Bathroom renovation procedure

If you decide to make repairs in the bathroom with your own hands, it is important to know the sequence of repairs in the bathroom. One stage should follow the other, as the violation of the order of actions leads to errors that manifest themselves during operation.

Preparation

Before you start repairing the bathroom, you need to determine the scope of work and approximately calculate the costs that you expect. The easiest way is to make a list of questions. By answering them, you will have an idea of the work that is needed. Here is a sample list of questions:

Only after you answer these questions, you can roughly estimate how much it will cost you to repair. But this is without finishing materials.

Choice of finishes

The next stage of the repair of the bathroom is the choice of finishing materials. The most common option – tiles on the walls and on the floor. This method of finishing is popular, because it is durable, easy to care for. But the cost of such finishing is high. There are cheaper options, but no less interesting. For example, on the floor you can lay cork flooring or PVC tiles. Walls can be painted, covered with special wallpaper, put on them decorative plaster.

There are no less options for decorating the ceiling. The standard way of finishing is a whitewashed or painted ceiling. But recently more popular are suspended or tension systems. They allow you to hide communications, although they take away a few centimeters of height. Ceilings in the bathroom can be:

Depending on the type of ceiling, the sequence of repair in the bathroom changes. If you choose a stretch ceiling, it is made in the last turn. After all other finishing works are finished, the doors are installed. Plasterboard ceiling, as well as plastered whitewashed or painted, finished at the same time as the walls or a little earlier – so that whitewash or paint does not get on the walls. Suspension systems (except gypsum board) are assembled after finishing the walls.

Making a plan and the order of actions

After you have decided on all these issues, chose the plumbing and finishing materials, proceed to make a plan. After all the old finishing will be removed, to the nearest centimeter measure the dimensions of the room, transfer the dimensions to the plan. On this plan draw all communications, put the distance to all points of their output, in scale draw plumbing and furniture items. After all, the location of the outputs of the water supply, sewerage depends on the position of the plumbing and its size. Then the work plan is as follows:

• Dismantling of equipment: bathtub, washbasin, electrical appliances.
• Removal of old finish from the walls, floor, ceiling.

  

• Replacement of water supply and sewerage, installation of new shut-off valves. When replacing the water supply, if necessary, you can install filters, on the sewerage in apartments to prevent the appearance of bad odor often put sewer check valves.
• Laying of electrical wiring. The wires are mounted in the walls, under them make grooves, in which lay corrugated sleeves or plastic cable channels.
• Finishing walls. Here the sequence of repair in the bathroom depends on the chosen type of finishing and the initial state of the walls. Under the tiles require alignment of walls plaster, under painting and wallpaper still need a finishing alignment with the use of putty. When laying tiles, it is laid starting from the bottom, but not from the first, but from the second row. The first row from the floor is laid later, after the floor is made.
• Installation of the ceiling and lighting. In most cases, built-in lamps are used, for the bathroom they should be in a special sealed case.
• Floor finishing. If there are large height differences, before the finishing works (after laying the wiring), a leveling screed is poured. While all other works are going on, the concrete is gaining strength. At this stage, on the pre-leveled base is laid the selected otyelochny material. After laying the first row of tiles (with trimming as necessary).

  

• Installation of a washbasin, bathtub, other plumbing fixtures.
• Installation of furniture.

This is a step-by-step plan for the repair of the bathroom. There is only one nuance: when to install doors. Usually the door frame is put after preparing the walls for finishing. In this case, the finishing of the walls will fit closely to the box. This is important if there are no platbands on the inside. Door leaf can be hung then – after all the “dirty” work or immediately, but protect it with a dense polyethylene film. Otherwise, it is desirable to follow the sequence of repair in the bathroom without changes.