He moved into a magnificent house in the heart of St. Petersburg, but the apartment can not even call uyutnenko

A couple of years ago I moved into a magnificent house-monument of architecture in the heart of the beautiful city of St. Petersburg. But the communal apartment in which I moved, it was impossible to even call uyutnenko.
Special horror inspired kitchen ceiling room scales flaking plaster and colored stains from repeated leaks, the floor covered with squares warped time plastic tiles of some shaggy's, sad old furniture and proudly flaunt middle of the kitchen makeshift shower made of particleboard, which I lovingly dubbed pepelats.

My first impulse was to start doing repairs on their hands. I have been just enough to remove the old plaster ceiling layer, after which it became clear that align the ceiling is not possible.

After consulting with our neighbors, we have decided not to invent unnecessary problems, hire craftsmen and sheathe plasterboard ceiling, and at the same time - and two wooden walls. The remaining two walls have a brick, them we decided to just paint matt white paint. It turned out pretty effectively.

Never! Do you hear? Never give workers advances!!! Our master worked perfectly. But the first time, having obtained an advance, he "came down with a temperature" and the second - frankly admitted that zabuhal. With his vacation this epic took two months.

We are neighbors admired new walls and ceiling, continuing to walk on the floor of the terrible, and collected money for the next stage.
Do half we hired nondrinkers Uzbeks. They have two days put a wooden frame and leveled the plane of the sheet DPS. On the third bed was linoleum.

The most controversial moment of the displaced soul. I wanted to shove him into the corner to the door to the back stairs, which we did not use, and fence off the wall, to get a small shower room. But our old-timers rose "is a fire exit! We will fine! ". After much discussion, we agreed on the fact that the shower will move (of course, it will be a normal shower, but not our pepelats) by 2 meters to the fire doors close in on itself and a sliding partition.
Now again we hoard money because repairs must go on.

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