The decision what to begin apartment renovation with the hands with, can be given hardly, of course, if you not the specialist in finishing works. It is worth estimating carefully the scale of work and own forces and also to properly think over future appearance of the room before taking any actions.
Preparatory work
What to begin repair with the hands with, depends on the apartment where works will be performed. If you live in this room long ago or got it in the secondary market, then dismantling of old designs and cleaning of surfaces for carrying out repair will be the first stage. It is necessary to wash away old ceiling plaster or to get rid of old wall-paper on a ceiling and walls. A floor should not be touched, preparatory work on walls and a ceiling as is much more convenient will not be finished yet will then put away construction debris from an old covering, but not from the surface prepared for repair. At this stage it is worth leaving untouched only windows and doors as their early replacement can lead to damage of a new platband or window frame in the course of the subsequent repair. All surfaces which you are not going to mention in the course of repair need to be covered reliably, so, for example, a floor needs to be covered carefully with a thick film, and from above to lay a layer of dense cardboard, and windows and doors need to be wrapped up densely. If you decide from what to start repair from scratch in the new apartment, then the above operations usually do not need to be performed, and it is necessary to pass to a stage of laying of communications and draft finishing of the room at once.
Works on laying of communications
After walls and a ceiling are smoothed out from old materials, it is necessary to perform all works connected with laying of cables. As it is the beginning of repair in the apartment, in your hands all opportunities for arrangement of the hidden communications in such look in what you want it. It is necessary to remove electric wires for sockets, chandeliers, connections of electric devices, cables of the Internet, telephone cables, extracts, communications for heating, sewerages, a water supply system in advance. To perform these works it is necessary to represent in advance very well where you will have any given electric devices as furniture will be located.
Works on draft finishing
The next stage what it is necessary to begin repair in the apartment with, is a draft finishing of the room. At this stage there is an alignment of walls and a ceiling, their primer. During the work with a ceiling it is necessary to carry out all preparatory work for drawing a finishing covering: plaster, hard putty, installation of suspended systems, cleaning. But to paint or paste over a ceiling still early as works on finishing of walls and, especially, a floor, can be rather dusty that can spoil a fresh ceiling covering. If you decided to make stretch ceilings in the room, then they should be mounted in the last turn after completion of all finishing of the room.
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