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First, choose whether to contract cleaning or contracting materials.
Contracting and contracting materials refers to entrusting a decoration company to buy decoration materials, and the other party will uniformly quote the material costs and labor costs.
The contractor will purchase the materials himself and the workers will carry out the construction. The wages will be paid to the decoration company or the construction team, and the cost of materials will be borne by the householder himself.
The advantage of cleaning staff is that the cost is transparent. Because they are purchased in person, the shopkeeper knows the exact price of each material. The disadvantage is that users need to spend a lot of energy and time, and it is easy to delay the construction period if the materials are not purchased in time. The most important thing is that the owner is difficult to grasp the quality of decorative materials, and knows little about the texture and use of materials. Moreover, due to the small number of one-time purchases, the wholesale price is often not available. Once there is a problem in the engineering quality, it is difficult to distinguish between the process quality problem and the material quality problem.
The advantage of contracting materials is to save time and effort, which can save customers a lot of trouble. Decoration companies often deal with material suppliers and have their own fixed supply channels and corresponding inspection methods, so they rarely buy fake and shoddy materials. Decoration companies will buy a lot of commonly used materials, so they can get very low prices. For suppliers, it is not easy to sell unqualified decoration materials to decoration companies. Because suppliers are well aware that it is not easy to keep a fixed big customer in the current buyer's market, and they will lose a customer if they are not careful, so they attach great importance to honest management.
Decoration knowledge: selection of building materials
Building materials can be divided into: wires (strong wires and weak wires); Water supply pipes (cold water pipes, hot water pipes); Wood (wood square, board); Ceramic tiles (wall tiles, floor tiles; Exterior wall brick, interior wall brick); Paints and coatings; Household appliances (cookers, lighting, intelligent equipment, air conditioners, etc.). ); Parts and equipment (kitchen appliances); Fastener materials (chemical adhesives, hardware fasteners); Decorate hardware fittings, glass, mirrors, etc.
The key to buying is to grasp the main problems. Many consumers first consider the price when choosing materials, but the price is not the main problem. It is more important to consider the following aspects: consider the use function and place of materials and parts; Consider the convenience and durability of use after decoration; Consider the possibility and convenience of future maintenance and replacement.
"First of all, in addition to inviting experts to buy together, or strengthening learning and discrimination, for consumers, buying building materials must go to the formal home improvement market and reputable dealerships.
Secondly, you need to ask the operator for invoices or purchase vouchers. Dealers must be required to indicate their names, specifications, grades, brands, etc. For the purchased building materials products, indicate the store name and shopping time on the invoice or purchase voucher, and ask for the quality responsibility list. In this way, if the purchased building materials products are found to have quality problems in the future, there are also vouchers to rely on.
Third, when consumers look at the product inspection report, they should look at the sampling report, not the entrusted report. The test report should have the seal of the testing unit, and the copy is invalid. If necessary, you can also ask the business to show a "green" environmental protection certificate.
Fourth, pay attention to the date on the product packaging. If the shelf life is vague, you need to pay more attention. In addition, we should also pay attention to whether the product identification, factory name and net content are complete.
Fifth, some businesses can show many certificates when they show them to consumers. Consumers should pay attention to such a detail. For example, if the certificate says "This product meets the national GB 18586-200 1 standard for floor leather", it is necessary to verify whether the same words are printed on the product packaging box. Some dealers dare to falsify the certificate, but dare not falsify the packaging, mainly for fear of being caught by consumers and complaining.
Decoration knowledge: material trap
Some construction teams often make a fuss about the color, brand and price of this home improvement material, so as to substitute inferior for superior; Low price and high price; Cheat the owner by reporting the defective product as genuine. This technology often appears in the form of contract work and materials.
Material procurement trap:
Home decoration includes the purchase of various materials. Commodities of various brands and prices in the market are dazzling. Although the appearance of different materials is not much different, the quality and price are far from each other. Some decoration companies and building materials suppliers "sing a double reed" and sell low-grade building materials to homeowners at high prices. Decoration companies recommend owners to "rest assured" building materials stores, and decoration companies that introduce "business" to building materials suppliers should feel at ease to get commissions.
Decoration knowledge: the performance of decoration fraud
Solicit business in the name of not making money. Family decoration should also have a cost budget procedure: material cost, construction cost, management fee, profit and so on. It should be clear that decoration companies or construction teams without credibility, quality and service guarantee often take the practice of quoting at once or below others' quotations to undertake business.
Stealing engineering projects. Users don't know about decoration, but intentionally leave out items on the list of construction projects, and add items to increase the quotation during the construction period. Although there is a seemingly detailed quotation, the area is intentionally increased when calculating the construction area. If the construction area is calculated repeatedly (excluding the area is not excluded), or the irregular area is calculated according to the maximum size. These materials are inferior. The quoted materials are inconsistent with the actual use, especially the use of counterfeit and shoddy materials at the grassroots level to reduce costs. Or deliberately increase the material loss and increase the engineering quantity in the name of loss. Reduce construction procedures, cut corners and reduce costs. For example, only two layers of paint are painted, the cement is shoddy, the wood base is not handled firmly, the wedge heads are all connected with nails, and the proportion of water in latex paint is not equal. Deceiving customers with the popular package quotation method seems scientific and the actual project is vague. Before the renovation, I tried my best to brag and undertake business. After the decoration is completed, there are quality problems and they run away. Quality and maintenance have become big problems.
Prevent fraud
You can't give up your principles just because you are greedy for petty gains.
Before signing the contract, you should know the materials, construction procedures and service items you need.
Carefully choose a reputable and powerful decoration company and respect the reasonable profit of its labor income.
Check the name, material, quantity, method, unit price and total price of the items listed in the quotation.
Indicate the increase or decrease items and other related matters.
The detailed construction method and material name are indicated on the construction drawing as an annex to the contract.
Decoration knowledge: engineering budget law
1, direct cost+(direct cost x comprehensive coefficient) = total cost.
Direct cost: total price of materials: total price of auxiliary materials: freight: labor cost: total:
Design fees, profits, management fees, taxes and comprehensive coefficient indicators;
Total price:
2. Sum of contracting costs of individual projects = total cost.
Tip: You can use it against the list of home improvement materials.
Usage: This form should be checked with the design drawings of this model and then marked with "√".
Key Tip: Direct costs include: materials, equipment parts, freight and labor costs. The local freight is generally 1.5%. The comprehensive coefficient includes: profit, various construction fees and taxes, generally around 20%. Among them, the tax is about 3.8%, and the management fee is about 7- 10%, with different fees. Users and decoration companies to determine.
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Whether the decoration is environmentally friendly depends on six small details.
Wood, floor, ceramic products and paint are the biggest expenses in the decoration process, and they are also the most concerned by consumers. Families with normal economic conditions will spare no effort to invest in these projects. However, no matter how excellent the design is, how expensive the materials are, and the details are not properly grasped, the final effect will be greatly affected. Below, we will briefly explain some details that consumers are easy to ignore during the decoration process.
Details 1 skirting board quality
The skirting line not only plays a role in protecting the wall itself, but also occupies a considerable proportion in the beautiful proportion of home. It is the outline of the ground at home, and the line of sight often falls naturally on it. The baseboard with beautiful shape and exquisite workmanship can often make the finishing point and add a lot of color to your home. But the baseboard is often despised. I have seen some renovated houses, but I can't see anything wrong with the design and construction. I just feel that the overall effect is not very good and I feel uncomfortable in front of me. Finally, it was found that the rough and cheap baseboard seriously affected the effect.
Detail 2 Installation Technology of Wall Cabinet
Embedded wardrobes or other cabinets embedded in the wall have many advantages, which not only increase the space inside the cabinet (you can stand very high), but also make the cabinet simple and generous. It should be noted that the floor on which the cabinet is placed and the wall on the side of the cabinet must be horizontal and vertical. Otherwise, when installing cabinets, it is difficult to handle the gaps and barely fill them, so that the vision will be distorted, it will look rough, the technology will not be fine, and the effect will be greatly reduced. A set of expensive wall cabinets will be destroyed by these small details.
Also, if it is a sliding door, the ground will be uneven, which will also lead to the seamless closing of the sliding door. Therefore, in the location where the wardrobe is installed, the ground and walls should be strictly horizontal and vertical.
Detail 3 light source design
In the living room, there should be the concepts of main light source and auxiliary light source before the installation of lamps. The main light source is the special lighting of the pointer to a local space, such as reading desk lamp, floor lamp, chandelier on the dining table, spotlight for wall decoration lighting and so on. The auxiliary light source is the headlight in the center of almost every room. Many people do not have this concept when decorating their homes.
Detail 4 Mouldproof of Glass Glue
Glass glue is the most inconspicuous thing in the decoration process, which is mainly used to repair the joints of cabinets and sanitary ware. If poor quality glass glue is used, it will turn black and yellow after a period of time. It is recommended to buy glass glue mildew-proof products during decoration.
Detail 5 Strength of Joint Filling Agent
In the decoration, we usually use white cement powder to fill the joints, but its adhesion and waterproofing are poor. Cracks will appear after dehydration or when it shrinks when it expands, resulting in water seepage in floor tiles. In addition, the bonding fastness and hardness of white cement are not as good as that of caulking agent, and its anti-discoloration ability is not as good as that of caulking agent. Consumers are advised to choose caulking agent during decoration.
Detail 6 Floor Drain Rules
The drainage of floor drain is lower than the ground, which is often easily overlooked and difficult to transform. Therefore, it is necessary to remind the decoration workers that the floor drain must be lower than the ground to avoid the phenomenon of "flooding Jinshan" after each bath.
5 deceptive tricks hidden in home decoration and 4 decoration tips to teach you.
Miss Shao came to a decoration company in Jiangning Road to prepare a decoration plan for the new house in Jiuting, Songjiang, and began to decorate after the Spring Festival. It was found at the scene that many people wanted to decorate their houses after the festival.
Recently, Mr. Chen, a decoration expert who has been engaged in the decoration industry for 23 years, told this newspaper that the general large-scale decoration company should extract 30% from the profit of each decoration business, and then contract the business to the following decoration team. Under the low profit, the decoration team used the people's little knowledge of decoration to dig their brains to infringe on the interests of the owners.
Do budget "playing hard to get"
"The decoration industry has a big market and high profits." Lao Chen said that since the 1990s, people's demand for home improvement has increased, and the home improvement industry in China has developed rapidly, with fierce competition among large and small companies. At the same time, there are more and more tricky renovations.
The trick of the decoration company starts with the budget. Lao Chen said that the competition in the decoration industry is fierce, and some decoration companies will get the decoration right through low total price. For example, for a new house with two rooms and two halls, the total renovation cost is generally around 654.38+ 10,000 yuan. The shopkeeper always likes to bargain. After some angry words, he made a deal for 90,000 yuan. As we all know, decoration companies have long intentionally omitted some projects when making budgets, so the budget made must be low in total price.
expert opinion/advice
The owner should check the budget list, and the projects promised orally by the decoration company must be implemented in the text one by one, so as not to miss the decoration projects as far as possible. For example, in a budget, the decoration company deliberately omitted the decoration projects of the porch and the shoe cabinet. The owner found this problem in the renovation process, and the other party would ask for supplementary budget text. At this time, the other party will quietly raise the material unit price and labor cost.
Appointment contract "seeing flowers in the fog"
When the owner is satisfied with the decoration budget provided by the decoration company, he immediately enters the link of signing the "renovation contract". Lao Chen said that at present, Shanghai decoration companies generally use contracts, one is the "Shanghai Family Room Decoration Construction Contract" drafted by Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Bureau and Shanghai Municipal Construction and Transportation Commission, and the other is a self-compiled contract based on the former.
Lao Chen said that when signing a formal contract, the owner should pay attention to the following points:
mode of payment
Under normal circumstances, the owner will pay the decoration fee in installments according to the progress of the project. Some small companies are eager to turn over capital, and may falsify the progress of the project and let the owners pay in advance.
finishing material
In some contracts, the decoration company is vague about the materials. In the actual decoration, fake and inferior materials may be used. When the owner investigated, the decoration company took out the original contract, saying that the owner did not indicate the material brand. Once the owner asks for the use of high-quality and environmentally-friendly decoration materials, the decoration company will ask for price increases. "Even if savvy consumers ask for the brand of materials in the contract, the decoration company still has a way to' chop' you." Lao Chen revealed that some decoration companies indicated in the contract that if the original brand materials are out of stock during decoration, Party B (decoration company) can temporarily replace the same type of materials. But whether this "same" is of the same quality or similar material is just not stated.
expert opinion/advice
When signing the contract, the owner must weigh the words repeatedly and put a few more question marks in his mind. It is best to clearly stipulate the specific payment time and amount in the contract, and keep the decoration fee of about 10% until the project acceptance is completed, and the occupancy time is more than two months.
The survey area "lied about military intelligence"
"When measuring the area of the house, the flower heads inside are quite transparent." Lao Chen told reporters that in every decoration business, about 10%-20% of the profits were obtained by falsely reporting the area.
Lao Chen said that in most cases, the work of measuring the decoration area is done by the decoration workers, and the owners take a good pen and paper to record. In fact, when the owner carefully recorded, the gesture of the decorator changed, and the original length of 25 cm was likely to become 28 cm. Don't underestimate this 3 cm, and if you count cement, yellow sand, plywood, kitchen countertops and other materials, it will cost a lot of money.
expert opinion/advice
Decoration workers often calculate the area under the cautious eyes of the owners. Don't forget the truth that many a mickle makes a mickle. Owners should keep their eyes open and do a good job of supervision, and many "tricks" will be "killed in the cradle" by you.
Demolition project "flower head quotation"
In order to make money, decoration companies always rack their brains, and the "flower head quotation" of demolition projects is also one of their specialties. Originally a simple wardrobe, in the owner's view, just quote the total price, but smart decoration companies like to quote separately: how many plates, how much paint and how much labor are needed, and then add them together. The total price of this quotation, which is called "flower quotation" in the industry, is definitely much more expensive than the overall quotation.
Lao Chen revealed that in fact, a painter, for example, can brush all the paints such as walls, wardrobes and lockers. In the home improvement, it is done in one go, but if it is split, the paint on the wardrobe will have to wait until it is dry before it can be brushed for the second time and the third time, and the walls will have to be brushed for five times in a row. Not only will the price go up, but the construction period will definitely be much more than the overall calculation.
expert opinion/advice
Paint can be painted together, and carpenters can do it together. Knowing this truth, the owner will say "no" to this quotation and negotiate a better project quotation with the decoration company.
Buy materials and "sneak in"
Buying materials is also a key stage for decoration companies to "make a difference".
Buy wall tiles
Decoration workers and owners went to the building materials market to choose wall tiles, and the owners took a fancy to a first-class wall tile. After bargaining with suppliers, the price is 80 yuan/m2. The shopkeeper wrote down the model and ordered the goods and went home. When the goods arrive, the model is definitely correct, but the grade is often switched to first class or even second class, and the unit price may only be in 50 yuan/square meter or even lower. Lao Chen revealed that when owners buy materials, suppliers and some decoration companies often "flirt with each other" and exchange "code words". After the job is done, the supplier will give the difference after replacing the building materials as a rebate to the decorator.
Buy a floor
In addition to buying wall tiles, some "black-hearted" decorators will join hands with suppliers to make the whole box of floors sent missing one or two pieces per box. If the floor area to be installed by an owner is 80 square meters, and each medium-priced solid wood floor is about 20 yuan, it usually takes 82 boxes of floors to install 80 square meters of floors, based on each box of floors 12. If two floors are removed from each box, the stolen "profit" is 3280 yuan!
Buy paint
Taking advantage of the psychology of some owners who admire brands but want to buy cheap goods, the decorator told the owners "intimately" that "my friend" deals in brand coatings, but he will definitely give you a good price. The owner spent less than the market price to buy the so-called brand paint, but he didn't know that the paint inside was either mixed with water or replaced with other inferior paints.
expert opinion/advice
Before buying decoration materials, owners should spend some time shopping around to find out the unit price and market trend, and they are not afraid of the thorny decoration work. As for buying paint, it is suggested that owners should not be greedy and cheap, or go to regular brand stores to buy, rest assured.
concentrate on
"Charging" in time to learn decoration knowledge
Zhu Jiren of Shanghai Decoration Association told reporters that there are about 3,000 companies specializing in home decoration in the city. Due to the busy work, more and more people choose the decoration method of contracting and contracting materials, but the owners generally have some distrust and vigilance towards the decoration company.
The reasons are as follows: first, the quality of the decoration team is indeed mixed; Second, most owners lack decoration knowledge.
Although many young people actively absorb decoration knowledge through the internet and magazines, most people still have a little knowledge about decoration. Therefore, it is imperative to fully popularize their decoration knowledge. On June 27th, 65438, Shanghai Decoration Association held a free lecture on "Home Decoration University" for the society. The first lecture was "How to sign the renovation contract", which attracted many citizens to attend the lecture. According to the reporter, the lecture is held once a week.
"Decorating the house is not a trivial matter. We hope that more owners will charge in time, learn the necessary decoration knowledge and minimize the trouble during decoration. "
Ok, I'll teach you four decorating tips.
Trick 1
The name, grade and brand of building materials shall be specially indicated on the receipt voucher, and a list of quality responsibilities shall be obtained.
Trick 2
Take a sample home when you buy the floor. After the goods arrive, carefully compare them according to the samples; You can take apart a section of the cross section of all floor cartons to see if there are any missing numbers.
Trick 3
See if the paint is diluted. You can shake it first. Latex paint without water is very thick, and latex paint with water generally makes a drumming sound.
Trick 4
For good quality tiles, pour a little water from the back with a cup, and there will be no water droplets oozing out from the front, while for inferior tiles, there will be many water droplets oozing out after a long time.
Source: Xinmin Evening News