How to create an apartment renovation company from scratch and promote it. We work for ourselves: apartment renovation business

Although the essence of the work does not change: the organization of finishing work, the calculation and purchase of materials, the search for workers, maneuvering between the desires of the customer and their capabilities. The main difference between repair and construction is work for yourself, at your own peril and risk under a contract. You must have your own sole proprietorship, LLC, or at least have sources of orders and a certain reputation in order to start working - let it be for starters on parole.

Your own finishing team - where to start building a business

Some new buildings are rented out with finishing, but municipal finishing, as well as landscaping, is done by the same builders on a salary, there is no way to earn a lot there. It is a completely different matter when your team is hired by a private trader with the aim of finishing a newly built empty concrete cube or repairing his apartment.

Where can a finisher get the first order?

No one starts working for themselves right away for two simple reasons:

• you have no experience - you will not be able to do anything efficiently and on time;
• you have no experience - just no one will give you an order for finishing.

Moreover, you can invest in advertising, constantly answer calls and not get customers - after all, they have a choice when they search for advertising. And you can make someone a good apartment once and get a constant stream of people who will contact you and listen to you with an open mouth as a specialist. A person who has a recommendation from acquaintances always receives more trust than a foreman from the outside - pure professionalism may be the same or even lower. After all, the client does not understand the construction specifics, he only focuses on the sources of information available to him.

How to get the first experience?

All practicing foremen have a different answer to this question, but one thing is common - the experience must be practical. Private customers do not believe in education without experience, moreover, many foremen do not have specialized education! Someone got their first experience experimenting with repairs in their own apartment, then helped a neighbor, and then received their first orders through word of mouth, and there are many such superintendents. Someone started at a construction site as a laborer, grew up to a foreman and got tired of plowing for a penny "for an uncle." Someone received a specialized education and worked as a foreman in construction, studied at the municipal finish.

To take on your first independent object, you, as a foreman-finisher, should have experience “from and to” on all fronts, both rough and fine finishes.

If you think that you can simply hire skilled workers, advertise, make an estimate for the customer, and they themselves will figure out how and what to do - you are deeply mistaken. A worker who knows what to do in a turnkey apartment from and to, is a master who will assemble his team and will not work for you, it is not profitable for him.

The workers know their front of work: one - painting, plastering, primer, the other - the electrician, the third - plumbing and so on.

Your task is to check the quality of their work, and for this you need to know the right technology, and what should ideally be the “output”. Not a worker should teach you how to put beacons, but you should “poke your nose” into the curvature that the level shows. A non-worker should answer the client's question, which wall paint is better to buy - you should know everything about the properties of the paint and give professional advice, which is better and cheaper.

You should be able to draw up an estimate on your own, give an immediate estimate of the cost, based on the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe apartment and the wishes of the client, clearly explain what your duties include for this price, so that later there will be no complaints: “ And why didn’t you assemble the kitchen, and what, do I have to pay extra for installing the door?" and so on. It is better to specify all the points in detail in the contract in order to avoid disputes at the stage of accepting the work.

Foreman girl

The more understandable information you give to the client, the more options with their pluses and minuses you “chew”, the less you pull him - the more he trusts you, the fewer complaints and more positive recommendations to friends and acquaintances. And, of course, you need to do it well - after all, the apartment presents itself when a person invites friends for a housewarming party. If you do really well, your contacts will be taken even without the owner's initiative.

Business management and team management

Usually there are 3-5 people in a team. If we are talking about a variant of a super-economical repair, then it can be one jack of all trades out of boredom, usually a guest from Central Asia. At the same time, the quality can be either a blunder or a good one - it depends on his personal qualifications. As a rule, large teams are assembled when there are a lot of orders, and they start with small ones on the recommendation, often a good craftsman starts by doing all the fine and rough finishing himself.

Here it is important to capture the economic component and correctly balance

If you don't hire enough staff, you'll miss deadlines or do poorly.
If you hire a lot of people, but you can't provide them with work, they will scatter or you will go broke paying for downtime.

In a real full-fledged finishing team, where there is an electrician, plumber, plasterer and an auxiliary worker, the foreman does not do any physical work at all - he only looks for clients, purchases materials, draws up and reports on estimates and checks the quality of work. In general, the foreman here acts as project manager and not as a builder. If you are not a businessman by nature, you will not succeed in this field.

A great help will be your working car - station wagon, "heel" or Gazelle - "workhorse", you will have to carry people, goods from object to object.

On practice the young entrepreneur, to survive in the repair business, will have to charge lower prices than competitors and do everything at a lower cost. This means that the brigade will have 1-2 guests from Central Asia, whom the brigadier will force to work seven days a week in extremely harsh conditions.

What you need to start

And you will need:

• buy a complete set of tools;
• make registration and a patent for the work of their guest workers;
• pay for their arrival and arrange a meeting;
• organize food, life, treatment and hygiene of workers;
• to make and place advertisements, to be constantly in search of customers;
• know all the prices of building materials in order to buy cheaper.

Orders are easy to find directly in the new building, when you have already taken one object and just chat with a bunch of owners who have just received the keys. Let's not talk about word of mouth and recommendations, let's consider a professional approach to advertising in the field of repair and decoration.

Business plan sketch - revenue, expenses, profit

In a single article, we cannot cover all aspects of the business. The foreman as a manager and a businessman can choose different niches - economic repair, middle segment or turnkey work.

In 2015, in Moscow, finishing prices are as follows:

economy class finishing: from 4000 to 6000 rubles per square meter;

middle segment: 7000 - 15000 rubles per 1 m 2 ;

expensive turnkey renovation: from 15 thousand rubles and above.

Thus, the revenue from finishing a one-room apartment will be 120-270 thousand rubles in the economy segment. Two-room - 180-420 thousand. Treshki go from 250 thousand to a million rubles.

In terms of time, work in one apartment will take 1-4 months, depending on the professionalism of the team and the number of craftsmen.

Workers from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Belarus ask differently. In Moscow, you can focus on 25-40 thousand rubles a month.

2 workers is a minimum of 50 thousand per month just for wages. We are not talking about any taxes, to be honest, how this is done in practice. At first, the main thing is not to “burn out”. Often it is the foreman who pays for flights (and tickets to Uzbekistan are not cheap), treatment of workers, meals for the brigade, etc.

Taking one apartment, you can not only not earn money, not “recapture” the cost of tools, but also “burn out” - as in any business. This is the hallmark of working for yourself.

If you undertook to work for the minimum price, pay the workers monthly, then your task is to take as many objects to work as possible. 2 workers will make one apartment for at least 2 months, you will give them 100 thousand rubles, it remains only for current expenses (transport, tool depreciation, food, etc.) at best. Most likely, you will go into the red, so no one works below 4,000 rubles per square meter, even with well-established business processes, it is very difficult to make a profit at such a price.

The more rooms in the apartment, the more profitable it is for the foreman of the finishers. After all, payment is per square meter, and the work is of the same type and is done faster than many small different works in a small studio apartment, for example. You need to try to take several objects in one entrance, this also saves a lot of time.

How much can you earn on the decoration of apartments?

As in any business, you can earn nothing but debts and a headache, but if it comes down to it, you got recommendations and broke into the expensive segments of the apartment renovation market, you can earn from one hundred thousand to a million rubles a month, everything is individual here.

If we take a “jack of all trades” finisher who works alone and takes on everything, then to calculate his income, it is enough to divide the cost of the object by the period of work in months. Roughly speaking, this is 200-400 thousand and three or four months, that is, your salary will be 50-100 thousand per month when working in difficult conditions without days off and a sufficient number of clients.

So it is beneficial to delegate work, if there were objects. For example, a team takes 3 large apartments and rents them out in 3 months, which is a million rubles or more in the pocket of the team leader, 300 thousand a month.

Personal experience

An IQ Review correspondent recently completed repairs in his apartment in a new building and watched the work of the foreman from the side. There are a lot of conflicts due to misunderstandings on any basis. Mutual claims often flare up because of the quality of work, prices, necessary or unnecessary in different cases, the initiative of the parties. For example, you buy a bath while there are discounts, but there is nowhere to put it, it interferes with the work of the team. They promise to do it in two months, three months pass, you see that hardly half is done, and everyone feeds you with “breakfasts” while you pay for rented housing.

Not every team can quickly respond to emergency situations. The worker fell ill or quit, the work stops, the customer suffers, the foreman listens to all claims.

Defects in quality can be expensive - a wire forgotten under the floor or a curved wall threatens to be reworked at the expense of the foreman, which can cost more than the potential profit, because the materials are not cheap.

In general, the work is very dynamic and nervous, the results are unstable. To make money in this business, you need a well-established mechanism - a stable team, a stable influx of customers, good quality, a streamlined work process. All this comes with experience. And experience is gained by months and years of hard thankless work. Work as a foreman on the finish will work for those who really dream about it. If you dream of easy money - they are not here, despite the high price tags.

The business idea for finishing and repairing apartments is a business that has good development prospects and is suitable for people with good organizational skills.

Where to begin?

To start such a business, you need to have basic knowledge in the field of interior decoration of apartments.

According to statistics, in our country, citizens make repairs with their own hands only in 7% of cases. Otherwise, each person is trying to find an already proven repairman through his friends. That is, in the repair and decoration business, word of mouth works like nowhere else, so watch your reputation.

The main types of repair and decoration:
1) Electrical wiring work
2) Replacement of pipes installation of meters
3) Warming and repair of balconies,
4) Wallpapering
5) Laying tiles
6) Laying floors, laminate, parquet, linoleum
7) Replacement of entrance and interior doors
8) Installation of ventilation, exhaust
9) Installation of ceilings, including stretch ceilings.

The most profitable can be called work on the redevelopment of apartments.

The story of one man.

One of my acquaintances has been engaged in the repair and decoration of apartments for quite a long time. Once he bought an apartment for himself, in which it was necessary to carry out almost a major overhaul, but it was not difficult for him. He purchases materials at great discounts. Or directly through storekeepers at construction warehouses, there is a 50% discount, you need to be able to negotiate. In general, about 120 thousand rubles were spent on materials. Two and a half weeks of work, the apartment turned into decent housing and was sold with a net profit of 200 thousand rubles. This is the average annual salary in our country. In such a business, the main thing is not to stay on the money for a long time and immediately after the sale of one apartment to acquire another, you should have an option in advance. You can also add that it is constantly required to monitor the situation in the housing market and clearly understand what it costs. My friend's wife works as a realtor, so it is not difficult for him to find suitable options. It is best to buy apartments for renovation in one-room apartments, they are the most popular. But such an approach for the business of finishing and repairing apartments is suitable for people who already have experience in repair work and capital to purchase an apartment.

The average price of work on the repair and decoration of apartments is 5000 rubles. per m2, but your profit is not limited to this. As a rule, the customer pays money and no longer wants to think about anything other than the final result, so the purchase and delivery of the material falls on your shoulders, you only need to report on the funds spent.

To make a profit, you must have acquaintances in the warehouses of building materials, and you will find a check where to make it.
But do not forget, it is very important to do all the work responsibly and with the highest quality, so that you are recommended to your friends.

You can start your repair and decoration business without registering as an entrepreneur, but keep in mind that as soon as your interests intersect with competitors, they will be handed over right there. Therefore, you will feel that the business has gone then and register, as an individual entrepreneur or LLC.

Repair tool.

From the tool you need a basic universal kit, such as punchers, grinders, drills, jigsaws, screwdrivers, hammers, wrenches, screwdrivers, etc.
Do you need a car for this business? It all depends on the amount of work. There are people like "husband for an hour" they do without their car, perform minor repairs and earn an average salary by working for themselves. If you approach the issue more seriously, take large amounts of work, including the purchase of material, then it is better to have a car like a Gazelle.

Business development.

It is possible and better to get used to the business of repairing and decorating apartments without haste, but how?
1) Stock up on the necessary hand tools, as well as tools for performing specific work: laying tiles - tile cutter, etc.
2) Make repairs in your apartment - gain experience.
3) Help your friend - find out the best places to purchase building materials.
4) Make budget repairs to picky people, for a small fee.
5) Start looking for small orders through acquaintances. They quickly and inexpensively changed the mixer (self-advertising) next time they will definitely call and recommend to friends.

In a year, you will get used to it and you will feel at ease, and most importantly, work not for the director (owner) but for yourself, and plus more development prospects.
Your business for finishing and repairing apartments can bring up to 100 thousand rubles. per month, or even more, everything will depend on your efforts at work and the ability to please people. Good luck!

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In Russia, the business of repairing and decorating apartments has always existed. Even at a time when the phrase "black entrepreneur" was terrifying to many, there was plenty of work in this area. At the moment, the number of companies that are engaged in the repair of premises, just rolls over. But there is still enough work for everyone. Therefore, many people think about the question of how to open an apartment renovation company. Let's consider it in more detail.

Why are such projects attractive?

Well, firstly, an apartment renovation business can be opened with a small amount of money. For example, about 30,000-40,000 rubles may be enough to create a small company.

Secondly, such a business is very profitable in terms of the fact that the payment of taxes here will be in the amount that you want. Why? Yes, simply representatives of the tax service cannot know for sure who earned how much. Of course, if the company pays employees on receipts and takes money from customers, then this will not work. But, as a rule, even those enterprises that work with all permits, most orders are made orally.

Thirdly, sometimes you can independently develop ideas for repairing an apartment. For many, this is a good chance for self-realization.

How to start a home renovation business?

Before starting work, you need to decide on the form of your activity. There are two ways:

• register as a sole trader. This implies a small set of employees (the owner and a couple of other people);
• register the company as a limited liability company. Here you can already cover a wider range of the market, since in this case you will have the opportunity to conclude an agreement not only with individuals, but also with various enterprises and factories. You can pay by cash or by bank transfer.

Before you open an apartment renovation company and after the solution to the previous issue is found, you need to think about obtaining all the necessary permits, including a license to carry out renovation work.

Of course, many firms do without this document, but most customers, especially large ones, prefer to work with those who have this license. So they have at least some guarantee that the performers are set up for serious work, and will not disappear in a week, leaving behind a bunch of imperfections.

A full license is issued for up to 5 years. Its cost may vary. For example, you need to pay about 1,500 rubles for a plastering license. The same amount will be spent on paying for the work of a specialist who will help deal with all the issues that arise.

To obtain a permit, you need to collect all the necessary documents and apply to the relevant authorities. By the way, it is important to remember that different types of services are licensed separately. According to the law, finishing works are divided into several types:

• glass;
• decorative;
• stucco and plaster;
• facing;
• installation of slabs, panels and suspended ceilings, including front finishing.

The more services will be licensed, the higher the cost of the document will be.

How much money is needed to start a business?

As mentioned above, for many this business is very attractive because it does not require large expenses to promote it.

Calculate yourself:

• About 10,000-15,000 rubles are needed to register business activities and obtain a license.
• For the purchase of a tool for work - from 100,000 to 150,000 rubles.
• For the purchase of an average-priced car - from 150,000 to 200,000 rubles.

By the way, many will now think: “But what about the office? After all, without him today, nowhere.” And they will be wrong - you can think about acquiring a room when you already have regular customers and a stable income.

Finding Clients

The best way to find someone who needs services such as decorating and renovating apartments is to put up ads. They need to describe all the services (for example, repair ideas) provided by your company, indicate the level of qualification of the team, contact address and telephone number.

One of the most attractive places where potential customers will see your ad is the doors of high-rise buildings. As a rule, each entrance has special bulletin boards on which housing and communal companies post warnings and appeals to residents. In order to avoid problems with this organization, you will have to conclude an agreement with them that will allow you to post your ads on their boards.

You can also find customers by putting up posters on public transport. With this action, you kill two birds with one stone: you advertise your company and attract customers.

How much can you earn on the renovation of apartments?

It is very difficult to calculate even the approximate profit of this business, since each region of the country has its own prices. Therefore, for example, let's take a company in Moscow, the cost of which is about 3,000 rubles per square meter. m. At the same time, she repairs four apartments per month with an average area of ​​​​each 60 sq.m.

Recruitment

Before you open an apartment renovation company, you need to find yourself good workers. The number of employees for one team must be at least 4 people.

At the same time, in order to obtain a license, half of them must have a higher education, be professionals in their field and have experience in performing construction work.

If you were lucky enough to hire a young specialist, then pay attention to the time he graduated from an educational institution - it should not exceed 5 years. It is also worth considering that such employees will eventually need to improve their skills in a higher educational institution. Payment for these courses is usually made from the wallet of the employer, that is, yours.

Remember that late payment of wages to workers can cause them to leave and the inability to hire new specialists, as rumors about the bad reputation of the company spread very quickly.

Minimum set of equipment

To start the work of your company, you must have at least the basic tools. These include:

• perforator;
• a set of keys and screwdrivers;
• spatula of various sizes;
• screwdriver;
• roller;
• industrial mixer;
• set of brushes;
• several hammers;
• helmets for head protection;
• ladder.

Most materials need to be purchased only after the exact approval of your team for the job. Although, for example, cement and glue can be bought in advance.

Tip: if you are engaged in the purchase of materials, then keep in mind that in no case should you save on them - you risk being left without a regular customer and gaining a bad reputation.

Possible troubles

There are plenty of conflicts in any service industry. It is not always possible to please the customer. For example, apartment renovation ideas are the point on which your opinions may differ.

Although, probably, it is not in vain that they say that the buyer (in our case, the customer) is always right. If the conflict arose because of small flaws, then a self-respecting company will correct everything at its own expense.

If the contractor does not manage to cope with the work on time, which was agreed orally or in writing, the customer has the right to demand the payment of special penalties.

It should be borne in mind that in the case when the amount of these funds was not specified in the contract, claims can be made for any amount within the limits of what is permitted (from 0.5 to 10% of the estimated amount for each overdue day).

What works are valued the most?

We already know a lot about how to open an apartment renovation company, there is very little left. Now let's talk about jobs that pay good money.

One of the most profitable activities can be considered simple scrapping. For example, in one day only two people will be able to "break" 3,000 rubles. Works related to electricity are also considered beneficial.

For example, for a complete wiring of a three-room apartment, the owner will have to pay at least 30,000 rubles. In this type of work, as in the installation of windows and air conditioners, the net profit can reach 50%. Plumbing works are no less monetary.

Outcome

Now you know how to start an apartment renovation business, what initial amount is needed to start it, what problems can be with a customer and how to solve them. Maybe now is the time to start implementing this business plan?

Apartment renovation, decoration, redevelopment always require preliminary cost estimates. The most important thing is to choose the right contractor who would be able to perform all the work in a timely manner.

Judging from an accounting point of view, a business plan is nothing more than a listing of all types of costs with their quantitative and qualitative indicators and characteristics.

What are the necessary conditions and indicators for drawing up a business plan

How to compose it correctly for the repair of the premises? Initially, not only its dimensions are evaluated, but also its functionality.
That is, for what purposes this room is used, since the requirements for the interior decoration of the hairdressing salon will be fundamentally different from or other types of catering establishments.
Next, you will need to decide on the type of repair, today all repairs can be:

• capital.
• Finishing.
• With rebuilding and redevelopment.

Note. Accordingly, these types of repair work also have their own divisions, but they are similar.

There is a repair:

• "Standard".
• "Economy".
• "Euro".

By the names, in principle, one could already guess that the most affordable would be "Standard", and the most expensive - "Euro".

Major refurbishment and what's included

Capital repairs can affect not only the entire premises, but also the replacement of communications, if necessary. Of the above types of repair work, this type is distinguished by its duration, labor intensity, and it must be said that the price for it is quite high.
So:

• During the overhaul, all surfaces must be cleaned. Then, according to the measured parameters of the room, a new finish is selected for the surfaces.

Advice. Why is it best to choose a finishing material only after the room is completely cleared of the old finish?
Everything is pretty simple. After the surfaces are left without a protective layer, it is possible to check them for defects.

• All of them will be corrected during the repair work. It can be poor-quality plaster, loose brick, and so on.
• As a rule, such rough work is carried out by special organizations that, before their activities, conclude an agreement with the customer. After them, you will already have to sign a contract for the decoration of the premises.
• According to such an agreement, the craftsmen not only help with the choice of finishing material, but also perform all finishing work with high quality.

If a major overhaul will require the replacement of communications, then it is worth initially contacting professionals in this field, and only then will the acceptance for finishing the premises be carried out.

Finishing repair - what is it

This is a type of repair work, during which the replacement of communications is not affected and the redevelopment of the premises is not done. That is, the design of the room itself and the finishing materials for creating the interior are simply changed.
It will also require an employment contract for finishing.
So:

• It will spell out all the finishing work with a quantitative and qualitative indicator.
• The main advantage of finishing repairs will be its ease of implementation. If you wish, you can do everything with your own hands: select the material and calculate the required amount, clean the room from the old finish and mount a new one.

In principle, there is nothing complicated, you only need free time, and modern materials can be used without the involvement of a professional.

Repair work with restructuring and redevelopment of the premises

This type of repair work includes: redevelopment, finishing and, in some cases, replacement of communications, since after the reconstruction of the premises, difficulties may arise with the supply of electricity, water, and so on. That is, this repair includes both capital and finishing.
Process:

• All types of work for a contractor who is engaged in such activities are performed by more than one team, since everyone must remain a master of their craft. And, if the time comes to pay, you can see that some works will cost less, and some more.
  There is no standard set cost for repairs. They can only be evaluated when their approximate difficulty is known.
• It is for this reason that the labor contract for finishing may have a note at the bottom, which says that if the repair work in their process turns out to be more difficult than stated, then the cost may change. Then there is a long procedure for calculating the consumption of material and the amount of time spent on the work.

Advice. When signing any contract or agreement with a contractor for repair work, you need to read the document very carefully so that there are no additional cash costs later.

• As a rule, to perform this type of repair work, there is a special instruction, according to which, based on the functionality of the premises itself, all actions are performed.
• It is worth considering that the decoration of the premises, the redevelopment of premises with significant changes in the main area, requires official permission from the relevant authorities of the state.
• According to the law, all changes that are carried out in a residential building must be registered.

Otherwise, the owner of such premises, who decided to arbitrarily carry out the restructuring, is fined in the prescribed amount, in accordance with legislative acts. That is, the more changes in the room will be, the greater will be the amount of the fine.

Who can do repairs

In principle, this service market, like any other in the state, suffers from an excessive number of informal workers who carry out repairs. There are also registered firms that pay mandatory contributions to the budget from their labor activity.
Which one will do the job better?

• There are no restrictions here. In most cases, a legal repair organization can boast of the quality of work, but you should also not forget about the abilities of unregistered employees.
  Some for a moderate fee will be able to make a very high-quality repair. Here the human factor plays an important role, namely, the ability and knowledge of one's business.
• When choosing an officially registered company for the provision of repair services, the client will be insured against poor quality work. For this, a contract for the finishing of the premises is signed between the contractor and the client.
  It contains all the points according to which the client, in case of refusal to correct defects in repair work by the contractor, has every right to go to court to resolve his problem.
• As a rule, such firms on their official website post a contract for finishing a sample apartment or other premises. Thus, the client is given the opportunity to fully study the document before signing the agreement and make the right decision.
• This will not happen with unofficial repairmen. Here everything is built only on trust, and as practice shows - in vain.
  To date, the number of deceived people who wanted to order repairs is growing at an enviable progression. Unfortunately, they are not insured by anything, and if they go to court or other instances, they will be refused.
• Of course, you can protect yourself and draw up an employment contract for finishing the premises only not with a legal entity, but with an individual. A sample contract for finishing an apartment or any other premises can be found both on the official website of the organization that is engaged in repair work or you can ask lawyers for help in drafting it. The second option will be much better.

Advice. When contacting an official company, it is worth initially reviewing all of its certifying documents.

• In most cases, they are general contractors for interior decoration and other types of repair work. And there are individuals who, on the basis of an employment agreement, provide this company with their repair services - subcontractors.

What should be taken into account? The contract for the repair is signed with the general contractor and in case of dissatisfaction with the work, he will be responsible.

General recommendations for choosing an organization to carry out repair work

When choosing a repair organization, you should not only rely on numerous reviews on the official website of the company, which, for sure, write to promote the organization in the service market, but also on the recommendations of your acquaintances or friends.
So:

• You can also view statistics on the Internet and reviews on a site that is responsible for the reputation of certain organizations. At the moment, such Internet resources have begun to develop very rapidly, but in this way the client will not be protected from an irresponsible contractor.

Advice. As soon as there is already a certain choice of one or another general contractor for repair work, you must be sure to ask the employee to show a photo with examples of work.

• It has become very popular to record all repairs performed on video. As a rule, they are placed on the official web resource of the company and they are freely available.

And it’s best to ask to be taken to the facility in which repair work is currently being carried out or to show the already decorated room. Thus, it will be possible to qualitatively assess the level of repair performed by this organization.

Decide on the areas that will become your main specialization. Make the most detailed business plan and find the best specialists who will become the basis of your team.

Main risks

Employment in this area significantly depends on the season. The peak of repairs falls in the spring and summer, in winter many are idle. Offer discounts during the downturn. Look for orders for finishing or laying communications in office premises. With the right approach to solving this problem, you will be minimally dependent on the season.

Correction of errors and penalties for non-compliance with deadlines. If you want to succeed in your chosen direction, give customers quality assurance and strictly adhere to the repair schedule. Errors must be corrected at your own expense. This will entail material losses, but will avoid loss in reputation. Only the professionalism of the employees will allow you to avoid mistakes in repairs, focus on finding professionals with a narrow specialization.

Delays are also fraught with penalties. Calculate in advance the possibility that some materials may dry out more due to bad weather and other circumstances that slow down the repair process. When concluding a contract, write down all obligations, guarantees and the amount of fines documented.

Location

At first, the company can do without an office, because communication with customers takes place directly at the facility. In advertising, you can include a phone number. If things go well, you start to expand the staff and work with wealthy customers, the office will become a necessity.

If you decide to immediately loudly declare yourself and get solid orders, a small office in the business district will do. Also, it is worth looking for premises in areas where new buildings are being actively built - here you can find most of the clients who need to repair the purchased apartments.

Equipment

For each type of repair work performed, a certain set of tools is provided. Buy only professional ones - it increases productivity and quality. In general, 250,000 rubles should be prepared for the purchase of tools.

Working without your own transport is extremely difficult. The best option for a company specializing in repairs is the cargo Gazelle. On average, such a car costs about 550,000 rubles.

Personnel

Highly professional employees are the main component of the success of your team. Look for narrow specialists in each type of service that you plan to provide. If necessary, each of them can perform unskilled work, although 2-3 universal employees should also be hired.

The highest profitability (up to 50%) is typical for laying electricians, installing double-glazed windows and air conditioners. Also, plumbing works show high profitability. A qualified electrician and plumber in the state must be required.

Wall demolition works are very profitable, because they are carried out quickly and do not require high qualifications.

If you do not have the opportunity to provide permanent work to all the specialists who are needed to carry out the repair work in full, conclude cooperation agreements and involve them, if necessary, on a contract basis.

Payback

It is impossible to provide exact figures for this parameter for apartment renovation. Profitability, depending on the services provided and the season, ranges from 15 to 50%. Experts do not recommend beginners immediately offer their services in the "Lux" sector. Expensive repairs take a lot of time, implying the use of exclusive materials and finishing elements.

Economy class repairs are the most popular and profitable direction. This direction is also more cost-effective, since the work is done much faster.

Also, repair of non-residential premises shows good profitability. Having received an order for finishing or conducting communications in offices, shopping centers or enterprises, you benefit from large areas and the same type of work.

Documents and licenses

Many apartment renovation firms do without registration and licensing of their activities. But if you plan to develop your business, receive orders from large customers and perform luxury repairs, complete the entire package of necessary documents. Customers of this category prefer to deal with companies that have all the permissions and licenses - this gives a guarantee that the contractor is set up for serious work, will fulfill all the obligations he has undertaken in a quality and timely manner.

The choice of the type of entrepreneurship depends on the coverage of which spectrum of the market you expect:

IP implies a small team of the owner and several other employees.
- LLC allows you to conclude contracts with enterprises, organizations. Also, you can receive payment by bank transfer.

For each area of ​​work, a separate license is issued for a period of up to 5 years. On average, for one direction, obtaining a license is 1,500-2,000 rubles. Approximately the same amount will have to pay a lawyer who will help deal with the nuances.

In general, the duration of registration of entrepreneurship and obtaining all permits takes from one to three months. The cost depends on the number of types of work for which you plan to obtain a license.

Marketing

According to the owners of companies that have managed to succeed in the direction of apartment renovation, 80% of new customers come from the recommendation. The most effective advertising is a job well done and satisfied customers.

Where to look for clients for a start-up company? Pay close attention to new buildings. Buying apartments in new buildings, residents begin to look for a team to carry out repairs. Hang ads at houses and public transport stops, put them in mailboxes and simply distribute booklets. The first satisfied customer will bring their neighbors and acquaintances.

Create a company website with a detailed list of services and tariffs. He, according to statistics, brings the remaining 20% ​​of customers. Advertising in the media for firms specializing in repairs is useless. Even personal contacts of each of the employees will bring you more new orders.

The most important point is cooperation with wholesale suppliers and manufacturers of high-quality and environmentally friendly building materials. If you can guarantee your customers safe materials at the manufacturer's price, this will be a significant advantage over competitors.

Summary

The starting capital for entering the apartment renovation business is low. Anyone who has the slightest idea about the construction and finishing industry can start an activity. But to achieve the gratitude of customers and, as a result, profit growth is obtained only from professionals who are able to ensure quality. Reducing the cost and loss of time is achieved through competent planning of all stages, the use of high-quality materials and professional tools.