First, be defined, you can master what repair of apartment by the hands and that it is necessary to change in your apartment. Spend attentively survey of the apartment, paying attention to all lacks of furnish, the sanitary technician, the electrician.
For convenience can make sketches of a lay-out of premises of your apartment. To consider all moments, take to write down, sketch for a rule all places on which it will be necessary to pay special attention during repair. Necessarily make and write down the sizes of premises, without forgetting about window and doorways in which out repairs will be carried.
At a following stage count, will cost how many apartment repair by the hands. Make the list of works. Opposite to each work it is desirable to write amount of works in м2 and then you can, having learned the information on the expense of materials, to consider to be necessary how many this or that material on each kind of works. Repair cost usually consists of cost of finishing materials (plaster, шпаклевка, a first coat, серпянка, a tile, tiled glue, wall-paper, a paint etc.), expenses on tools which will be necessary for you during repair, expenses on transport for transportation of materials and cost of services of loaders. Add to the received sum approximately 50 %, as a result you receive cost of repair of your apartment.
Then it is necessary to estimate time for which you will master apartment repair by the hands. Here also it is useful to you the list of works.
It is not necessary to save on repair of own apartment, but the certain economy always is pertinent, ring round shops of building materials and compare the prices. It is not obligatory to take expensive building materials, it is possible to replace them with cheaper analogs of other manufacturers. Learn, how professional builders respond about those or other materials.
To begin both dismantling, and painting and decorating always it is necessary from a ceiling, then pass to walls, and in the end on a floor, but there are also exceptions, for example, tension or a false ceiling it is necessary to mount after furnish of walls. At first execute full dismantle of old coverings. Then it is necessary to perform electroassembly and sanitary works. Before furnish of walls it is necessary to replace windows and doors. If you continue to live in repaired apartment repair is better for spending on premises, in that case it is better to begin with a bathroom and a toilet, then to repair kitchen, and then it is necessary to start premises and in the end to repair a corridor.
