Speaking of decoration, many people are big. The reason is very simple, there are too many tricks in the decoration, which makes people hard to prevent. Tricky one: the hidden mystery of quotation The first problem encountered by decoration owners is often that they can't understand the quotation. According to insiders, it is not easy for ordinary owners to understand the decoration quotation, because the seemingly clear quotation hides a lot of professional knowledge, and informal decoration companies may make a fuss about it and set a trap for the owners. Reduce the price of single products. Owners usually consult friends who have been renovated in advance, or go to the market to find out the price of a certain material, but the information they get is often one-sided. For example, the owner knows the current unit price of floor tiles, but he doesn't necessarily know the labor cost of floor installation and tiling, so he lowered the price of floor tiles, but suffered a loss in labor costs. Therefore, when the owner looks at the decoration quotation, he should not only look at the individual price of a certain project, but also look at the expenses of labor, loss and other aspects as well as the expenses of other projects. "Omit" some hard decoration main materials deliberately omitted some main materials in the decoration quotation. The owner was attracted by this quotation with reasonable overall price and signed the contract gladly, but in the following renovation process, the owner will continue to add money for these malicious "forgetfulness" of the decoration company. To resolve this risk, the owner must ask the decoration company to write all the main materials clearly in the renovation contract or the agreement, and indicate whether the buyer is the decoration company or the owner himself. Fuzzy quality, grade and specification are the usual tricks of nonstandard decoration companies. Although it is stated that some materials are needed and the quantity of materials is indicated, it is not stated what quality, brand and specification materials are selected. The owner shall require each item in the quotation to explain the elements of the materials in as much detail as possible. Pay attention to check whether the relevant materials are purchased according to the specified requirements when decorating. Stealing the unit of measurement is the most ugly thing for ordinary owners, because owners rarely pay attention to the unit on the quotation, and not knowing different units means that the quotation figures vary greatly. For example, customize a shoe cabinet, and the quotation says "main material: 8mm glass shelf+1cm tempered glass+mirror+accessories, unit: item, quantity: 1". In fact, the size of the shoe cabinet is not explained, leaving an opportunity to exploit loopholes. The owner should require to calculate the actual area, such as wardrobe, shoe cabinet, etc., and take "items" as the unit as little as possible to avoid errors in the decoration process. The construction technology is vague. It is a common problem for most car owners to look at pictures without reading text descriptions. They always think that a digital error will cause losses, but the text description can't be tampered with. That was not the case. Whether it is wall coating construction, ground construction and sewer construction, they all have their own construction technology requirements. If one process is missing in the middle, it may bring you a lot of trouble in your later life. Most of the problems such as paint peeling on the wall and water seepage in the bathroom are caused by poor decoration construction technology. Therefore, it is best for owners to know more about decoration, try to understand the construction technology standards of various projects about interior decoration, and go to the decoration site regularly to understand the technology, which has a certain preventive effect. Expert's suggestion: the quotation should be a relatively complete decoration quotation, including the decoration budget annex (legally binding), the budget agreement (indicating the materials purchased by the owner and the decoration company, as well as the model, grade, brand and unit price of the materials), the customer's main material list (the owner's main material list) and the decoration quotation sheet (in addition to the quotation of all materials, there are detailed construction standards). Owners who don't have time and professional common sense should never just focus on the price, because the result of your bargaining is only a small advantage, not to mention the comparability of the final total price obtained by different companies using different materials and using different calculation methods is not high. You can use the following "three readings" to prevent the quotation from being tricky. Look at the design, because this is the general plan of the renovated house. You can not look at the quotation first, let the decoration company mark all the required materials in the quotation according to the design drawings, and specify the materials you purchased in detail in the contract, and then make up your mind not to make any design changes, so that your decoration cost will be very close to your quotation cost in the end. Second, look at the main materials, because the cost of main materials accounts for the bulk of your decoration expenses. You know in advance the specifications, prices, styles and brands of the main materials commonly used in the market or those you like. When you look at the details of the quotation, first look at whether there are any problems with the main materials and whether they are clear. Third, look at the construction technology, because it determines the decoration quality and service life of the house. Before decorating, you need to know the general construction technology of interior decoration, and know that the wall paint needs to be brushed several times, and the ground treatment is divided into several processes.

Beware of five traps in decoration

Design trap

The so-called "design trap" is that the designers of decoration companies deliberately let consumers spend more money, and sometimes even spend money indiscriminately.

For example, some designers deliberately increase decoration projects in the design, increase cabinets where they are not needed, and suspend ceilings where they are not needed. In this way, the decoration quotation will be much higher, and the designer's commission will also rise.

In addition, some decoration companies or designers have agreements with some building materials suppliers: as long as the designers use their materials in the design, the building materials suppliers will eventually refund the money to the decoration companies or designers. Therefore, designers deliberately use these materials with kickbacks when designing. Even if there are other decorative materials with cheaper price and better decorative effect, designers will not adopt them in the design. For example, for a decoration design, the designer should use expensive imported stone, but in fact, the domestic stone with the same color is only one-third of the imported goods. But designers have repeatedly stressed that only imported stone can "achieve the effect". As a result, consumers spent nearly a thousand dollars more on this item alone.