Netizen's experience: a series of problems that must be understood before decoration.

Decoration is a troublesome thing. If people who don't know how to decorate don't make up the decoration class in advance, they will easily be confused by merchants and decoration companies, and finally no matter how much money they spend, they will not produce satisfactory results. Decoration preparation mainly includes the following seven aspects:

First, psychological preparation.

Most people who have experienced decoration often talk about decoration, and you will find that there are not only your own masterpieces in the decoration design, but also the "bitter water" in the decoration process.

Decoration, for many owners who bought a new house and got the key to it, is more exciting and novel, while ignoring the difficulty and complexity of the decoration project.

Therefore, before the decoration, we must not treat it lightly, thinking that the decoration is a very easy thing, and we must be psychologically prepared to meet all kinds of difficulties and problems that may arise at any time during the decoration process. Only in this way can we see the touch in the decoration process.

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The owner who is about to decorate may wish to ask himself the following questions:

1. What do I know about the decoration process?

2. Do I know enough about the selection, installation and layout of building materials and furniture?

3. In the process of buying building materials and furniture, I am always faced with price trap, quality trap and promotion trap. Do I have enough countermeasures?

4. If you are not satisfied with the decoration design scheme, do you want to start all over again when the work has already started?

5. What if the decoration company delays the construction period?

6. During decoration construction, does rainy or cold weather affect the construction quality?

7. Which workers need to pay attention to in the process of decoration construction?

8. What should construction workers do to cut corners and be lazy? How to deal with them?

9. What do I know about the concealed works in the decoration process?

Such problems abound. After reading these problems, people who are eager to decorate may not relax. But seeing problems and difficulties does not mean that we are afraid of difficulties and retreat.

In short, strategic contempt, psychological attention. After we have enough psychological preparation, let's start decorating our home.

According to experience:

"Attach great importance to it, make full preparations, maintain a correct attitude and be cautious" is my sixteen-character motto for decoration.

Attach great importance to:

Chairman Mao once said that he despised the enemy strategically and attached importance to the enemy tactically.

This sentence also applies to decoration. Only by paying enough attention to the decoration can we seriously study and understand the problems that may be encountered in the decoration from the details.

Be fully prepared:

It is not enough to pay enough attention to it. We should make full preparations for the decoration from all aspects.

If you eat, walk and sleep, your mind is full of big and small things about decoration, then congratulations, you are already in the initial state. Of course, don't go too far, too far. Sleeping all night for decoration is not worth the candle.

Correct attitude:

Anyone who has been renovated has an experience. No matter how perfect and thoughtful your plan is, there will still be problems and headaches.

At this point, we must correct our mentality. Don't think that everything has been thought out in advance. In the process of decoration, there will always be places you didn't expect, because you are not only facing a pile of materials, but people who have a direct impact on your decoration effect. It is normal to have all kinds of problems in dealing with people. Therefore, it is necessary to put a correct attitude, the enemy must stop, and the water will overflow.

It's no use complaining. Solving problems is the king of dealing with decoration troubles!

note:

In the process of decoration, it can be said that there are traps and misunderstandings everywhere. Moreover, from the preparation stage, let's talk about the preparation of decoration knowledge. Listening to a family's words online may lead to misunderstanding, because what suits others may not be suitable for you.

In the design stage, there are pitfalls in hiring designers. Free meals designed for free may not be delicious, or even turn off your appetite. Buying building materials, decorating guerrillas, there are traps everywhere. So be careful. It is essential to guard against people!

Second, the preparation of home improvement knowledge

It is not enough to be mentally prepared without actual action. Starting with the knowledge of home improvement, arming yourself with knowledge will be a powerful weapon against all possible traps when you face decoration companies, building materials suppliers and decoration workers in the future.

The preparation of home improvement knowledge is nothing more than these aspects:

1, online accumulation

At present, the Internet contains a huge amount of knowledge, and it is easy to search for a large amount of home improvement knowledge. However, how to get rid of this vast amount of knowledge has become a difficult problem for everyone. This requires diligent arrangement and accumulation, and good knowledge classification.

After understanding the common sense of home improvement, it is a good choice to go to the home improvement forum. If you have any questions you don't understand, you can always ask netizens to exchange home improvement experience online.

Similarly, you can always tell us about your experiences and lessons. Accepting help and helping others go both ways.

At the same time, we can also pay attention to activities such as collective procurement and home improvement lectures organized by netizens online. While preparing knowledge, you can also purchase some furniture and building materials at the same time.

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According to experience:

The first step is to go to the home improvement section of some professional home improvement websites to fully understand home improvement; In the meantime, any questions you don't understand must be written down in time.

Step 2: Help around. For the problems that can't be understood in the first step, you can use the search engine to search and initially eliminate these problems. What if it can't be solved? There is a third step.

The third step, bubble forum, find a better home improvement experience exchange forum, and seek the help of prawns on the forum. There are many enthusiastic people here, especially those who come to decorate. What they tell you is practical experience.

Of course, it is better to believe all the books than not to believe them. Don't completely believe what others say. You should stick to your basic position. Finally, you should be open-minded when you are in the forum. Don't forget to say "thank you" when others answer your questions.

Best of all, I'll tell you another shortcut to acquire systematic home improvement knowledge: reading the diary of home improvement of netizens, which is a summary of valuable experience!

2. Ask the person who has decorated it.

For example, your colleagues, relatives and friends, classmates, etc. If you have already renovated, don't miss the opportunity of consultation.

You can get the most direct knowledge of home improvement from them. Often they will show you what they have done in the decoration process.

Of course, they will also take the opportunity to complain to you, which is a good learning opportunity, but their painful lessons have direct reference significance.

In the process of understanding the knowledge of home improvement, you will also accumulate some information about decoration companies and construction teams, killing two birds with one stone. Why not?

According to experience:

Listen to the experience of colleagues and friends in decoration, but treat them differently.

The general rule is:

The person who clears the package can not believe that xx is credible, but should believe that xx is not credible, because people will not easily deny themselves;

Semi-packaged people should believe that xx is good, not bad, because people are often critical of others.

One of my teachers is my colleague who is decorating or has finished decorating. Of course, mainly negative teachers. During the renovation, people's behavior has changed more or less. One of them is that they like to talk to you about the progress of his home decoration.

What I heard from them were mostly negative opinions, including the deception of the decoration company; Migrant workers are lazy and slippery; Unworthy brands and their own failed choices, and so on. Generally speaking, the clear package is about experience and creativity, and the half package is about problems and regrets.

3. Visit the building materials city and consult the decoration company.

Visiting the building materials city is mainly to gain knowledge about building materials and furniture. If you visit more, you can get a general understanding of the categories, brands, workmanship and possible price traps of building materials and furniture.

Consult decoration companies, mainly their designers and the foreman of the construction team. Of course, some decoration companies can't see the foreman.

Through them, they can gain knowledge of home decoration design and refer to some design schemes, and get matters needing attention in construction.

According to experience:

Go to the building materials city near your home, go to the building materials city near your new home, go to the supermarket building materials city first, and go to the mid-range street first. You need to record where you went today, what you saw, what the price was, and the booth number of building materials suppliers in Building Materials City. If possible, you'd better buy a camera with a picture.

When you start shopping, you need to ask questions. If you don't understand, don't be afraid of building materials suppliers laughing at you. However, if a building material supplier praises his own things, don't believe it. If they say other people's things are not good, you must remember.

In fact, the teacher who taught me decoration knowledge at first was a building materials supplier. At that time, I knew nothing. My wife and I often ask building materials suppliers some seemingly powerless questions when shopping. It should be said that most building materials suppliers are very good. Even if I explicitly tell him that I don't sell anything, he will enthusiastically introduce his products to you, send you some promotional materials, and may even belittle his peers by the way.

Of course, the level of building materials suppliers is different, and some are very professional. I like talking with those professional suppliers of building materials. When I am interested, I will sit down and give him a good cigarette and ask for advice with an open mind.

4. Visit the model room

This depends on the actual situation, not everyone has such an opportunity. Generally speaking, for decoration companies, owners who are interested in choosing may arrange for them to visit the model room.

Since it is a model room, of course, it is well placed here for everyone to visit, and some even do model projects at no cost. If you choose this construction team, don't book more than the model room for your own home effect.

The advantage of visiting the model room is that you can get the most intuitive decoration effect and have the most intuitive picture of your future home improvement space layout. It will help you make a good draft in the next design. It is also a good opportunity to inspect a decoration company.

According to experience:

Visit the model room:

Ask something on the spot that you can't learn on paper. When you visit, you only pay attention to whether what you have seen is still the same as the building materials city at home. Can I learn anything from the creativity that the host is proud of?

Of course, the most important thing is that I will inspect and find the decoration team. When visiting, it is recommended to bring a tape measure to measure the division of space at any time.

5. Buy books and magazines to study.

After your decoration knowledge has accumulated to a certain extent through the above channels, you can also buy some books or magazines to learn, mainly to learn the style of decoration design. This step is even necessary if you have high aesthetic requirements.

Because the introduction of decoration style in books and magazines has always followed suit. Good pictures can be cut out with scissors for reference.

According to experience:

When your decoration knowledge reaches a certain level, you'd better read relevant books. After reading them, you will find that your level has made a qualitative leap. Reading can't be replaced by online reading.

Third, close the house.

Taking the key of the house is a necessary part of the preparatory work before the decoration, and it is also a link that is prone to disputes and even shutdown during the decoration process.

The first step of repossession: check "two books and one table", remember!

The so-called "two books" refer to the "residential quality guarantee" and "residential instruction manual", which are the basis for maintenance when there are quality problems in the future. A table is the completion acceptance record.

The second step of house collection: measuring houses.

The developer is required to provide the measured data of the area of professional surveying and mapping units recognized by the state to see if there is any discrepancy with the agreement in the purchase contract, so as to solve the problem as soon as possible.

For the owner: first of all, the owner should check whether the attached drawings in the sales contract are consistent with the actual situation of the house; Whether the building structure is the same as the original design drawing.

Secondly, it is necessary to check whether the housing area has been measured by the real estate department and whether it is different from the contracted area.

Solve the problem in time, and resort to the law if the developer can't solve it.

The third step of closing the house: hand over the house again, go through the check-in formalities, and closing the house is a normal procedure.

But at present, there are not many developers who can let buyers go through the formalities in advance.

The usual practice is to let the owner sign the house collection document first, and ask the owner to pay the house payment (if the area increases), public maintenance fund (2% of the total house payment) and deed tax (65438+ 0.5% of the total house payment), as well as one year's property management fee and property agency fee, so as to go through the check-in formalities and get the house keys and related materials.

When the owner entered the house, he found that there was something wrong with the quality of the house and the complaint was very passive. Responsible developers will actively deal with the aftermath, and will implement delaying tactics without conscience, which will make the owners very hard and unfair.

In order to avoid this situation, the owner should insist on going through the formalities before the house inspection, and submit the problems found in the process of house inspection, such as the quality of the house, the excessive indoor harmful gas, unfair pool sharing and so on. Give it to the developer in writing and let it sign for it, so as not to leave future troubles.

Or you can indicate the words "unclear indoor conditions" or "unclear building conditions" on the house expropriation document.

The fourth step of closing the house: house inspection

Simply check a few places that are most prone to problems:

1. Can the water level gradient in the bathroom and kitchen run away the stagnant water?

Inspection method: that is, on-site water spraying inspection.

2. Is there any water seepage in the bathtub?

Inspection method: Some tiny cracks may be hard to find with naked eyes. Put a can of water in the bathtub and leave a mark near the horizontal line. Check the water level the next day. The water level may drop slightly due to evaporation, but if the drop is too obvious, it may be that the bathtub is leaking.

3. Is the platform straight?

Inspection method: you can't just look at the surface, especially the long wooden floor, which may cover the uneven platform. Tap the floor carefully. If there is an empty echo, the floor may be uneven.

In addition, there are some details that need attention, such as door keys, electrical appliances, doors and windows and windowsills, balconies, walls, floors, ceilings, kitchens, bathrooms, faucets and pipes, electrical devices, telephones and antennas. When the owner repossesses the building, he should also bring the sales brochure and sales contract to check the materials and equipment inside and outside the building.

Basic tools:

1, a camera with date display function, so as to take photos of the problem as proof.

2, pen and paper, write down the problem immediately.

3. It is convenient to post a stack of notes, write down problems and maintenance suggestions, and post them where there are problems, which is convenient for maintenance personnel to find.

4. Flat small appliances with three plugs (such as hair dryers and electric razors). ) plug it into various power outlets in the house and check whether the power supply has been completely connected.

Take a square ruler to measure whether the wall and floor are straight.

6, sales brochures, at the same time to see whether the kitchen, bathroom and other ancillary equipment meets the original commitment of the developer.

Fourth, capital preparation.

Decoration is a big investment for most families, so we should make a good budget and set aside this money. Generally speaking, the total decoration cost should be 10% to 20% of the house price.

Five, time limit for a project preparation

Because decoration is related to the quality of life of a family in the future, most people still adopt cleaning or semi-contracting. No matter what form it takes, it is inevitable to stare at the site construction, which is a contradiction for office workers. Therefore, how to arrange the construction period reasonably is something that needs to be prepared in advance.

If it is a couple's decoration, how to arrange their time to stare at the scene reasonably is a problem discussed in advance.

According to experience:

Take two rooms and one living room as an example. Under normal circumstances, the construction period is about 30 days. If other factors, such as changing the design scheme, are included, the longest time is 40 days.

During the two-month renovation, there will be countless problems waiting for you to solve, which will definitely affect your normal work. In order not to be fired, you must take precautions against leaders in advance, whether it is sugar-coated shells, risks or crying hysteria, as long as the restrictions can be relaxed.

Vi. Other preparatory work

1, physical preparation:

There is no denying that decoration is also a physical activity. Staring at the scene for a day, my back aches and my legs hurt. You can't visit the building materials market without good physical strength.

Sometimes you need to visit half the city a day. Therefore, you must arrange your physical strength before renovation and adjust your body to the best state of combat effectiveness.

2. The role orientation of husband and wife decoration:

This problem can be big or small. If the positioning is good, it may not be a problem. If the positioning is not good, the house is renovated, and the two even divorce or break up. Can't say it's not a tragedy.

Therefore, before the renovation, the two must discuss who will manage and who will be responsible. It is necessary to divide different roles and functions according to different periods of decoration.

For example, whoever visits the building materials city may wish to divide the work like this: the wife who is good at bargaining is responsible for inquiry and bargaining, and the husband who is full of physical strength is responsible for transportation.

Also, on the issue of design style positioning, whose opinion is the main one, and so on.

According to experience:

Decoration is really tiring, from psychological to physical, it is impossible without good physical quality.

A friend who is decorating on the same floor can't get enough rest because he keeps staring at the construction site and running to the building materials city. Once, while staring at the scene, he fell headlong and fell to the ground head-down.

This is a lesson of blood, even if the physical quality is good, the general decoration will be a bit unbearable. Therefore, we should have a full understanding of how tired the decoration is!