Renovate an apartment giving it a new look it can be fun, but if you don’t follow some basic rules, you don’t have the right ideas, and if you have no idea of the prices, it could become a real nightmare. The first step to take is always to have a clear understanding of the bureaucratic part to act in accordance with the law and avoid penalties. After that, green light to renovation of the apartment!
Before starting any work, be it the renovation of a condominium apartment that of a single house, it is important to understand which category it falls into: actual renovation work, ordinary maintenance, extraordinary maintenance or restoration work. The typical intervention of renovation of a house with the displacement of some partitions it usually falls into Extraordinary maintenance, and it is necessary to present the practice in common according to the type of work that will be carried out. They are works of ordinary maintenance the interventions necessary to repair the finishes and existing materials of a house. This is the case if you want for example renovate only one floor, paint the walls, not modifying the structure of the house, and in this case it is not necessary to present any documentation.
Definitely the first goal of one renovation must be that of optimize space: create new spaces by exploiting every single square meter. An operation that needs to think carefully about both size of the apartment, that to the habits of one’s daily life, and the ideal would be to turn to a professional to draw up a project, follow the paperwork and follow the work, which will have a cost based on the percentage of the total cost of the work and which is around broad lines on 4%.
At the moment you want home refurbishing, it is impossible not to think of improving the systems by adopting new technologies and systems. An idea could be to no longer see the unsightly radiators by planning to install the underfloor heating. By the way, with the underfloor heating system, the heat is transmitted evenly in the house, and there is a saving on consumption compared to traditional methods of 20%. The only one is a non-economic cost: on average the cost varies from € 70 to € 110 per square meter, double compared to a traditional heating system.
If, on the other hand, you just want to renovate the bathroom, the indicative cost could start from € 2000, but obviously it will depend on several factors such as the quality of the materials and the size of the bathroom.
And each renovation ends with the painting of the walls of the house, for which you must take into account all the preventive work, and the type of paint you want to be used. In case you want to give an original look, you can choose to make particular pictorial decorations on certain walls: glazes, sponges, Venetian or spatulated stuccoes can give that extra touch to the environment, and the price varies from € 10.00 / sqm to € 20.00 / sqm.
Once you have decided with certainty every aspect of the renovation, before starting work it is good to ask for a price quotation to companies or construction companies, so as to know the expense that will be faced.
And remember that there are tax breaks which you can avail if you decide to carry out a renovation, and there are also higher concessions if you decide to carry out energy saving works.