March 20, 2009, 9:25 am

Qiong Province, Haishi, Fenghuang District, Huizhi New Home, 3 buildings, 1 unit, room 303.

Xu Xiuzhen stood at the door, looking a little anxious.

Huizhi New Home is a new area for employees of Shihaishi Textile Factory. The youngest son is 24 years old this year and has not found any serious job after graduating from college.

Xu Xiuzhen thought about finding a partner for her son first, and then tried to find a way to see if he could be placed in a factory.

But these days, if you want to find a partner, you must have a new house.

Xu Xiuzhen and her husband have worked in a textile factory for more than 20 years, and they also have the quota to purchase internal housing.

In June last year, I gritted my teeth, took out my savings, borrowed some money, and bought this house in full.

Because it is a urgent need and the price is not expensive, although the financial crisis hit them, the impact on them was very small.

Before renovating the house, she went to several large home furnishing stores in Haishi to search for the hard furnishings, soft furnishings, home furnishings, and furniture involved.

He knows the prices on the market very well.

After comparison, I happened to have a nephew who worked as a designer in a decoration company. Their company launched a package of 138,800 yuan for labor, materials and cabinets.

Combined with the data from the home furnishing store survey.

Their package can save nearly 20,000 yuan.

So Xu Xiuzhen handed over the decoration of the house to her nephew's company.

The renovation started in August last year. Due to the financial crisis, the house was originally supposed to be delivered before the end of January.

Because of the lack of connections with carpentry masters.

The work of opening the cabinets on site has been postponed until today.

Yesterday afternoon, her nephew called her and told her that the company had reached an agreement with the newly completed Haishi Xinghui Home Furnishing Factory. The 46 projection area home products that were supposed to be printed on site were handed over to Xinghui Home Furnishing Factory for implementation.

Xu Xiuzhen was startled, and then became suspicious again.

She has seen a lot of customized furniture throughout the house. For some big brands, such as Yapai Home, a set of cabinets costs more than 30,000 yuan. For three sets of wardrobes, Sawyer Home offers a price of 68,800 yuan.

Plus various bits and pieces of products, such as TV cabinets, sideboards, shoe cabinets, bookcases, etc.

The total is another 40,000 to 50,000 yuan.

If you buy customized home furnishing products from major brands, you won’t be able to afford it if you don’t have 160,000 yuan for the whole house.

After looking at household products from big brands, she looked for some local and regional brands.

No one quoted a price lower than 80,000 yuan.

Moreover, she also asked some workers in the worker group who had already renovated the house.

I learned a bit about their situation after renovation.

One worker even said bluntly: "I regret buying household products from big brands because the base materials of their products are all particle board."

"It claims to be solid wood particle board, but it is actually a board made of pressed wood chips."

Xu Xiuzhen also read relevant information for this purpose. I didn't know this, but I was shocked when I saw it.

Feedback on the actual use of solid wood particle boards on the Internet can be said to be one-sided, especially in places like Qiong Province where the air humidity is very humid.

Only half a year after installation, as long as the house is unoccupied for three months, it will basically swell where it should, mold where it should, and rot where it should rot.

Workers said they would rather spend more money to buy solid wood multi-layer boards from small brands than spend cheap money to buy solid wood particle boards from big brands.

A fellow worker also shared in the group that for the same price you spend on solid wood particle board from a big brand, you can already buy solid wood multi-layer board products from a small brand.

She also posted the effect after the decoration, which is not bad either.

Especially the exposed part of the product, with the multiple layers of solid wood laminated together, it looks very safe.

According to the news sent by my nephew, the products provided by Xinghui Home Furnishing are solid wood multi-layer boards.

And it didn't require her to add another penny, which shocked her.

Because whether she found out about it herself or the prices informed by her co-workers when purchasing.

If all of its 46 projected areas of home products were made of solid wood multi-layer boards, the market price would be at least close to 100,000.

After her nephew repeatedly assured that the quality of the product was no lower than that of big brands, she dubiously agreed.

Yesterday evening, she received a call from a designer who claimed to be a Xinghui Home Furnishing Haishi direct-operated store, and made an appointment with her to come and measure the room at 9:30 this morning.

So she came over early and waited in the room.

Her house was renovated at the end of last year, and everything including tiles, water, electricity, ceilings, and whitewashing has been completed.

Even some curtains have been installed.

The door has also been installed.

She has also paid a deposit for the matching furniture, and she can move it in and install it after the home installation is completed.

9:28

Li Wenliang and three design assistants appeared at the door of Room 303, Unit 1, Building 3, Huizhi New Home.

Seeing Xu Xiuzhen with an anxious look on her face.

He stepped forward with an apologetic look and stretched out his hand: "Hello, Sister Xu, I'm sorry, it's my first time coming to Huizhi New Home. I don't know the journey time, so I kept you waiting for a long time."

Xu Xiuzhen saw a handsome man about thirty years old, wearing purple overalls and a nameplate with the words "Xinghui Home Designer" on his chest.

Behind him came three very young people, who looked to be in their early twenties and wearing white work clothes.

Judging from his voice, it should be Xinghui Furniture, the designer who contacted her yesterday afternoon.

Seeing them wearing formal clothes, Xu Xiuzhen's heart dropped. She shook hands with the visitor slightly to express that she was fine.

Both parties entered the house.

Li Wenliang instructed the three assistants to start working. He came to Xu Xiuzhen and said: "We are entrusted by Huaxun Decoration to provide you with a full set of customized home product services."

"Let me tell you about the process, because your home products require on-site carpentry, and the carpenter has already drawn the rough drawings clearly in the early stage."

"The reason why we came to conduct precision measurements this time is to further confirm the size of the product."

"After measuring in a moment, please come with us to the direct store at No. 8, Haishi, Xiuli District, Banshan Peninsula Commercial and Residential Villa District to select products."

Xu Xiuzhen nodded, and she watched the three assistants in the measuring room measuring the products where they were originally supposed to be on site.

For no reason, she thought of the prices at the custom home furnishing store, and asked with some worry: "You won't charge any more for the home products you provide, right?"

Li Wenliang smiled and said: "Don't worry, you and Huaxun Decoration have agreed on 46 projection area home products, which are free of charge."

"Of course, if you exceed the amount, you will need to pay extra."

As soon as she heard that she needed to pay extra fees, she asked nervously: "How much is the excess?"

Li Wenliang said: "Home products made of solid wood multi-layer boards are clearly priced at 1,860 yuan per projection area in the store."

Xu Xiuzhen was a little surprised and said: "The home products with 46 projection areas cost more than 85,000 yuan?"

Li Wenliang replied: "Yes, this is still a discounted price. The boards used by Xinghui Home are all Dawangzhuang, Huihua, Longsen and Perfect boards. They are customized boards made for the environment of Qiong Province. They are processed

It is mildew-proof, moisture-proof and termite-proof.”

"At present, the home products made of this kind of board by major domestic brands are sold for about 2,380 yuan per projection area."

Xu Xiuzhen was a little surprised and couldn't open her mouth from ear to ear. She calculated in her mind that even if it was calculated at 85,000 yuan, the cost of contracting work and materials for Huaxun decoration was only 138,800 yuan.

After deducting 85,000 yuan from the budget for household products, wouldn't they only charge 53,000 yuan for the hard packaging and materials?

Her heart started pounding when she thought that she had picked up a huge bargain.

A designer surnamed Li said that as long as he doesn't buy the excess, he will really make a fortune.

The thought of making a lot of money made her feel a little uneasy.

She apologized, went downstairs, and quickly called her nephew.

After the call was connected, she asked with some panic: "Xiaohui, the designers from Xinghui Home came to measure the house. They said that there is no need to charge for home products within the 46 projection area, and the excess will only be charged."

Collecting money, right?”

After getting confirmation from the other end of the phone.

She inquired again: "I heard from the designer of Xinghui Home Furnishing that these 46 projection area home products are worth more than 85,000 yuan. Is it true?"

Got affirmation again.

She said a little strangely: "If the value of the home is more than 85,000 yuan, then the money for contracting work and materials is only more than 53,000 yuan? Then what does the decoration company make?"

The nephew laughed loudly on the other end and said: "Auntie, don't worry, although I don't know what kind of agreement the company has reached with Xinghui Home Furnishing, it is impossible to purchase from them at the original price."

"Auntie, don't worry. Xinghui Home Furnishing's industrial park has invested nearly 1 billion in Haishi. They are very strong. It is not ruled out that after entering Qiong Province, they want to use some preferential activities to promote their quality and reputation first.

practice."

"You got a big deal, I dare not say it. You saved at least 40,000 to 50,000 yuan during this renovation."

Hearing what her nephew said, Xu Xiuzhen had a flash of enlightenment in her heart, and then she became happy.
To be continued...