Buying and decorating a new house, no matter who falls on it, is a happy chore. Therefore, decorating a new house has become the topic that everyone is most concerned about nowadays. However, many people only realize after renovating their homes that they not only spent a lot of money in vain, but also the renovation work has not been completed. I am an interior decoration designer, and I have seen too many hardships and joys in decoration. Here I will talk about some of the shady secrets of the decoration industry that you must know.
1. Open low and go high, hidden secrets. Customers are greedy for low prices and high quality. They will make the final decision after consultation and comparison with multiple decoration companies. Therefore, some decoration companies conceal and omit the decoration projects, so that the total price looks low. Customers will mistakenly think that this company's quotation is relatively fair. In order to encourage customers to sign orders, decoration companies will also claim to reduce or reduce management fees and taxes, leading customers into a trap. Once the home improvement process begins, clients will constantly encounter issues that require additions. The decoration company has already set up a self-interested interpretation clause in the contract: if it proposes to change or cancel the construction project, it will be regarded as a partial breach of contract, and it must pay 20% of the reduced amount as liquidated damages to the home decoration company. At this time, customers are in a dilemma and unable to protect their rights and interests.
2. Purchase materials on behalf of others and receive rebates secretly. Most decoration companies have fixed material merchants to provide them with decorative building materials. Among them, there are many good materials with high quality and low price. However, many project managers, designers and even decoration craftsmen collude with related dealers and collect kickbacks under the guise of purchasing materials for the convenience of customers. The average rebate is maintained at about 10% of the price of the main materials purchased. Even if the rebate number is low, it is not less than 8%. Rebates are naturally higher for materials with relatively high profits. For example, the rebate for ceramic tiles is 15% to 25%, the rebate for panel switches is 20%, and the rebate for stairs is 30% to 40%. Especially for things like stairs and central air conditioners, the price itself is high, and the rebates are astonishing.
3. Replacing quality products with inferior ones and cutting corners Using fake and shoddy construction materials and cutting corners is an important source of profit in the decoration industry. There are endless tricks used by decorators to deceive customers. Some use the same brand of decoration materials for different purposes, such as topcoat instead of waterproof paint, and ordinary panels instead of moisture-proof boards. Some products with similar trademark images are used to pass off as famous brand products, such as Fuhan sheets replaced by Fuwen sheets. Some mix good materials with inferior materials, such as mixing special-grade ceramic tiles with first-grade ceramic tiles and then laying them in different rooms. Some reduce the process, such as replacing three coats of paint with one coat of paint, which not only saves labor costs, but also allows the saved decoration materials to be sold to material dealers, making both ends meet. These practices are hidden and safe and cannot be detected by customers.
4. False qualifications and two-level subcontracting. Many decoration companies do anything to make money quickly and directly. There are a lot of false honors, false titles, and false reviews, and the company must be "decorated" first. In some seemingly glamorous companies, even basic qualifications are not available. After receiving the project, they first deduct 20% of the company's profit, and then subcontract it at two levels to the engineering team below. The engineering team is also contracted by small bosses. After earning 10% of the total price, they are subcontracted layer by layer, and the customers' home improvement projects are completed by stragglers on the road. The quality of the final project can be imagined.
5. Fake design, drawings are repeatedly sold to some decoration companies, and the well-known designers who ask customers to choose them are often just nominal designers. Those who actually make design plans for customers are usually people who have been on the job without training and without design qualification certificates. They have no understanding of the defects in the building structure and blindly copy the illustrations in the computer library to design indiscriminately. The plans are not standardized and incomplete. Danger may occur on the circuit and may even become impossible to repair later. Excellent classic design drawings are also sold to customers many times after the decoration company has modified some elements. In decoration projects, construction is often unable to continue due to a serious disconnect between the design and the actual conditions during construction. In the end, the entire project has to be redone, causing great losses to the customer. Most practitioners in the decoration industry adopt a vicious profiteering model to survive and develop. Although it is imposed on customers, customers have to accept it, otherwise they can only choose the extremely risky guerrilla or self-installation. These two options, They are both extremely helpless choices and carry high quality risks. Too many aspects of the decoration process involve professional knowledge. Without the support of professionals, the consequences can be imagined. If you place your hopes on the project supervisor, there is no guarantee that there will be a transaction between the construction team and the supervisor, or the supervisor may be an employee of the decoration company.
I hope that by disclosing these industry insiders through this post, it will be of some help to everyone's smart consumption of decoration.
Some time ago, the "News Thirty Minutes" column of a channel of CCTV reported that Master Wu, who was retired at home, used the Internet service bidding method to renovate his home.
I learned from the report that Master Wu learned to surf the Internet when he had nothing to do after he retired, browsing the news and watching Peking Opera videos every day. His family's house needed to be renovated. Based on the news he saw, Mr. Wu used this service to bid for a decoration company for his home. Moreover, this service bidding provided him with convenient conditions and solved more of his daily service needs. This form of bidding helps people solve their problems, makes old men feel the beauty of life, provides convenient services for their lives, and saves money and worry. He said: "He also keeps up with the development of society and cannot fall behind. Not only young people know this, but even "I" know how to "recruit"."
At first glance, it sounds like using service bidding to solve daily problems Service demand is a new thing. It is a brand-new service model. If it becomes popular, it may subvert our previous consumption concepts. Moreover, it seems from this report that the penetration rate of Internet use is getting higher and higher. Even the elderly who have retired at home can keep up with the pace of the times and use the Internet to provide convenience for their lives.
After watching "News Thirty Minutes", I searched for "service bidding" through a search engine and landed on a website called "Zhaozhaokan". At first I thought it was just a simple business website, but after browsing, I was surprised that the website has a wide range of services, and the projects that can be "tendered" are all-encompassing, ranging from water and flowers delivery to wedding decoration, whether it is a gathering of friends, Or group buying discounts, from daily services to corporate purchases. A series of steps that can be easily completed, simple and safe, how tempting. Dear friends, come and "recruit" too!
Such a new model of service website brings us not only convenience, but also a new model of future online consumption. Whether you are a consumer or a merchant, you can use Zhaozhaokan, a service platform to complete your transactions through bidding. Isn’t this the trend of online consumption in the future?
Buying and decorating a new house, no matter who falls on it, is a happy chore. Therefore, decorating a new house has become the topic that everyone is most concerned about nowadays. However, many people only realize after renovating their homes that they not only spent a lot of money in vain, but also the renovation work has not been completed. I am an interior decoration designer, and I have seen too many hardships and joys in decoration. Here I will talk about some of the shady secrets of the decoration industry that you must know.