First, choose your own materials and use well-known brands; Products that have passed environmental certification.
Second, the decoration company is looking for a big company. Having the qualification certificate issued by the construction administrative department.
Third, once in place, don't spend money on it. A price is the guarantee of quality and health.
Fourth, look at the model house first, and then determine the construction unit.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) Sign the renovation contract as detailed and complete as possible (such as design drawings, renderings, construction period, labor costs, material costs, losses, construction personnel, supervision, quality assurance, environmental protection testing and warranty). The most important drawings in this paper can calculate the engineering quantity and determine the loss, which can effectively save materials. Some people steal the materials decorated by the owners and do private work. You don't have to explain the rest one by one.
Oppose excessive decoration, and the decoration should be simple and practical. Decoration materials should choose environmentally friendly building materials. Even for environmentally friendly materials, special attention should be paid to using less artificial plates to prevent pollution caused by "superposition effect".
Judge the qualification of the decoration company
First of all, the decoration company must have the qualification to carry out decoration engineering construction. In addition to checking the business license, we should also carefully examine whether the company has a formal office and whether it can issue qualified bills.
Secondly, we can inspect the project done by this decoration company and evaluate its design and construction level. The level and qualification of interior designers are directly related to the design level, so ask the designers of this company in detail. If it is introduced by a friend, you can get to know the company through acquaintances. But sometimes friends and relatives are not "experts" in this field and will inevitably be "misled", so you still have to trust your own judgment.
Initial contact with home improvement company
At present, there are two ways for the decoration company to quote: first, the owner reports how much money to invest, and the decoration company starts to design the quotation according to the owner's requirements; Second, the owner put forward specific requirements for room decoration, and the decoration company reported how much it would cost to realize the owner's requirements.
Many consumers are willing to adopt the second negotiation method, in order to avoid the decoration company bottoming out. Consumers want the decoration company to quote first, and there is also room for counter-offer.
In fact, this practice is unnecessary. The profit rate of all formal decoration companies is similar, the difference is that the design strength and after-sales service are good or bad. This will only delay the owner's own time, thus delaying the construction progress.
Therefore, at the beginning of contact with the decoration company, it is best to directly explain to the decoration company how much you are going to spend and what kind of effect you want to achieve, and see if they accept it. If the decoration company agrees to undertake the owner's home decoration project, it can enter the specific design, quotation and negotiation stage.
Confirm design negotiation
After the owner and the decoration company reach a preliminary intention, the decoration company will understand the specific requirements of the owner and conduct on-the-spot measurement. Subsequently, the company will give the design drawings and a detailed quotation to the owner, and the quotation lists very specific materials and quantities.
After getting this material, the owner must first look at whether the design meets his own requirements. Of course, the owner can ask the designer to explain the design scheme, such as the treatment of some spaces and the use of materials. After determining the design scheme, it is necessary to carefully review whether the price and dosage of each item in the quotation are reasonable.
Put an end to loopholes in renovation contract
After the quotation is passed, the formal decoration company will sign a construction contract or agreement with the owner. In this contract, the Owner shall pay attention to the following issues:
First of all, the contract must specify the specific requirements and completion date of the renovation. Some consumers did not notice these two points when signing the contract, which laid a "foreshadowing" for some decoration companies to shoddy and delay the construction period.
Secondly, the contract must indicate the specific brand or model of the decorative materials used to prevent the decoration company from shoddy.
Third, the warranty clause in the contract is essential, and the responsibility should be clear: if it belongs to the construction or material quality problem, the decoration company will bear all the responsibilities; If it belongs to the improper use of users, both parties can negotiate to deal with it.
Check the construction team
The quality of decoration depends largely on the quality of the construction team. Therefore, before the decoration, the owner should also inspect the construction team used by the decoration company.
Judging from the current situation, most of the construction teams engaged in home decoration in major cities across the country are foreigners. Whether the construction team has strength can also be seen from the tools they use. At present, the renovation project is highly electrified. In order to improve quality and efficiency, competent construction teams generally start to use electric steam pumps, nail guns and other tools. Therefore, the owner can judge whether the construction team has the corresponding quality from the tools used by workers.
Bottom line: Find a large-scale decoration company with qualification certificate and get the guarantee of quality and health at one price.
The total decoration cost should be 10% to 20% of the house price. At present, people are based on the pursuit of comfort, and the reasonable distribution ratio of material cost is: bathroom and cupboard room account for 45%, hallway accounts for 35%, and bedroom accounts for 20%.
Cost 100 to 500 yuan /m2 is low-grade decoration, 500 to 1000 yuan /m2 is middle-grade decoration, 1000 to 1500 yuan /m2 is middle-grade decoration, and 1500 yuan /m2 is high-grade decoration, 2000 yuan.
Principle of saving money: just enough.
First of all, save money from the choice of materials.
1. Generally, the decoration starts with the bricklayer, and the only thing that can save money for the bricklayer is the money for tiling. The principle of saving money by buying bricks is: As far as I know, the cheapest wall brick is glazed tile with a specification of 200x300mm. Of course, the density of tiles should be required, otherwise there will be terrible consequences of cement infiltrating into the surface from behind. 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. This way to save money is cheaper than running off your leg and "panning for gold" everywhere without your knowledge.
3, buy latex paint regardless of its five-in-one or three-in-one, regardless of the second or third generation. Just buy ordinary goods with famous brands. Why do you say that? Because "Lao Huo" thinks that there is really little difference between the two, if you want to see the durability after a few years, it is better to make money in these years and then install it. 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 I buy a wooden floor, I think it is often a matter of mentality. If I use the wooden floor myself, I prefer the wooden floor with color difference, which is cheap and natural. 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.
Second, save money by purchasing materials.
1, some people say that shopping around is true, but it takes time to shop around, and time is money. So you should pay attention to how to compare the rules, otherwise running around and sweating may not save much money. I think if you want to compare, just compare two, such as choosing a large brand building materials supermarket and comparing it with some modular building materials cities. But don't buy things in small shops, the chances of being cheated are too great. Although the goods of the same brand will be cheaper in small stores, it is very likely that the grade will be much worse. "Lao Huo" once had such an experience: once I went to a shop in Building Materials Street to buy latex paint, and the clerk took out a bucket of paint from the shelf. As soon as I saw it was fake, I said to him, Give it to me. The man looked at the "old fire", (interjecting: "old fire" wandered around the building materials city, and most people couldn't see that I was a decorator) and said happily: Good! So he brought me a new bucket of paint from the back of the shop. At first glance, it is still fake. So I said impatiently to the shopkeeper, give it to me if you want. Don't waste my time. The shopkeeper immediately apologized and said, OK! Go to the warehouse and get it right away. The bartender went out by bike and came back ten minutes later with several barrels of new paint. It's still fake!
2. Using the price war, the final victim of the price war is always the consumer. Now some manufacturers often fight price wars easily, which is exactly what we want. For example, when the air conditioner is in a price war, this is a good time to purchase goods. We can't expect them to buy goods without money, because your home decoration may have been completed by then. The most important thing is to save as much as possible at present.
3. Use the concept of off-season for decoration. In different areas, the off-season decoration time is different. For example, in the southeast coastal areas, the off-season of decoration is always the rainy season. At this time, both materials and wages are often very low, which is a good time to enter the market. As for the influence of plum rains on decoration, to be honest, technically, these influences are not significant except for the slow drying time of paint.
4, centralized procurement, strive for concessions. If you buy some similar goods from shopkeepers and the west, you may not even get the most basic discount. From a commercial point of view, no matter whether the merchant sells goods or not, the cost exists, and earning more and earning less will not be too bad. The key is to sell more. Most of them are willing to give more preferential measures to big customers.
5. When buying materials, remember to take this instruction. You may not believe it, but you can't help believing it. Now, from Shenzhen to Beijing, many businesses all over the country, including people from decoration companies, have bought or read the "Decoration Manual" by the author Lao Huo. When you hold it, many people dare not make mistakes or talk nonsense in front of you. Even if the other person dares to expect something, you can open this book for reference immediately to avoid being cheated. If what the other person says is outrageous, don't waste time and change careers directly!
Third, save money from optimizing design.
1. Good design allows you to spend money on creativity first. Under the limited budget, only by controlling expenditure can we achieve the goal of giving priority to the use of money. On the other hand, the contrast treatment in design can make some projects use some extremely cheap materials.
2. Good design can guarantee the expenditure plan and avoid the rework cost caused by unnecessary mistakes. For example, colors are used casually without design, and finally they are found to be ugly and have to be reworked and corrected, which will inevitably lead to duplication of materials and labor.
3. A good designer will also provide you with suggestions on materials, analyze the advantages and disadvantages of different materials, and avoid direct and indirect losses caused by wrong material selection.
Fourth, save money.
1, don't save money at the same time. Some people, in order to save money on tiles, on the other hand, spend a lot of money to buy a toilet of several thousand yuan. To be honest, I don't think there is much difference in quality between a toilet with a price of 1000 yuan and a toilet with a price of 5000 yuan. To save money, we must first overcome our own desires.
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.
1. Wall finish (Dulux gold 5: 1) 16/ m2.
2. Gypsum board ceiling (Longpai) 95 yuan/m2
3. Aluminum gusset plate (jack light steel keel) 90/ m2
4. Gypsum Yinjiao Line (Guangzhou Jianjun) 8/ m
5. TV background wall 8806. Door (Junjian super large core board, painted with white paint) 600/ piece.
7. Door cover (Junjian super core board, painted with white paint) 60/ m
8. Window cover (Junjian super core board, painted with white paint) 80/ m
9. Plastic steel door (Feng Ying) 400/ piece.
10. Artificial stone surface of window sill (2m * 0.7m) 700/ piece.
1 1.600 sliding door (Junjian super core board, painted with white paint)/piece.
12. Wardrobe (1.8m * 2.6m imported melamine board) 2000/ piece.
14. Cabinet (4.5m imported artificial stone melamine board) 3000
15. Sliding window (2m * 2.2m Junjian super large core board, painted with white paint) 1000/ piece.
16. Masonry (floor tile: 800*80048 m2 10/ m2
600 * 600 15m2 6/ m2
Kitchen wall tiles: 55m2 9/ m2
Floor tile: 20 m2 6/ m2
The ground elevation is 42m4/m2.
6 doorstones 10/ piece
3 tons of cement and 5 cubic meters of sand
Total: 3,300 yuan
17. Hydropower transformation: 800 (excluding materials)
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Guest dining room and water and electricity decoration shall include:
1) Laying floor tiles-the main material is floor tiles, the auxiliary materials are cement, yellow sand, water and glue, and the price auxiliary material is 10/M2, where the algorithm for each square main material is 1/(A*B), and then the price of each brick is multiplied. (Many decoration companies have the phenomenon of "one step in place", which refers to 65438+.
2) To make the baseboard, there should be baseboard (9 pieces +3 plywood)+baseboard+paint+labor cost.
3) The price of wall top latex paint should be grass-roots treatment+latex paint surface primer+labor.
4) Gypsum board ceiling, charged according to the projected area: auxiliary materials+labor price.
5) Door installation shall include door and door fittings (such as hinges, locks and door suction) installation+painting+labor.
6) The production of various cabinets, partitions and decorative walls should include basic frame+hardware installation+painting+labor.
7) Water and electricity installation: the cost is divided into three parts: auxiliary materials-conduits, wires, etc. Main materials-switches, sockets, lamps, sanitary ware, etc. ; Labor costs vary from place to place. Water and electricity installation also includes the installation of kitchen and bathroom equipment. Most decoration companies pay in advance according to the building area of the house, and then settle the account after the project is completed.
The decoration of the bedroom should include:
1) Flooring (solid wood or composite floor) shall be provided with floor joists (finished products or finished square timber)+floor+painting+labor, (on the floor joists 12cm board shall be counted separately).
2) On-site production of skirting line, there should be skirting line (9 pieces+plywood)+skirting line+paint+labor cost.
3) The price of wall top latex paint should be grass-roots treatment+latex paint surface primer+labor.
4) The top corner line shall be the finished top corner line price+finishing and installation+labor price.
5) The production of door and window covers should be grass-roots treatment (rib+joinery board)+solid wood take-up+pasting+painting+manual work.
6) Door installation shall include door and door fittings (such as hinges, locks and door suction) installation+painting+labor.
7) The production of fixed cabinet furniture should include the installation of the basic frame and hardware (usually, the lining material of fixed furniture should be non-painted, such as double-sided white, and the decoration company will want you to paint the furniture because the profit ratio of painting is relatively large).
Kitchen and bathroom decoration should include:
The budget price of kitchen and bathroom decoration accounts for a relatively high proportion in the whole budget price, mainly because kitchen cabinets and sanitary ware decide their own prices. The contents of kitchen and bathroom decoration should include:
1) Floor tiles are the same as above. Because the floor tiles in the kitchen and bathroom are relatively small, the cost per square meter is much less than that in the guest restaurant.
2) Laying wall tiles-the same auxiliary materials are used, and the price of auxiliary materials is 10/M2. The price calculation method of main materials is the same as above. It must be noted that unless there are special reasons, floor tile leveling should not generally occur, and wall foundation treatment costs should not occur when wall tiles are attached.
3) Manufacture of cabinets-If the budget is not large, it is suggested that the cabinet frame should be made by the decorator on site, and the owner should customize the door panels and countertops by himself. The price of auxiliary materials for cabinet frame 190/ 150 (the lower cabinet/upper cabinet adopts medium-density double-sided white), and the labor cost price is 66/78. Usually, the price of imported fireproof door panels on the market is 125/.
4) Ceiling-It is recommended to use aluminum gusset ceiling with high cost performance. Usually, the price of main materials is about 80 /M2, and the price of auxiliary materials is 35/M2, including the price of wooden keel. Usually, decoration companies will separate these two items to increase profits.
Half of home is home. After the work of the decoration company, the road of house decoration has not been finished, and then it is time to buy furniture, cloth, handicrafts and electrical appliances for each room. This is also a big investment, which needs to be investigated in advance, why the budget of decoration companies is generally not taken away by customers.
1) The calculation of quantities in the budget is incorrect, which is generally calculated by customers, such as the construction area, wall area, length of skirting line, length of top corner line, paint amount, calculation of door and window covers, etc.
2) The unit price of labor, auxiliary materials and main materials is high, and customers are afraid to find some professionals to identify them.
3) There are double calculations in the budget, which I am afraid will take a long time for customers to see.
4) I am afraid that customers will compare their own budgets with other companies, which will lead to vicious competition and damage their own interests until they flee.