These six pits stepped on during decoration (blood and tears experience)

As an experienced person who renovated two suites in 1 year, I deeply understand what kind of mood most people feel before renovation. Standing on the endless desert, filled with invisible fog, I can't see my fingers. The road ahead is a battle of wits with building materials suppliers and a competition with decoration companies. Various budgets and designs are waiting for you. Waving helplessly, I don't know where the end is. According to the statistics of Consumers Association 20 16, how much is the amount of disputes in the process of decoration, especially in family decoration? It can basically reach about 90%, accounting for the vast majority. Decoration is a quality engineering problem, so if the quality of decoration is not up to standard, it will endanger the health of family members, because there are formaldehyde, TVOC, xylene, etc., and it may be that improper transformation of water, electricity and gas has buried hidden dangers, which will bring us more trouble in the next five years and ten years. The word "quality" in the decoration has always been a concern of all of us, so it is inevitable that some owners will retreat before the decoration, some will be agitated and some will not start work. As an experienced person who renovated two suites in one year, I will summarize five misunderstandings and corresponding countermeasures for you today. ?

Is the decoration company reliable? This has become a philosophical problem in the whole decoration industry. The Zhuang Jie market is mixed. Once the owners who lack decoration experience fall into a crisis of confidence in Zhuang Jie, the first chain reaction is that they don't know how to choose. In the past, we only had one standard: brand+price, collectively known as cost performance. Brand, I have heard of it; The price, I think, suits my family. I will buy something like this. But it's different now. The current brand+price is not enough for our consumers to trust, so many fakes or inferior goods are also from your brand, and we can't tell the brand apart. Another is the price. As for the price, I wouldn't believe what you said if I hadn't walked around on the spot. Therefore, whether we choose a decoration company, foreman or street guerrilla, we are not worried. Some fraud, Jerry-building, overlord clauses in the contract, delay in construction period and quality disputes related to our decoration price. So it seems that the decoration can't be completely trusted and satisfied? In fact, to choose a reliable decoration company, as long as you do four things:

1. Check the license.

Any legally registered enterprise has a business license issued by the industrial and commercial department, which proves whether the enterprise is legally registered, its registered capital and business scope. We must look at this problem. Like some big companies, maybe we don't need to look up the famous ones. Their brand is very strong and we trust them. But for some companies you haven't heard of, this step is essential. ?

2. Check word of mouth.

In fact, in the process of accumulating decoration knowledge, I didn't list it as the main item. On the one hand, decoration is a low-frequency industry, on the other hand, due to the current domestic decoration norms, the qualifications of employees are uneven, and the processes and services of the same company and manufacturer are often very different, which is not referential. However, with the in-depth communication with users in our community, it is found that word-of-mouth communication is particularly important in the choice of decoration building materials, household appliances and furniture. "Everyone has a steelyard in his heart" is often the most objective embodiment.

? 3. Check the construction site.

This is the most practical and intuitive link. Decoration companies talk about strength, where is the best embodiment of strength? Don't look at how big its storefront is, how many people there are, how many banners or trophies are put, but at its construction site. Before determining the decoration company, choose 2-3 construction sites which are similar to their home area budget and are in the stage of concealed works, and visit them on the spot to see how the construction site is decorated, and whether there is a notice of project progress and decoration posted on the foundation; For more details, you can see whether the slotting of the circuit waterway is standardized and so on ... Many friends say that I can't understand it. How to calculate standard or non-standard? In fact, everyone doesn't need to be an expert, because if you look at several construction sites, it will naturally be better or worse, and the details can't fool people. This is the key to a qualified decoration company. ?

4. Past node graph

Teach another hidden skill, that is, let the decoration company or designer provide the drawings of previous cases, basically do not have to worry about the rejection of the decoration company, because before signing the bill, the customers are all gentlemen. In the case that a company has a complete system of files, contact sheets and complete sets of drawings, we can ask to look at the construction node diagram again, which may be the content that we don't care about and understand the most in the decoration process, and the designer may tell you that it is not important, but something that will come later. Anyway, this is for the workers, not for you ... show yourself knowledgeable at this time. It can be said that I don't understand other concepts. If the company has a large number of node diagrams, such as balcony treatment, TV background map, etc. You can breathe a sigh of relief first, but it's not over yet. I know laymen can't understand it, but it doesn't matter. At this time, pointing to the drawings, I boldly asked the designer: What does this mean? If the designer can answer questions calmly and is very willing to discuss this issue with you, then we can think that the company and the designer are regular troops, and the rigor of the drawings will be of great benefit to the future engineering quality. ?

When the house is renovated, is the environmental protection up to standard? This problem has been put in the first place by many people now. It is necessary to pay attention to this problem for the elderly and children at home, for the older generation and for the next generation. But interestingly, if we look at the home improvement industry now, do you think it can be sold if we don't brand ourselves as an environmentally friendly product, that is, no one picks it up on the street? So what do we have to see when everyone is talking about environmental protection? First, let's see if it has any documents that meet the standards. Can these documents be forged? You can also build it! Many black-hearted businesses can fake, but we have no other better channels. Secondly, we must bear in mind the old saying that "a penny gets a share of goods, a penny gets a share of goods, and a good price gets a share of goods", which corresponds to people at all levels of consumption: local tyrants: all solid wood, imported paint, pure paper wallpaper, imported primer putty and glue, fresh air system, no matter how expensive; Working class: choose products of big brands; Need to pay special attention to all building materials and furniture involving primer, putty, glue and board; Diaosi, what should I do if I really have no money? Only rough: ventilation! Stay at least one summer. This sentence also applies to the above two types of people. ?

Worried about cutting corners in the decoration process, one of the most difficult problems to avoid in the decoration process, even if we used the best materials, it was replaced by the decoration team, so it is difficult to find out, because ordinary people can't monitor it 24 hours a day. There are two main ways to cut corners: one is to cut corners, and the other is to cut corners. First of all, it is easy to understand to talk about cutting corners. Originally, the bathroom had to be waterproof three times and only once. Can you tell? Use tiles as tiles (so when buying tiles, be sure to ask whether it is tiles or tiles, and the construction technology is completely different). Do you think you can paste without soaking in water? Planning is quick and easy, which is why most decoration workers cut corners. The stolen water is deeper. Because consumers and decoration companies have unequal information about industry knowledge, it is difficult for us to distinguish the quality of materials. When the materials indicated in renovation contract are inconsistent with the actual situation, although the brand is a genuine knockoff, it is impossible to replace the materials with paint and cement. In the final analysis, the decoration is still done by people. Who is the core figure of this project: the foreman. Sometimes, even if you choose a designer who doesn't understand construction and has little experience, you will be lucky to meet a good foreman who can help you carry forward the past and review the designer's achievements and help you arrange the construction progress. On the other hand, it is useless for good companies and designers to meet irresponsible foremen. ?

There is no bottom line for decoration price increase. It is a problem that many people who have experienced. If you don't decorate now, you may not have this experience. It can be said that there is no price increase in the decoration market now. Of course, if it is added by the customer during the decoration process, the price increase is normal. But what bothers us most is that due to the vicious competition in the market, many decoration companies will use low prices to attract customers in the first round of quotation, but as Wang Jianlin said, "no service and no profit", there is a pit left, just waiting for us to jump. Many online shopping guides will advise customers to sign closed contracts, but as long as you go to various decoration companies to compare prices, you will find that 95% companies will not sign closed contracts with you, and 70% of the price increases will occur in the concealed engineering stage, especially in circuit engineering. I've heard of the extreme situation of building area 108, indoor 80 square meters and wall wires 1260 meters. When entering the site, the foreman said that the wires were withdrawn more than they were replenished. After the water and electricity are over, I tell you that all the wires are used up. This wire is enough to go around the house 33 times. Do you think it's reasonable? Of course, I also met some reliable companies, which promised in the contract that the price increase after the hydropower stage would not exceed 10%. In fact, as long as the formal circuit diagram is made in the design stage, the number of meters of wires used in the actual decoration can be estimated. It can be inferred that even if it is not a closed contract, we only need to look at the circuit diagram. If there is no drawing, settlement can be refused. Here is a trick to estimate the number of wires by yourself: usually a wire consists of live wire, ground wire and open wire, so generally speaking, the total number of wires in the home is meters times three. For example, the perimeter of the house is 200 meters and the wires are 600 meters. ?

After the transformation, it is found that it does not meet its own needs, which is a very hanging thing. Everyone will have an imagination of home before decoration, but after decoration, it is found that both style and function are far from the effect of their own brain supplement. According to the design fee of one square meter in 80 yuan (low price among low prices, general design company 100, depending on quality), at present, the design fee of a 90-square-meter home is 7,200 yuan, and the design fee of one square meter in 80 yuan can't be expected to give you a good design, but can only be regarded as a service fee. What does this service include? It is not creative to survey data and draw basic engineering drawings at home, but these jobs are generally impossible for owners. As the fourth question said, after all, we are also a society ruled by law, and we have to have evidence to do everything, and this pile of seemingly useless engineering drawings is the basis of the whole construction. If there is any dispute in the future, it will become one of the evidences. Therefore, this service does not contain the value of art, but only helps you to leave these reference bases for easy implementation according to the needs of customers. So don't complain that the designer has no idea. 80 yuan's design fee Yiping can only be a draftsman. Well, I'm rich and headstrong. If you want to hire a good designer, how to quickly consider a designer's design ability? I'll teach you another skill: look at your face. Yes, an elegant and tolerant person is well dressed in all aspects and not too bad in aesthetics. Second, don't talk about decoration, talk to the designer, talk about his life philosophy and listen to his life.

Know, and then talk about whether you can achieve a * * * knowledge and * * *. As for style, it really doesn't matter. Many people ask the style first, and then ask if my door is finished, white or beige ... In fact, these should not be homework before design (to put it bluntly, a good designer has taste and thought, depending on those high-end people in the world, which one does not have its own unique charm style). The above five questions may all be the entanglement and confusion of everyone before the renovation. Through my daily experience and observation, I gave you a simple comment, most of which are my ideas and can help you a thousand times.

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