Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 1024 284. Decoration is a course! It’s just one step behind [Part ]

After drinking a bowl of hot bone soup, Teacher Xiaomi felt fully revived.

"Let's go first."

"Let's go."

There were still lamb shanks and bones in the pot, but the two of them didn't have time to eat them.

You can’t blame Teacher Xiaomi for getting up too late.

It’s not Li An’s fault that he also made an appointment with Lao Zhao.

But if I have to blame someone, I would have to blame Li An for deciding to cook lamb shanks even though he knew that time was tight at noon.

There’s nothing I can do, I’m just happy.

At exactly twelve o'clock, the two met Zhao Jinyang at the west gate of Area A.

"Teacher Li, Teacher Chen."

"Brother Zhao, thank you for making this trip at noon."

"It's not hard at all. I happened to be doing business here this morning. What a coincidence."

"Where does Brother Zhao live?"

"Zihua County."

"You live in the same neighborhood as Grandpa Xiaohu."

"Yes, yes. It was Uncle Xu who took my dad to look at the disc at that time."

The three of them exchanged pleasantries and entered the community.

"Which building?" Chen Xuan was a little dizzy.

"This way, Building 18," Li An explained to Lao Zhao with a smile, "We just checked it last night as well."

Lao Zhao laughed: "That's normal. I had a client who had transferred his property for a week and still couldn't remember which unit his home was in."

Lee An: “Big heart.”

Lao Zhao: “Blessed.”

Li An laughed and glanced at Chen Xuan.

“Two elevators and two households is good.”

As soon as Lao Zhao got out of the elevator, he said, "This area at the entrance can be fully utilized."

"Yes, put up a shoe rack or something." Li An squatted down, lifted the floor mat and took out the key.

Old Zhao had already taken out shoe covers, and Chen Xuan was also prepared. The three of them put on shoe covers and entered the house.

"Brother Zhao, please take a look for us. We are quite satisfied."

The moment Li An opened the door, Lao Zhao took out his mobile phone and started filming, and then took pictures of the whole house.

"The views from the apartment are good, and the area of ​​each functional area is sufficient. When decorating, just design the traffic flow layout according to your needs. It's a good house."

After hearing what Lao Zhao said, Li An looked around and asked, "Such a small house also needs to pay attention to the layout of traffic flow?"

Old Zhao shook his head: "Your house is not small. It's actually not that complicated. Simply put, it's to make your living experience better according to your living habits."

"The same layout will give different experiences to different people. For example, if you two only dine out a few times a month, there's no need to put the kitchen and dining room next to each other."

As he spoke, Lao Zhao walked to the wall separating the dining room and the north bedroom and knocked, then moved to the right and knocked again.

Then he slapped it again, turned around and continued, "Half of this wall can be demolished, starting from here."

Chen Xuan: "Don't want a restaurant anymore?"

Lao Zhao: "It's not that we don't want it, but we want to move the functional area of ​​the restaurant reserved by the developer to another location. We can completely remove the sideboard here, replace it with a high bar, and connect the second bedroom and the open kitchen together to form a new multi-functional area."

The two people who were listening to it suddenly had their eyes brightened. It could be changed like this!
"This is not wider than the living room." Before Li Ang's eyes, a space that combines a study, a piano room, and a small living room seemed to have appeared.

Chen Xuan: "Where should the restaurant be moved to?"

Lao Zhao: "Just borrow part of the living room."

Chen Xuan: “Ah?”

Lao Zhao: "How many times a month can you turn on the TV? How many times a year can you turn on the TV? Will you have guests coming to your home often in the future? Have you considered living with the elderly in the future?"

The two looked at each other, indeed.

Lao Zhao: "Would you put a big coffee table and a row of TV cabinets like this owner did? If you don't install a TV, you don't need a TV cabinet, and if you remove the coffee table, then this place doesn't have to be a living room.

Chen Xuan: "No more living room."

Lao Zhao: "Yes, de-living room, but the premise is that it must be in line with your home style."

Li An: "That makes sense. This design does make the effect instantly different. Brother Zhao is really good."

Old Zhao waved his hand and smiled, "It's mainly because I've seen too many of them. Young owners nowadays are too opinionated."

Li An nodded: "But if you cook every day, you can't design it like this."

Lao Zhao: “Yes.”

Li An: "First of all, an open kitchen must be built to open up the layout of this multifunctional area. Otherwise, it will give people a sense of incongruity when connected, but we will have to face the problems of oil smoke and daily mess in the kitchen."

"The kitchen will be in disarray if it is slightly moved, and once it is in disarray, the entire area will be in disarray. Designing the kitchen this way will make it just a decoration."

"Besides, even if you force the design to be like this, it may be fresh at first, and you can ensure that you clean up after cooking, but after living in it for a long time, it will become cumbersome because it must be cleaned meticulously to maintain its beauty."

"The last thing is the problem of serving the food. It's unbearable to have to walk such a long way from the kitchen to the table."

Lao Zhao gave a thumbs up and said, "Teacher Li really understands life. This is the problem of demand and traffic flow layout that I mentioned at the beginning."

Li An: "Oh, you're exaggerating. Everyone lives like this. But if you don't use a stove, this design is really good. A kitchen is only a few square meters, so it's worth the sacrifice."

But the question is, who doesn't cook? There are definitely families that don't cook, but at the moment Ang Lee has to cook, not only for eating, but also as a way for him to relax.

"Can you help us see which walls can be knocked down?" Chen Xuan was eager to know the answer.

Old Zhao took the two of them around and found that there were not many walls that could be broken down, and many of them could only be partially moved.

Chen Xuan did not have any regrets, as the layout of the balconies in the north and south bedrooms made her very satisfied.

"Why is there a water leak in this location?" Old Zhao stopped at the base of the northwest corner wall of the north bedroom. Judging from the wall, it has nothing to do with the upstairs floor.

Li An saw it yesterday, "Is there any problem? The landlord said it can be done with redecoration."

"Hold on,"

Lao Zhao went downstairs and came back up to ask Li An to contact the landlord to see if he could remove the screen window in the north bedroom, and "ask him for a structural diagram of the house."

This made both of them a little nervous, and Li An immediately took out his cell phone and called the landlord.

The landlord said, "It's okay, it's okay. Just be careful to remove it safely. Don't worry about the north bedroom. It's not expanded. I didn't do a good job of waterproofing the wall at that time, so it's a little cloudy from the outside when it rains continuously. We can just re-apply waterproofing when the time comes."

Li An looked at Lao Zhao, and Lao Zhao nodded.

Li An: "Okay, okay, please send me a structural diagram of the house."

Landlord: "I don't have that. Wait a minute, I'll ask the property management."

After hanging up the phone, Li An hurriedly asked Lao Zhao if there was any potential problem. Lao Zhao: "It's not a big deal if there is a problem. It's fine as long as it has nothing to do with the upstairs. I'll ask someone to confirm it later."

After hearing this, the two of them felt relieved. Lao Zhao removed the screen window and looked out. Sure enough, there was a ten-centimeter groove under the outer glass.

Within five minutes, the landlord handed Li An three PDF files: The property management gave them to me, and I don’t know if it’s this thing. You take a look at it, and if it doesn’t work, I’ll ask for you again.

“The property management efficiency here is quite high.”

Taking Li An's phone, Lao Zhao flipped through it and said, "Teacher Li, please send it to me."

As he spoke, Lao Zhao leaned his head out and took a circle of photos of the north bedroom's exterior windows with his mobile phone. He then sent them along with the leaking wall and three drawings to his friend Lao Ma.

"Old Ma, check if this place is related to the upstairs and see how to deal with it."

Chen Xuan looked at Li An quietly, and Li An indicated that it was okay.

Lao Zhao: "Let me take a closer look."

Ten minutes later, the three returned to the North Bedroom again.

“There shouldn’t be anywhere else.”

Just then, Lao Zhao's cell phone rang. It was Lao Ma calling. Lao Zhao turned on the speakerphone and answered, "Is it easy? Is it related to the upstairs?"

Old Ma said in a rough voice: "It has nothing to do with the upstairs, but it's a bit troublesome. Which neighborhood is it?"

Lao Zhao: "Yunkaiyuan District A."

Lao Ma: "That's even more troublesome. We can't change the wall surface for unified floor-to-ceiling windows, so we can only demolish them all and rebuild the concrete floor beam. The problem is that the previous floor beam was not well made and cracked, and water seeped in from the bottom. It's meaningless even if we make waterproof inside and outside. Moreover, his floor beam still has certain safety hazards. It's a good thing that the glass is divided into small panels. If it was a whole large glass, I'm afraid the floor beam would have deformed long ago."

Lao Zhao: "The window is connected from the north bedroom to the kitchen. Do we need to rebuild the ground beam?"

Lao Ma: "Well, so I suggest that you just make do with it. It won't have much of an impact. At most, it will just rain and block some of the walls. If you want to repair the whole thing, you'll have to replace the north windows. The floor beams are a small amount of money, but the windows are a big one. And if you add in the cost of demolition and transportation, the bill is unbearable."

Hearing this, Li An breathed a sigh of relief. He was originally planning to reinstall everything.

Lao Zhao: "Look at the blueprint and see how many beams should be built on the north and south sides."

Lao Ma: “Wait a moment.”

After a moment, "It's about thirty-eight meters, the exact measurement depends."

Lao Zhao: "I see. Go ahead and get busy."

After hanging up the phone with Lao Ma, Lao Zhao looked at Li An and said, "There is no problem here, but the cost of renovation will be higher."

Li An: "Come on, Brother Zhao, let's go downstairs and find a restaurant to eat and chat."

Old Zhao did not refuse and restored the screen window and took a photo.

Then, just like when I first entered the house, I carefully recorded a video of the entire house.

During this time, Li An followed behind Lao Zhao and saw that Lao Zhao even gave a close-up of the ground. After Lao Zhao put away his phone, he asked, "Brother Zhao, is there something wrong with the ground?"

"No problem," Lao Zhao explained with a smile, "I took this photo just to keep a record. We also took a photo when we entered the door."

"For houses like this, where both agents and individual customers come to see them, there are too many people. We don't know how many people have been here before, or whether there will be more people coming in the near future. Once the owner's key is in the hands of the agent, it becomes a public key. So if something happens in the house, relying solely on surveillance cameras in and out of the community is useless."

After a pause, he said, "A friend of mine had a house like this a while ago. The wooden floor at the entrance had three holes burned by cigarette butts. Although we are not the seller, we still have to avoid it intentionally."

Chen Xuan: “Professional.”

Li An: "Profession."

Old Zhao laughed and said, "I find it troublesome too."
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As he had to go to the store later in the afternoon, Li An just ordered a few dishes.

He invited Lao Zhao to come today. Firstly, he wanted Lao Zhao to check it out, and secondly, he wanted to consult about the buying and selling process in detail.

I didn’t expect to learn about the decoration issues in advance.

When it comes to renovation costs, Li An really needs some advice: "It will definitely take longer to renovate a second-hand house than a new one."

Lao Zhao: "Yes, because first we have to break down the floor tiles, wall tiles, and remove the windows. These are all big jobs. After breaking down and removing, they have to be transported. I conservatively estimate that this trip will take about a week."

Chen Xuan: "How long will the subsequent process take? Can it be completed in three months? I saw online that some can be completed in two months, while others have dragged on for more than half a year.

Lao Zhao laughed: "It's not uncommon to delay the renovation for a year or two. There are many factors that determine the renovation period. Are you in a hurry?"

The two nodded at the same time.

Lao Zhao: "First of all, from the owner's side, if the owner does all the preparatory work before starting the construction, that is, to install it as soon as possible, and does not change the plan during the period, the decoration period can usually be controlled within four months."

Li An: "Does it involve rework?"

Lao Zhao: "Yes, for example, do you think home appliances are good?"

Ang Lee: “Not yet.”

Chen Xuan: "Do I need to choose home appliances so early? I saw online that I can just decide before the whole house is customized."

Lao Zhao laughed again: "Online tips can be used as a basic reference, because some owners don't do all the homework, and some are just lucky. Decoration is sometimes a matter of luck."

"Teacher Chen, look, there is no problem in confirming the home appliances before customizing the whole house. The purpose of confirming the home appliances is to determine the size of the home appliances in order to do the zero-embedded process."

Chen Xuan: "Yes, like refrigerator, dishwasher, and washing machine sets."

Lao Zhao: "Then let me assume that you have decided to place the washing machine on the balcony, to make it embedded, and to determine the size. The custom cabinets for the whole house are also made according to the size you provided. But in the end, when the cabinets are installed, you find that your washing machine cannot be pushed into the cabinets as you imagined."

“The reasons may be as follows.”

“First, the location of the water inlet takes up the reserved depth.”

“Second, the launch site occupies the reserved depth.”

"Third, there are errors in the production process of whole-house customization."

"Because the third reason can be used to ask the other party to redo it, we won't talk about it."

"The first two reasons are that the waterway location and launch location were not planned well in the early stage."

Li An: “That’s true now.”

Lao Zhao: "Even if it fits in perfectly, it may not be easy to use normally. The plug may not be able to reach the socket. If it can't reach, you have to use a power strip, and you have to drill a hole in the cabinet to thread the wire. It's not troublesome, but the cabinet will be a mess, and it will be annoying to use it in the future."

Chen Xuan: “The location of electricity.”

Lao Zhao: "This is the first step of the construction, the water and electricity transformation. Let's continue with the south balcony. The west wall of the south balcony, how many points do you plan to leave here? This depends on how many electrical appliances you want to place here."

"Many owners who pursue individuality think they have done their homework in the early stages, but as the renovation begins, they come up with new ideas, this and that, and rework begins from here."

Li An: "Because the construction party constructed according to the owner's initial idea,"

Lao Zhao: "So I suggest that you two, whether you find a home improvement company, a construction team, or supervise and hire workers yourself, if you want to save time, first confirm what you want repeatedly, and then prepare yourself mentally in advance. Once you encounter problems with the initial design when you start construction, you must be able to make some compromises."

Chen Xuan: "I understand. Thank you, Brother Zhao."

Lao Zhao: "No thanks, no thanks. These are just some common sense about decoration. If you don't have any requirements and just want to quickly clean up a new home for your wedding, you can just find a similar decoration company."

Li An laughed: "It's urgent, but there is definitely a need. It's within our capabilities."

After a pause, he said, "Brother Zhao, do you want to find a decoration company? You must have business in this area, right?
Li An has made up his mind, and he will ask Lao Zhao to take care of the decoration.

If nothing else, it was because of how meticulous Lao Zhao was when he accompanied him to look at houses.

Whoever makes this money will benefit.