Bedroom repair by own hands

To repair the master, you can not call, becauseall the necessary work you can do yourself. First you need to decide what you want to change: wallpaper, change flooring, level the ceiling or walls. So, let's start repairing the bedroom with our own hands.

The first thing to do is get rid of all furniture to avoid contamination. Cupboard, bed, chest of drawers, bedside tables and chairs to maketo another room. If there is none, then move all one corner of the bedroom, moving then as needed. What can not be taken out of the bedroom (radiator, window frames, window sill) should be wrapped in a film and secured with scotch tape. The area for repair is cleared, you can proceed to the walls. A spatula to tear off the old wallpaper. If there are difficulties in this process, they can be damped with water, leaving for a while. After that, the wallpaper will move away from the walls easily.

Of course, not all walls will be perfectly level. Unevenness can be sealed with putty. To do this, you need a spatula, a dry mix of putty, water. Beginners in this business is better to buy latex filler, since with gypsum or cement it is more difficultto cope with. Carefully read the instructions on the package with the mixture, prepare the solution and everything - you can start work. Here it is, the beginning of repairing the bedroom with their own hands. Blend the mixture with a spatula, apply it to the notch, align it. This elementary process is done with all the irregularities. It is important to remember that the last layer should be rubbed with sandpaper before forming an ideally flat surface.

In order to level the entire surface of the walls,you can resort to using plasterboard or plaster. In our time, gypsum board is more popular. It is better to assign this work to the master or husband, if he is able to handle such material.

Does the ceiling need to be repaired? No problem, Align its surface with plaster, putty, gypsum board, make a suspended or stretched ceiling. Since to repair the bedroom with their own handsskills to pull the ceiling or arrange a hinged at all, it is better to use the putty. As mentioned, working with her is easy. This material is very flexible, plastic and easy to use for those who decided to make a bedroom repair themselves.

We need to prepare the forest - a ladder or a table. Set the woods so that they do not stagger. Remove the whitewash from the ceiling or what was there, to the "bone". Concrete slab clean and proceed directly to the putty. At first it's hard, because the hands will always be above your head. Putty put on smears, each new smear to align with the previous one. Still need a very wide spatula to pull the last layer along the length of the ceiling. Naturally, clean everything up to the formation of a smooth surface.

When the walls and ceiling are brought in the proper form, you can continue to repair the bedroom yourself. We are engaged in installing a floor covering. A simpler and more economical option would be laminate. It is very convenient to stack, but for thisthe process will need a jigsaw. A very important point is to eliminate irregularities in height of 3 mm per 1 sq. M. sex. Before laying the laminate on the concrete floor, an additional flooring of polyethylene film will be required to ensure vapor barrier. Then the film is covered with sound-absorbingsubstrate. The entire "carpet" is mounted laminate. The laminate tiles are joined to each other by the locking system of the lock step. The main thing is to leave a gap near the walls in order that the laminate can normally "work". After the wallpaper is pasted, mount the skirting board.

The last stage of repairing the bedroom with their own hands - wallpapering. This process is very simple, if you are alreadydetermined the color and texture of the material. The most difficult is the bedroom design. I want a lot, but not everything can be accommodated in a bedroom. Therefore it is important that the wallpaper is in harmony with the furniture, curtains, small details of the interior. Coloring depends on your preferences. The type of wallpaper and their structure does not affect how much they will serve you. How to start the next repair, so their term is over.

Attention should be paid to choice of glue. It is universal and specific (onlyfor vinyl wallpapers). The glue is sold in the form of a powder, which is diluted with water to obtain the desired consistency. If you decide to paste a thin light wallpaper, then you should test. A small piece of 50 cm paste and wait until it dries completely - make sure that yellowness does not come through. The formation of fungus, mold and bacteria can not be feared, since fungicides-antiseptics are included in the composition of the glue.