What is the finishing of the apartment, the stages of work

When buying a house, you need to know what is the finishing of the apartment. Knowing this concept will make the right choice and not regret buying in the future. Also, if the already purchased housing is planned to be repaired with your own hands, you also need to be aware of all terms and definitions in order to communicate with specialists in one language.

The concept of finishing

To understand what a finishing finish the apartment, you should remember how to make repairs. If it is simplified to divide this process into three stages, then before finishing finishing is roughing and pre-cleaning.

• When roughing the surface is not yet ready for the finish coat, perhaps in the house even there are no partitions;
• Pretreatment of the apartment implies the presence of partition walls, smooth surfaces, ready for the final layer;
• Fine finish - this is the final layer, what the tenants will see before their eyes for many years.

Advantages and disadvantages of a finishing apartment

When buying apartments with a fine finish, you can take advantage of the following advantages:

• You can immediately get into the house - all sockets, switches and plumbing are already connected and working, the room looks comfortable,it remains only to make and arrange furniture;
• Such repair of the apartment is made in all rooms, so a few more years will not have to think about cosmetic restorations.

And, like any other thing, finishing has its drawbacks:

• The apartment with a finishing finish is not subject to global changes. If even something needs to be changed to taste, then you will have to spend considerable money and effort on it, than if the alteration were made with roughing or pre-cleaning;
• If in the course of building a house or repairing an apartment there have been some defects and a violation of technology, it will be more difficult to detect them if a final finish has already been made;
• Such apartments are more expensive and repairs cause doubts.

The procedure for finishing works

When purchasing rough or pre-clean housing, the final finishing will have to be done independently. To do this, it is necessary to draw up a work plan, an order of actions.

You need to start work with the dirtiest or dampest works and drive it from the top down, that is, the ceiling, walls and floor. Connection of electrical equipment( sockets and switches) and sanitary ware( mixers and devices) should be carried out at the very end.

If any concealed communications are planned, they must be laid before finishing.

Before starting the final repair process, it is necessary to understand what is the pre-clean swelling of the apartment. Obviously, the way it was done and what materials were used for it will affect the quality of finishing. If the shoe processing has been done for a long time or from poor-quality materials, then it is better to remodel it.

Ceilings

In the production of finishing the apartment, the ceiling will be on the first stage. For its coverage, the following materials and technologies can be used:

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• Stretch ceilings;
• Ceilings from plasterboard;
• Coating with the finish putty;
• Painting.

Apartment for finishing - this is a finished dwelling, so the ceiling should be smooth and beautiful. According to GOST, it should not deviate from the horizontal by more than 15 mm. If the deviations are small, then they can be leveled with plaster. If the deviations are large, then it is useless to align. Then it's better to use a more radical method - gypsum plaster ceilings installed in several tiers. So it will be possible to hide global irregularities and show designer imagination.

Finishing the apartment should be cited on a high-quality surface. Therefore, if there is already a coating on the ceiling that has served its time, it must be removed.

Walls

The next stage is the wall covering. Coatings for walls should be chosen depending on the functioning of the room.

If the finishing is in the bath, toilet or kitchen, then you need to choose moisture-resistant materials, for example, ceramic tiles. If the walls in the living room or bedroom are finished, then you can use wallpaper, paint and decorative plaster.

Finishing of apartments in part of walls should also be made on a flat surface. If there are major flaws in the form of protruding bricks or cement that has come out of the masonry, then they can be eliminated with the help of brute force, for example, a hammer. Minor unevenness must be removed with plaster.

If the wall has significant deviations in the evenness, then it is necessary to do the same with the ceiling - cover it with plasterboard to hide the curvature. However, you will have to sacrifice space for this.

Floors

You can finish the floors in the apartment with a wide variety of materials:

• Laminate;
• Linoleum;
• Parquet or plank floor;
• Tiles or ceramic tiles.

But again, the choice must be made depending on the functionality of the room.

Apartments with a fine finish usually come with a screed, which makes the surface fairly flat to create a layer of bulk floor. But if there is no screed, then it must be created. It will be required for any floor covering. The floor screed should hide unevenness up to 6 cm.

Electrical equipment and plumbing

Electrical equipment includes switches, sockets, electric guards, wall and ceiling lighting fixtures. All these items should be installed after the finishing of the apartment is complete.

Likewise, it is necessary to do the installation of sanitary equipment - faucets, toilet bowl, bath, sinks, dryers.

When installing electrical or plumbing equipment, care must be taken not to damage the tools with a finishing finish.