Tips for those whose kitchen in need of repair and you need to decide where to start
Kitchen - a special place in the apartment. The hostess here is almost constantly conjuring over a variety of dishes. Family members often gather for meals, or simply chat over a cup of tea. Therefore, it is simply necessary to create comfort, to make sure that, going into the kitchen, each experienced positive emotions.
Repairs in the kitchen required more frequently than in the living room, because the cooking process is accompanied by the presence of in the air tiny droplets of fat, pungent smells and use of aggressive cleaning agents household chemicals. Over time, the walls, ceiling and floor acquire the following form:
How to prepare the premises for repair
Immediately determine that the window construction, piping, plumbing, and gas stove to replace the not yet scheduled. Therefore repair is cosmetic in nature, although the forces for the meeting you need to spend a lot. The first step was carried out to wallpaper removal and smoothing of surfaces of walls, removing the outer fitting sockets:
At this place in the region of the gas stove, wherein a tile is laid, and are held inside apartment water distribution pipes, to prepare a separate manner:
Since the planned replacement of the floor, were unscrewed and cleaned plastic moldings space underneath:
Door constructions, we also removed to free up access to areas adjacent to the adjacent him:
Preparatory work on it was completed. Thoroughly washing the surface of all the opened, we proceeded to one of the most important sections of the work - the removal of measuring and tailoring supplies.
How it happened
Building and finishing materials were purchased in advance with the measuring surfaces to be clearance. On the ceiling we acquired vinyl wallpaper on non-woven backing made in accordance with GOST 6810-2002, stamps with type-2. Producer - Sal Décor SIA Semre lo siamo. One roll width of 1.06 m and a length of 10.05 meters designed for pasting area in 10,6m2.
On the walls we have chosen wallpaper Wallpaper Premiere collection in rolls of 10, 05 m in length and 530 mm width.
Wallpaper and linoleum were as follows:
Before wallpapering, we decided to make a linoleum cut, so that then they do not accidentally stain. For this linoleum sheet 3 meter width was spread on the floor and left for a day for rectifying:
Laying linoleum in our case was done over previously available. We did not need a floor leveling and concreting. For cases where it is necessary to initially removed the old paint and held "revision" of floor defects, including treatment against bacteria and rot.
In the spread out linoleum sheet after "otlezhivaniya" we have made in the recesses of door openings and corners, preparing the coating under the plinth, which had planned to mount after wallpapering.
Another preparatory stage - painting radiators. As our house was built at a time when heating was provided by a cast-iron radiators, during the operation they repainted several times (depending on the color of the wallpaper).
This time we chose the wallpaper with a white background, so the radiators painted in white. Unfortunately, they were dark, so you need staining was carried out in several stages. It turned out:
So, schematically describe the preparatory work as follows:
1. Removing wallpaper;
2. preparation of walls (plaster, priming);
3. dismantling of door designs and baseboards;
4. cutting linoleum;
5. staining cast iron radiators;
6. pomyvka tubes of water and gas distribution, which can not be replaced and staining.
The work took a lot of time, but the quality of their implementation will depend on the result of the basic work.
To be continued...
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