As a rule, advice from a professional will help you avoid unnecessary expenses on building materials - you will buy exactly as much as you need. In addition, a foreman who has been doing repair work for a long time has friends everywhere who will give you a good discount.
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To avoid overpaying a team of repairmen, paint the walls yourself. Just a couple of free evenings - and you will master the craft of a painter
Relatively new secondary market
Secondary housing, even if relatively new, needs repair. You will want to remodel the apartment to your taste, and most likely, the utilities will have to be changed. This applies to the riser, electrical australia business email list wiring and water pipes.
Try to find one team that will do a comprehensive repair - this way you will reduce both the time and cost of the work.
How to
floor screed - perhaps it is made conscientiously and does not need to be replaced;
leveling the walls - if they have non-critical flaws, they can simply be masked with wallpaper or posters;
don't start renovations if your apartment doesn't need it - save yourself from unnecessary expenses and stress;
Do your renovation in stages - start with one room.
Apartment in a building built before the 1970s
"Stalinka" and "Khrushchevka" buildings are literally the last century, and they require major repairs: replacement of wiring, pipes, floors. These types of work, as we wrote above, are the most expensive: for example, replacing the wiring in the entire apartment can cost from 20 thousand rubles.
Insulation of walls and soundproofing will also cost a pretty penny. But in the case of Stalin-era buildings, this will not be necessary: the apartments in them are warm and have excellent noise suppression from neighbors.
