A shop in El Biar that opened on the day announced
Sixty-two square metres of retail: a sales floor in anthracite porcelain, a partitioned stockroom, lighting designed for the window and a fuse board brought up to standard.
- Town
- El Biar
- Kind
- Shops and offices
- Area
- 62 m²
- Length of the works
- 14 working days
- Budget
- 2 100 000 DAindicative, materials and labour
Before the works
An old unit empty for two years, handed over with a damaged floor, a dead electrical installation and no separation between selling and storage. No before photographs were taken: the story says so rather than show a picture that does not exist.
What was done
Asma laid the floor out around the customer’s path: a clear entrance, a lit display wall, the till near the window. The stockroom was closed off with a plasterboard partition on a metal frame, with a glazed door.
The fuse board was replaced, with separate circuits for lighting, the window and the sockets, and downlights recessed into a false ceiling. The 60 × 60 anthracite porcelain was chosen to take the footfall without showing marks.
Works ran at off-peak hours so as not to disturb the neighbouring shops, and the site was cleaned every evening.
The steps
| Room | Step | Starts | Takes | Works schedule, in working days from Saturday to Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Site | Site protection | day 1 | 1 d | |
| Sales floor | Electrics | day 2 | 1 d | |
| Sales floor | Plaster and false ceiling | day 3 | 3 d | |
| Sales floor | Flooring | day 6 | 3 d | |
| Sales floor | Painting | day 9 | 3 d | |
| Stockroom | Electrics | day 2 | 1 d | |
| Stockroom | Plaster and false ceiling | day 3 | 2 d | |
| Stockroom | Flooring | day 5 | 2 d | |
| Stockroom | Painting | day 7 | 2 d | |
| Washroom | Strip-out | day 2 | 2 d | |
| Washroom | Plumbing | day 4 | 2 d | |
| Washroom | Electrics | day 4 | 1 d | |
| Washroom | Under-tile waterproofing | day 6 | 1 d | |
| Washroom | Tiling | day 7 | 4 d | |
| Washroom | Sanitaryware | day 11 | 2 d | |
| Washroom | Ceiling paint | day 13 | 1 d | |
| Site | Cleaning and handover | day 14 | 1 d |
The products used
All of them from the Qarmoud catalogue and our depots.
- Atlas anthracite porcelain 60 × 60 mattTiles & wall tiles
- C1 tile adhesive — 25 kg bagTiles & wall tiles
- Plasterboard BA13 standard 1.20 × 2.50 mPlaster & partitions
- R48 track — 3 mPlaster & partitions
- M48 stud — 3 mPlaster & partitions
- 7 W warm-white LED downlightElectrical
- Black metal workshop pendantElectrical
- Consumer unit, 2 rows, 26 modulesElectrical
- Matt acrylic paint — 15 L bucketPaint
- Glazed living-room door 83 × 204Doors & windows
The team
- Asma BenamaraInterior designer, Qarmoud AtelierFictional character
- Adel MekhalfaRenovation project manager, Qarmoud AtelierFictional character
- Abdelkader GhezaliSite foremanFictional character
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