Inexpensive do-it-yourself cosmetic repairs. Quick and inexpensive do-it-yourself repairs in the house. The main stages of budget repair

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When in the advertising lines of the Internet we come across catchy phrases “repair for $ 50”, “repair in a week for half a salary”, etc. - somehow automatically it seems that the authors either forgot to put a question mark, or they are still crooks. This is partly true: international micro-offices like "sharash-montazh" can indeed undercover low prices"behind square meter» to rob a gullible customer who dreamed of saving money on repairs, like sticky, or make it very bad. At the same time, from the author's videos from YouTube, where resourceful people share their experience of economical repairs with their own hands, you can draw a lot of benefits for your wallet and personal experience.

With your own hands? some readers will exclaim. - Yes, I can’t even hammer a nail into the wall ... However, fear has big eyes. All you can, just badly want. There is no moral and material incentive for you. And you don't have to go far for it, it's close by. All construction companies have a significant share of their income precisely from those jobs that do not require special qualifications. Those. money from your wallet that could be spent on the sea, fishing, a fur coat, finally, will fall into the calloused palm of a dark-skinned son of Central Asia for something that you yourself could handle ... However, stop. Let's figure out which of the simplest repair tasks can be mastered even by an average undergraduate student?

Determination of the scope of work

With a smart face, go around the arena of future repair actions and write down exactly what is planned to be done, what are the dimensions and area of the surfaces planned for restoration, and what needs to be bought. Just write it down: a repair vacuum greatly dulls the most brilliant memory. And then rummage around the Internet for the cost of consumables and make notes: what in the plan corresponds to the capabilities of the wallet and common sense. Delete excess.

Definition of collaborators. If our student lives alone, there is no question, she can handle it herself. However, if there are good friends, this is a reason for team building, and if there is a candidate for the role of a handsome prince, this is an opportunity to test his love from a purely practical point of view. However, if there are neighbors in a room or apartment, you will have to coordinate Napoleonic plans with them. Neighbors are great. Neighbors are against - to postpone the repair or the neighbors themselves: to mom, to friends, to the goblin, in a word - not to complicate your work. Repair in an environment of constant squabbles - the transfer of nerves, time and money without a particularly brilliant result.

Purchase of consumables

Arm yourself with a recent notebook, a friend with a car (or, at worst, a cart) and go on a raid on building materials stores. Leroy Merlin, K-rauta, Obi and others stand apart, it is very good to buy consumables such as wallpaper, paint, linoleum, tiles in them: there is a large choice, and for any wallet.

What is worth paying attention to:

The rest of the wallpaper is always sold at a price reduced by at least 1.5-2 times. Knowing the area of the proposed pasting, you can easily choose best option. Do not forget about the original technique of 2-color pasting, it looks stylish and unusual (bottom plain dark wallpaper, above - light with a pattern). Wallpaper-borders are expensive, it is better to take a discounted roll of the rest with a longitudinal pattern, and cut it out yourself.
No matter how cheap paper wallpaper attracts - choose vinyl, or better - interlining. He will best endure everything that ordinary paper will not forgive: the unevenness of the walls, and the mistakes of crooked hands. Do not take wallpaper with a large pattern that requires a neat fit "butt" - this way you can save more than 2 rolls.
Gluing wallpaper joints is very useful, but you don’t need to take a beautiful tube called “wallpaper joint glue” for this. It includes a banal PVA, which will cost five times cheaper.
Acrylic putty is much more expensive than gypsum putty, but if you plan to putty a wall under wallpaper, there is practically no difference: draw your own conclusions. If putties require several small holes in the wall, you should not even buy a package of putty: in ordinary plastic jars, strongly reminiscent of herring, “fast” putty based on PVA is sold.
To remove particularly stubborn wallpaper, there is a special liquid (very smelly and expensive). However, it can be almost completely replaced with an aqueous solution of vinegar (8k 1).
Wallpaper for painting is somewhat more expensive than usual, but it should be remembered that they can be glued only once, and then just repainted according to the mood.
If we have two buckets of white acrylic paint for ceilings, but one is more expensive under the pretext of “better covering”, we take the cheaper one. You still need to apply it in two layers, and when it dries, it will still be the same white. Interior paint (say, for radiators, doors and floors) can be taken at the cheapest price: room conditions it is no different from the expensive one.
Do not neglect the primer. If you cover the walls and ceiling with it, the adhesion of paint and wallpaper glue will improve significantly. The economy option in a canister at the lowest price is quite suitable.
The range of wallpaper paste can now compete with the choice of cosmetics. Meanwhile, practice has shown: the most ordinary (not branded) wallpaper glue called "Wallpaper glue", being mixed strictly in the proportion indicated on the package and in combination with gluing PVA joints, gives no less good results. And do not be offended by the manufacturer if suddenly your non-woven wallpaper falls behind when glued with vinyl glue: it is better to carefully look at the purpose of the glue on the package.
The universal and cheapest option for the floor is to paint everything. However, the best option for frequently visited rooms (kitchen, hallway) is tiles. Linoleum or paint is only suitable for a single student or a young couple who spend most of their time at work. If the apartment has a child, a dog, or the prospect of regular parties on weekends, in a couple of years the linoleum can be safely thrown away and the paint can be updated. Carpet is good for bedrooms, however, “paths” may appear in it in the second year of operation, therefore, as part of the economy, it is better to take linoleum. Laminate and parquet, of course, are also very good, but it makes no sense to consider them in an article about the “economy option”: even if you win them in the lottery or buy them at a 90% discount (which is equally likely), you cannot do without a qualified laying master .
Boards, panels and skirting boards made of foam plastic, polystyrene, etc. - a great find for decorating any ceilings, especially problematic ones, when traces of the flood, scratches, potholes and other troubles are difficult to mask with paint. Such panels sit remarkably on glue (“Moment” and “Titan” occupy a well-deserved leadership), are not afraid of moisture, are easy to clean, change and adjust, while looking great in any room. Considering that this eliminates the need for any processing of the ceiling (except for the fungus, if any) is also a good way to save money.
When everything has already been bought, we remember what tool can come in handy in addition to the list: is there a roller at home, does it need a long handle, are there enough brushes and flutes, gloves, a covering film, and other little things. By the way, if there is paint for ceilings in the shopping list, consider that you have a couple of convenient containers for all kinds of solutions. At the same time, remember that any board will replace the paint pan, and a tightly folded dry cloth will replace the micro-roller for wallpaper joints, in other words, do not take too much.
If the repair hero is alone in his impulse, and even not provided with a car, many large stores offer the service of delivering purchases to the declared address. However, keep in mind that shipping costs money and may not be scheduled on the day of purchase. Otherwise, you can distribute visits to the store for several visits, and take the hardest part last, having acquired a cart.

Preparing the area for renovation

Move the furniture to the center of the room (you can use the help of a company of girlfriends), wrap it with covering material, because there will be a lot of dirt and dust. "temporary headquarters" (in one-room apartments it usually becomes the kitchen). Equip a sleeping place there: for obvious reasons, it is not worth spending the night on the “repair” area.

Washing white from the ceiling

Yes, we must prepare for this, too, because, especially in rented apartments with old repairs, a whitewashed ceiling is not such a rarity. No special means, except for a stepladder, water and a rag, are required for this, although the process is accompanied by an abundant movement of white from the ceiling to the flusher. However, with a competent approach, it is worth considering that stretching up, and even with such humidity, you are actively losing weight. Plus, you can invite your friends to the "chalk" party. And what gorgeous selfies you get! Just do not forget to wipe the floor after each repair day.

Whitewashing the ceiling (or tiling)

Difficult? Yes, elementary, especially in comparison with the wash. The ceiling is covered with liquid soil using a roller on a long handle (half an hour to an hour of work), and the next day - with the same roller - water-based paint. Neither the primer nor the paint is odorless and is easily washed off the operator and his clothes with plain water. A wonderful philosophical lesson in bringing chaos to order, a minimum of effort, a maximum of visible results in an hour of time. You should not be afraid that when applying the first layer, the paint does not look so white, and something appears through it: when it dries, it will become much whiter. It is better to apply the paint in two layers with a break for complete drying. After priming and each painting, carefully wash the roller under warm water: it will come in handy when sticking wallpaper.

If a decision is made to glue the ceiling with tiles, flushing still cannot be avoided, and the primer will come in handy (glue will adhere to it much better), but you can forget about puttying irregularities, if any. We stock up on a sharp knife (a clerical knife is best) and begin to glue the tiles from the corner farthest from the entrance by the window (it is most noticeable at the entrance to the apartment). Glue on the tile is best applied around the perimeter with “stitches” and crosswise. Everything else is a real game of dominoes or Tetris - the main thing is to stock up on a reliable stepladder.

Wall preparation

Now you can remove the whitewashed wallpaper. Plentifully poured with warm water from a spray bottle, or moistened with acetic solution, they depart perfectly. And tearing paper in large quantities at times is no less useful than breaking dishes - even psychologists recommend this. Holes from nails and bumps in the walls? - no problem. Irregularities are rubbed with sandpaper. We spray the holes with water (so that the dust does not interfere) and carefully cover them with putty. You can take it ready-made, on PVA, you can dilute the powder, take a spatula and sculpt: any girl who has used foundation at least once can do it. When the putty has dried (drying time is always signed on the package), we take a roller and cover the walls with one layer of primer. All!

Wall repair

If we firmly decided to save on repairs and we don’t need to submit our work to the inter-district competition “The Best Lone Repairman”, then it’s absolutely not necessary to bother with the favorite baubles of hardened professionals such as “bringing to zero” and the like. Understand: neither the cat nor the guests intend to walk along the walls with the level, checking the bumps. The exception is the so-called. “Pregnant” walls - when the plaster on them cracks and lags behind brick or concrete so much that it can crumble with a strong enough blow, say, with a hammer. This is not suitable for future wallpapers. In this case, yes, it is better to tap such areas with the same hammer, clean them of debris, moisten them with plenty of water and plaster (this is no more difficult than putty, just the building mixture should be taken specifically for plastering). Another exception is the fungus: it is also not worth gluing wallpaper on it without pre-treatment, because. no matter how carefully it is cleaned from the wall, it will still appear. Now there are a lot of means for its destruction, you can take any, firmly remembering: all painting and pasting work must be carried out after the applied agent has completely dried.

Lyrical digression: as a moral encouragement, it should be taken into account that by previous works we saved about 15,000 rubles (or even more) of the payment of slave labor. As an added bonus, learn that any construction company will charge at least 10,000 rubles for wallpapering the smallest room. If something, a ticket, say, to Prague and back, is seven and a half thousand rubles, plus cozy private hotels, and it’s implausible tasty food. With these positive thoughts, we start coloring everything except the floor.

Namely - radiators, doors and jambs, window sills and other elements of our interior, the color of which can damage the pasted wallpaper. Naturally - before painting they need to be washed and cleaned from bumps and chips old paint, and in the process of painting - provide yourself with unnecessary clothes that you don’t feel sorry for, a respirator or at least a gauze bandage. And good ventilation will not only eliminate the smell, but also speed up the drying of the paint.

wall pasting

One of the most creative elements of the repair process. In this case, much depends on the type and pattern of wallpaper you choose. To cut them, you will need a section of a clean floor the length of your walls. We unwind the first roll, make height risks, and (if we chose a monotonous pattern that does not require docking) - just roll the roll back and forth and cut it around the edges with a clerical knife. When enough pieces are ready, apply glue. If our wallpaper is non-woven (which is optimal), then directly on the wall, with a roller familiar to us, and immediately glue the wallpaper. If, nevertheless, vinyl or paper, you will have to apply glue to the wallpaper, fold each piece in half and wait for the glue to be absorbed. Then everything is simple: we glue it on the walls, disperse the bubbles, the joints with the ceiling and coat the sides with a thin PVA brush, level it with the ceiling with a curb or skirting boards and enjoy finished work. And yes, we don’t forget: at this stage there are no drafts, all the windows are closed tightly.

Floor preparation and coating

After the above work, it will no longer cause absolutely no difficulties. The main thing is that you need to completely or at least half free the floor area from all the furniture. If you have bulky things, you should think of a way to disassemble them or put them in the right place immediately after painting or covering with linoleum, otherwise you risk getting drawing marks or tears.

Before coating with linoleum or paint, even a wooden floor or fiberboard should be washed clean, filling the widest joints. Removing old linoleum is also quite simple: in most cases, it is no more difficult than removing wallpaper. Small angles of inclination of the floor in terms of level do not require “bringing to zero” at all - we already remember that we hand over our work to ourselves, and not to a harsh perfectionist judge. However, if the floor has large irregularities (most often it drops strongly and very clearly towards the corner), it is good to level it with a building mixture. At the same time, if a herd of mammoths does not have to stomp in the desired corner, any leftovers will do - gypsum, plaster, putty, cement, old tile adhesive: we dilute, cover it up, and leave to dry. Then - just painting, or cutting linoleum (remember that modern linoleum does not require any glue: it is simply placed on the floor and pressed with skirting boards).

In general, here are all the works that you can do with your own hands. By the most minimal standards - they can save about 40,000 rubles. In addition to the work mentioned, you can still take out construction debris - for this service, repair workers willingly charge a bribe of 1000 rubles. If you have a tool and a certain skill, if you have to repair the bathroom, you can dismantle the tile yourself (especially if it is already lagging behind), and add from 200 rubles per square meter to your virtual economy wallet.

But there is a list of jobs for which without special qualifications, even with the most economical of economical options, it is definitely not worth taking on. This is laying tiles or laminate, replacing and repairing electrics, installing plumbing and windows, and, perhaps, dismantling and attaching new doors. Here, a weak acquaintance with the “subject”, even in the most successful scenario, can nullify all previous savings. If unsuccessful - especially in the case of an electrician - endanger health.

Drawing a line under our economical repair, you can be sure that not everything is as scary and expensive as it seems. And an apartment renovated with your own hands may well become a subject of your personal pride and a start for something more than just a renovation. After all, sometimes changing the environment - a person changes himself. And, as a rule, for the better.

For some, the need to renovate their apartment causes a reaction far from positive. The financial side of the issue comes first. A painstaking calculation of funds begins, with a distinction between the purchase of materials and payment for the services of specialized construction teams.

Repairs may be cosmetic and are limited to painting, wrapping and updating appearance. And it can be capital with the replacement of electrical wiring, plumbing and the installation of a modern acrylic baths.

The process of repairing an apartment is perceived as a long period of time with many inconveniences. The result eventually turns from the desired to the suffered, and instead of a sense of satisfaction, there is a feeling of fatigue and detachment.

The situation is quite different for people with imaginative thinking. Having visualized what the apartment will look like after finishing, they part with money more easily, in the hope of quickly seeing everything with their own eyes.

People from the same category, who are not burdened with funds, often resort to the services of designers. Master decorator home interior with the help of computer programs can develop a view of the apartment in 3D format. In many ways, this method is considered a strong incentive to action, since it allows you to see the results of the work in advance.

However, purposeful people with high internal enthusiasm never give up even in a situation where there is a strong limitation of funds. For such people, the way out is to carry out partial or complete repairs on their own.

At the same time, someone chooses a thorough capital design of housing with redevelopment, and for someone it is enough to carry out inexpensive repairs in an apartment, which is often called cosmetic.

Stages in the repair

When deciding where to start repairing an apartment, some believe that it is necessary to purchase materials and tools first. In general, this is correct, but in order to spend money correctly and not to acquire too much, you need to make preliminary calculations. Calculate the basic geometric parameters of each room: height, length and width. Determine the dimensions of window and door openings.

The data obtained will help determine the exact amount of work and calculate the amount of each type of building material.

When deciding to make a global change internal view apartments on their own, you must first draw up a phased plan. It is a properly developed plan, including a phased apartment renovation, that becomes the key to successful work processes.

The first item will be dismantling work:

demolition fencing internal walls and partitions to expand the space;
dismantling wooden windows for replacement with plastic double-glazed windows;
removal of door panels or complete dismantling of door frames.
removal of old floor coverings;
dismantling wall coverings or clearing walls from paint compositions;
clearing or blurring ceilings.

Categories of complexity of work processes

The most time-consuming work is considered to be the installation of a screed on the floors and plastering the walls. It is especially difficult to deal with surfaces endowed with big amount drops. Some of them are eliminated by knocking down with a hammer, but only a leveling screed or similar plaster layer can really save the day.

To carry out high-quality straightening of wall surfaces, plaster beacons are used. To do this, buy aluminum rails or metal pipes of a small square or rectangular section.

In the first case, the material is inexpensive, but when buying, you should know that when you remove the rails from the joints after the plaster has dried, they can no longer be reused in work.

metal pipes are more expensive, but the percentage of their preservation after dismantling is much higher. In addition, some people prefer to leave them in solution for greater strength of the layer.

by the most in an economical way to achieve evenness of the screed, it is considered the installation of mortar beacons on the floors. But this process is very painstaking and only those who have the appropriate skills can decide on it.

The simplest type of work is painting. At least that's what most people think. The opinion is both right and wrong. The truth of the statement lies in the final process, that is, the painting itself, using quality tools.

Paint rollers and brushes, plastic pans with nets for rolling rollers. Working with quality tools you can avoid smudges on the walls and the allocation of vertical paint stripes.

Capturing an impression

For the sake of interest and to confirm their personal participation, a large number of people take photos of apartment renovation before and after. Sometimes this results in a whole series of shots with separate initial and final views of each room.

Some amateurs post photos on the Internet, as today it is considered a fashionable activity, and someone simply uses them to view with friends and acquaintances. In any case, a photo of a do-it-yourself apartment renovation is not only a memory, but also a confirmation of personal skill.

DIY apartment renovation photo

Instruction

The cost of repair consists of two components: the cost of materials and the cost of work. Moreover, the services of professional repairmen can cost much more than all the materials. Therefore, the first commandment of cheap repairs is to do everything you can. Actually, only two jobs need to be entrusted to specialists: plumbing (if pipes need to be replaced) and electrical wiring, for the rest, professionals do not. And the second is to choose inexpensive materials and do without what you can do without.

The simplest thing is to make it inexpensive in the living rooms and the corridor. To tidy up the ceiling, you will need ceiling paint (preferably matte - this allows you to hide surface irregularities) and a special paint roller - foam rubber or fleecy. Of course, you can do without a roller by painting the ceilings with a brush, but, firstly, it is much more tiring, and secondly, streaks may remain on the painted surface - and you will have to repaint a second time. The roller allows you to apply only one coat of paint.

Stick paper wallpapers on the wall - they are not as durable as vinyl, but they are very cheap. By the way, special glue for paper wallpaper it is not necessary to buy - you can cook a paste from flour or starch. Wiped linoleum on the floor can not be changed, but simply painted with oil or acrylic paint for the floor - the color will easily last 3-4 years.

The choice of materials for the repair of the bathroom and kitchen should be approached more carefully - after all, these are rooms with high humidity. Therefore, for ceilings in these rooms, it is better to purchase a special moisture-resistant paint marked “for baths and kitchens” or “for wet rooms” - especially since it costs a little more.

Bathroom walls don't have to be tiled. If the walls are in good condition, you can paint them with acrylic paint or stick on moisture-resistant washable vinyl wallpapers(labeled "three drops"). You can also use fiberglass wallpaper for finishing bathrooms. They are good because they are very undemanding to the quality of the surface - they can be glued even on an uneven, crumbling wall, and this allows you to reduce not only the cost of repairs, but also labor costs. A slightly more expensive, but at the same time very economical option is plastic wall panels. They look great and are very easy to clean.

You can also use fiberglass wallpaper or washable vinyl wallpaper to finish the kitchen, sticking it up to the ceiling or halfway up the wall. If kitchen apron not tiled - can be used plastic panel, imitating tile, or stick an oilcloth or self-adhesive film on the wall above the work areas.

In the five or six years that have passed since the last renovation, the interior of the apartment has somehow faded, spots have appeared on the walls in some places, and there are bald spots on the floors, and paint on the windows and doorways cracked. No matter how much you want, you need to make repairs. The required amount, as always, fails to collect. So can desire really not coincide with possibilities? Not at all.

Those who do not have a budget, you need to know little tricks, allowing you to make economical repair. Basically, all of them are that there are no expensive stages of work.

Do can be from high-quality, but not expensive building materials, and update the interior on their own, saving on wages for hired workers.

Where to begin?

First, determine what the style of the updated interior will be, because the amount of costs for necessary materials. The emphasis should be on decorating walls, windows and doors, flooring.

Walls

If you want something unusual, then you can use clinker brickwork, with which you can easily give the room the look of an old castle or high-tech design, loft.

It can become an interior accent that does not require finishing materials(you can even create an imitation brick wall, about which you will learn in detail). And walls can be made to match the brickwork if there is not enough money for wallpaper.

economical repair you need to start by removing the old wallpaper to the ground. Roughness on the concrete or unevenness in the seams brickwork can be used as additional elements decor. Prime them and cover with water-based paint. You can use the primer to make some kind of abstract drawing, which will save water emulsion.

The walls look great after decorating with textured plaster - a coating that imitates the Mediterranean style. She makes an effect smooth color transitions due to various small pebbles, granite or marble chips, cotton, linen or wood fibers added to its composition. These blotches give the impression of a coating natural stone or wet silk.

You can paste over the walls with new wallpaper. But when buying, you should remember that they should hide the defects of the wall and therefore should be quite dense. Under thin wallpaper, it is necessary to level the wall to perfect smoothness.

With the help of embossed vinyl-based wallpaper, you can hide the unevenness of the unplastered surface.

Wallpaper must be

without a large pattern, which then has to be carefully adjusted.
without rapport (repetition of the pattern), when sticking, you will have to cut a lot,
most the best option- monochromatic colors or vertical stripes on the canvas.

Do you want to save money on wallpaper replacement? Then cover the places where they are torn, rubbed and shiny with decorative stickers. Oracal film can decorate not only wallpaper, but also painted walls. It goes well with any type of coating, even with simple plaster.

Self-adhesive films Oracal. Multi-layer self-adhesive vinyl film with a texture that imitates the weaving of carbon fibers. The film perfectly stretches and lays down on the curved surfaces.

Windows and doorways

If there is not enough paint and varnish for something, you can decorate doors and openings with platbands with stencil patterns. Turn the space above the doors into a showcase for various trinkets, books, artificial flower arrangements. Costs for economical repair will be significantly reduced.

Flooring

You can find inexpensive parquet or laminate, but is it necessary? When planning an economical renovation, it is better to opt for linoleum with a herringbone pattern or parquet plank, deck flooring or marble.

Natural linoleum consists of natural ingredients Therefore, it is called an environmentally friendly material. Yes, and laying it does not require significant costs.
Cheaper than traditional parquet can also be covering a dilapidated floor surface with carpet.