Two-room apartment renovation on Voskresenska
Two-room apartment on Voskresenska
A two-room apartment on Voskresenska Street in Kyiv: a full renovation cycle from shell condition to a fully furnished interior, March to October 2018. The work included electrical wiring with an assembled panel featuring circuit breakers and voltage relays, plumbing, framed ceilings insulated with mineral wool, plastering and skim-coating, porcelain stoneware tiling, painting and laminate flooring. Standout details include a TV niche finished in concrete-effect decorative plaster, track lighting and a fitted kitchen with built-in appliances.
Turnkey apartment renovation in Kyiv- Start
- March 2018
- Completed
- October 2018
- Photo record
- 7 months
- Stages
- 6
- Photos
- 58
Client
- Project address
- ••••••••• St, ••
- Type
- Apartment
- Rooms
- 8
- Duration
- 7 months
- Stages
- 6
- Photo report
- 58
- Documents
- 3
The client's name, photo and exact address are withheld. In their own account they see all of it.
Responsible for the project
Viacheslav MelnykFounder of Archideal · general contractorRuns the project himself: signs off stages, signs the certificates, answers the phone.
+380 67 679 59 79- Stages
- 6
- Photos
- 58
- Approvals
- 16
- Documents
- 3
Stage schedule
6 stages · 58 photos
March 2018 — October 2018
The bars are built from the dates the photographs were taken, not drawn by hand — which is why stages overlap. On a real site something is always being finished while the next trade has already started.
Estimate
In a working account this shows amounts per stage, payments made and the balance. In the demo they are hidden.
| Stage | Status | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Utilities and services | Completed | 9 ******₴ |
| First fix | Completed | 4 ******₴ |
| Plastering | Completed | 3 ******₴ |
| Finishing | Completed | 6 ******₴ |
| Furniture and fittings | Completed | 9 ******₴ |
| Completed | Completed | 3 ******₴ |
| Total | 7 *******₴ |
The amounts are hidden because this is someone else's project. You will see your own in your estimate, not on a website.
Approvals
Every decision that affects the money or the look is logged as its own item. Until the client marks it approved, work on that item does not start.
15 approved · 1 returned
| Item | Approved by | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plaster typePlastering | Designer | April 8, 2018 | Approved |
| Partition build-upFirst fix | Engineer | April 9, 2018 | Approved |
| Floor and ceiling levelsFirst fix | Engineer | April 9, 2018 | Approved |
| Water and drainage pointsUtilities and services | Client | April 12, 2018 | Approved |
| Heating layoutUtilities and services | Designer | April 14, 2018 | Approved |
| Electrical layout and outletsUtilities and services | Client | April 18, 2018 | Approved |
| Reveals and external cornersPlastering | Client | April 19, 2018 | Approved |
| Doors and hardwareFinishing | Client | May 16, 2018 | Returned for revision |
| Tile layoutFinishing | Engineer | May 18, 2018 | Approved |
| Floor finishFinishing | Client | May 19, 2018 | Approved |
| Wall colourFinishing | Engineer | May 21, 2018 | Approved |
| Doors and hardwareFinishing · after revision | Client | May 22, 2018 | Approved |
| Kitchen drawingsFurniture and fittings | Client | October 17, 2018 | Approved |
| Sanitaryware modelsFurniture and fittings | Engineer | October 17, 2018 | Approved |
| Light fittingsFurniture and fittings | Designer | October 17, 2018 | Approved |
| Handover checklistCompleted | Designer | October 17, 2018 | Approved |
The approvals shown here are an example of how the mechanism works: the photographs do not record what was actually signed off on this project. Your account will carry your own history.
On site
- Site managerdaily supervision and photo reports
- Project managerestimate, schedule, contact with the client
- Engineerdrawings and details
Rooms
How many frames each part of the project accounts for.
- living room14
- room11
- bathroom9
- kitchen5
- bedroom2
- living-bedroom1
- corridor1
- hallway1
Site log
Every day the site was photographed. The dates are real — read from the files, not typed in.
13 days photographed
Furniture and fittingsOctober 17, 20184 photos
Kitchen with graphite fronts, built-in appliances and a glass splashback · Finished living room with a grey TV panel and laminate flooring
Utilities and servicesMay 26, 20186 photos
Assembled consumer unit with breakers, RCDs and voltage relays · Suspended ceiling system with electrical lines installed
First fixMay 23, 20186 photos
Living room with skim-coated walls, a window and a rough screed · Rectangular wall niche with cable tails brought out
Utilities and servicesMay 17, 20183 photos
Room with a window and wiring run around the perimeter · Living room with a skim-coated ceiling, radiator and lighting outlets
Utilities and servicesMay 16, 20182 photos
Bathroom with tile setting-out marks and the concealed cistern frame fitted · Bathroom with mosaic tiling on the floor and walls
PlasteringMay 10, 20181 photo
Hallway with plastered walls and plasterboard structures
First fixMay 9, 20182 photos
Built-in kitchen cupboard during assembly · Niche in the bathroom wall housing a junction box
Utilities and servicesMay 8, 20184 photos
Cables run within the metal ceiling frame · The living room during wiring and wall levelling
Utilities and servicesApril 28, 20185 photos
Plasterboard ceiling with the electrical work completed · Ceiling frame with mineral wool laid between the profiles
Utilities and servicesApril 24, 20189 photos
Water supply pipework laid out in the bathroom · Plasterboard sheets going up on the living room walls
Utilities and servicesApril 20, 20181 photo
Ceiling with wiring and service runs in place
Utilities and servicesApril 17, 20181 photo
A new partition, plastered walls and cabling run across the concrete ceiling
Utilities and servicesMarch 20, 20185 photos
The space with utilities roughed in, seen from the doorway · Plastered walls and a bare concrete ceiling awaiting the next stage
Documents
The contract, the estimate and the certificates live in the account, not in somebody's messenger. This project's archive holds 3 scanned documents — the documents themselves are closed in the demo.
- Contract and annexesHidden
- EstimateHidden
- Certificates of completionHidden
- Material specificationsHidden
- As-built documentationHidden
Work in progress
Each stage is dates and frames from the site. These were shot for the job, not for a website, which is why some of them look exactly like a building site looks.
Utilities and services
March 2018 — May 201822 photosWork completed
The space with utilities roughed in, seen from the doorway
room · March 20, 2018
A new partition, plastered walls and cabling run across the concrete ceiling
living room · April 17, 2018
Ceiling with wiring and service runs in place
room · April 20, 2018
Water supply pipework laid out in the bathroom
bathroom · April 24, 2018
Plasterboard sheets going up on the living room walls
room · April 24, 2018
Wiring and cable trunking run along the ceiling
April 24, 2018
Suspended ceiling profiles, wall chases and cable runs
April 24, 2018
Electrical wiring distributed across the room's ceiling
room · April 24, 2018
Plasterboard structures and services being installed in the kitchen
kitchen · April 24, 2018
Ceiling with wiring and a completed plasterboard structure
room · April 24, 2018
Bathroom with water supply pipes recessed into the wall
bathroom · April 24, 2018
Wall frame with wiring pulled through inside
room · April 24, 2018
Plasterboard ceiling with the electrical work completed
room · April 28, 2018
Cables run within the metal ceiling frame
May 8, 2018
The living room during wiring and wall levelling
living room · May 8, 2018
Bathroom with tile setting-out marks and the concealed cistern frame fitted
bathroom · May 16, 2018
Room with a window and wiring run around the perimeter
May 17, 2018
Assembled consumer unit with breakers, RCDs and voltage relays
May 26, 2018
Suspended ceiling system with electrical lines installed
room · May 26, 2018
Wall-mounted water heater with flexible connections, valves and a socket
bathroom
Cables being run across the living room ceiling
room
Plasterboard framing with back boxes and cable in flexible conduit
First fix
March 2018 — May 20189 photosWork completed
Plastered walls and a bare concrete ceiling awaiting the next stage
room · March 20, 2018
Room with a window after strip-out and substrate preparation
March 20, 2018
Ceiling frame with mineral wool laid between the profiles
April 28, 2018
Ceiling frame with plasterboard and an insulation layer
April 28, 2018
Ceiling profiles with cable tails for downlights
April 28, 2018
Direct hangers and cabling in the ceiling frame, plastered walls alongside
April 28, 2018
Built-in kitchen cupboard during assembly
kitchen · May 9, 2018
Living room with skim-coated walls, a window and a rough screed
living room · May 23, 2018
Kitchen windowsill and window unit, front view
kitchen
Plastering
March 2018 — May 20189 photosWork completed
Room with plastered walls, ceiling and windows
living-bedroom · March 20, 2018
Doorway with a plastered reveal and setting-out marks
March 20, 2018
Room walls prepared for plastering
room · May 8, 2018
Bedroom with plastered walls, a skim-coated ceiling and a window
bedroom · May 8, 2018
Niche in the bathroom wall housing a junction box
bathroom · May 9, 2018
Hallway with plastered walls and plasterboard structures
corridor · May 10, 2018
Living room with a skim-coated ceiling, radiator and lighting outlets
living room · May 17, 2018
Plastered TV enclosure with a niche and lower shelf
living room · May 17, 2018
Rectangular wall niche with cable tails brought out
living room · May 23, 2018
Finishing
May 201812 photosWork completed
Bathroom with mosaic tiling on the floor and walls
bathroom · May 16, 2018
Concrete-effect porcelain stoneware on the wall and floor, with a niche alongside
bathroom · May 23, 2018
Feature wall in wallpaper, painted surfaces and a radiator
living room · May 23, 2018
Painted corner with a galvanised ventilation duct outlet
May 23, 2018
Junction between the botanical-print wallpaper and the painted wall
May 23, 2018
Partition in dark decorative plaster, laminate flooring and track lighting
living room · May 26, 2018
Bedroom with laminate flooring, a radiator and two track systems
bedroom · May 26, 2018
Entrance hall with dark porcelain stoneware and surface-mounted cylinder lights
hallway · May 26, 2018
Bathroom with a wall-hung toilet, vanity unit and decorative niche
bathroom · May 26, 2018
Wall in wood-effect porcelain stoneware with a pendant light
bathroom
Room with a wooden floor, curtains and a niche in the concrete-look wall
living room
Painted walls, laminate flooring and packaged skirting boards by the wall
living room
Furniture and fittings
October 20181 photoWork completed
Kitchen with graphite fronts, built-in appliances and a glass splashback
kitchen · October 17, 2018
Completed
October 20185 photosCompleted and handed over — Final photographs, after cleaning and handover.
Finished living room with a grey TV panel and laminate flooring
living room · October 17, 2018
Studio living room with kitchen, a stone-effect panel and surface-mounted lights
living room · October 17, 2018
Deep blue feature wall, concealed door and cylinder lights
living room · October 17, 2018
Before-and-after collage: the TV zone framing and the finished slate-effect panel
living room
Before-and-after collage: the bare kitchen and the finished units with appliances
kitchen
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