When it comes to paint, the most concerned is its environmental protection and construction quality.

A, paint classification

Paints are divided into wall finish, wood paint and metal paint. Woodworking needs to be painted with wood paint if it is solid wood or large core board (Boeing film is usually attached now); If you paint the heating pipe, you need metallic paint. The above is the classification of paint according to the different parts of painting. Paints are also divided into water-based paints and oily paints according to different dilution solvents. The film of water-based paint is not as good as oily paint, but water-based paint is environmentally friendly. Now choose more water-based paints.

Second, about the paint brand

Now decoration companies and teams use Nippon and Dulux more, just because they watch "Nippon and Dulux ..." Even if they choose to buy their own paint every day, they will buy Nippon or Dulux. In fact, there are many paint brands on the market, including Du Fang, which is famous for its environmental protection, and other brands, such as Fenlin, Fuya, Carpoly, Dafu, Camel, China Resources, Levi, Master and so on. If you pursue excellent quality and have sufficient funds, you can consider choosing American Master Paint.

Paint brand, domestic paint enterprises only have manufacturing without brand, only promotion without marketing, only production without service, which gives foreign brands opportunities and space. That's why we are full of Jianguo and Dulux.

Third, matte paint, Mercerized Paint and Bright Paint.

Matte paint is generally used, and matte paint is also the most practical. Generally speaking, as far as conventional home improvement is concerned, it is best not to use silk glossy surface. If you use bright white and spraying technology, the result will be very dazzling. Although the paint feels comfortable, it looks uncomfortable. Walls are for seeing, not for touching.

Fourth, some experience about painting.

(1) Brush coating, roller coating and spray coating

There are three methods of brushing: brushing, rolling and spraying. Generally, the painting area per liter of paint is marked on the paint bucket. What I want to tell you here is that many neighbors, including myself, have the phenomenon that the paint purchased according to the actual painting area is finally left behind. Later, workers introduced that roller coating is better than brush coating, and spraying is better than roller coating. Nowadays, most oil workers buy painting equipment to save money. Therefore, it is not necessary to buy paint as rich as buying tiles. If the construction team doesn't steal paint, it should be no problem to buy it according to the actual paint area.

(2) Do you contract materials or buy paint yourself?

Although it saves the trouble of buying paint and calculating the paint area, it is often cheaper than the construction team to buy paint by itself, but it is hard to say if you meet a ghost foreman (because he has approved it in advance). Therefore, it is best to calculate the foreman's quotation before making a decision. As for whether the paint you bought can be put on the wall intact, it depends on the professional ethics of your construction team.

(C) the difference between clear oil and mixed oil

Although this question is simple, students will ask it from time to time. By the way, clear oil is the so-called bright oil. Brush is a transparent effect, so the wood grain can be seen; You can't see the wood grain when you brush the blending oil. What color is the blending oil? What color is it when you brush it?

(4) Comparison between water-based paint and oily paint

In front of me, I generally said that "the film of water-based paint is not as good as oily paint, but it is more environmentally friendly than oily paint". Just from this sentence, I believe that from the perspective of environmental protection, many students will resolutely choose water-based paint. Oily paint will give off a faint smell. Some people say that "the smell of benzene is a delicate fragrance". I wonder if that faint fragrance is the legendary benzene. ...

Let's talk about water-based paint. Water-based paint has little taste because it is not diluted with diluent, and it has no taste after a day or two. Waterborne metallic paint, like waterborne wood paint, can't smell anything for two days after painting. Therefore, from the reality of environmental protection, it is recommended that students buy water-based paint. As for the paint film, to put it bluntly, even the best paint film should not be at the expense of losing health.

Five, about the experience of painting:

American Cafu's "four in one" advanced elastic environment-friendly latex paint is just too expensive. Du Fang paint is environmentally friendly, and there is no irritating smell after brushing, but it has a faint fragrance; Secondly, the top coat of Du Fang is too thick to be brushed without adding water, and the actual consumption is less than calculated. Although Du Fang is environmentally friendly, there are too few primary color paints, and they are all colors that people in China don't commonly use. It is said that color matching is not the original color paste. The better paint film is Nippon Sany and Levi; For example, environmental protection, good ones are Du Fang and Fuya. At that time, the master paint had no taste at all, good scrubbing resistance, environmental protection and large painting area. Still expensive. Levi's paint film is good, and it takes a good wool roller to produce an effect.

Cabinet items

Cabinets should be regarded as the most profiteering in the building materials market. The price of cabinets often has an illusion similar to brainwashing. Many students will habitually think that cabinets cost three or four thousand yuan a meter.

What about the facts? It's not like that at all ...

First, how much is the cabinet worth?

The cabinet body includes: cabinet body plate, cabinet door plate, desktop, drawer, guide rail, hinge, handle, cabinet leg, water baffle, shockproof strip and cleaning corner. Generally does not include: baskets, sinks, kitchen faucets.

In fact, some brand cabinets do not have their own production capacity, or after creating brands, in order to reduce costs, they make cabinets from the outside and sell them under their own brands. In order to save money, these bosses do not support their own workers, but establish long-term cooperative relations with some workers. "Work if you have a job, and leave if you don't." And the things made by those small factories cost hundreds of dollars a linear meter. After they are put on the market, they transform themselves and become brand cabinets.

Let's think about it from another angle. Why do many large decoration companies hang up the signboard of "Decorating and Sending Brand Cabinets" to attract consumers? It is said that there are thousands to tens of thousands of dollars in the cupboard. How can he send them as he says? Mainly not because of the low cost of cabinets. If a decoration company advocates "decorating and sending brand cabinets worth 10,000 yuan", you ask him: "I don't want cabinets, can you send me a laptop?" What are you looking at him for? Definitely not.

Having said that, how much is the cupboard worth? Objectively speaking, even if all the factors that are not good at bargaining are taken into account, as an ordinary consumer, a cabinet of about 1500 should be enough on the premise that you can master the materials used by the manufacturers.

Although modern home improvement pays more attention to kitchen decoration, it is not very cost-effective for ordinary consumers to buy brand cabinets. But buying a non-brand cabinet requires certain risks. The most important link is what I just said: You must grasp the material of the cabinet. Therefore, when choosing products, we should try our best to overcome the mentality of "following blindly", and "shopping around" should be the most basic.

There are still many students who choose the decoration team to make cabinets, but the overall feeling is that the cabinets outside are better, but there is nothing absolute according to personal preferences. There are many cabinets on the market that can be won for seven or eight hundred yuan. If you choose such a cabinet, you can't expect any good materials.

Circuit modification

Regarding the water circuit transformation, as the owner, there is no need to imagine how complicated the water circuit transformation is. Our main consideration is to roughly determine the position and number of switch sockets.

The circuit transformation begins with the switch socket. Initially design your own water circuit transformation route.

First, the transformation of water circuit begins with the determination of the position of switch socket.

To determine the location of the switch socket, we should first consider the following three aspects:

First, the role of nature in the future. For example, we must first determine the master bedroom, the second bedroom and the study room;

The second is the placement of major electrical appliances and furniture. Such as televisions, refrigerators, cabinets, bookshelves, etc.

Third, the living habits of family members. For example, people who like to watch TV while eating can consider installing wired sockets in restaurants.

As for the route direction, if you choose a qualified decoration team, the basic quality that this team should have first is to think for the owners. For example, those that can pass through the wall do not bypass the wall, and those that cannot be slotted. In this way, your heart will be much more practical, otherwise you will really have to trouble yourself more.

Two. Reference suggestions on the number of switch sockets in each natural room:

(1) master bedroom

Switch: 1 (master bedroom ceiling lamp)

Sockets: 6 (two bedside lamps, air conditioner, telephone, TV, floor lamp)

(2) Secondary bedroom (children's room)

Switch: 1 (second bedroom ceiling lamp)

Sockets: 4 (air conditioner, telephone, writing desk lamp socket, spare socket)

(3) study room

Switch: 1 (study ceiling light)

Sockets: 6 (Internet ports, air conditioners, telephones, study lights, computers, spare sockets).

(4) Living room

Switch: 1 (ceiling lamp in living room)

Sockets: 6 (TV, water dispenser, air conditioner, telephone, floor lamp, spare socket)

(5) Toilet

Switches: 2 (bathroom ceiling lamp, exhaust fan or yuba)

Sockets: 4 (washing machine, hair dryer, electric water heater, telephone)

(6) Kitchen (integrated kitchen and dining room)

Switches: 2 (kitchen ceiling lamp, dining room ceiling lamp)

Sockets: 7 (refrigerator, range hood, kitchen treasure, microwave oven, hot pot socket beside the dining table, and at least two spare sockets on the cabinet table).

(7) Balcony:

Switch: 1 (balcony ceiling lamp)

Socket: 1 (spare socket)

Students can make appropriate adjustments according to their own needs.

Thirdly, some basic problems related to switches and sockets.

(1) Predict the total number of "switch sockets" and the budget for purchasing funds.

When the developer delivers the house, the initial number and position of switches and sockets will not be very suitable, so the number of switches and sockets should be adjusted or increased according to the actual needs. A set of 120 square meters three-bedroom apartment, after renovation, the number of all switch sockets is generally 50. 50 is not much. Some people use about 120, and the optical switch panel needs more than 1800.

Switches and sockets are a moderate expenditure in home decoration. As an ordinary consumer, the average price of each switch socket should be around 10 yuan. In response to this suggestion, it is: save if you can. There are many famous brands in the market, including Legrand, TCL, Qisheng, Simon ... But if you choose Legrand, on average, it may exceed 20 yuan's money. If the quality of the original socket provided by the developer is acceptable, some hidden locations (such as behind the bedside table and inside the cabinet) can be used, and there is no need to buy all new ones.

(2) Arrange the positions of switches and sockets reasonably from a practical point of view, or you will feel uncomfortable after decoration. For example, the exhaust fan switch and telephone socket in the bathroom should be installed near the toilet, not on the wall at the entrance to the bathroom. You don't have to think about it to know why. The phone in the bathroom should have a button on it, otherwise you need to dial when you urinate, and twisting your body to dial will be very depressing.

(3) Many people have five-hole sockets, which is unnecessary. Some special sockets in fixed positions, such as refrigerators, washing machines, range hoods, kitchen treasures, air conditioners, etc. You don't need to buy a 5-hole one, just a 3-hole one. I would like to remind you that the plugs of general electrical appliances are basically three-phase except ordinary TVs.

Fourth, the selection of socket position with switch

The location selection of "socket with switch" mainly considers two points: one is the "standby power consumption" of household appliances, and the other is the convenience of use. It is recommended to use five "sockets with switches" at home: the washing machine socket, the electric water heater socket, the learning computer connection board socket and the kitchen cabinet table.

1, almost all household appliances have standby power consumption. Therefore, in order to avoid frequent plugging and unplugging, electrical appliances with relatively low frequency such as washing machine sockets and electric water heater sockets can be considered as "sockets with switches".

2. If you think it is troublesome to insert electric appliances such as rice cookers and electric kettles between tasks, you can consider using "sockets with switches" in the spare sockets on the countertops of kitchen cabinets.

3. A learning computer connected with a patch panel can basically solve a large number of plugs in the computer. In order to avoid going to the desk every day and pressing the plug-in board, I installed a "socket with switch" opposite the desk.

5. What should be arranged behind the TV?

Earlier, it was suggested that "it is best to use a ten-hole socket behind the TV, which is convenient and neat." In this regard, I think we should use a five-hole socket, and then use a switch to connect the patch panel.

Among all household appliances, "home theater" (including TV) has the largest standby power consumption (especially power amplifier). If you use the 10 hole socket behind the TV, put a TV cabinet in the future, and plug the power amplifier, DVD and TV in the socket all the year round. Frequent plugging and unplugging is definitely inconvenient, even if it is replaced by a socket with a switch, it is inconvenient to reach in and switch. Moreover, power amplifiers, DVDs and ordinary TVs are all two-phase plugs, and ten-hole sockets (two five holes) are not enough.

6. Is it necessary to switch the air conditioning socket?

Suggestion: Because the air conditioner in the switch box has a special switch, the air conditioner socket does not need a switch. Just pull down the air conditioner in the switch box when it is not used in summer.

Seven, the location of the socket is the key.

Improper handling of the socket position may affect the placement of furniture if it is in the bedroom or living room; If you are in the bathroom or kitchen, you may have to plan bricks. Unless the exact position is calculated, it is generally not wrong to make the socket as well as possible, but if the socket is left in an inappropriate position, it may conflict with the furniture placement or electrical installation in the later period.

Pay attention to your switch and socket.

Students are specially reminded to communicate with oil workers and bricklayers at home in advance. It is said that after the circuit is reformed, the electrician will mark the position of the abandoned cassette, but you should pay special attention to the useful cassette. Sometimes, some useful cassettes are blocked by confused oil workers and tile workers. So the useful tape disappeared from the wall.

9. Where do you need a moisture-proof cover?

Generally speaking, sockets in wet or near water areas need moisture-proof covers, such as sockets near sinks and washbasins, and sockets in wet areas of toilets. The switch does not need to be equipped with a moisture-proof cover.

The transformation of water circuit is the top priority of decoration, and the location of various electrical appliances should be considered; The position of upper and lower water; Sockets, yuba and light wires must be reserved ... If these problems are not thought out in advance, it will be troublesome to change the waterway once it is done. Therefore, before the renovation, we must think of everything that can be thought of and decide everything that can be decided, communicate with the construction team in advance, make preparations in advance, and minimize regrets.

Summary of 39 problems to be considered in waterway reconstruction;

First, the waterway part.

(1) Waterway design should first consider all water-related equipment, such as water purifier, water heater, kitchen treasure, toilet, wash basin, etc., their positions, installation methods and whether hot water is needed;

(two) use gas or electric water heaters in advance to avoid temporary replacement of water heaters, resulting in repeated transformation of waterways;

(3) In addition to sockets such as washbasin, toilet, washing machine, etc., it is best to take one from the bathroom to facilitate mopping the floor after receiving water;

(4) After the location of the washing machine is determined, the drainage pipe of the washing machine can be considered in the wall, which is beautiful and convenient;

(5) There should be two suppression tests after waterway reconstruction, but now many decoration teams are doing a suppression;

(6) It is best to suppress the presence of professionals in the test, which can play a supervisory role; Because some decoration teams will cheat the owners in this link. The method is: when pressing, open the "return valve" of the pressing pump to form a loop. Although the press pump seems to be working, the pressure in the pipeline is not great, especially the electric press pump, which students should pay more attention to.

(7) When closing the house, pay attention to check whether the drains in the kitchen and bathroom are unobstructed. If the drainage is slow, the property should be dredged in time; Protect the drain when decorating, especially when laying kitchen and bathroom tiles, which is most likely to cause cement to fall into the drain and cause blockage;

(8) After the kitchen and bathroom floor tiles are laid, check whether the floor drain is unobstructed (the drainage speed after removing the floor drain cover shall prevail, because most deep-water sealed floor drains have the problem of slow drainage);

(9) If the redundant floor drain is to be closed, the gap between the drain pipe and the floor drain must be blocked to prevent water from overflowing;

(10) For the deep-water sealed floor drain, when using the deep-water sealed floor drain in the future, it should be cleaned frequently according to the use situation, otherwise the rubber pad under the floor drain will not achieve the sealing effect after hanging dirty things;

(1 1) Another point is particularly important. It is best not to use deep water to seal the floor drain of washing machine. Nine times out of ten, the washing machine with deep-water sealed floor drain can't discharge water. The main reason is that the deep-water sealed floor drain has a common feature of slow launching. For the deep-water sealed floor drain used in shower rooms and other places, because of the small amount of water, it can basically meet the drainage needs. However, the drainage speed of washing machine is very fast, which can not reach the drainage speed of deep-water floor drain at all, which directly leads to water overflow;

(12) During waterway reconstruction, four points should be paid attention to: 1 and the guaranteed distance is 15cm (at present, the distance between hot and cold water of most electric water heaters and faucets is 15cm, and some are10 cm);

2, hot and cold water nozzle height is consistent;

3. The cold and hot water nozzles are vertical to the wall surface, and care should be taken not to let the bricklayer get crooked when sticking the wall tiles in the future (if they are not vertical, it will be difficult to install them in the future);

4, cold and hot water nozzle should be two centimeters higher than the wall, in the wall brick, also should ask bricklayer to ensure that the wall brick and water pipe nozzle are in the same level. If the size is not suitable, install electric water heaters, faucets, etc. Additional couplings, internal wires and other connectors may need to be purchased in the future to complete the installation;

(13) Don't forget to waterproof the bathroom floor, especially where there are grooves. If the shower area is not a closed shower room, the wall waterproof should be 180 cm high to prevent "wall sweating" in the future. Be sure to do a 24-hour closed water test before plastering cement, and bricklaying can only be done if there is no problem;

Second, the circuit part.

The design of (14) circuit must be determined after considering the possibility, feasibility and availability in detail. No one wants to pull wires everywhere on the walls and floors of their new home. Circuit design should also pay attention to its flexibility, and sometimes it cannot be too "comprehensive". Summarize a simple principle: it is often better to consider the future patch panel in the place where electrical plugs are concentrated than to set up full-wall sockets;

(15) Double control (bedside and porch) can be considered for the bedroom ceiling lamp;

(16) According to the needs of life, the ceiling lamp in the living room may be equipped with a separate control switch (at the entrance, facing away from the master bedroom door);

(seventeen) pay attention to observe whether there are modules in the telephone socket and network cable socket;

(18) When the circuit is reformed, the surrounding audio lines should be buried.

(nineteen) pay attention to the strong and weak wires can't be in the same pipe, there will be interference;

(20) If the living room, kitchen and bathroom are made of bricks, slotting wiring can be properly considered in some locations;

(twenty-one) the socket is generally 30CM from the ground and should not be less than 20CM. The switch is generally130cm; From the ground;

(twenty-two) exhaust fan switch, telephone socket should be installed near the bathroom, rather than into the bathroom door wall;

(23) Yuba should be installed near the shower room or bathtub, not in the center of the bathroom;

(twenty-four) balcony, corridor, cloakroom can consider the reserved socket;

(twenty-five) there is a mirror and coat hook space, to consider the lighting near the mirror;

(twenty-six) telephone lines should be preset in the living room, master bedroom and bathroom according to personal habits and convenience;

(27) There are at most three lines in a pipe. Remember: how to calculate 1 meter should be made clear before reconstruction, and it should be calculated according to the pipe, not the line;

(twenty-eight) how to charge the cassette must be agreed in advance, which is the most hidden and dark profit point of water circuit transformation. A cassette needs only one or two dollars in the market, while the decoration team often needs more than ten dollars. General home improvement needs fifty or sixty cassettes. Therefore, it is normal for students to throw hundreds of dollars for nothing. Cut the cassette hard! ;

(29) The position of the socket is very important. It often happens that the socket is just behind the bedside table, which makes the cabinet unable to lean against the wall. Repeat, "It is generally not wrong to make the socket as well as possible, but if the socket is left in an inappropriate position, it may conflict with the furniture placement or electrical installation in the later period."

(30) Some kitchen sockets are convenient with switches, thus avoiding the inconvenience of unplugging rice cookers from time to time in the future.

There is no need to set too many sockets behind the TV. In the future, it is best to connect a patch panel on the side of the TV.

(32) In the electrical specification, PVC pipes must be used for buried pipelines, and panels must be left for testing where there are joints. In practice, for the sake of beauty, many workers choose to block the panel. Let's weigh the pros and cons.

(thirty-three) according to the use of household appliances to consider the line capacity;

(thirty-four) should be clear about the communication intention and design ideas with workers. And draw the actual circuit transformation route on the wall.

Third, the waterway integration part

(35) Before the water circuit transformation, please ask the decoration company (decoration team) to measure the meters of hydropower transformation according to the elastic line. You should follow them at the scene and see how the line goes when they measure, so that you can have a good idea. Even if the actual cost exceeds in the future, you should be willing to pay the price and know the bottom line and the goal of your efforts.

(36) Water circuit reconstruction should leave drawings and take photos, and it is best to indicate the size, because toilet pendants, water heaters, cabinets, etc. are installed. In the later period, most holes are punched in the bathroom wall, which is easy to damage the water circuit and pipeline if it is not handled properly;

(37) The water circuit renovation is divided into two prices: non-slotting and slotting. Some decoration teams subdivide the slotting price into two prices: "non-bearing wall slotting and bearing wall slotting";

(38) Hydropower transformation is the biggest concealed project, and it is also the most expensive one among the additional projects. It can't be as much as the workers say, it depends on whether they take the pipe in the conventional way. For example, walking around the wall, the original two pipes with one groove became double grooves;

(39) During the renovation, the following four types of household appliances (including gas stoves) must be ordered. They are: water heater, range hood, kitchen treasure and gas stove. These four types of household appliances are directly related to waterway reconstruction and cabinet design, and their location design is particularly important. Students should know well before hydropower transformation. As for household appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines and microwave ovens, don't worry about not being able to buy them, just reserve the location of the sockets.

The transformation of water circuit should also be analyzed according to the actual situation in your home. In order to realize a function that is not very practical and particularly inconvenient to walk, it is better to consider giving up.

Finally, I would like to remind you that in the process of water circuit transformation, don't rely entirely on other people's suggestions. You will live in your future home, and each family has its own special needs. On the basis of listening to other people's suggestions, you must also have a clear idea in your mind, so that you can get rid of some suggestions that you don't really need and you won't miss what you need in the future.