Renovate Your Home

Lifestyles

The time passes, social life has been changing constantly, and home decoration is also a variety of new designs. Some owners feel that more than a decade of decoration is too earthy, they have long wanted to redecorate the idea.

But the old room renovation is bound to face a variety of problems, so how do we solve these problems before encountering them?

1. Load-bearing walls can not be demolished

Load-bearing walls have a load-bearing effect, and will strengthen the seismic performance of the house, the old house renovation of the load-bearing walls to demolition that is a great safety hazard.

Randomly removing the bearing wall house may collapse, which is subject to criminal liability.

2. Doors and windows

If the wooden doors and windows in the old house are intact, without any deformation or damage, then you can directly paste the wood veneer on the surface of the doors and windows, and then paint to level them.

If the doors and windows have been deformed, they will have to be torn down and redone, you can change the material to aluminum alloy or plastic steel doors and windows, both of which have the results of heat insulation and sound insulation, and sealing.

3. Wall

The walls are generally the most prone to problems because they are prone to peeling and cracking, so before the renovation must be treated well at the base of the walls.

It is advisable to apply an interface agent on the wall, which can protect the emulsion paint and also have the effect of moisture resistance.

Need to scrape putty in this step, generally scraping three times on the good, and finally for latex paint on the wall, to bring color also has to be coated with some primer.

4. Bathroom Renovation

When preparing for the renovation of the old house, the bathroom can not ignore the closed water test this test is to observe the previous waterproofing.

Usually, the method is to block the bathroom floor drain, put 6cm deep water, and 24 hours later go downstairs to the neighbor's home to observe whether there is a leakage problem, no, then the waterproofing is not a problem.

If the phenomenon of leakage, then we have to do the waterproofing treatment of the bathroom again, after the ground is dry and then start tiling, or the ground is easy to crack problems.

5. Plumbing and electrical wiring

The life of the plumbing line is limited, for a long time the line will occur aging problems, and the conditions are good enough to recommend replacing it with a new better.

There are also buried in the walls of the line, which is likely to be PVC or copper wire, the service life is relatively short, so for the water line transformation, it is best to use better quality, longer-life of the water pipe.