Refurbishing - rather relative concept. Professionals called cosmetic type of repair, updating of visual space, but does not affect redevelopment, a major alignment of walls and floors, complete replacement of utilities. Typically, the repair involves updating of walls, ceilings, windows processing (meaning wooden profiles), painting doors, skirting boards and architraves, sanding the parquet floors and covering them with varnish or replace the linoleum or carpeting. Refurbishing not the most simple and cheap: after updating some of the more complicated the replacement window and door profiles, tile-setting in the kitchen and bathroom, as well as installation of false or suspended ceilings. Own hands or with the assistance of specialists to implement all this? This is probably one of the most significant issues faced by all who wish to repair. Your choice will depend on the material capabilities of personal skills and dedicated to the repair time. Someone will go to construction and repair company and will order a full range of work, someone will do with his own hands, and someone will do so partially, and in part like that. For example, the restoration of flooring and tile work - processes rather complex and labor intensive, requiring certain qualifications of artists and the use of specialized equipment. And such work is better to entrust the specialist - any initiative aimed at cost savings may result in more costly. But painting the ceiling, walls, windows and doors, plywood wall and even renovation of linoleum or carpeting on forces many of us. Diversity - a stimulus for the imagination In any room people, above all, pay attention to the floor, which occupies an important place in the interior. Making the choice in favor of a floor design, you must clearly define for yourself what you want. If the main task - the creation of a durable floor, then implement it with maximum effect, you can use ceramic tile in the kitchen, hallway, San block and through the parquet flooring in the living area. Agitate in favor of natural parquet is not necessary. And although this is probably the most expensive version of sex, the costs are justified by its practicality and durability. As for tile, your choice has huge choice of this type of finishing material. Tile floor, of course, beautiful, striking and practical, but ... cold. Although cheaper tile flooring, the cost of installation of floor heating systems will eventually approximate the price ceramic coating to the parquet. So many people stop on the budget option: linoleum in the kitchen and hallway, carpet in the rooms. However, this is less durable. Refurbishing On the walls - a special conversation. Materials and technologies for their design - great variety. Wall finishing paints requires an ideal surface preparation for painting. In addition to the new building, color wall paint fine, you're already a month can be found on the surface cracks. In such a situation, practical okleit wall non-woven wallpaper. Their foundation has the ability to stretch that when shrinkage of the house and the formation of cracks on the walls to avoid the appearance of deformations and gape at the wallpaper. Despite the growing interest in ultra-modern paints, wallpaper is still indispensable in creating a great design. To finish the cheapest low ceilings and, in principle, the only variant is their color. And if height allows, you can make long-lasting stretch ceilings or "sewn" plaster-cardboard. This material provides an opportunity for flight of fancy. Today is a very popular decorative stepped ceilings with integrated lighting, and various forms of the ceiling allow "zonirovat" and adjust the living space. How does it do? Experts advise Preparation work First, the room as possible is released from furniture. That bear was not possible, grouped in the center of the room and carefully sheltered film. Purpose - free approach to the walls around the perimeter and the ability to work across the ceiling space. If replacing the floor covering is not planned to take care of protecting floors from dirt and possible mechanical damage. For this purpose, suitable packaging cardboard (clean and dry). Stack on top of a thick polyethylene film, with overlap of neighboring cloth not less than 10 cm for the reliability of the joints is recommended to glue cloth film tape. In the process of carrying out the work the most amount of dirt is formed on the perimeter of the premises. In this regard, the protective film preferably with tape and glue to the baseboard. If repainting skirting is not required to protect the adhesive paper tape on paper, which after the work is easy (unlike Scotch tape) is removed from the surface to be protected. Decorative box with sockets and switches removed, and the "stuffing" are glued adhesive paper tape. Naturally, all electrical circuits must first be de-energized. Refurbishing Dismantling of old coatings Preparing walls and ceiling space begins with the dismantling (removal) of existing coatings. Water-dispersion paint and enamel are not dissolved by water, so wash them with the ceiling surface is impossible. So delete it using a steel spatula insecure land cover and expand the crack angle of the same spatula. Enamel is desirable to handle with sandpaper to increase the roughness of that and improve its adhesion with newly inflicted layers. Lime whitewash washed up underlayment filler. It is simple, but fairly time-consuming operation, the care is dependent upon the quality of the new coating. Layer of whitewash, whose thickness can reach several millimeters, get soaked with water by means of paint roller and removed a steel trowel. Sometimes completely remove whitewash for one approach fails, in this case the operation is repeated many times. Remains whitewash washed from the surface of the ceiling with a wet sponge. The technology of dismantling the old wallpaper is not essentially different from the technology remove lime whitewash: loose pieces of wallpaper scraped "dry"; sites, firmly glued to the wall, get soaked with water and removed with a spatula. If wallpaper glued in several layers - please be patient, continuing to consistently macerate and remove them layer by layer.