By sunny 
Renovating a house can often be a significant expense, especially against the backdrop of rising building material prices and increased labour costs. So where exactly are the most expensive parts of a renovation? And what are the big spenders that can be saved? Below, we will analyse in detail.
What are the most expensive parts of the renovation?
Main and auxiliary materials
The cost of main materials usually includes the cost of finished and semi-finished materials designed according to the construction area or individual project, such as wooden flooring, ceramic tiles, sanitary ware and so on. The cost of auxiliary materials, on the other hand, refers to the cost of materials that are difficult to be clearly calculated in the decoration, such as paints, lacquers, electric wires, water pipes, switch panels, plates, cement, sand, nails, hydrocolloids, electrical tapes, adhesives and so on.
Labour and Management
Labour cost refers to the wages of workers to be paid in the whole project, including masons, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, painters and so on. Design fee includes pre-construction measurement fee, programme design fee, construction drawings design fee, as well as accompanied by the selection of materials, on-site guidance and other tracking service fees. Management fee is the fee charged by the decoration company to manage and supervise the decoration workers and decoration materials at the construction site, which is usually calculated as (labour fee + material fee) x (5%-10%).
What are the more expensive parts of decoration that can be saved?
Lighting fixtures and fittings
If it is not a big mansion, there is no need to choose overly ornate crystal lightings. Crystal lamps are less practical, require higher floor height, and are very troublesome to take care of and clean later. Ordinary ceiling lights are fashionable enough.
Sofa
Choose fabric sofa can save a lot of money. Fabric sofas are cheap and diverse in style, suitable for young people and the general public. As for the care, change the sofa cover and pay attention to cleaning. Leather sofas are expensive, and easy to buy poor quality, heavy odour of poor quality products.
Floor tiles, ceramic tiles
The quality of tiles is more important than the brand. There is no need to choose the most expensive brand tiles, as long as it is a regular manufacturer of products, all through the national product qualification test. Low-priced tiles may have fewer choices of colours, such as polished tiles with a single colour but low price, and glazed tiles with brilliant colours but high price. Polished tiles are more cost-effective.
Wood flooring
Many people think that solid wood flooring is more environmentally friendly than laminate flooring or composite flooring, in fact, as long as the same level of environmental protection, the effect is the same. If funds are limited, you can choose the environmental test qualified laminate flooring or solid wood composite flooring. Solid wood flooring is more delicate, need to take the trouble to maintain later, both a waste of financial resources and a waste of manpower.
Wardrobe
If you want to save money, the best way is to let the master carpenter play the cabinet, provided that the labour cost is not expensive. If there is no familiar master, you can consider the finished wardrobe, the material is consistent with the brand custom wardrobe. The doors, partitions and drawers of the customised wardrobe are charged extra.
These are the parts that can be saved in the decoration, but there are some places that can not be saved. So, which places can’t be saved?
Renovation can not save the part
Water and electricity transformation
Plumbing and electrical renovation is an important part of the hard installation, is a hidden project, maintenance is difficult and expensive.
After moving in, the circuit trips, often the line is overloaded, the wire section is not enough. The use of high-power electrical appliances will immediately trip the circuit.
Homeowners in order to save money, the use of the developer’s own water pipes, move in half a year on the water leakage, but fortunately found in time, did not cause great losses.
In short, water and electricity is an important hidden project, after moving into the maintenance is not only troublesome and expensive, may also need to be dismantled and played, especially troublesome and troublesome.
Hardcover construction, not in the water and electricity link to save money, all materials try to choose reliable brand goods, quality is guaranteed. Such as: switch selection Siemens, Bull, Schneider, Roglan, etc., water pipe selection Weixing, Uniplastic, Jinde and other brands of PPR hot water pipe. Wire selection of local big brand can be, but the square number should be enough, lighting selection of 2.5 square, socket selection of 4 square copper wire, refrigerator, bath bar, water heater and other places to choose 6 square.
Copper wire is divided into soft line and hard line, it is recommended to choose soft line, threading and pumping line is easy, not easy to break the insulation layer of the line. Do not use the developer’s own circuits and water pipes, must do a complete change, replace the developer’s original lines and pipes, only after moving in quality assurance.
Waterproofing
Waterproofing is not for the neighbours, the ultimate beneficiary is yourself. All homeowners must have the right attitude, otherwise it is easy to step on the pit.
A few days after moving in, the wall of the bathroom doorway returned to moisture, lined up a lot of corner valves, removed a lot of siding, not only cost money but also hurt.
Bathroom floor is the most open water, if not waterproof, light maintenance, heavy compensation plus maintenance. Waterproofing must be done at one time during construction.
There are two main forms of waterproofing: paint waterproofing and tarpaulin.
Coating waterproofing is a common form of waterproofing, typically represented by the Oriental Rainbow. If paint waterproofing is used, rigid waterproofing is used for walls and flexible waterproofing is used for floors. The height of the coating for the shower wall is recommended to be 1.8 metres, and the height of the rest of the place is about 1.2 metres.
Tarpaulin waterproofing using cement with glue, tarpaulin to the wall, common fabric is polypropylene.
The two waterproofing methods are recommended to choose the tarpaulin waterproofing, small risk of cracking, good integrity, not easy to step on the pit.
Waterproof construction is simple to operate, but the first time the homeowner is difficult to do a good job, it is not recommended to try, especially hands-on ability is not strong white. After the waterproofing is done, dry naturally for about 3 days, you can carry out a water closure test, the water closure time is 24 hours, go downstairs to check whether the water leakage.
Glass glue
In the decoration process, there are many places that use glass glue, whether it is the main material or auxiliary materials. The amount of glass glue is not large, but the impact is not small.
Stay three years in the kitchen countertops, glass glue on the mould, cleaning can not be removed, can only be removed and then glue.
Bathroom cabinet countertops with the master’s own glass glue, the price is not low but the quality is not good.
Glass glue dosage is not large, generally does not cost a lot of money, the money must not save, otherwise it is difficult to clean after the mould, repair is very troublesome.
Interior doors
Interior door involves durability, sound insulation and value, it is recommended to spend more money to avoid replacement later, especially troublesome.
Less than half a year after moving in, the interior door cracked and broke down.
Honeycomb paper-filled interior doors, a hole appeared after the bump, you can only replace the door, costing a lot of money.
Interior door purchase is best not to save money to choose honeycomb paper filled models, durability is not high and cheap feeling.
Summary
The above four places, the decoration can not save money because of the budget. You homeowners have to do a good job of budget planning, reasonable allocation of the decoration budget, to avoid the rest of the link overspending. At the same time, in order to ensure the quality of the above four types of products, do your homework before buying to avoid stepping on pits.