1. Sign on the decoration agreement issued by the property.
2. Provide the decoration drawings of your own home, mainly including water, electricity, circuit transformation, and non-load-bearing wall renovation projects.
3. Obtain the "commencement certificate", which is used to be posted on your door for the property inspection as proof of construction period.
4. Access permit: mainly for the workers to avoid illegal personnel mixing into the community during the decoration period. (The fee varies in different communities, generally 15 yuan per person, with a production cost of 5 yuan, and the remaining 10 yuan will be refunded to the owner after the decoration is completed.) When applying for the access permit, it's best to bring the foreman responsible for your decoration, along with two one-inch photos and one copy of the worker's ID card.
5. Decoration deposit (varies in different communities, at least around 2000 yuan, usually refunded to the owner three months after the completion of the decoration).
6. Garbage disposal fee: this fee is used to pay the property for cleaning up the decoration waste, which is different from what is paid to the decoration company, generally around 300 yuan for two-bedroom apartments, and varies among different property management companies.
Expert tips:
Several things to do immediately after starting work:
1. Material list: ask the foreman in charge of the decoration to provide you with a list of materials you need to buy and the time they need to be delivered to the site. Many decoration teams only tell you a day in advance what kind of building materials will be needed the next day, leaving no time for you to take leave and go buy them.
2. Schedule: learn about the basic schedule, such as which day of this month the water, electricity, and circuit transformation will be completed, the sealing of woodenware, tiling, and the making of suspended ceiling frames, etc. This way, you can reasonably arrange your time to regularly check the quality at critical steps.
3. Quality inspection time: find out when the quality inspector and supervisor will be on site, you can agree on a time to go together so that if any problems are found, they can be solved in time.
4. Avoid disputes: don't let the workers make changes directly if you find any problems during construction. Even if you say so, they may not necessarily change. You must inform the quality inspector or the foreman, which is more effective. And it's best to put it in writing to avoid disputes after the decoration is done.