1, don't change the balcony into a kitchen.
In order to broaden the use area, the balcony facing north is closed and turned into a kitchen, and then the original kitchen is made into a storage room or other uses. But once you really live in it, you will find that as long as you start cooking, the whole house smells of lampblack. But also affects the upstairs, which has a bad influence on Feng Shui. Don't change the pattern of the house easily.
2, hydropower transformation should be thorough.
Because the previous materials are not as advanced as they are now, and because of the age, many second-hand houses have the problem of aging water circuits. If you don't check it carefully in advance, you may not live long, the light will not light up and the water pipe will burst again. The renovation of water circuit is one of the most complicated projects in the renovation of old houses. Before decoration, carefully check whether the original waterways and gas pipelines are rusted and aged, and the water pipes should be replaced with copper pipes or PPR pipes. For dangerous pipelines such as gas pipelines, it is best to ask professionals to detect them. There are too few sockets, which is inconvenient for modern life. There are more and more household appliances, and the demand for sockets is increasing. It is often difficult for old houses to meet the current use requirements in socket design. Therefore, when decorating, you may wish to reserve more sockets in case of emergency.
Try not to change the structure of the house.
In the past, the apartment structure of houses was often not very good, so some people were already planning to modify the structure of houses when they bought second-hand houses, where to add a porch, open a wall and so on. Because the multi-storey residential buildings in cities are mostly brick-concrete structures, the wall is first a load-bearing seismic component, and then a separation component. If the load-bearing wall is interrupted to expand the space, it will weaken the load-bearing and seismic capacity of the wall members, leaving serious hidden dangers. Therefore, dismantling and changing the structure at will may bring all kinds of troubles, such as wall cracking, collapse, circuit impassability and so on.
4, the floor surface should have a certain thickness.
Floor renovation is to restore the old floor as new by polishing, scraping putty, painting and waxing the floor surface. Compared with re-purchasing the floor, the old floor has adapted to the indoor environment, with better stability and much cheaper decoration cost.
Not all floors can be decorated. There is an alumina wear-resistant layer on the surface of the laminate flooring. Renovating the floor will destroy its wear-resistant layer and aggravate the aging of the floor, so the strengthened floor cannot be renovated. Only solid wood flooring, solid wood composite flooring and bamboo flooring with a surface thickness of 4 mm can be renovated. Because the floor surface will be worn off after several polishing, if the floor surface is too thin, the middle layer will also be worn off, which will affect the service life of the floor.
5. All materials are changed to environmental protection.
In home improvement, many materials used in some old houses have been upgraded to environmentally friendly materials. In the following situations, it is best to replace it. The original wall surface and top surface base are sand-lime walls, which need to be removed and re-made with cement plastering base. Due to aging, the circuit of the old house needs to be replaced. Because modern household appliances are widely used, the replaced wires need to meet the national standards, and galvanized iron pipes need to be set during construction. When wiring, it should be arranged according to the new design scheme, which is generally divided into lighting, low-level socket, high-level socket and weak current.