Repair in an apartment is an epic, quite comparable to moving to another city (if not to another country). So much effort is put on it that it happily happens already because the stage with the “breaking” of the partitions and replacing the plumbing in the bathroom is left behind.
After that, the
fine finish begins
. This is the process of “refinement” of the room, expressed in the use of high-quality finishing materials, tiles, wallpaper and floor coverings.
Simply put, if the rough finish can be compared to cutting a preliminary and rough figure out of stone, then at the finishing stage the sculptor brings it to a state of sophisticated and beautiful sculpture.
What materials can be used for this?
Contrary to the generally accepted opinion in our country, finishing is not only banal wallpapers or tiles. Modern industry offers such an incredible assortment of materials that sometimes it becomes difficult to choose something specific! Let's look at the most attractive and unusual varieties of them.
Liquid wallpaper. Environmentally friendly material, which includes cotton, silk and other natural raw materials. It is applied with a spatula or grater. It is easy to repair damaged areas by simply removing the old coating and applying a new coat.
Sand cover. The composition includes sand, which forms a kind of "dunes" on the wall. It looks very elegant, but it is very difficult to apply. It’s not worth saying that the cost of such a “Sahara desert” is rather big for this reason, and therefore such a fine finish is a task for professionals.
A decorative coating based on colored marble chips, better known as Bayramix. The composition includes a transparent acrylic base and multi-colored granular marble dust. When working, you need a spatula, as well as a substrate. A very durable and practical solution that fully justifies the money invested in it.
What is putty?
We asked this question for a reason, since there is no unequivocal answer to it. Many believe that the putty is directly related to the rough finishing of the room. But what does finishing mean in the understanding of specialists?
Professional builders just say that now it can rightly include puttying. The fact is that the same liquid wallpaper is applied exactly to the wall prepared by the finishing putty , so in this case we can’t talk about the rough finish.
Flooring
This is all easier. In this case, the finishing finish is the laying of a laminate, linoleum, parquet board or tile. Thus, laying the floor logs, installing a concrete screed or leveling the floor are not included in this concept.
Wiring and other communications
If you understand what the finish of the apartment is, then just the same wiring is clearly included in this concept. Of course, we are talking about a well-executed wiring, the installation of modern switches and other "attributes". However, the same can be said about the current plumbing, the installation of which is sometimes available only to experienced professionals.