What materials to make inexpensive cosmetic repairs. Stages of cosmetic repair

From this article you will learn:

• What are the stages of a room refurbishment?
• How to prevent the recurrence of cracks after cosmetic repairs
• How to save money by renovating a room
• How much does a room refurbishment cost?

Quite often, the redecoration of a room in Moscow drags on for many months, it begins to seem too costly, impossible and boring. However, any routine can be turned into an interesting and even exciting activity. Redecorating a room is not as difficult as it seems at first glance. The main thing is to think carefully in advance and strictly follow the plan.

Stages of redecorating a room

Redecoration of the room involves only updating the finishes. The refurbishment of the room does not include any major changes in the heating, power supply, air conditioning and ventilation systems. Minor repair work on the replacement of door and window blocks is possible.

Carrying out the correct redecoration of the room is subject to several principles:

1. Redecoration of a room is always done from the ceiling to the floor, that is, from top to bottom.
2. Sequence of operations "from dirty to clean": first the most time-consuming and dirty.
3. If repairs are made in a multi-room apartment, you should start from the room farthest from the front door and gradually move towards the exit, the final stage is a loggia or balcony.
4. You can start repairing a one-room apartment immediately from the kitchen or room.

First, draw a sketch of the room

The sketch will help to imagine the future interior and draw up a plan for redecorating the room.

If you are unfamiliar with a 3D imaging software, you can simply print out a photograph of the room and overlay a sheet of tracing paper over it. Then, with the help of pencils and felt-tip pens, experiment and choose the right shades for the ceiling and walls. Decide what color you want to get the room: warm or cold, colorful or plain. Decide if ornaments are needed in the future interior, and if so, what kind and size.

Probably, drawing a sketch, you will want to rearrange the furniture, change the upholstery or curtains. The resulting drawing will help you see where you need to focus, complement or diversify the space with decor items.

In the drawing of the future interior, it is desirable to indicate:

• Location of furniture. Highlight the walls that will constantly be in your field of vision in order to decorate them with the highest quality, pleasing to the eye, finishing materials.
• Optimal placement of lamps and chandeliers for the best lighting.
• Availability of electrical outlets in the places of installation of household appliances, so that later it would be possible to design a competent installation of electrical wiring in all rooms.
• Carefully thought-out arrangement of various decor items(for example, paintings, posters, mosaics, etc.).

The correct room redecoration plan contains information about the selected finishing option: wallpapering, painting, etc. The division of rooms into separate zones is also reflected in the sketch. For example, for visual zoning, sometimes they focus on one of the walls, painting it in a different color.

Prepare your room for a makeover

Before starting cosmetic repairs, you need to take out the furniture or cover it with plastic wrap, moving it to the center of the room.

In order to additionally protect the already repaired room from construction dirt, dust and damage, a polyethylene film is hung and fixed from the outside of the door.

Before redecorating the room, it is necessary to prepare all surfaces that are planned to be painted or wallpapered. Old wallpaper after their abundant wetting is removed with a spatula. The paint is also peeled off with a spatula. If irregularities, cracks or dents are found, they are puttied. After that, the surface is primed.

The walls and the stream for painting are prepared especially carefully. Sometimes you have to putty several times, followed by sanding with sandpaper (dry) or a damp sponge (wet).

When redecorating a room involves finishing with overhead building materials (drywall, panels, plywood, etc.), it is enough to make sure that the surfaces do not need additional leveling.

In preparation for the redecoration of the room, the frames are removed from the electrical outlets and the plinth from the floor. Window sills, door and window panels are sanded with sandpaper, puttied and primed if necessary.

How to make an inexpensive redecoration of a room with your own hands

Not everyone has enough money to hire a construction team. In addition, where is the guarantee that the specialists found on the ad will perform the work efficiently. Therefore, if a radical “coup” of the interior is not planned, then you can make cosmetic repairs with your own hands. This is a fairly simple and interesting job. The most important thing is to buy the necessary materials in advance, strictly follow the sequence of actions and do everything carefully and in a good mood.

Before starting the redecoration of the room, you must purchase:

• Wide and narrow spatulas.
• Primer.
• Dry putty or ready-made.
• Wallpaper.
• Flat brush, rag.
• Skirting boards for ceiling and floor.
• Floor covering (linoleum, laminate, etc.).
• Roller with a long handle.
• cuvette.
• Glue for linoleum (if necessary).
• Plastic film and adhesive tape to cover furniture.

Preparatory work, wallpaper removal

To make it more convenient to carry out redecoration of the room, it must be freed from furniture. Non-lifting cabinets can be disassembled or moved away from the wall and carefully covered with a film, fixing it with tape or a stapler.

When everything superfluous is taken out of the room, you can start dismantling. First of all, skirting boards are removed: wooden - with a nail puller, and plastic - with a screwdriver or a screwdriver.

Then remove the old wallpaper, prying them with a spatula below. If they are difficult to remove, then with the help of a roller they are moistened with hot or warm water. After about ten minutes, the wallpaper comes off with a “light movement of the hand”. Now a special tool is being sold that can be used to facilitate this work.

Wall alignment

This process is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. Besides, it's quite entertaining. With self-decorating the room, you can verify this. The required amount of primer is poured into the cuvette, the roller is lowered into it. The primer is applied to all walls.

The primer composition dries quite quickly, after an hour you can proceed to puttying the walls. In the store you can buy a ready-made mixture. It is sold in sealed bags.

Dry putty is also sold in paper bags. Before use, it is poured into a bucket, filled with water in the ratio indicated in the instructions, and thoroughly mixed with a construction mixer. In the absence of a mixer, the putty mixture is prepared in small portions with a spatula.

After a short infusion of the composition, you can begin to level the walls. To do this, with a small spatula, the mixture is applied to the entire blade of a large spatula, then applied to the wall and smeared evenly over the surface. So continue to do until the complete elimination of irregularities.

At the end of the alignment of the walls, the putty should dry out within a day. The cracks that appear at this time are moistened with water and rubbed with a spatula. After 24 hours, you can start pasting the walls with wallpaper.

1. Ceiling renovation.

Without wasting time, while the walls are drying up, you can do a redecoration of the ceiling. The easiest way is to paste over it with PVC panels. They start work from the center, having previously drawn a straight line that divides the ceiling into halves.

It is necessary to apply glue to the back of the tile around the entire perimeter and in the center. After attaching the panel to the marked line on the ceiling. Then, having smeared the second tile with glue, install next to the first, trying to make the seam less noticeable. If the redecoration of the room is performed by one person, then it is more convenient to apply the adhesive on several tiles at once and then attach them to the ceiling.

Seeing that a solid tile does not fit near the wall, you need to cut off a piece of the desired size. The tile is easily cut with a construction knife. The tiles near the window and on the opposite side are cut in the same way. After gluing, the tiles can be painted with paint, water-based or latex. Such a coating retains its original appearance longer and attracts less dust.

wall decoration

Having planned the redecoration of the room, they purchase wallpaper for pasting the walls in advance. You need to buy taking into account a small margin, so that you definitely have enough. If the wallpaper is patterned, their consumption increases to fit the pattern.

The industry now offers a huge range of wallpapers. Before buying, it is a good idea to read information on the Internet and see samples. This will help determine what is needed for the redecoration of the room: paper wallpaper, non-woven, vinyl or paintable. For each of these types, special adhesives are sold. There is also a universal wallpaper glue suitable for any type of wallpaper.

Wallpapering begins by measuring the height of the wall from ceiling to floor. It should not be forgotten that you need to glue the wallpaper from the window to the right.

The resulting wall height is set aside on the wallpaper and cut off. In accordance with the instructions, the adhesive composition is prepared and applied with a brush to the wrong side of the wallpaper. When gluing wallpaper that is dense in texture, it is recommended to coat with glue the section of the wall where the prepared segment is applied.

Doing a redecoration in a room with your own hands, it is more convenient to glue the wallpaper together. In the case when the redecoration of the room is carried out by one person, you can move the table closer to the wall to be glued or put a stepladder.

The upper part of the wallpaper is applied to the top of the wall, carried out over this area with a clean, dry soft cloth. Then, using the same rag, carefully press the wallpaper in the middle and, making movements from the middle down at an angle of 45 degrees, glue the middle and lower parts. Then, having adjusted the pattern, measure and cut off the next piece and paste it in the same sequence.

So all the walls are pasted over. Particular attention is paid to the places where the wallpaper joins. It is better to stick wallpaper not overlapping, but end-to-end - this way the seams are less noticeable. Insufficiently high-quality gluing of joints can be corrected with a special glue for seams.

When pasting wall sections where electrical sockets and switches are located, turn off the mains voltage and remove the housings of electrical appliances. At the end of the cosmetic repairs of the room, they are mounted in their original place.

floors

When redecorating a room where the floor parquet boards are in excellent condition, but the varnish is already outdated and uneven, the floor is cycled. It is quite difficult to work with a manual cycle, so it is better to buy or rent an electric one. After removing the old varnish, the parquet is thoroughly vacuumed. Then, to improve its appearance, a piece of paint mesh is drawn along the boards in the direction of the fibers.

Parquet cycling must be carried out after all cosmetic repairs in the room, but before wallpapering. Otherwise, it will be possible to scrape the floor only with a manual scraper or glass, and this is too laborious a process. The thing is that during the operation of an electric cycle, a lot of dust is formed, which is almost impossible to remove from the wallpaper.

It is better to cover the parquet floor with a water-based varnish. It is odorless, dries quickly and is not as harmful as synthetic. After applying the first layer of varnish, it is allowed to dry for 40 minutes, then covered with a second layer. Four hours later, the parquet is varnished for the third time.

Laying laminate flooring is a great alternative for redecorating a room when there is no way to scrape the floor and buy expensive construction equipment. By the way, the laminate can be laid on the old base, if it is sufficiently even.

With independent cosmetic repairs in a small room (for example, in Khrushchev), you can save money by laying linoleum. Before laying, he is allowed to straighten, then glue is applied and glued. For irregularities on the floor, use a solid substrate (for example, plywood sheets).

Skirting boards

When redecorating the room, after the final drying of the wallpaper, ceiling plinths are mounted. PVC tile adhesive is applied to the wrong side of the plinth, pressed against the wallpaper in the right place and held for 10-15 seconds. Then glue the next one in the same way.

The floor plinth is fastened with screws, wires are laid in its groove, then the upper part is put on.

How to prevent cracking after redecorating a room

As practice shows, cracks quite often appear on ceilings with rust (joints of floor slabs) after cosmetic repairs. Therefore, experts recommend using a "spider web" - this is fiberglass wallpaper, the loose structure of which prevents cracks. It has a thickness of up to 2 mm and is sold in rolls.

With wooden floors or large irregularities, it is recommended to completely cover the surface with a masking grid with 2x2 mm cells before gluing the "spider line". It is puttied, sanded, primed with diluted wallpaper glue and pasted over with a "cobweb". Such a "pie" reliably protects the ceiling from cracking.

How to save money by redecorating a room

To save money when redecorating a room, you must adhere to the following rules:

1. Work hard and not be lazy, and also not be afraid of new types of work.
2. Everything capital that has lost its appearance, if possible, does not need to be changed, it can be slightly retouched, updated.
3. When redecorating a room, you should try to extract the maximum savings where it is not conspicuous and does not impair the quality of work.
4. Distribute cash and labor costs over time. For example, when planning a redecoration of a room in the summer months, up to this point you need to gradually prepare in order to do everything quickly at the appointed time. In addition, the cost of cosmetic repairs of 200-300 thousand rubles is quite tangible for the budget, and breaking them down into parts and investing small amounts throughout the year is quite feasible.

Tools

It's no secret that good professional tools make work easier. However, they cost a lot of money, so buying them is unprofitable. It is less expensive to rent all construction equipment for redecorating a room.

Season

The best time of the year for redecorating a room is the beginning and middle of autumn. It is still warm outside during these months, and you can do outdoor work, while interior decoration - open windows. In addition, before the winter recession of repair work, the cost of building materials is significantly reduced. Consequently, savings can be up to 15% when selling summer non-liquid items. These are considerable sums. For example, with the planned cost of redecorating a room at 200 thousand rubles, you get a good “bonus” of 30 thousand.

Construction sales

Separately, mention should be made of illiquid assets. The main expenses for redecorating a room are for finishing materials (putty, plaster, mounting glue, sealant), which have a limited shelf life. Construction companies try to sell them before the expiration date. Sometimes the prices are just “symbolic”, stay tuned for sales. For example, professionals will not take a package of 50 kg of Aquasloy, which will become unusable in a couple of months, and this amount is quite enough for you to redecorate a room, and even save it.

Plumbing

When redecorating a room with your own hands for beginners, one of the most pressing issues is the replacement of plumbing. If it has lost its aesthetic appearance, but functions normally, it can be cleaned and painted. But if there are cracks and chips, you will have to change it.

Often, new settlers (especially in elite new buildings), entering a new apartment, make major repairs and change the installed plumbing to more prestigious and expensive ones. And absolutely new equipment ends up in a landfill. On this landfill scavengers have created a profitable business.

Of course, they do not consult strangers over the phone. Only through "ours and ours" they are invited to the back room and offer a choice of carefully washed sanitary ware at a cost equal to 1/3 or 1/2 of the market price.

Construction garbage

An equally acute issue that arises when you independently perform a major overhaul of a room is the removal of construction debris. The procedure is quite costly, besides troublesome. An easier and easier way is to collect garbage in plastic sackcloth bags at the end of the redecoration of the room and put it in a barn, closet, etc. Then gradually throw it into a garbage container near the house, there is no crime in this.

Laths, boards, timber and plywood

During the redecoration of the room, plywood and wooden slats will be required for the crate. In order to save money, you can buy non-planed slats, slabs. The croaker is sold raw. It is necessary to purchase it in advance in March-April and keep it until autumn in a dry room. Then you will get raw materials that are not inferior to edged lumber in terms of wood quality.

For redecorating a room, plywood may be required. Waste packaging plywood from used containers can be made water resistant as follows:

1. We buy a ten-liter canister and two PVA putties; it is cheap and the consistency resembles a very liquid PVA glue.
2. We cover the floor in non-residential premises (in the country house, in the barn, etc.) with plastic film. The air temperature should not be lower than +13 degrees.
3. We lay the plywood, pour a puddle of putty into the center and disperse it over the entire sheet with a brush.
4. We cover the plywood with plastic, lay the next sheet, putty, etc.
5. On the resulting stack of plywood impregnated with PVA, we put a heavy load (pieces of concrete, metal, bricks, etc.), evenly distributing it over the entire area.
6. A week later, we repeat the procedure, turning each sheet of plywood over.
7. After two weeks, the waterproof flat plywood will be ready for use. Additional exposure under oppression will only improve its quality.

Quite often they post ads for the sale of used cargo pallets. It is easy to get thick timber and boards from them, which may be needed when redecorating a room.

Materials for redecorating a room

Sheathing walls and ceilings with laminate or MDF is a very cheap option for redecorating a room. When using a wooden slab crate, in most cases, surface leveling is not required, which also saves money, time and effort.

You will get an even more profitable option for redecorating a room if you sheathe the wall with laminate only up to half, and paste it over with non-woven wallpaper up to the ceiling. Here there is savings, simplification of labor and practical benefits - the most problematic sections of the wall are reliably protected by durable material.

To cover the floor during the redecoration of the room, the most advantageous material is marmoleum. In the vast majority of cases (90%) no pre-treatment is needed. However, it is categorically not suitable for bathrooms and toilets.

If you want to have a floor in the room that looks like a plank, you can use a laminate. It is slightly more expensive and requires leveling the base.

The walls of the bathroom during cosmetic repairs can be pasted over not with tiles, but with laminated hardboard. It is quite hygroscopic and does not require preliminary surface preparation.

Where it's hard to save

When carrying out cosmetic repairs of a room, there is a type of work where it is impossible to do without specialists - this is the replacement of electrical wiring. You can hire an electrician to service your home. Then it will turn out to save a little, and hacking is not in his interests.

Cooperate with the company "My Repair" - it is reliable and prestigious. The specialists working here are professionals of the highest level. The company "My Repair" operates throughout Moscow and the Moscow region.

Every apartment owner wants to carry out cosmetic repairs inexpensively, but with high quality. This can be done realistically if professionals are involved in this process. Most often, inexpensive minor repairs of premises involve only changing the lining - wallpapering, painting walls and ceilings, installing laminate, etc. To perform these works, budget materials are purchased, which may be slightly inferior in quality and appearance to their expensive counterparts. Despite this, the tiled surfaces will look great, and their service life will reach several years or even more.

Cheap repairs at San Sanych

If you want to renovate housing in Moscow, please contact us. The company is engaged in all types of repairs - cosmetic, capital, euro, budgetary and others. In each case, we will select the best method for solving the tasks, taking into account the optimal cost. Our masters are distinguished by high professionalism and extensive experience in this field. The customer can expect that the company's employees will adhere to the technology when performing all the necessary operations. This reduces the likelihood of defects, which subsequently need to be eliminated, which entails additional material costs.

Name of worksScope of workPrice, rubAmount, rub

What work is done during an inexpensive cosmetic repair?

If you decide to order a redecoration of an apartment, please note that the company can perform the following operations:

• replacement of wall cladding - painting with water-based paints or wallpapering (most often);
• puttying and painting the ceiling, sometimes wallpapering;
• installation of ceramic tiles, laminate or linoleum on the floor - the most budget options;
• replacement of plumbing fixtures and water pipes;
• laying electrical wiring and other operations.

How are the repairs going?

Most often, any repair, including cosmetic, begins with the preparation of the foundation. They remove old wallpaper, paint, close up small cracks and eliminate other defects. As a result, you need to get a solid, even base, which is the key to a long service life of the finish. Surface priming is equally important. It helps to prevent the appearance of fungus and improve surface adhesion. It is this base that is used for further cladding in the chosen way.

How are measurements carried out during the redecoration of an apartment in Moscow?

Dear customers! We are a small team, and you can call us just by calling our direct phone number, or by leaving your coordinates in the feedback form.

Even knowing from your words the scope of work, the final cost of repair work after I arrive at the facility and perform all measurements, as well as familiarize myself with the premises, may differ. Sometimes you can’t even imagine what kind of work is required to solve the finishing task exactly the way you want and achieve exactly the visualization that is in your wishes.

How to start cosmetic repairs in an apartment or room?

Modern redecoration of a turnkey apartment in Moscow should first of all begin with planning. Ideally, this is a drafted design project with the locations of all communications: switches, sockets, lights, the location of household appliances, the location of plumbing. In the presence of a project, technical specifications, the implementation of cosmetic repairs of an apartment with our efforts will be easy and simple!

Project apartments you can fulfill do-it-yourself without any problems. You can easily pick up the colors of tiles and wallpapers yourself in any store, and you can easily draw up a plan for redevelopment, electrics and plumbing on any free site for drafting an apartment online. Give me a call and I'll send you links to good resources.

Who controls the quality of work at the facility?

We work with our son together, and I personally do all kinds of work. Unlike large companies, where one designs, another commands, a third performs, a fourth checks, and the apartment is rented to you by a person who, in principle, has never been present at this facility.

This means that absolutely one person is responsible for all types of work. Yes, and it’s easier for me: I don’t need to stand above my soul at every wall, as is the case with large amounts of work. And in case of some problems, the foreman does not always even know who exactly is to blame for the poor work.

What materials do you use in your work?

Unlike firms, we do not sell materials, but we will purchase them together with you in construction stores and markets in Moscow and the Moscow Region: Leroy Merlin, OBI. In the process of rough work, I make a list of the required materials and you can independently purchase all the rough materials from the right manufacturers at the best price you can find.

Again, I do not impose any of my stores, but only recommend. While firms engaged in redecorating turnkey apartments in Moscow earn up to 25% of their cost by selling materials, I give you a great opportunity to optimize your budget.

How is the lifting of materials into the apartment, as well as the removal of construction debris?

Within the specified tariffs we carry out the lifting of materials from the entrance to the apartment with an elevator. In the absence of an elevator, the lifting of materials is negotiated separately.

As for construction waste, we will, of course, take out all construction waste. However, you should discuss this with your management company in advance. It happened that we were forbidden to throw bulky garbage into common containers. If your management company does not allow this, make sure to order a separate container. Unfortunately, we do not have much time to wander around the area and put bags of bricks in various trash cans.

How is work paid?

Payment for cosmetic repairs of the apartment is carried out in stages. We divide the entire scope of work into stages, and subsequently you pay for each stage of work after it is completed. This is convenient for both parties: you see the work done, and we get the customer. After all, most companies require you to pay immediately more than half of the cost of the work. In this case, you will not be able to influence the progress of work if you do not like the quality.

The only exception is the first stage of work. There were very cunning customers in my memory who, in response to my adequate request to receive payment for the work performed, tried in every possible way to delay the moment of payment - they say, then, you first make repairs, and then I will pay you. That is why to build confidence in the customer At the first stage, we work only on an advance system. The advance payment will be purely nominal -10,000 rubles.

What is the difference between a major overhaul of an apartment and a cosmetic one?

When redecorating an apartment, doors and windows are not replaced, walls, ceilings and floors are not leveled, and old electrical wiring and plumbing communications remain. The overhaul of the apartment includes the implementation of a significantly larger amount of work: the old finish is dismantled, new electrical wiring is laid, new polypropylene plumbing pipes are aligned, all types of surfaces are leveled with laser precision, adjusting surface distortions. This will be a comprehensive renovation of your premises, which will not only change the color of the wallpaper, but completely transform your apartment, up to redevelopment.

What is the cost of redecorating an apartment in Moscow?

The price of redecorating an apartment per square meter is difficult to determine unambiguously. There are many factors that affect the overall cost of our services. For example, one customer needs redevelopment, another does not need it at all. This means that under all equal conditions, the amount of work on the second object will be less for us. And there are many such moments. We tried to determine the cost of redecorating an apartment empirically, but it is still a notional cost.

Cosmetic repair is a concept that is interpreted by everyone in different ways. I call cosmetic repairs a set of works that does not affect the capital structures in the room, and is also not associated with the replacement of communications (electrical wiring, plumbing and sewerage) in the room. Redecoration does not affect floor screeds, does not imply installation of drywall structures, replacement of doors, installation of drywall arches.

Stages of cosmetic repair

The stages of redecoration, which I will discuss in this article, include restoring the previous state of the apartment without carrying out work to change the types of finishes. These works include re-pasting old wallpaper, re-painting ceilings, painting window frames, painting doors, skirting boards and architraves if necessary, as well as replacing simple flooring (linoleum flooring or laying laminate). All the work included in a simple cosmetic repair, if desired, free time and basic skills, it is quite possible to do it yourself. In the article, for example, consider the repair of a room.

Preparation for repair

1. Clear the room of furniture (if possible). Place the remaining furniture in the center of the room and carefully cover with plastic wrap. This will provide free access to the perimeter walls and provide access to the entire ceiling area. 2. If you do not plan to change the flooring, also protect it from building debris and dust, as well as mechanical damage. Be sure to cover parquet, laminate with sheets of hardboard or thick cardboard. Lay a thick plastic film on top with an overlap of 10 cm, glue the joints with adhesive tape. It is desirable to fix the protective film with tape also around the perimeter of the room. 3. Dismantle the plinth in case of replacement of the flooring or parquet scraping. Use masking tape to protect individual elements that do not require repair. Masking tape is a special sticky paper tape that can be easily removed after completion of work. 4. Remove the front panels from the sockets and switches, and cover the sockets and switches themselves with paper masking tape. Do not forget to first disconnect all electrical circuits from the voltage.

cosmetic repair stages: Dismantling works

Dismantling of old coatings for cosmetic repairs

Old coverings of walls, a ceiling, a floor are removed.

Ceiling preparation for cosmetic repairs

Start by removing existing coatings. There are ceiling coatings with water-dispersion paint, in old houses there is lime whitewashing. Rarely there are ceilings painted with enamels (oil or alkyd).

Ceiling wash and rustication

Water-dispersion paint and enamel cannot be washed off with water (they do not dissolve in water). Therefore, remove the peeling areas of the coating with a steel spatula, open the cracks with the angle of the spatula. Roughen the enamel with coarse sandpaper to roughen and increase adhesion with new applied layers of finish.

Rinse off limescale to the ground. The bottom layer of putty does not need to be removed. The technology of this process is not complicated, but laborious and dirty. Using a roller, wet the ceiling with water, then scrape off the whitewash with a spatula. After cleaning the entire ceiling, rinse the ceiling with a warm water solution with a sponge.

Preparing walls for cosmetic repairs

The technology for removing old wallpaper does not differ from the technology for removing lime whitewash. Peel off peeled fragments of wallpaper “dry”, soak the remaining firmly glued areas with warm water and remove with a spatula. If there are many layers of wallpaper, be patient and remove layer by layer to the primary base.

Cleaning paint before cosmetic repairs

Remove old paint, platbands, window frames and doors only in case of severe peeling. The process is laborious but necessary.

Choose from two methods for removing oil (alkyd) enamel: chemical and thermal. With the chemical method, the paint is softened with special chemical compounds, they are called "washes", and the paint is removed with a hard spatula or scrapers. Ready-made washes are sold in hardware stores. With the thermal method, the softening of the old is carried out with a jet of hot air from a special building hair dryer, do not confuse it with a hair dryer. The paint softens in small areas and is also removed with a scraper or spatula.

Preparation of surfaces for finishing for high-quality cosmetic repairs

After removing the old ceiling and wall coverings, it is necessary to eliminate the defects of the walls and ceiling. Widen (expand) the cracks. Loosely adhering and muffled-sounding "mumbling" areas of plaster must be completely removed. Surfaces prepared in this way must be treated with a primer. Primers provide uniform drying of applied materials and their better adhesion to the surface.

Filling cracks with gypsum mortar

Plastering is part of a facelift.

After the primer has dried, close up deep potholes and places with chipped plaster on a gypsum base such as "Rotband", "Prospectors", TIGI Knauf. Perform this operation with a rectangular stainless steel trowel. For large plastering areas, use the building rule of the desired length.

stages of cosmetic repair: Plaster work

Stages of cosmetic repairs - obligatory putty

Prime the plastered areas and level the surfaces, for example, “Vetonit KR” (up to 1 mm) or “Vetonit LR +” (up to 3 mm) (Weber). This operation eliminates small surface irregularities and fills small cracks.

Remember, a large thickness of the putty layer is ensured by applying several layers, with each subsequent layer being applied after the previous layer has completely dried.

I recommend gluing serious cracks in the ceiling with strips of plaster fiberglass with a cell size of 2 × 2 mm. The technology for gluing the tape is as follows: a layer of putty is applied to the ceiling area, the fiberglass mesh is pressed into the putty with a spatula and rubbed. Remove excess putty squeezed out through the mesh cells with a spatula and return to a container for further use.

Wall putty

Ceiling putty

Is it necessary to completely putty the walls and ceiling during cosmetic repairs, or can you limit yourself to leveling individual sections.

My answer is very clear. Putty the ceiling completely at least 1 time. Walls when sticking dark and heavy wallpaper can be limited to partial puttying, with light and thin wallpaper - puttying at least 1 time, when painting walls - the topic is not cosmetic repairs.

Ways to prevent the formation of cracks again, after the completion of cosmetic repairs

The probability of a crack appearing on ceilings with rust (rust-connection of floor slabs), as my practice shows, is very high. For your peace of mind, I recommend using the "cobweb". Gossamer is a fiberglass ceiling wallpaper. The web is sold in rolls, has a thickness of up to 2.0 mm. The considerable thickness and loose structure of the cobweb does not allow the resulting cracks to appear on the ceiling.

The technology of gluing the "cobweb" is the same as gluing wallpaper in a joint.

For very uneven surfaces, as well as wooden floors, I recommend that before gluing the cobweb, the entire surface of the ceiling is covered with a paint grid with 2 × 2 mm cells. The mesh is puttied, sanded, primed with diluted wallpaper glue and pasted over with a cobweb, like wallpaper. This multilayer "pie" will provide maximum protection against further cracking of the ceiling.

Preliminary result. After the work listed above, you will receive:

• Wall and ceiling defects plastered.
• Cracks glued with paint (plaster) mesh or all surfaces (it depends rather on your desire).
• The surfaces are puttied in 1-2-3 layers (the amount depends, also on the expected result). They came out smooth and white. It's time to paint the ceiling!

Cosmetic repairs are not possible without painting the ceiling

Finish painting the ceiling with a new polyamide paint roller with medium pile. I do not recommend using foam rubber and velor rollers. Foam rubber is twisted, velor does not stain. When painting, use a special tray (cuvette) to wring out excess paint.

stages of cosmetic repair: Painting the ceiling

Prime the prepared ceiling with water-dispersion paint diluted with water. This is done in order to reveal almost imperceptible defects on the putty. After puttying and grinding (“zero” sandpaper) of defective areas, paint the ceiling with undiluted paint.

Determine the paint consumption in advance. This is important when painting the ceiling with colored paints. The amount of pre-tinted paint should be enough for 3 stains. Do not re-tint the paint. When using a web, paint consumption increases by 25%.

Wallpapering the final stage of cosmetic repairs

After painting the ceiling in 2-3 layers, proceed to wallpapering. If you decide to glue the ceiling plinth.

1. Primer walls before wallpapering

Before wallpapering, prime the entire surface of the walls with wallpaper paste, diluted as indicated on the package with glue: preparation of glue for priming the surface.

2. Marking before wallpapering

Using a long building level or plumb line, draw a vertical line to guide the first canvas. Wallpaper is traditionally glued from the window, but with modern butt-gluing, this does not matter. Can be glued from the door.

3. Preparing wallpaper before sticking

The wallpaper is cut into canvases with an allowance (5-7 cm) in length. When cutting canvases, consider the frequency of repeating the pattern (rapport). Be careful when choosing adjacent canvases in height to match the pattern. If the wallpaper is "no selection" then you are a little lucky.

4. Wallpapering

Wallpaper is pasted in two ways.

Sticking paper and vinyl wallpapers

Cover the wallpaper canvases with glue (paint roller or maklovitsa), naturally from the front side. Fold the canvas in half (glue inside, edges in the middle). Keep in this state for the time indicated on the adhesive package (usually 3-7 minutes). Don't hold onto the canvases. It's better to underdo than to overdo. Be especially careful and careful when using thin paper wallpapers. If they get too wet, they will simply spread in the hands.

The canvases impregnated with glue are superimposed on the wall at a pre-marked vertical level. Smooth out wrinkles and bubbles with a pressure roller or a stiff brush. I do not recommend using a rag, because. some types of paper wallpaper may wash out the paint.

Sticking non-woven wallpaper

Wall papering

When sticking non-woven wallpaper, glue is applied to the wall. The wallpaper itself can be cut into canvases according to the size and selected pattern. Apply glue to the wall with a roller and glue the canvases end-to-end, following the alignment of the pattern of adjacent canvases.

5. Undercut wallpaper

Since the pieces were cut with an allowance in length, after gluing the canvases under the ceiling and at the plinth, cut off the excess wallpaper with a construction knife along a metal ruler or with a special wallpaper cut that resembles a spatula. Watch the sharpness of the canvas. A blunt canvas tears and pulls the paper of the canvases along with it.

6. Pasting wallpaper border

Stick the upper part of the canvases up to the planned border. Beat off the horizontal level marks of the border along the entire perimeter of the room. The “end” of the line should meet the “beginning”. With a sharp knife and a metal ruler, cut the canvas along the perimeter. Butt to the cut edge, glue the border. At the same time, do not glue the bottom of the border. Glue the lower canvases, leading them under the border. Glue the bottom of the border, after cutting off the excess from the canvas.

You can glue the border without such a "bother" - in the "overlay". Use special glue for gluing borders.

We glue the wallpaper border

Clean up the room. Don't open windows! Avoid drafts until the wallpaper is completely dry! Wallpaper pasted!

10. Floor repair during cosmetic repairs

These are all stages of cosmetic repairs. That's all!

Photo gallery "Renovation of the kitchen before and after the repair"

Tatyana Zhukova

Moscow city

I want to express my gratitude to the DomServiceStroy company, its management and employees. I ordered from them the design and decoration of the new office of my travel company. How everything should look, represented only in general terms. And I had no idea where to get the materials to implement my ideas. Therefore, the services of the designer of the company were very useful to me. I just voiced the main points that were important to me, together they determined the general style. Then I chose the best of the three options offered to me. Now my office looks almost like in the picture, clients are immersed in the atmosphere of relaxation as soon as they come to us. And what is especially important for me, they did not miss the deadlines for the completion of the object. Opened when planned.

Svetlana Sergeevna

I bought an apartment on the secondary market in a state that needs repair. I decided to turn to professionals, since there was no time to understand the intricacies of the process myself. The firm was advised by friends, I turned to DomServiceStroy, after reviewing the reviews on the Internet, and was satisfied! The company's specialists took upon themselves not only the actual execution of the work, but also the coordination of redevelopment (I combined the bedroom with a balcony). Made a project. From a larger repair was cosmetic, they made it to me on a turnkey basis, after agreeing on all the details. All I had to do was go into the long-awaited own housing, which began to look like new. Thank you very much!

Alexander

The apartment was purchased in a new building, so there was a lot of work. It was necessary to separate the electrician, and install partitions, and solder the pipes. We contacted DomServiceStroy. We agreed that I pay for the work, plus for every little thing if necessary. And I buy large purchases (solutions, pipes, taps, etc.) myself. All points were signed in the contract, paid in fact only for the work. At first, he came every day to monitor the progress of work, then I realized that the company is serious, they do everything in good faith. So I only went on weekends. As a result, the repair was done about 8 weeks. And then, because my wife and I chose a bath and wallpaper for a long time. In the end, the result of the repair coincided with expectations. Satisfied with the quality and timing. Thank you.

Julia and Vladimir

Moscow city

Good day! We would like to leave a few nice words to the specialists of the DomServiceStroy company for the repairs that they just recently completed in our three-room apartment. You have completed a truly difficult task, decorating and putting in order the room for our children, our room, the great hall and other areas of the apartment. We were delighted with the decision to combine a small and unnecessary balcony with a large room. Now in that corner there is a real recreation area overlooking the park and the river. Children are delighted, they now have everything for complete happiness - bright colors in the interior of the room with heroes of their favorite cartoons, a lot of free space around. We ourselves are happy just like children, thank you very much!

Stanislav