When buying a home you need to know, what a fine finish apartments. The knowledge of this concept will make the right choice and not regret the purchase later. Also, if you have already purchased housing is planned to repair their own hands, also need to be aware of all the terms and definitions, to communicate with specialists in one language.
The concept of finishing
to understand, what a fine finish apartments, we should remember, how do make repair. If simplistically divide the process into three stages, before final finishing and roughing goes Predchistovaya.
- When the rough surface finish is not yet ready for the finishing coat, perhaps even in the house no partition walls;
- Predchistovaya finish flat implies a partition wall, smooth surfaces, ready for the final layer;
- Fine finish - this is the final layer, the, that residents will see before your eyes for years.
Advantages and disadvantages of finishing flats
When buying an apartment with a fine finish, You can use the following advantages:
- You can immediately take root in housing - all sockets, switches and plumbing are already connected and working, room looks comfortable, we can only make and arrange the furniture;
- This renovated apartment is made in all the rooms, so a few years do not have to think about cosmetic restorations.
AND, as well as any object, fine finish has its drawbacks:
- The apartment with a fine finish is not subject to global change. Even if they need to change something to taste, you'll have to spend on this significant resources and effort, than if the alteration was made for rough or Predchistovaya;
- If you are building a house or production repair apartments have been admitted any defects and breach of technology, it will be harder to find them, if you have already made a fine finish;
- These flats are more expensive and the repair of doubt.
The order of the finishing works
When purchasing bullion or Predchistovaya housing, final finish will have to do yourself. To do this, make work schedule, procedure.
The work should start with the dirtiest work, or wet and keep it from top to bottom, ie ceiling, walls and floors. electrical connection (sockets and switches) and plumbing (mixers and devices) It should be at the very end.
If you plan some hidden communications, they must lay before the finishing.
Before you begin the final process of repair, to be understood, what Predchistovaya swollen apartments. obviously, something, it was made and what materials were used for that, It affects the quality of finishing. If pedchistovaya processing performed for a long time or from substandard materials, then it is better to convert.
ceilings
In the production of finishing the ceiling apartments will be on the first line. For it the following materials and coating technologies can be used:
Apartment for finishing - it is a complete home, Therefore, the ceiling should be smooth and beautiful. according to GOST, it should not deviate from the horizontal by more than 15 mm. If minor deviations, it is possible to align them with the help of plaster. If large deviations, then align useless. Then it is better to use Bole radical method - plasterboard ceilings, established in several tiers. So will hide imperfections and show global designer fantasies.
Fine finishing the apartment must be driven at a high quality surface. Therefore, if the ceiling is already some kind of coating, who have served their sentences, it must be removed.
Walls
The next stage - wall covering. Wall coverings should be chosen depending on the room operation.
If fine finishing occurs in the bath, toilet or kitchen, then you need to choose water-resistant materials, eg, ceramic tile. If we get off the wall in the living room or bedroom, you can use wallpaper, Decorative paint and plaster.
Fine finishing of apartments in parts of the walls should also be carried out on a flat surface. If there are major flaws in the form of protruding bricks or cement, got out beyond the masonry, then you can remove them by brute force, eg, hammer. Minor irregularities need to remove the plaster.
If the wall has a significant deviations in the evenness, you need to do is similar to the ceiling - cover it with plasterboard, to hide the curvature. However, this will have to sacrifice the space of the room.
floors
Perform final finishing of floors in the apartment can be a wide variety of materials:
But again, selection must be done depending on the functionality of the room.
Apartments with a fine finish usually with a coupler, which makes the surface smooth enough, to create a layer of self-leveling floor. But if there is no screed, then it is necessary to create. It is required for all the flooring. floor screed must conceal irregularities to 6 cm.
Electrical and plumbing
To include electrical switches, sockets, electrical shields, Wall and ceiling lights. All of these items should be installed after, as the final finishing of apartments completed.
Similarly, it is necessary to do, and the installation of sanitary equipment - mixers, the toilet, bath, sinks, sushylok.
When installing electric or sanitary equipment should be carefully, not to damage the tools clean finish.
