Labour and material norms for renovation work

A reference for anyone starting a renovation and holding a quote from a crew. It shows three things from the Russian state construction norm base: exactly what operations a job includes, how many man-hours are allotted to it, and how much material it consumes. Not a builder’s rough guess, but the federal norm base used to cost state construction projects.

How to check a job against the norms

Choose a section

Nine sections follow the logic of a renovation: walls, floors, ceilings, tiling, painting, windows and doors, plumbing, electrics, demolition.

Find your job

Type a word from the contractor’s quote — plaster, porcelain tile, socket — and pick the matching line.

Read the scope

Compare the list of operations with what you are being offered. A separate charge for an operation already inside the norm is worth a question.

Enter your volume

Give the area, length or count in the unit shown beside the field and get hours and materials for your case.

Check what your contractor promises against state norms

Source: FSNB-2022, open data of the Russian Ministry of Construction (revision of 9 July 2026). These are state norms for typical conditions — actual consumption depends on the site and on project decisions.

What the tool shows

The full scope of a job

Every operation the norm covers: sorting tiles, trimming, mixing adhesive, laying, grouting. When a contractor bills one of them separately, you can see it was already included.

Normative man-hours

How much time your volume is allotted, and how many days that becomes for one worker or for two at an eight-hour day.

Material consumption

How much mortar, primer, electricity and the rest the norm allocates to the volume you entered, in the units used by the base.

2356 jobs in nine sections

Walls, floors, ceilings, tiling, painting and wallpaper, windows and doors, plumbing, electrics, demolition — the jobs from FSNB-2022 that occur in home renovation.

A citable reference per norm

A code such as GESNr 58-01-012-01 sits next to each job, so the position can be found in any estimating program or quoted to an expert.

Honest where the norm is silent

If the norm does not fix the main material because the project chooses it, the tool says so instead of inventing a number.

Questions about renovation norms

Where do these norms come from?

From FSNB-2022, the federal construction norm base published by the Russian Ministry of Construction as open data on the FGIS TsS portal. The revision used here is dated 9 July 2026. State construction projects are costed with this base.

Does that mean my renovation should cost the same?

No. The norms fix labour intensity and material consumption, not the price of your job: rates, taxes and overheads differ for every crew. Their value is that they describe the amount of work, not its cost.

My contractor says grouting is billed separately. Is that fair?

Look at the scope of the matching norm. If grouting is in the list of operations, then under state norms it is part of the same job. That does not forbid a contractor from pricing differently, but it gives you grounds to ask.

Why do some jobs list materials and others do not?

A norm fixes only the materials that the technology determines: water, electricity, mortar, fasteners. The main material — tile, wallpaper, laminate — is a project decision, so the norm does not dictate it. The tool shows that honestly rather than inventing a quantity.

What does “100 m2” next to a job mean?

It is the norm’s unit: all consumption in the base is given per hundred square metres, not per one. The tool rescales it to the volume you enter, so enter your real metres.

How many days is a man-hour figure really?

The tool divides the hours by an eight-hour working day and shows the span for one worker and for two. The real duration depends on how many people are on site and whether the work can run in parallel.

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Published 15 Aug 2026 Updated 03 Sep 2026 Author: The Supreme