Finishing the apartment: doing it right
When purchasing housing in a new building, you need to know what finishing is for finishing. Indeed, the price of an apartment depends on the degree of finishing work.
A potential buyer has a choice: a semi-finished finish, which allows you to decorate the interior with your own hands, and at your own discretion; fine finish when buying apartments; turnkey housing on an individual project. What is the difference between these types of finishes, we will try to explain in the course of our article.
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Finishing in new buildings
Buying an apartment with a fine finish, of course, will cost more than without it. But there are many advantages - no need to spend on apartment repair time and effort.
You will be spared the need for additional cash costs for the purchase of finishing materials, as well as the search for workers and payment for their services.
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The most important thing: when you move to a new house, you will not have to feel discomfort about the ongoing repairs from your neighbors. And such repairs, at times, last for several months, and even years.
We’ll try to figure out what it means to “finish the apartment.” If you describe this term briefly, then the finish is a full range of interior finishing work, giving the housing a finished look, and allowing the owner to use it for its intended purpose. By the way, we are talking not only about apartments in high-rise buildings, but also about cottages.
Now consider in more detail what is the finishing of the apartment. All doors must be installed in it: entrance metal, and interior - from laminated fiberboard.
In bathrooms and kitchens, a full set of plumbing, electrical or gas equipment is installed - all domestic production.
Preparation for finishing, involves the implementation of the internal layout of the space, by the construction of interior partitions. It includes the implementation of floor screed, as well as the alignment of walls and ceilings in a plaster way.
Decorative finish surfaces in the final version, is a standard set: on the walls of living rooms paper wallpaper, the ceilings are painted with water-dispersion paint. A laminate may be laid on the floor, but more often than not, this can be baseless linoleum.
In the bathrooms, the floors are tiled with ceramic tiles, and the walls are simply painted. Such finishing requirements give the newcomer an opportunity to arrange these premises to their taste. For example, replace plumbing, and then finish with tiles.
But, in general, you can live in an apartment - everything is installed and functioning. Here's what it means: “under the fine finish” from the developer. As you understand, the finishing of all rooms is done using the cheapest domestic materials.
So it was in Soviet times, nothing has changed now. And this is the main minus of the apartment with a fine finish. When materials of not the best quality are used, one can not dream of the durability of such a repair. Although, a plus is also present. After buying an apartment, not everyone has free funds that could be spent on repairs and design. And so, in the apartment you can immediately move in and live, equip it over time in accordance with their capabilities.
Finishing and rough finishing of apartments in new buildings
Finishing apartments today includes the installation of meters: and not only for electricity consumption, but also hot and cold water. Since all house entrances are equipped with intercoms, an intercom must also be connected to the apartment. Due to the competition present in the housing market, some developers install a stove in the kitchen, mount sockets and switches of good quality, perform connection and wiring of the apartment: Internet, telephone, television antenna. There are houses with air conditioning and water purification systems installed in the apartments.
In addition to all of the above, the fine finish when buying apartments should include glazing: not only windows, but also loggias with balconies. To preserve the architectural attractiveness of the house, glaze them on a single project. And now even in economy class houses they put plastic windows. But more recently, they could only be seen in luxury homes. Wooden frames that did not really close and quickly rotted, are forever irrevocable.
Statistics show that only small-sized apartments are sold with fine finish. Finishing elite apartments of a large area is carried out according to another scheme.
The layout is agreed with the landlord at the construction stage. Then, erecting interroom brick partitions, performing electrical work and pipe wiring, level all surfaces.
Actually, this is called a rough finish. As a rule, developers cooperate with repair and design companies, which they recommend to apartment owners. But this does not mean that you cannot choose any other artist at your discretion.
If you have enough money only for redecorating, it is better to take an apartment with a fine finish. You can even save money. The fact is that the developer company purchases materials in bulk, sometimes at factory prices.
This makes it possible to reduce the cost of finishing work. You will have to buy materials at market prices, and even hire workers. After all, not everyone has the time, and the necessary skills to make repairs on their own. And if a person has never encountered any work, instructions or videos found on the Internet will not always help. Moreover, specialists may be needed: a plumber, an electrician. For the average family, finishing the apartment is the best option.
It is clear that when it comes to luxury housing, all priorities change. In such a dwelling, a square of tiles in the bathroom can cost more than all the fine finishing of a small apartment in economy class. Here, to each his own.
There are houses where decoration is done on an individual project. In this case, the owner of the apartment is offered a choice of several options.
Having agreed on one of them, the finish can be done by the developer. With the same success, the homeowner can invite the designer from the side, and get the interior no worse than in the photo above.
You may have a question: "How to take an apartment with a fine finish?". The contract of sale of the apartment should list all types of finishing and communication work that the developer is required to perform.
When signing the acceptance certificate, check the compliance with the obligations stated in the contract and actually fulfilled. After you sign the act, it will be too late to make a claim.
