During the decoration process, we will always encounter various problems. If we are not careful, we will easily leave regrets for the future. The editor of Fuguan Decoration has taken stock of common malicious decoration items for everyone to see how many pitfalls you have stepped on?
1. What is an addition?
Additional items refer to the fact that after the customer signs the contract, the final cost exceeds the budget by more than 5% based on the original quotation.
Many friends have some misunderstandings about additional items, thinking that money beyond the contract is an additional item. In fact, it is normal for prices to fluctuate within 5% of the budget, because prices will fluctuate according to the specific problems encountered in the implementation of each solution. Items that customers are willing to actively add are not malicious additions.
2. Common malicious additions
Malicious splitting of construction
Some unprofessional teams will maliciously split construction steps and calculate costs. For example, when laying ceramic tiles, the construction team will tell consumers that the ground is uneven and the cost of cement and sand leveling will be increased.
Ceramic tile laying itself is a leveling process. Itâs easy for someone who doesnât understand the process to blindly agree and end up spending tens of millions of dollars.
The quotation omits items
In order to attract customers to sign the contract, some decoration companies hide the quotations of some items when quoting to reduce the budget, such as water pipes, beautiful tile joints, window sill stones, door stones, passes, etc. These items What is not written into the contract in the early stages will be added later.
For example, construction debris should be placed in designated locations on the property. Some companies will charge for it for free and some will charge for it. If trash removal and transportation are not spelled out clearly, it could cost hundreds to thousands of dollars.
Price calculations are confusing
Now, many families will have full home customization, which is an additional project in the hardest-hit areas. The partitions of custom cabinets are not enough, drawers need to be added, and the clothes rails and handles after some operations are not enough. The price of custom cabinets may be twice that of finished cabinets.
Curtains, lace and curtain accessories are expensive, possibly more than the materials themselves; when installing household appliances, the steps of passing through walls and sticking to windows are not free.
3. How to avoid malicious additions?
Find a reliable company and implement the contract
Roadside decoration teams generally offer low prices, there is no contract, and the decoration details are not open and transparent. It's difficult to avoid the problem of adding items at a later stage.
Regular decoration companies have transparent processes, value their own business development, and will not maliciously add projects with their own reputation and reputation. The designer will mark the details of the plan and place them on the drawing in detail to avoid problems with adding items later.
Learn more about construction technology
If you want to save money and be satisfied with your home decoration, you have to put in more energy. Learn more about the construction process before decoration, and go to the construction site during decoration to watch the construction process.
Play the role of decoration supervision
The decoration process takes two to three months, which is complicated and troublesome. If you don't know when you don't have one, ask the construction supervisor to help review the contract, checklist, drawings, etc., and judge the reasonableness of the additional items.
The above are some points that the editor of Fuguan Decoration has compiled for you on how to avoid pitfalls in decoration additions. For more knowledge on how to avoid pitfalls during decoration, please pay attention to Henan Fuguan Decorationâs official website and WeChat official account.
