Repair of walls in the old fund. Make from Khrushchev "Candy"
Miracles does not happen, but there are honest ways to save on services and materials. Remember the main one with our expert
When in the task of repairing "Dano" - an apartment in the old fund with worn communications, a dilapidated bathroom, a creamy rippled parquet, wooden windows with slots, ribbon wallpaper and split tiles, and "Condition" - bring the apartment in order without informing the budget, decision You have to look for by constantly searching for a compromise, our expert Andrei Lyamin-Borodin believes.
1. Keep only what is valuable
If the apartments and the house are ordinary, are neither architectural monument, nor to your family nest, the main surfaces are in a deplorable state, the electrician has never changed, and the pipes flow - repair implies a complete dismantling.
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2. Determine your budget
Make a full list of works, dividing it into the category "What you need to be done" (here will enter the replacement of windows, gender, electrical wiring, pipes) and that "if possible" (for example, the replacement of radiators) is what theoretically can be performed later.
Highlight the budget to which you can influence (by choosing economical alternatives), and which are not. Taking into account its current and future financial opportunities, determine the final budget.
3. Do not refuse design project
In order not to forget about the important one, it is necessary to consider everything before the start of work or on the earliest stage. Those who seek to make the most budgetary repairs are usually saved on the design project. From the point of view of savings, it is not always justified - its share in the overall repair budget will be insignificant, but there may be a lot of unplanned spending due to alterations.
The key to successful repair is a clear vision by the customer of the final interior. This will directly affect the entire "invisible front": engineering systems, electrical wiring, weakness, location of sanitary and electrical appliances. It is necessary immediately, right up to specific articles, find out: what, what dimensions and where it will be located.
4. Do not create additional work.
This also applies to global issues - such as redevelopment (if done, then coordinate independently and try to limit the subjects that do not require the creation of a project and examination of hidden work), and to the local ("warm" floor is pleasant, but Plus To the estimate).
5. Preparing for surprises
Floors - an important stage of repair in the old fund. The whole scale of the upcoming repair work and, accordingly, the budget becomes known only after their opening. The state of overlappings is investigated, in the worst case, it is stated by the need for their repair or gain.
This especially applies to houses with wooden floors, which could do in places, then the lags are locally or completely replaced with new, it is possible to increase metal structures. Such works are performed on the project. It should be borne in mind that the change in the design of the floors is considered redevelopment.
6. Choose not the most expensive materials.
When buying any materials there is a temptation to choose the option better, then even better and so on. These thoughts should be driven, they lead to inflating the budget at each stage. Cheap - does not mean bad. If the repaired apartment is needed here and now, it is better to choose those materials that you by pocket.
If you are forced to use simple materials, let them easier and remain. Do not buy cheap imitation of natural stone or wood. It is better if the tile is a monophonic one - it is more difficult for it to "count" the cost.
Exception - engineering and electrical equipment. Do not save and buy only the originals of famous firms. But the choice between good and good is here. When planning electricians and protective devices, the question may be about choosing between the bundle of the machine + Uzo or DiffAvtomat. Calculations show that the machine + Uzo is a slightly more budget solution. When installing water supply systems, polypropylene pipes instead of metal-plastic are cheaper.
Limit the visual alignment of the walls. Alignment under 90 degrees leads to large consumption of materials, an increase in the timing of work due to long drying of the plaster and is not justified throughout the apartment area, with the exception of several corners under the plug and embedded furniture, the plunth of plinth pricing zone and door platforms.
Shock from the price for dismantling is the first thing that the owner of the apartment is facing in the old Fund, which gathered to make repairs. This part of the repair is associated with renting garbage containers and loading works really occupies a significant share of the overall budget.
It is possible to reduce costs by making dismantling on your own (realizing that it is not easy operation), either hiring less skilled workers than those masts of the finishers who will make the bulk volume.
We note immediately: to call the cost of modernization of the antique real estate object, which changed several generations of tenants, is almost impossible. Each apartment owned their tastes, appetites and opportunities.
Defendant "Film Repair"
The costs of high-quality repairs with redevelopment and restoration of historical interiors may be comparable to the price of the apartment. At the same time, the result of plasterboard-plastic "fast-repair" in homes with a solid history and a rich past looks defiantly ridiculous. So, the doors of standard sizes and window frames with double-glazed windows in a metal-plastic profile are completely killed by the details and proportions characteristic of historical interiors. At the same time, a modern approach to repair, when the entire contour of the room (floors and walls) is completely sealed, can only speed up the wear of structures.
In the apartment with a communal past, which changed several generations of tenants, it will have to change wiring, pipes and plumbing, windows and floors, renovating or replace the doors.
But when modernizing the apartment in the non-type house, a high-quality work project is always needed. These are the additional costs that will eventually allow managing costs and turn out of significant savings.
To turn an old apartment in more or less comfortable accommodation, you need to save it from smells generating unpleasant associations
The main source of discomfort in any old apartment, digested refreshed or long-seated repair, - shaft smells. It is because of them that the one who falls into such a dwelling, associations appear with a dilapidation and feeling that it is about to fall apart.
At the same time, in the homes of the pre-revolutionary building and the Stalin period almost always high ceilings, and residential premises have decent squares and volumes. Brick walls are usually quite strong, but limestone plaster, layers of newspapers and wallpapers for many years absorbed all the evaporation of municipal life. Another source of fragrances, always issuing an old building of the building, - fired black floors and affected by mold fungus the contents of overlaps.
The most difficult - floors and ceilings
Floors and ceilings are the most costly components of the repair in the houses of the Old Fund, residential buildings of the period of constructivism and some types of post-war stalinds (for example, in so-called German cottages) with floors having wooden or metal beams.
The degree of preservation of the supporting structures is everywhere different. To evaluate whether their gain will be required, you will have to make a selective opening and check inspection of the beams. Special attention to this expense will require wet areas of kitchens and bathrooms, as well as angles in which the cracks are converged and the ceilings.
Parquet floors in ordinary apartments, laid by a Christmas tree, as a rule, do not have artistic value. If the oak or beech parquet in the rooms is concerned and went to the waves - it will not be able to save it. Therefore, the floors will need to be disassembled. Not only the coating will be dismantled, but also a board-made black floor.
After removing the boards, you can estimate the condition of the interbelny space. As a rule, during construction under black floor, it turned out all the garbage - broken brick, sins, sawdust, cutting boards. And in rooms with high humidity (for example, on the lower floors), all this contents sometimes resembles a rewinding peatman and is subject to liquidation.
How to deal with ceilings? It is also a difficult question. Removing layers of blissing, restoration of gypsum stucco sockets, as well as a complete complex of plastering and putty works now it will no longer, and there are no qualified masters in the afternoon with fire. If the stucco decor does not represent artistic value, and is a set of standard gypsum elements, it does not make sense to restore it. In addition, in the city, in conditions of increased vibratory loads, keep the updated ceiling without cracks is not easy.
Donating the 10-12 cm of the height of the room, you can with minimal costs to create the effect of the flawlessly preserved antique ceiling
The most common solution for the old fund - the suspended ceiling of plasterboard on the enhanced frame. It can be carefully talked, decorate with cartoons and sockets imitating stucco.
Walls must be breathing
Go to the walls. Wallpaper layers and newspapers will have to take a layer behind the layer. This is a time-consuming job, but the result will not slow down to affect - the atmosphere in the room will be noticeably better. It is necessary to shoot down the plaster first in the places of leakage (but it is usually still kept there). It may turn out that, having come to brickwork, you decide to make it part of the interior. Covered with colorless primer brick can be left in decoration in the form of fragments - for example, in angles or arched openings.
Remember that the walls must "breathe". Therefore, vinyl washable wallpaper and glossy paints are not suitable for them. A more appropriate option is the lime-based plasters on a natural basis, as well as the wallpaper of classical colors (including on a paper basis - in retrostile, from the collections of former years).
What about windows? For houses with massive walls, the windows of the so-called Finnish construction are best suited: inside - double-glazed windows in a wooden frame, outside - single windshield in a thin aluminum frame, in color and dissemination of the corresponding facade solution of this house.
Non-format massive doors also, most likely, will require restoration or replacement. But in the spacious rooms to change the configuration of the openings to enter modern standard doors in them, is not the best solution. The preservation of vintage doors can be different; As a rule, in places of locks and handles, there are pensions that will have to be embedded by inserts. If the doors are not from an oak array with carved jewelry, but ordinary, pine, is more profitable to order the same, only new ones.
Repair without a project - money for wind
So, the scale was appreciated. But start repair work without a plan and with a vague idea of \u200b\u200bhow the end result should be, is always money for the wind. If we are talking about a type of dwelling, you can find many ready-made design decisions, "home blanks" with pictures, materials calculations, and even with shoots.
If you believe that you have an impeccable taste and spatial imagination, you can try to make visualization yourself with the help of special computer programs. But it is not necessary to get involved in computer modeling. Still, to master the art of visualizing your interior fantasies, takes no one month, and repair will delay.
To see how harmonious the interiors work, how the objects of the situation fit into them, as well as where you will place electrical outlets and switches (and this is also important), it is worth contacting designers. Fees of recognized masters are calculated five-, and sometimes six-digit numbers. But among practitioners interior designers there are students or advanced lovers, working remotely and offering their services through acquaintances or social networks.
If we are talking about repairs with redevelopment, a dismantling plan and a plan for installing new partitions will be added to the project documentation. But this is the case when the creation of a working draft will have to attract non-students, but representatives of local construction organizations, which will take care of the harmonization of the project in the supervisory instances and obtain permission in the district interdepartmental commission (issues of coordination of the redevelopment, we covered in detail in other publications) .
Making a plan for the placement of furniture and household appliances, you can perform a layout plan and installation of electrical equipment (switches, sockets, conclusions for wall and ceiling lamps).
Provide everything
Ultimately, the repair project even in a small apartment should acquire a view of a few dozen sheets album. When the whole complex of work from the sketch before repairing turnkey performs a construction company, an application to the project should be a detailed specification in which the building volumes of all materials are calculated - from primers and dry mixtures for plastering to tile. If you are myself designer and foreman, draw up lists and make calculations will have to be independently using the estimated calculators and recommendations on the sites of manufacturers and suppliers of materials.
What else is needed to take care before repairing an apartment in a house that has overlaps with wooden or metal beams? If you assume the bulkhead of the floor or demolition of partitions with subsequent restoration, you will have to ascend to visit neighbors from below. Specialists of the service organization must compile an act of inspection of the lower floor premises with the photographing of their status (it is necessary for the neighbors to do not obliged you to repair the long-crack ceiling at your own expense).
Text: Philip Urban Photo: Alexey Alexandronok
After buying an apartment in the House of the Old Fund or Stalin's Repair - almost always inevitability. The point is most likely not limited to the new wallpaper and whitening the ceilings. How to evaluate the scale of the task?
We note immediately: to call the cost of modernization of the antique real estate object, which changed several generations of tenants, is almost impossible. Each apartment owned their tastes, appetites and opportunities.
Defendant "Film Repair"
The costs of high-quality repairs with redevelopment and restoration of historical interiors may be comparable to the price of the apartment. At the same time, the result of plasterboard-plastic "fast-repair" in homes with a solid history and a rich past looks defiantly ridiculous. So, the doors of standard sizes and window frames with double-glazed windows in a metal-plastic profile are completely killed by the details and proportions characteristic of historical interiors. At the same time, a modern approach to repair, when the entire contour of the room (floors and walls) is completely sealed, can only speed up the wear of structures.
In the apartment with a communal past, which changed several generations of tenants, it will have to change wiring, pipes and plumbing, windows and floors, renovating or replace the doors.
But when modernizing the apartment in the non-type house, a high-quality work project is always needed. These are the additional costs that will eventually allow managing costs and turn out of significant savings.
To turn an old apartment in more or less comfortable accommodation, you need to save it from smells generating unpleasant associations
The main source of discomfort in any old apartment, digested refreshed or long-seated repair, - shaft smells. It is because of them that the one who falls into such a dwelling, associations appear with a dilapidation and feeling that it is about to fall apart.
At the same time, in the homes of the pre-revolutionary building and the Stalin period almost always high ceilings, and residential premises have decent squares and volumes. Brick walls are usually quite strong, but limestone plaster, layers of newspapers and wallpapers for many years absorbed all the evaporation of municipal life. Another source of fragrances, always issuing an old building of the building, - fired black floors and affected by mold fungus the contents of overlaps.
The most difficult - floors and ceilings
Floors and ceilings are the most costly components of the repair in the houses of the Old Fund, residential buildings of the period of constructivism and some types of post-war stalinds (for example, in so-called German cottages) with floors having wooden or metal beams.
The degree of preservation of the supporting structures is everywhere different. To evaluate whether their gain will be required, you will have to make a selective opening and check inspection of the beams. Special attention to this expense will require wet areas of kitchens and bathrooms, as well as angles in which the cracks are converged and the ceilings.
Parquet floors in ordinary apartments, laid by a Christmas tree, as a rule, do not have artistic value. If the oak or beech parquet in the rooms is concerned and went to the waves - it will not be able to save it. Therefore, the floors will need to be disassembled. Not only the coating will be dismantled, but also a board-made black floor.
After removing the boards, you can estimate the condition of the interbelny space. As a rule, during construction under black floor, it turned out all the garbage - broken brick, sins, sawdust, cutting boards. And in rooms with high humidity (for example, on the lower floors), all this contents sometimes resembles a rewinding peatman and is subject to liquidation.
How to deal with ceilings? It is also a difficult question. Removing layers of blissing, restoration of gypsum stucco sockets, as well as a complete complex of plastering and putty works now it will no longer, and there are no qualified masters in the afternoon with fire. If the stucco decor does not represent artistic value, and is a set of standard gypsum elements, it does not make sense to restore it. In addition, in the city, in conditions of increased vibratory loads, keep the updated ceiling without cracks is not easy.
Donating the 10-12 cm of the height of the room, you can with minimal costs to create the effect of the flawlessly preserved antique ceiling
The most common solution for the old fund - the suspended ceiling of plasterboard on the enhanced frame. It can be carefully talked, decorate with cartoons and sockets imitating stucco.
Walls must be breathing
Go to the walls. Wallpaper layers and newspapers will have to take a layer behind the layer. This is a time-consuming job, but the result will not slow down to affect - the atmosphere in the room will be noticeably better. It is necessary to shoot down the plaster first in the places of leakage (but it is usually still kept there). It may turn out that, having come to brickwork, you decide to make it part of the interior. Covered with colorless primer brick can be left in decoration in the form of fragments - for example, in angles or arched openings.
Remember that the walls must "breathe". Therefore, vinyl washable wallpaper and glossy paints are not suitable for them. A more appropriate option is the lime-based plasters on a natural basis, as well as the wallpaper of classical colors (including on a paper basis - in retrostile, from the collections of former years).
What about windows? For houses with massive walls, the windows of the so-called Finnish construction are best suited: inside - double-glazed windows in a wooden frame, outside - single windshield in a thin aluminum frame, in color and dissemination of the corresponding facade solution of this house.
Non-format massive doors also, most likely, will require restoration or replacement. But in the spacious rooms to change the configuration of the openings to enter modern standard doors in them, is not the best solution. The preservation of vintage doors can be different; As a rule, in places of locks and handles, there are pensions that will have to be embedded by inserts. If the doors are not from an oak array with carved jewelry, but ordinary, pine, is more profitable to order the same, only new ones.
Repair without a project - money for wind
So, the scale was appreciated. But start repair work without a plan and with a vague idea of \u200b\u200bhow the end result should be, is always money for the wind. If we are talking about a type of dwelling, you can find many ready-made design decisions, "home blanks" with pictures, materials calculations, and even with shoots. If you believe that you have an impeccable taste and spatial imagination, you can try to make visualization yourself with the help of special computer programs. But it is not necessary to get involved in computer modeling. Still, to master the art of visualizing your interior fantasies, takes no one month, and repair will delay.
To see how harmonious the interiors work, how the objects of the situation fit into them, as well as where you will place electrical outlets and switches (and this is also important), it is worth contacting designers. Fees of recognized masters are calculated five-, and sometimes six-digit numbers. But among practitioners interior designers there are students or advanced lovers, working remotely and offering their services through acquaintances or social networks.
If we are talking about repairs with redevelopment, a dismantling plan and a plan for installing new partitions will be added to the project documentation. But this is the case when the creation of a working draft will have to attract non-students, but representatives of local construction organizations, which will take care of the harmonization of the project in the supervisory instances and obtain permission in the district interdepartmental commission (issues of coordination of the redevelopment, we covered in detail in other publications) .
Making a plan for the placement of furniture and household appliances, you can perform a layout plan and installation of electrical equipment (switches, sockets, conclusions for wall and ceiling lamps).
Provide everything
Ultimately, the repair project even in a small apartment should acquire a view of a few dozen sheets album. When the whole complex of work from the sketch before repairing turnkey performs a construction company, an application to the project should be a detailed specification in which the building volumes of all materials are calculated - from primers and dry mixtures for plastering to tile. If you are myself designer and foreman, draw up lists and make calculations will have to be independently using the estimated calculators and recommendations on the sites of manufacturers and suppliers of materials.
What else is needed to take care before repairing an apartment in a house that has overlaps with wooden or metal beams? If you assume the bulkhead of the floor or demolition of partitions with subsequent restoration, you will have to ascend to visit neighbors from below. Specialists of the service organization must compile an act of inspection of the lower floor premises with the photographing of their status (it is necessary for the neighbors to do not obliged you to repair the long-crack ceiling at your own expense).
Series number 1 Beginning of good day, all readers of this wonderful site! Most recently opened it for myself and now I can not break away. I read projects of professionals, ideas and personal experience. P...
Series number 1 Beginning
Good day to all readers of this wonderful site!
Most recently opened it for myself and now I can not break away. I read projects of professionals, ideas and personal experience. I try to learn something, drawing information, adopting the experience ... I am glad for those who have already passed this long and difficult repair process, and enjoys an excellent result. I understand those who only started ... and who has a head goes around ... and a bunch of ideas that can not get into a bunch, and decompose on the shelves. I hope for the experience of professionals and just a good, good advice from those who will not pass by my blog.
Ten months ago, my husband and I became the happy owners of a wonderful four-bedroom apartment in the old Fund, 91.3 m2. (After the "Khrushchev" area of \u200b\u200b44.3 m2, this for us seemed just a stadium :)) House of 1958 Buildings (I buried this fact), brick walls, huge windows, high ceilings, the third floor of their four, bedroom, office and children's South .... In short, a bunch of advantages for us, except for the upcoming grandiose, expensive and very long-term repair !! But this was not frightened, since the desire to live in a bright, spacious and cozy apartment was stronger than fears about the upcoming repair.
Here such a layout was initially:
initial layoutAnd the hour of X is the hour, and work boiled ... For a start, we had to get rid of all the old finishes. Namely, disassemble all the wooden floors, to carry all non-carrying interior partitions. By the way, they were also from the tree. Disable all the old stucco from the walls to brick, disassemble the bathrooms. Works had so much that I was already afraid. But dreams of candy, returned me to the place. In addition to all this, the whole process of dismantling to us with her husband was to do together !!
Tons of garbage were taken, dozens of pairs of gloves were exported, stuck and smeared with greenflash, not one wound, obtained from sharp and insidious nails in the walls ...
And the apartment was exposed to the foundation. And what we got as a result of dismantling: Wall curves with a drop of 4-5 cm, and even more in some places. The terrible plates of overlapping on the floor with the influx of the old solution, with the slits between them 5 cm, with holes and potholes. In the same condition was the ceiling. No geometry. Pipes and wiring is also in poor condition, everything is under the replacement.
We gained strength, patience and, if possible, the means ... and turned to repair. Now our sweetie was waiting for a new wrapper and delicious filling.
Even at the stage of the choice of our future housing, and these searches continued for more than 4 years, we and our husband have been presented with certain requirements for our future apartment. It is the windows south, high ceilings, the possibility of combining the kitchen with a living room, the middle floor in a low house. And this option made us at once, as soon as I entered there, I immediately understood where and that I break, and that I want to get in the end. And that's what happened after redevelopment, and the construction of new walls from Sibita:
