When decorating a house, you should buy tiles. There is also some knowledge about how to buy value-for-money and satisfactory tiles. Generally speaking, the principle of choosing ceramic tiles is: look, listen, three drops of water and four feet.

First look at the appearance. The color of ceramic tiles should be uniform, the surface smoothness and flatness should be better, the periphery should be regular and the pattern should be complete. Take out four or five pieces from a box to see if there are any defects such as color difference, deformation and lack of edges and corners.

Second, listen to the sound. Tap with a hard object, the clearer the sound, the higher the porcelain degree and the better the quality. You can also hold a corner of the tile with your left thumb, forefinger and middle finger and hang it down easily. Tap the middle and lower part of the tile with the index finger of your right hand. If the sound is crisp and pleasant, it is the top grade; if the sound is dull and stagnant, it is the inferior grade.

Third, the dripping test. You can drop water on the back of the tile to see seepage velocity after the water is dispersed. Generally speaking, the slower the water absorption, the greater the density of tiles; On the contrary, the faster the water absorption, the rarer the density and the better the internal quality.

Fourth, the ruler. The higher the accuracy of the side length of ceramic tile, the better the effect after paving. Buying high-quality tiles is not only convenient for construction, but also saves working hours and accessories. Measure the size and periphery of each tile with a tape measure, and the one with high accuracy is the top grade.

In addition, observing its hardness, the ceramic tile is top grade, with good hardness, strong toughness and no breakage. Scrape each other with the edges and corners of tile fragments to see whether the broken fragments are fine or loose, brittle or soft, leaving scratches or loose powder. If the former is top grade, the latter is poor quality.

Whether the size is standard or not is the key to judge the quality of ceramic tiles. Use a tape measure or caliper to measure whether the diagonal and four sides of the tile are consistent in size and thickness. A good ceramic tile has a crisp sound, indicating a high porcelain content. If the sound is "click" and stubble breaks, it means that there is a crack in the brick.

Good tiles are easy to be installed by the master, and the installed effect is standardized.

(1) wall

1, I have been painting for a long time. Finally, I chose painting. First, publicity is very environmentally friendly. Second, Canadians play by the rules, unlike China, where there are too many profiteers. Third, as long as one party is more economical. Now I realize that any painting is actually good. I can't cover the bottom of Jia Xi, and I can't even grasp the light color in the painter's eyes. After actively painting for the second time (I bought the paint with a fixed salary), both the uniformity of color and the smoothness of the wall are very different. I believe that the master should promote both sides in the United States and Canada. Domestic publicity just makes buyers feel inexpensive. Moreover, the washability of these two paints is not so good. My two friends are both decoration bosses, and Ber Ber is the one they use most at home. Blow it for two days and it will be tasteless.

2. Buyers of wall paint must buy samples with lighter colors. When the area is large, the color will appear darker.

3. If there is a wall to be repaired later, it must be seen whether it is on the same plane as the original wall. I didn't find it until I finished painting the wall and installed the skirting line, so I knocked it off again. The baseboard is made of solid wood. Don't use any density board+veneer, which is very bad.

Your second question happened in my home. The hole of the water heater on the back balcony should be inclined downward from the inside out. My wife seems to be flat, and as a result, the walls of the balcony are all bulging. Now the water heater helps me raise the bottom of the exhaust pipe and tilt it down. Things are much better.

Also, before decorating, you'd better let the workers knock all the walls and floors to see if there are holes, especially cracks. You'd better make up for it. I've suffered the same loss.

6. After hearing this, the construction team opened an oblique air conditioning hole, which was worn out at the corner of two walls. As a result, the protective suit didn't fit, which was ugly.

7. What should be done with the wall of the embryo room before the painter putty? Should the original white wall be ashed, polished and then painted? Who has the experience and lessons in this field-polishing the wall and scraping off the original wall skin//Why do blank houses have white walls? If it is not a blank of cement, the painter will shovel off the lime wall without grinding or scraping.

8, PVC skirting is a profiteering product, directly looking for manufacturers to do, even if it is impossible to take it at wholesale price, it will be much cheaper. If the white baseboard matches the white wall, the gap will be easy to handle. I'll wipe it with white silicone.

9. Air conditioning holes should be drilled in advance, and the installation team in the shopping mall should be found to do it. You can refund the punch card money when you buy air conditioners in the future.

10, the corner of the wall is beautiful without any decoration, but when looking for a painter, you should make it clear to the painter in advance, because the painter can't straighten this corner without skill. It is necessary to make sure that painters can do it in advance, and also make clear the acceptance criteria in advance. The top corner elastic line helps to straighten the top corner line. Gypsum is suitable for filling big holes in the wall. Of course, if the hole is too big, cement is needed.

1 1, the effect is good with better wallpaper.

12. It's a pity that the skirting line was not pasted after knocking on the wall. As a result, a large piece was highlighted, and the top was covered with dust, which was particularly difficult to complete!

13, a lot of glass decorations are set up, but it is found that several places are easy to bump into, and it is very dangerous whether the glass is broken or not.

14, the white skirting board gets dirty too easily.

15. If it is summer, the screen window should be installed as early as possible, otherwise flies will excrete on the wall, and your white wall will have yellow marks that cannot be wiped off.

(2) Floor

1, floor nails and nail caps should have cross grooves, which can be screwed with a pistol drill.

The nail used by the decoration company has no cross groove, so I can only hit it with a hammer and a hairpin. In this way, it is easy to hurt the floor, and it is very difficult to pry it up again.

2. Don't save the wooden keel of the floor, but buy a good one.

3. When laying the keel, it depends on the method of conduit, and it must be bridge (I am also half a bottle of water, just shake it.

In my understanding, it is to dig a notch on the lower side of the keel. This notch is for the catheter to pass through. As for whether it is called "crossing the bridge", I can't remember clearly).

4. Protect the floor tiles. Otherwise, if the nail falls on the floor tile and rusts in water, the rust will penetrate into the floor tile. There are two places in the middle of my living room, and it is useless for me to kneel on the ground for half a day. NND really wants to fire the worker who threw nails.

5, so we should use neutral bricks, brown series and slate series. My kitchen and balcony are very resistant to dirt.

6. When buying ceramic tiles, you must consider the loss. You would rather buy more before returning the goods than replenish them at the last minute. Replenishment is basically self-help, which will be very troublesome and patient (and you can pay more if you buy more). It is best to stick old newspapers or plastic films in the kitchen after tiling. If your workers are cooking in the kitchen, an important part of your cleaning work after renovation is to clean up the kitchen oil stains first.

7. I bought black walnut plywood and I don't know when I will come back for painting. It's black, and I learned later that it had been processed before leaving the factory. Now my home is black and white. ...

8. The flower of the floor tile is not aimed at the door, and it is separated by half a brick. The decorator was lazy and didn't cut the floor tiles, so we were lazy and didn't go to see them. Don't trust the decoration union to use their brains, even if they are obviously wrong, they will do it right.

9. If the bathroom floor is higher than the lobby, it can be solved by the transition of the doorstone. It is difficult to find a floor tile with a satisfactory color, so I didn't find it. However, two unsatisfactory colors can be staggered and then turned at a 45-degree angle to achieve satisfactory results. This is a good suggestion put forward by the bricklayer himself. Ground waterproofing agent should be used under supervision. My bricklayer didn't fall directly to the ground as required. Can it be unified? If it really doesn't work, you'd better do it yourself. Don't bother, but rest assured.

10, Paco floor is very good. I like it. The only thing to remind you is that it may be better to talk about the price directly with the boss than with the sales staff.

1 1, solid wood floor, it is easy to become warped, and some places are particularly ugly when worn for a long time.

12, the gap is small, and the solid wood floor is a little loud.

13, public * * * location, floor tile is better than laminate flooring.

14, the reason why the reinforced floor is ringing: Did you play the keel when you installed it? If there is, it is because the keel is not firmly fixed on the ground, resulting in a gap, so it makes a noise. If there is no keel, it may appear in places where people walk around, or it may be because it is too tight, which leads to noise.

15, the color of the floor tile is too light, and the hair and footprints are obvious. I wish I could shave my head barefoot.

16, my biggest regret is that I bought Smick ultra-white vitrified brick, which will leak color. I can't wash the stains off the snow-white floor tiles. I hate it!

17. Before you want to make a solid wood floor with a suspended ceiling, please be sure to pay attention to whether the clear height of your home is allowed. At the beginning of the project, if you don't know whether to use solid wood floor or solid wood composite floor (composite floor), you must let the construction team arrange the cables in a way that conforms to the floor (by taking the wall or trough on the ground).

18. It is suggested that the four-year brick-concrete structure house should not use solid wood floor, because rainwater may seep into the brick and the frame structure is fine. Recently, our community has been repairing the floor, which may be related to this.

(3) Doors and windows

1, I want to install the sliding door on the skirting board. All the workers agree that it is not beautiful and should be done on the floor. I hesitated for a long time and finally stuck to my idea. Now it looks good, which is convenient for cleaning and saves a little sliding door area.

2. Buy the best sliding door guide.

3. Don't wrap wooden window covers on the windowsill. It was completed in less than two years. My window cleaner is brittle when you step on the pit.

We must pay attention to the quality of curtain rod. Two or three curtain rods bought by the decoration company are not straight. I found that my boss refused to change it for me anyway, and said that if I had to change it, I would have to pay more. I am so angry.

5. When installing the plastic-steel window, pay attention to the window and don't ask the handle of the window in advance. Therefore, a handle as big as a spoon is installed on a big window. Js will try its best to cut corners, remember!

6. The silica gel on the surface of plastic steel doors and windows is too inferior and yellow, and it sticks yellow when touched by hand. This is disgusting, difficult to eliminate and frustrating. The size of a window is 1.35 meters. In this way, the Roman blinds are 1.2 or 1.4 meters wide, so we have to put a 60-piece and an 80-piece together, which will cost more money and overlap in the middle.

7, aluminum alloy window frames with foaming caulking agent caulking effect is very good, go to the big market to buy famous brands, don't go to the supermarket to buy, the supermarket is too expensive.

8. If there is no suitable wood thread, it may be customized. The customized quality seems to be better than the sample. And customization is more personalized. I ordered a thin door thread, and I like it very much.

9. When installing the door lock, you should pay attention to locking some wax on the lock tongue. If it is damaged, it will be too late to wax it. If there is no door suction, pay attention to prevent the handle from hitting the wall and being damaged.

10, the sliding door is not good.

1 1. If the invisible screen window and roman blinds are to be installed at the same time, the distance between the curtain and the window frame should be at least 5cm.

12, consider air conditioning and curtain rods before laying the floor! Otherwise, the construction period continues!

The curtain rod should be taken care of early so that you can install it before the painter leaves. If the paint falls somewhere, you can ask them to mend it, but don't install curtain cloth, and then install it after cleaning.

14, never make your own sliding door, buy it! Even if you really want to do it, don't do it in the wall My house was not bad at first. After the oil and gas, the door rang and hid in the wall. I can't do anything!

(4) balcony

1, balcony doors can be opened inward, or sliding doors can be used to facilitate the installation of screens in the future.

2. My family has also encountered a similar situation. The washing machine and the mop pool use a single water, and we have to consider the problem of balcony drainage. The solution is:

One: the stainless steel special for washing machine just entered the water, which solved the two problems of washing machine and balcony drainage.

Two: a 40-degree tee was buried underground (it took 40, because my sewer pipe was 40), which went up, down and to the right. The one on the right is connected to the towing tank. Because the launching of the towing tank is 32, there is a 40->; 32 the problem of conversion. The sequence of joints is: connect a small section of 40 pipes on the right side of the 40-way tee, then connect a 40-to-36 straight-through, then connect a 36-to-32 straight-through, and then connect a 32-pipe.

I came up with this method myself.

After this treatment, the drainage of the mop pool is really a little slow, but it is still ok, and there should be no problem. However, the premise of adopting this method is that the tiles should be laid thicker, as if the total height should be above 5cm. At that time, the effect of running water was almost impossible to lay. As a result, the ground was a little sunken and the upper and lower ends of the tee were cut off.

3. The wise place is the laundry cleaning table on the north balcony. It is really wise to leave the bucket in the room as a laundry table when handing over the house. I use it every day now, and it is very convenient to use.

The balcony is covered with a sun board, and the sun shines.

5, the floor tiles of the balcony should be specially laid outside, otherwise it is easy to get dirty.

6. The price of luxury automatic clothes hangers is too fashionable, so don't buy too famous brands. This is not to recommend fake goods to you. In fact, after field comparison, I found that some unknown brands are better than first-line brands in structural design, but their prices are much lower. It's best to find a local general agent to buy (the supermarket price is high).

7. If you hit the cabinet on the top of the balcony, add a layer of foam plastic board behind the cabinet, which has a very good heat insulation and waterproof effect. It is best to use fire-proof boards for balcony doors. The environment of the balcony is relatively poor.

8, consider whether to spray latex paint, or ceiling.

9. Latex paint falls off in the rain and becomes a wall brick.

10, the laundry pool and mop pool on the north balcony forgot to lay hot water pipes. At that time, I only thought about washing mop cloth and forgot to wash clothes.

1 1, the faucet of the mop pool should be set according to the height of the mop pool. If it is too high, water will always splash outside.

12, it is best to install plug-in seats on the balcony.

13, at first, my north balcony believed the plumber's nonsense and didn't leave a floor drain. Only the drain pipe of the washing machine is left!

14, I didn't think much about where to put the washing machine at home before the renovation, so I buried the washing machine pipes and water in the bathroom and bought all the faucets. Later, I found that the washing machine could not be put down at all, so I had to move to the balcony, rearrange the water pipes on the balcony, and then spread water ... The design of the bathroom was all stuck by tiles, which was a waste!

15. For the pool and washing machine on the working balcony, it is best to stick tiles on the wall and floor. In order to save rice, stick half-height wall tiles.

16, the water pipe on the balcony must be slotted and concealed, otherwise the sunlight will easily lead to microorganisms in the pipe.

(5) lamps and lanterns

1, try not to install any spotlights. I haven't driven more than five times in all these years.

Don't use red, blue and green lights in the living room. ...

3, there are lights, bought a lot of lights are concave on the lampshade. When I put it on, I realized that if mosquitoes fly around in summer, it would be in trouble. How inconvenient is it to wipe?

4. Both the kitchen and the main bathroom use embedded downlights. The energy-saving lamps are too long, and the cover of downlights can't be covered, so they can't be waterproof, dustproof and oil-proof. The low-power energy-saving lamps are not bright enough. Can you do it?

5. Lamps are absolutely profiteering. My lamps are all installed by DIY, so I can choose with peace of mind, so I can always buy very cheap lamps. Cheap lamps can't buy a house, so don't buy a house if you look at it! It is recommended to use brand-name energy-saving light bulbs and buy them in big supermarkets, instead of trying your luck in the decoration city. An investment will benefit you for life.

6. If you want to install lamps on the ceiling. The structural design behind the ceiling needs to be involved, not the carpenter can make his own decisions. Carpenters don't understand the future lighting design, and improper skeleton behind them will affect the future lighting installation.

7. The aisle is not designed with double control lights. Open at one end and not close at the other. This lamp is only nominal.

8. It is best to double-control the ceiling light in the bedroom, one by the door and the other by the bed, to avoid lying in bed in winter and then getting up to turn off the lights. 9. I didn't consider the position of the dining table when I installed the lamp. Now the lamp is not in the middle of the dining table.

10, the ceiling was not considered when installing the lamp, resulting in the lamp in the living room not being installed in the middle of the background wall.

1 1. Small spotlights must be equipped with transformers. Don't let the workers be lazy. Without a transformer, those lights are like small bombs that will explode at any time, and the final result is that they will never be turned on (it's no use changing the lights)! Leave a socket in the aisle to plug in the night light (old people don't have to worry about hitting furniture when they get up at night)!

12, don't buy too complicated chandeliers, the price/performance ratio is poor, it will be dirty and ugly in the future, and it will be very tiring to wipe. When designing home decoration, resolutely cancel the types of lamps that are not commonly used. If we install them, we will only regret that they have not been opened once every n years. The design of TX is equipped with spotlights. Try changing the downlight. If not, each spotlight should be equipped with a ballast. Otherwise, this little spotlight is just a small time bomb, not a scare! ! As far as possible, the auxiliary light source of the ceiling background wall should not use light strips, but use small fluorescent tubes bright enough for easy replacement and maintenance. Never buy embedded lamps with long ceiling for TX. JS says it can be cut, but it's actually very difficult to cut. Just buy a ceiling lamp, which is very convenient to install and take care of.

7) water conversion

1, it is best to buy a high instrument or something for the faucet. Or buy one hundred dollars or so. I found that the faucet I bought, Moen EN400-500 yuan, was easy to get into the water and lost its luster. Unlike the Gaoyi in Xijiao Hotel, it was still radiant after 1 hour steam shower. It's not that I will buy Gao Yi, which is higher than my monthly salary. It's just that I won't buy more faucets than 300 yuan. 2, the arrangement of water pipes in addition to the direction, but also pay attention to the height of the water pipes buried in the wall to connect the faucet, otherwise it will affect the installation height of water heaters, such as washing machines.

3. If pipes are added to move sewers, check whether the old sewers are unblocked before the new pipes are docked with the old sewers. At this time, it is necessary to spend money to clear it and avoid a lot of trouble in the future. When installing aluminum-plastic pipes and sealing cement, it is necessary to supervise workers to reserve expansion space for hot water pipes according to construction standards. In short, the aluminum-plastic pipe should not be sealed too tightly, and it is best to loosen it.

4. The water pipe of the balcony must be slotted and concealed, otherwise the sunlight will easily lead to microorganisms in the pipe.

5. What brand is better to buy waterproof things mixed in cement-elephant brand.

6. Whether the washstand is wall drainage or ground drainage should be decided in advance.

7. It is best not to change the position of the original sewer and floor drain. If you can't change it well, it is the easiest to flood.

8. Don't omit triangle valve, and you won't save much money. If there is a triangle valve, you can find out whether there is water leakage at the copper joint in advance when installing the triangle valve. If you don't install it, you can only check whether the internal connection installed at that time leaks when you finally install the faucet to take over the copper joint. Because water leakage always needs to be pressurized for a period of time to be detected, it is unsafe to install internal connections and faucets at last.

(8) Electrical transformation

1. After the concealed work is completed, workers must be required to draw the pipeline map immediately. I asked the workers to make a hole in the wall at the end of the renovation. Because the hole is close to the socket, the workers say they dare not do it for fear of breaking the wire. I wonder: didn't you lay the wires? Not sure where the line is, how to draw the pipeline map? He actually replied to me: "This thing is just estimation and drawing!" "How stupid of me!

There is a socket behind the furniture. If it is installed high, the sockets are exposed, which is convenient to use, but it doesn't look beautiful; If you hide behind the furniture, it is inconvenient to plug in and out. At present, the plugs of many electrical appliances are very long, which makes your furniture have to be at a distance from the wall, that is, it takes up space, and it is easy to be gray in the back area. I think the best way is to use furniture without backboard where there are sockets, so that both aspects can be taken into account.