Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 152 Is there an air conditioner here?

"Not bad, this place is good, good!"

After actually seeing the front room that was being renovated, He Yuzhu immediately and continuously admired it.

"Don't tell me, Cao Zhiqiang, you really know how to choose!

You see, this place is next to Wangfujing Street, with the Grand Theater to the north and Dong'an Market to the south, extending in all directions, with a lot of traffic, opening a restaurant here is sure to make money!

Cao Zhiqiang, you kid has a set and a vision! "

Hearing He Yuzhu's praise, Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "Go in and have a look?"

"That's a good relationship." He Yuzhu nodded with a smile.

Only then did Cao Zhiqiang say to an expert surnamed Chen wearing glasses who was following him, "Gong Chen, can we go in and have a look now?"

The reason why he is called Chen Gong is because he is an engineer, so he is called Chen Gong.

Calling a certain worker these days doesn't mean a certain worker, it means an engineer.

Engineers these days are all proper experts, and they are still very respected.

The era when experts and scholars are truly disrespected will have to be after [-], to be precise, after October [-].

In [-], the state promulgated a "Decision on Economic System Reform", which formally put forward the policy of "implementing the state, the collective, and the individual."

To put it bluntly, it means that individuals can start a business and start a company, and the state encourages you to do business and start a company.

But in [-], the planned economy was still the mainstream, the pace of economic reform was not big, and experts and scholars were still respected people, so at this time calling XX Gong was still a respectful title.

At this time, the middle-aged man named Chen Gong adjusted his glasses calmly, and said with a serious face: "Of course, it's the end here, so it's not a big problem."

After hearing what this middle-aged man surnamed Chen said, Cao Zhiqiang nodded kindly, then called He Yuzhu, and followed this "engineer Chen" to formally inspect the decoration of the house.

Speaking of which, after Cao Zhiqiang comforted Jin Xiuying before, he went to Beiping Design Institute on time in the afternoon, and met He Yuzhu at the design institute.

After that, Cao Zhiqiang and He Yuzhu entered the Design Institute and found Director Wang here.

Speaking of which, since he gave 5000 yuan, Cao Zhiqiang is now considered an acquaintance of the design institute, after all, he is now the major sponsor of the design institute.

In fact, strictly speaking, there is still a misunderstanding here.

You must know that Cao Zhiqiang is a time traveler, and the time for time travel is not long strictly speaking, so his concept of money is actually different from the concept of money of people in this era.

For example, let's talk about the decoration fee. Cao Zhiqiang didn't think it was a big deal when he gave 5000 yuan at the beginning, but he didn't know what [-] yuan meant in this day and age.

5000 yuan, during this period, is enough to cover the expenses of the Beijing Design Institute for more than a year.

Not to mention anything else, with this 5000 yuan, everyone's wages will be settled. There is no need for someone to secretly go out to sell sweet potatoes, and they can continue to read newspapers, drink tea and draw pictures in the design institute with peace of mind. Life is not ordinary.

Because the 5000 yuan does not include material, it is just the design fee, which is the part that can be spent by the design institute itself, the situation is absolutely different.

For this reason, many people have a special impression of Cao Zhiqiang, so Cao Zhiqiang is now coming to the Design Institute, which is definitely the leader's treatment for inspection.

For example, the expert who brought Cao Zhiqiang and He Yuzhu to inspect the progress of the renovation is actually the expert Chen who picked Cao Zhiqiang at the beginning.

At the beginning, this expert Chen didn't like Cao Zhiqiang's request, thinking that the design institute is a national unit and all the designs are tall and state-level buildings.

But when it was time to pay the wages and found that the wages were paid in full, and there were bonuses and allowances that he hadn't seen for many years, he immediately became very happy.

Director Wang is also a good person, and he specially asked Expert Chen to take charge of the case of Cao Zhiqiang's head room. Money, so stop messing with everyone.

After all, since the self-responsibility of profits and losses, the design institute has also carried out reforms. Whoever accepts the case will get the commission. It is no longer the same as in the past. Accepting the case is a collective contribution. No matter how much you pay, the bonus you get is basically the same.

As for that expert Chen, if he can't let him taste the sweetness, gag him, and let him fully support everyone in renovating Cao Zhiqiang's house, if he wants to make trouble with all his heart, it will be quite troublesome.

After all, in theory, design institutes at this time still cannot design and decorate for individuals, and their counterparts should be state-owned enterprises, institutions, or collective units.

So working for Cao Zhiqiang would be a great fortune for everyone, but if someone is determined to make trouble and insist on making trouble, then it is estimated that this private job will not be able to be done.

After being enlightened by Director Wang and the others, Expert Chen, who didn't want to be beaten by gangs, also decisively bowed his head to the money, and agreed to be Cao Zhiqiang's designer, mainly responsible for the facade of the house that Cao Zhiqiang bought in Jinyu Hutong. case.

As for Cao Zhiqiang, he didn't think too much of himself. When he saw that the person in charge of decorating his front room turned out to be the man with glasses who contradicted him at the beginning, he didn't make any sarcasm. Instead, he kindly praised him and even gave him Quite a few "tips".

For the face of the banknotes, and Cao Zhiqiang's initiative to show affection, the two sides settled their suspicions, and they were short of cutting off the chicken head and burning the yellow paper, and then became brothers of the opposite sex.

However, expert Chen was only responsible for the decoration of this facade house, and the decoration of Cao Zhiqiang's old courtyard house was not the work of this expert Chen.

It's not that he is too weak to take over, but that he wants to give others some benefits.

After entering, expert Chen began to introduce the decoration of this house to everyone.

According to expert Chen, because Cao Zhiqiang asked for as little modification as possible and no large-scale construction, everyone only worked on the details, and made some enhancements and beautifications to the original house.

Specifically, the superficial building has not been greatly changed, but the interior has been strengthened, the exterior walls have been beautified, and infrastructure, such as wires, water pipes, and heating, have been re-laid and installed.

In addition, they also built a new septic tank and added two high-standard toilets inside. When guests come to eat here, they no longer need to go out to the public toilet.

"Everyone, please see that according to Xiao Cao's request, we removed part of the west wall and replaced it with floor-to-ceiling glass one by one. In this way, along Wangfujing Street, you can directly see the situation inside, and the lighting will also change. it is good.

On the south side, the gate of the big house remains unchanged, and for the inverted house facing the street, we also removed part of the wall facing the street and replaced it with large French windows, which not only provides better lighting, but also looks more upscale.

As for this house, the original upside-down house and the courtyard have been opened up, but that was opened up by the original owner himself. It is only the door opening, which cannot be regarded as a complete opening. Moreover, in doing so, the load-bearing wall is actually destroyed. , there will be construction hazards.

After we took over, the original wall between the inverted house and the courtyard was completely demolished, and then several load-bearing columns were rebuilt with reinforced concrete, and the roof was remade with steel bars for weighing beams.

As for the part of the courtyard, the homeowner just built a few sheds on the top of the courtyard to prevent rain, which was too simple.

After we took over, we directly redid the roof of the tile-roofed house, striving for the same style, and because of the redoing of the roof and the redesign of the weighing, the strength of course has also been enhanced.

The advantage of re-doing the whole roof and re-weighing is that the strength of the house has been enhanced and the space has been expanded. In this way, the inverted house and the courtyard can be combined into one unit, which is used as a dine-in restaurant , it becomes much wider.

According to our new design, after the original inverted room is merged with the Yijin courtyard to form a new inverted room, the total area is 240 square meters. It is no problem to put fifty sets of tables and chairs, and it can accommodate up to 200 people to eat at the same time.

According to what you said, we kept the courtyard behind the south house, but the ground was re-leveled, small flower beds and other places were removed, and the entire courtyard was tiled to make it an open-air stage.

As for this stage, many hidden power sockets are reserved around it, which is convenient for you to place audio equipment and other electrical appliances.

At the eaves around the stage, high-power spotlights are installed in the four corners, and hooks and baskets are also preset. If you want to install new spotlights or cameras in the future, it will be very convenient.

In addition, eight sound speakers were hoisted in advance at the eaves around the stage. In this way, a strong stereo effect can be formed in the center and around the stage, reaching the situation of circling the beam for three days.

As for the stage in the middle, it can be vacated to perform singing and dancing, and if necessary, add some tables, chairs and benches, which is a new dine-in, and it is no problem to hold a wedding banquet or something.

As for the east and west rooms around the stage, we have made three compartments as private rooms.

Each private room faces a wall facing the courtyard stage, and has re-opened a large floor-to-ceiling window. The windows of the floor-to-ceiling windows are also made of one-way glass. The outside cannot see the inside, but the inside can see the outside.

In other words, there are three private rooms in each of the east and west wing rooms, adding up to six private rooms.

The main room and the east and west side rooms are all connected. We have made two large private rooms with suites. These two private rooms belong to the top private rooms here, and the decoration inside is of course the best.

Similarly, the windows facing the courtyard and the stage in the private rooms of the main room have also been expanded into floor-to-ceiling windows, and one-way glass has been installed, so that the outside cannot see the inside, and the inside can see the outside.

As for the two east and west side rooms, we transformed the west side room into a high-end toilet for people to go to the toilet.

The east side room is transformed into a dressing room and changing room, where actors can make up and change clothes.

The back room is converted into a kitchen and warehouse, and all cooking and other things are done in the back room.

By the way, when we re-roofed the south house, in order to increase the lighting, we deliberately opened several glass skylights on the slope of the roof facing south.

With these glass skylights, not only can the lighting problem of the house be greatly improved, but also the modernity is revealed in the classic, and the fashion is brought into the tradition. Isn't it very creative? "

Seeing Expert Chen's complacent look, Cao Zhiqiang was noncommittal, but He Yuzhu looked up at the sloping glass skylights and said, "Mr. Chen, you made such a high skylight, how can you clean it if it's dirty?"

Expert Chen was taken aback for a moment, and then said, "Of course it's on the roof."

He Yuzhu shook his head: "I have to climb the roof once to clean the windows, really, it's not too troublesome."

"This kind of glass skylight is generally not dirty." Expert Chen said, "Did you see that it is sloped, and it can be cleaned once when it rains, and if it is not very dirty, you can also rinse it with water from a hose."

"Is it safe?" He Yuzhu asked again, "If you accidentally drop it, don't you hit someone?"

"Don't worry about that." Expert Chen said, "The glass is very thick, and it's made of laminated glass like the windshield of a car. It won't hurt anyone if it breaks, so it's fine."

Seeing that He Yuzhu stopped talking, Expert Chen said again: "We have made reasonable arrangements for other things like heaters and ceiling fans to ensure that they are practical, but also beautiful, and not destroy the overall atmosphere of the courtyard.

Especially in the inverted room, that is, the suspended ceiling of the south room, we also specially made ventilation ducts, plus a ventilation fan and a special chimney, so that even if the windows are closed, the air can be circulated and fresh.

In this way, if the guests eat here, no matter how many people and dishes there are, they will not feel bored. "

"Amazing." He Yuzhu sighed while watching, "There are so many renovations, this is a big project."

"This is such a big project." Expert Chen shook his head, "It's just minor repairs to the details. If I really follow my original plan, I will tear down the entire house and rebuild it..."

"Mr. Chen!" Cao Zhiqiang suddenly interrupted Expert Chen, "Why haven't you installed the air conditioner yet? Didn't I pay you early in the morning?
You said at the time that there was no problem at all, and you would definitely be able to buy the air conditioner. I believed you, so you paid the money in advance, but why have you not seen the air conditioner until now?Didn't you buy it? "

"That's not true, the air conditioners have already been bought, regular imports, brand new, definitely not second-hand foreign garbage." Expert Chen said, "But according to the rules, this thing has to be installed last, so the batch of air conditioners have not been opened for the time being. It’s still in the design institute.”

Immediately afterwards, Expert Chen said again: "But Xiao Cao, don't worry, we have already reserved a window here to install the air conditioner. After all the construction is completed, we can install the air conditioner directly, and we guarantee that it will not be worse."

"That's good." Cao Zhiqiang nodded.

"Wait a minute!" He Yuzhu said suddenly, "What did you just say? There is also an air conditioner here? Is it the kind of air conditioner imported from abroad that can blow cold air in summer?"

(End of this chapter)