In the center of Ulan-Ude, roads will gradually be closed for repairs – Russia today 4 minutes ago 4 minutes ago Posting in CHAT: Russia The dismantling of the road surface on Pobeda Avenue and the replacement of pipes will begin on May 15. Source link Source link
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Diary of a returning resident of Mariupol. How difficult is it to make repairs here? Posting in CHAT: Russia This will be a long story about renovating my burnt down apartment. I've been getting messages from friends asking where I went, so I decided to write. I practically live at a construction site. As of today, the rough screed is ready on the site, the walls are plastered, the ceilings are plastered, electrics are installed, plumbing and sewerage are installed, the ceilings are plastered, and here I am. working on the walls. This is in brief, but if I tell you in detail, then I don’t have a day without stories, because renovation is a nervous process and full of surprises. Besides, as long as I do everything myself, everything goes according to plan, everything works, everything suits me. As soon as I invite in-house specialists, surprises await me. I don’t remember what I showed you and what I didn’t do. So I’ll start from the beginning. So, the first thing I did was hire Uzbek builders for the rough screed. I chose them because the others did not pass the “casting”. The decisive criterion for choosing builders was the cost of services. When they charged me an exorbitant price for a screed without even visiting the website, I immediately started looking for the next specialist. The Uzbeks coped with this task. However, for reasons of economy, I asked not to make the entire floor in the apartment, but only the rooms. I made the keys myself in the kitchen, hallway and bathroom, because the areas there are small. I studied the technology through master classes on YouTube, watched how the Uzbeks worked, and did it. The only thing I asked Jafar and his team to do was remove the tiles and old key in the kitchen, hallway and bathroom and take out the trash. Maybe . Made my job easier. I give the Uzbeks five stars for their work, and the same for myself. Then I invited an electrician to extend the wires, run them into the panel and make me several temporary sockets. This is where the jokes began, he came, and I started telling him where I needed what sockets and lamps. ready I took the paper with the intention of drawing a plan of each room. But electrician Nikolai has a different style of work. He doesn't draw or write anything on paper. It’s like this: we go into a room, I say where I need sockets, where are the switches and lamps, and Nikolay puts crosses on the walls with a pencil, without measuring the distance from the floor or the distance with a tape measure. from the edge of the walls. "OK. He’ll probably mark everything with a tape measure and a level when he starts paving the walls,” I thought and calmed down. Imagine my surprise when I started plastering and noticed that Nikolai had cut out the socket boxes where he had placed the crosses! They were at different distances from the floor, from the edges of the walls and from the doors, but Nikolai knew nothing about symmetry and level. And this It was before the New Year holidays, and Nikolai went home for the holidays. He only managed to scatter the wires in three rooms, and even then not completely, made me lighting and temporary sockets in them and left. He left his tools with me, took a spare key to the apartment from me, vowing to return and finish everything. At the same time, he was not ashamed to ask for an advance payment. I paid. It’s the holidays! The man is visiting his family. Well, he didn’t have time... it happens! We saw on February 10. Nikolai came at my request and again promised to finish the cable. By that time I had already laid the wires in the kitchen and bathroom myself, bought myself a hammer drill and re-drilled most of the outlet boxes, labeled all the wires, put them in distribution boxes, although not connected. them for now (I don’t understand much about this). So how is it? I need a cast, I can't wait forever for Nicholas. The work is worth it... Well, for example, the wall in the bedroom in the photo below. © gloxy.livejournal.com On the left, everything is done more or less normally, but on the right, the wire to the lamp is laid crookedly, and the socket boxes are drilled asymmetrically. Both in relation to the left side and in relation to the lantern. They are also five centimeters lower than the sockets on the left. I hastened to plaster this wall. © gloxy.livejournal.com Yes, I was in a hurry, and then I couldn’t sleep peacefully. I came, looked, and measured it several times with a tape measure. As a result, I bought a hammer drill, a concrete drill, carefully selected the plaster and did everything as expected. Totally scared. And so I re-drilled the walls three times in different rooms. When I told Nikolai about this, he was not at all embarrassed, and not a single muscle on his face flinched. Not only that, he also complained to me that he had ruined the hammer drill on my walls and demolished the cornice. I wonder what reaction you expected from me? I probably should have apologized for the strong walls and cried about his hammer drill. This is how visiting specialists do their job, and their services are not cheap. The epic with Nikolai is not over yet, but I am postponing our next meeting for now. Come. What do we have for plastering? For the whole apartment I needed 55 thirty-kilogram bags of plaster mixture and five bags of cement plaster for the bathroom. I did the plaster myself. This was the first time I've done this with headlights. True, not all walls are beacons, but only the most problematic ones. At first it was difficult, but I quickly got the hang of it. I think I can safely get a specialist certificate. I was in one apartment where the owners hired plasterers, so I can tell you that my work turned out more beautiful and much neater. I plastered each wall in two stages: first I leveled the surface along the headlights, and then. The next day I applied another layer with a spatula and smoothed it over. The result is a flat surface that only needs to be puttied “until scratches”, minimally sanded and ready for painting. I’m preparing the walls for painting, so I’ll have to tinker with them a lot, and if I go; to hang wallpaper, then plaster would be enough, because I sanded it down to a very high-quality surface. Those who saw the result thought that the walls had already been peeled off. M - craftsmanship! In my bathroom, two walls are covered with plasterboard and two are plastered. At first it was like in the photo below, © gloxy.livejournal.com There is still soot everywhere, but I already made a rough key. Then it became like this. © gloxy.livejournal.com Here I have already filled it with mud, leveled the geometry of the room, extended the wires. Now the picture has changed a little. On February 28, a plumber soldered the water supply and assembled the sewer. He, too, was not without nerves and worries. © gloxy.livejournal.com I’ll start from afar. Last spring I happened to meet a plumber in a hardware store with whom I had contacted several times in peacetime. Very smart guy, golden hands. I was happy for him like no one else. Of course, I took his business card so that I could contact him if necessary. It happened that this guy remade the work several times after other future specialists. And then an opportunity arose. They called, came, discussed all the nuances, the next day I was waiting for him at the site. I waited eight hours, managed to occupy half the room, but he never showed up or answered his calls. In the evening he called and said that in the morning he was on his way to see me in Mariupol from the suburbs, but at the checkpoint it turned out that he had forgotten his documents at home. I had to leave the car at the checkpoint and walk home to get my documents. While I was walking back and forth, time passed and I went home. Okay, we agreed on the next day, I arrived, but there was no plumber. It turned out that he was sick... Three days later he recovered, came to me, brought all the necessary materials and even began to tinker with the walls, when suddenly the electricity in the neighborhood was turned off. Bummer again! what to do I went to another site, promising to return the next day if we were given electricity. They gave us a light, but the plumber could not come because he was finishing work at another address. I, of course, wasted no time, slowly getting dressed in the rooms, but I was very nervous. I kept asking myself the question: “Why is this happening? What kind of injustice is this? The next morning we agreed to meet at 8:00. And to be there at eight, I need to get on the minibus at six. I don’t have time,…
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Nikolaev authorities have stopped road repairs, all the money will go to the Armed Forces of Ukraine – Russia today Posting in CHAT: Russia The budget of the Ukrainian city of Nikolaev no longer has funds for road repairs and arrangement of playgrounds, since all the money is directed to the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said mayor Alexander Senkevich. At a meeting of the City Council session, he noticed that he was receiving dozens of requests from deputies, which received complaints from ordinary citizens. “We know about this, moreover, we carried out projects, design estimates, tenders were even announced, but now the funds are not going to this. “Everything is in the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the Ukrainian publication Strana.ua quotes Senkevich. The mayor recalled that this year the costs of repairing roads and installing playgrounds are considered inappropriate. Source link Source link