanging cabinets and walls messy. .........
87. Don't blindly follow the trend of online group buying. Later, it was found that some people would bargain cheaper than group buying.
88. There must be more sockets on the TV background wall. Once the TV and DVD are installed, you will find that the socket is not enough.
89. Before changing the waterway, it is necessary to consider the details of the washbasin installed in the future, such as whether it is the left basin or the right basin, and where the inlet and outlet should be located. Otherwise, after changing it, I found that the washbasin of the photo could not hold it!
As for curtains, you'd better keep a copy of that size for yourself and explain to the boss that we can't reduce the size. If it's gone, what's going on? Or watch him cut the cloth himself.
9 1. Decoration construction process:
1, enter the site and tear down the wall to build it.
2. Do a 24-hour closed water test on the bathroom and kitchen floor (the developer needs to complete this task).
3. Trenching, hydropower transformation and acceptance.
4. Buried trunking concealed hydropower renovation project, and waterproof project will be started when there is no leakage in closed water test.
5, bathroom, kitchen wall disk.
6, carpentry comes into play, hanging smallpox, plaster Angle line.
7, door cover, window cover. Make a wooden cabinet frame.
8. At the same time, make all kinds of wooden doors, modeling doors and flat pressing.
9. Brush the board with dust-proof paint (clear oil).
10, leveling and laying of marble countertops on windowsill.
1 1, veneer, thread, hardcover.
12, wall foundation treatment, polishing and leveling.
13, the joints of furniture and doors should be glued (edged).
14, wall oil ICI at least three times.
15, furniture paint enters the site, and the paint is patched.
16, corner treatment, floor tiles, solid wood or composite wood floors, waterproof marble strips, and skirting lines.
17, installation and debugging of lamps, sanitary wares, handles and door locks.
18, cleaning, floor tile joint repair, return.
19, preliminary acceptance within the decoration company.
20。 Three parties make an appointment for formal acceptance and deliver it to the owner.
The first is to go through the admission procedures: generally speaking, the original and copy of the ID card of the person in charge of the decoration team are needed to go through the admission procedures.
Original and photocopy of owner's ID card, business license of decoration company and construction permit of decoration company.
There is also a decoration deposit. Of course, you need to specifically ask your management office to handle it.
Next is knocking on the wall: after knocking on the wall, the garbage is cleared, and the clay figurine is going to enter the field. The area of knocking on the wall can be calculated according to the floor plan of the house, which has all kinds of detailed data of your house. Remember to knock on the wall first, and you should know that knocking on the wall is calculated by area.
Masons are mainly responsible for building walls, plastering, repairing, tiling, waterproofing, leveling the ground and installing leaks. Cement mortar is used for wall building and plastering, and the difference is only in different proportions. Building walls and plastering are the preliminary work of masons. After these two items are finished, the mud union will first measure the actual area of the building wall and plastering, and then he will re-measure these dimensions with the owner. In addition, it is best to stick the tiles alone. If it is done by two people, the effect may be different because of different styles. It is best to use joint filler for joint filling of ceramic tiles. The white cement in my house has turned yellow in some places. Masons should pay attention: river sand should be used for decoration.
After the wall is built in Plaster workers, before plastering, the plumber enters the site and carries out hydropower transformation at the same time. The main work of hydropower transformation includes hydropower positioning, slotting, pipe burying and threading. Although slotting is not important, it indirectly affects the quality of pipe burying and threading. The first step of hydropower transformation is hydropower positioning, which is to determine the position of switch socket and waterway interface in the whole house according to your needs. The plumber should draw the line between the outlet pipe and the electric wire on the wall according to the faucet position of the switch socket, that is, arrange the lines well. Remember to ask your decoration team for the water and electricity diagram, and let the plumber tell you clearly the route direction according to the diagram. Don't be afraid of trouble, the plumber will certainly meet your requirements. If you don't sign after the completion of hydropower transformation, the plumber doesn't want to be the captain of the decoration.
After hydropower positioning, the next step is to make a trough. The groove made by a good beautician is basically a straight line, and the edge of the groove
Basically no hair teeth. Note that before slotting, be sure to ask the plumber to mark all the hydropower trends on the wall, and remember to compare them with the hydropower map to see if they are consistent.
There are several points to be noted about hydropower transformation: 1. It is best to indicate the brand of power cord used for circuit transformation in the contract. 2, the switch of the whole house should be basically in the same horizontal position. 3. The sockets in the whole house should be in the same horizontal position as far as possible.
Air conditioners, refrigerators and other special sockets and exceptions with special requirements. 4. The color of phase line and zero line in circuit transformation should be one in each room.
Therefore, if possible, it is best to indicate the colors of live wire, zero wire and control wire in the contract, and the protective wire is yellow-green. 5. It is best to use 3 wires with more than 4.0 strands for socket wires (including air-conditioned refrigerators) and 2 wires with more than 2.5 strands for lighting wires. 6, the bottom box is buried, if possible, it is best to buy the bottom box yourself, please report the installation fee to the decoration team. 7. As for audio cable, if you are not a professional enthusiast, you'd better not install audio cable: the building area of Shenzhen is basically around 100 square meter, and the living room area is generally not very large. Ordinary people really don't need to install sound effects in such an area. Air traffic control is also silver.
I think it is necessary to say something about waterway reconstruction: the problem of frozen water comes from the weather in Shenzhen.
Say, even the washbasin and kitchen sink need boiling water? If you need hot water, just turn on the water heater. Just like many mobile phones now have the function of surfing the Internet, how many of us use mobile phones to surf the Internet? But we really need to spend a lot of money on mobile phones with Internet access. When I got the statement, I could only sigh that it was so easy to make money without spending money!
Finally, it should be noted that it is best to indicate in the contract that the hydropower transformation must be completed.