Rough and fine finish when buying an apartment and office

Finishing the office or apartment is a kind of decoration, where you can immediately enter live or start working. That is, in such a room, all the preparatory repair work is completed, the ceiling, walls and floor are finished.

Very often apartments and offices are sold in a state of rough finish. Thus, the new owners have the right to create a design in the room to their taste and discretion. However, this is a troublesome business, which requires the presence of certain professional skills. Therefore, all the same, many people hire professionals to carry out finishing work in the premises where finishing is being done.

To save time and money, it is advisable to purchase a house with a finished ceiling, walls and floor. Although it is worth noting that the firm-developers are doing this decoration in apartments of economy class. Housing premium class leaves the owners the right to carry out finishing work in accordance with their tastes and financial capabilities.

Fine finishing. What types of work are included?

Before performing this type of finishing, it is necessary to carry out a number of preparatory works (in other words, a rough finish), which is a pledge of quality finishing. Preliminary finishing includes:

• Alignment and plastering of the ceiling and walls.
• Conducting electrical work.
• Preparation of floors for covering, screed.
• Carrying out the necessary plumbing works and activities.

After the above procedures, the finishing of apartments or office premises is carried out directly. It includes:

• Decoration of the ceiling. It can be pasted with wallpaper, painted, set tension ceilings and so on.
• Installation of floor coverings. As a floor covering use a parquet, a laminate, a tile, linoleum and so on.
• Install skirting boards.
• Wall decoration - painting, wallpapering, applying liquid wallpaper, Venetian plaster, and so on.
• Processing slopes on windows.
• Connection of plumbing equipment and other communications.
• Other types of finishing works: installation of lamps, artistic painting of walls, stucco molding and other decoration of the elements of the room.

Finishing the room when creating its design is the main touch in the implementation of the interior. To create a certain style of the room, it is better to invite the designer, who will work out various finishes, taking into account the tastes of the owners of the apartment or office. Based on the approved decision, he will create a project of the future interior. On the basis of the project, an estimate is made for all types of finishing works.

Finishing, advantages and disadvantages

Like any other type of work, this type of finishing has its pros and cons. The main advantages are the following:

• Finishing is a budget option, it's cheaper to buy an apartment with a ready repair, rather than spend it yourself.
• Settlement in a new housing is possible immediately after its acquisition.
• Do not need to repair for several years.

The disadvantages are:

• Impossibility of making adjustments at the stage of rough finishing.
• When deciding on remaking existing repairs, there will be more financial and temporary waste.
• Hidden shortcomings and defects in construction and roughing are difficult to detect.
• Firms-builders produce the same type of finishing materials of economy class with an appropriate level of quality of work.