Do-it-yourself toilet repair in a new building

In detail: do-it-yourself repair of a toilet in a new building from a real master for the site my.housecope.com.

The process that really requires special attention is the renovation of a bathroom in a new building. This is not surprising, because as soon as the owner moves to a new apartment, more often than not, he sees bare walls and the absence of any design.

Renovation of bathrooms in a new building

Unfortunately, it is strongly discouraged to make expensive repairs in the first year of residence, because otherwise, after a while, repair work will have to start from the very beginning. This is due to many factors, such as the shrinkage of the foundation, and, as a consequence, a slight shrinkage of the entire structure. How to act in such a situation will be discussed further.

We are starting to renovate a bathroom in a new building. First of all, you should determine for yourself the fact who exactly will carry out the repair work: attracted specialists, or you yourself. It is also recommended to determine the approximate scope of work. In this situation, the advantage lies in the fact that there is no need to remove the old tiles, but special attention will need to be paid to leveling the walls: the conveyor work of regular plasterers is rarely even satisfactory.

Among other things, you should imagine exactly how the room should look after the completion of the renovation. This applies not only to the decoration of walls and ceilings, but also to the arrangement of pieces of furniture and plumbing.

Given the fact that the house was recently erected, you should not immediately make expensive repairs to the bathroom in a new building. It is much more relevant to purchase inexpensive tiles and stick them on the walls and floor. As for the ceiling, decorative panels are ideal for it. This approach is due to the slight shrinkage of the structure. Depending on the time elapsed after the foundation is poured, shrinkage can take from 1 to 3 years.

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If you neglect this advice, you can get extremely negative consequences. So, expensive tiles will begin to crack and very soon lose their attractiveness.

Among other things, new settlers can expect such surprises as "flooding" by neighbors from above, as well as leaks in their own apartment. In the first case, you will have to urgently repair the ceiling. As for the second option, it will force the urgent opening of the floor covering and the repair of communications, if inspection hatches were not provided.

During repairs in an apartment located in a new building, specialists, as well as the owners themselves, are faced with a number of features that are completely uncharacteristic for secondary housing. Let's consider them in more detail:

Careful wall alignment is often necessary. In this case, it is recommended to find out in advance if there are voids. To do this, you can use a regular hammer. If there are indeed voids, they will need to be filled with a plaster mixture;
As for the alignment itself, it is in most cases that it takes a long time. As a rule, a bathroom in a new building, like most surfaces in the entire apartment, has walls and ceilings that need to be removed;
Before starting the finishing work, you need to complete all the work related to the laying of utilities. This applies to heating, plumbing and electricity. Practice shows that it is better to replace these systems immediately.
There is no need to dispose of old wall and floor coverings;
Possibility to choose any design. If your own imagination and wishes are not enough, you can see examples of photos and videos.

There is no need to dispose of old wall and floor coverings;
Possibility to choose any design. If your own imagination and wishes are not enough, you can see examples of photos and videos.

First of all, you need to do all the "dirty" work. They include the following steps:

floor screed;
alignment of walls and ceilings.

Next, you should decide where exactly the plumbing will be located. This is necessary in order to prepare in advance all the necessary channels for water pipes and other communications.

The next stage is the laying of communications, as well as a grounding device. After that, you can start installing sockets and ventilation grilles. When the preparations are fully completed, the finishing of the bathroom in the new building can be started.

The final stage is the arrangement of pieces of furniture and plumbing.

It's no secret that the services of qualified specialists are quite expensive. That is why, in most cases, those who decided to purchase a new building prefer to turn to craftsmen who came from other (not at all European, but quite the opposite) countries and who work illegally. As a rule, the cost of their work is much lower, which is crucial in most situations, but one should not forget the popular wisdom about being stingy and double payment.

In this case, it should be remembered that the illegal worker can be “found” at any time by representatives of law enforcement agencies and sent to their sunny homeland. Among other things, it is not uncommon for construction crews to receive an advance payment and, after a few days, simply disappear without even starting work. To avoid this, payment should be made after the fact, that is, as the bathroom in the new house takes on a finished look.

Another feature concerns the quality of work. The fact is that illegal builders are well aware that if low quality is revealed, the customer will not be able to contact the company and make a claim, which means that you can not particularly strain.

When choosing a construction team, you should also consider the financial side of the issue. There are often cases when the choice and purchase of building materials is entrusted directly to workers. Thus, the owner does not spend his own time traveling, but, at the same time, may become a victim of the dishonesty of specialists. This applies to both the cost of materials and their quantity. To avoid this, experts recommend not to neglect shopping trips.

An alternative is to visit construction markets and supermarkets in advance, study their assortment and prices for materials that will be needed for repairs. It is also recommended to calculate in advance the amount of material and make an estimate.

Based on the above, you should be very careful when choosing specialists. It is best if it is a construction team that officially works for a company, where it will be possible to send a claim in case of non-conformity or poor quality.

Almost always, new housing is acquired by a happy newcomer from the developer's company without interior decoration and repair, but with communications brought into the apartment. Firstly, such housing in a new building will be cheaper, and secondly, almost always the repair and arrangement of an apartment by the developer is performed extremely carelessly, using cheap materials. Thirdly, there is a desire to complete some stages of apartment renovation with your own hands or with the hands of good craftsmen.

First, you need to make an audit and inspection of the apartment, to establish problem areas of walls, ceilings and floors.Then we proceed in the following order. We determine what requires repair and finishing in the first place. If the time and money for a complete renovation of the apartment is not enough, it is necessary to put in order first of all:

Front door and windows, apartment ventilation;
Perform full and highest quality electrical wiring and wiring of sockets around the apartment. This stage must be thought out in as much detail as possible, draw up a connection diagram and a circuit for laying wires into walls;
Connect the water and collect the sewerage system in the bathroom and toilet, install a toilet bowl, washbasin and shower cabin;
If the start time of the renovation of an apartment in a new building coincided with the heating season, be sure to check the degree of heating of the aluminum registers with a remote thermometer.

In the process of carrying out the listed preparatory work, you can calculate the sequence of repairs in a new building.

Much in the repair of housing in a new building depends on the availability of time and money resources. Having bought a "bare" apartment and having issued the necessary documents for the right of ownership, you automatically start paying rent and housekeeping, for using the adjacent territory, for the removal of household waste and construction waste. After connecting electricity and water, a new apartment in a new building began to bring you a loss in the form of costs for its maintenance and decoration. The longer the repair time for an apartment in a new building, the more it will cost you.

There are two main options for approaching the issue of finishing a new apartment in a new building:

Planned renovation and decoration of the apartment. In this case, the owners draw up a detailed map and a schedule for finishing work, in which all the main types of finishing and installation of devices are prescribed in stages. Such repairs, as a rule, are carried out from scratch to completion by one team of craftsmen. The completion date of a repaired object may take several weeks or months. The disadvantages of this approach include the constantly growing price and cost of work, sometimes exceeding the cost of the estimate by more than two times. As a result, if due to unforeseen circumstances there are not enough funds, the repair can be delayed for an indefinite period.
Fast renovation from scratch. In this case, all of the above stages of repair in a new building are carried out by the hands of hired craftsmen with direct control of the quality of work on your part. An apartment in a new building within a week will be prepared for further decoration of the rooms. In addition to communications, the smallest room of the apartment is finished and equipped with temporary linoleum and wallpaper. In such a room there are still no amenities, but it can be used as housing - a temporary hut and a warehouse for building materials. All other work is performed as free funds and time become available.

The first option is well suited if the family has small children or elderly people who need to provide some comfort and convenience. The second option is considered more economical and quicker, especially if, after finishing the kitchen, bathroom, toilet and one room, the housing is rented, with the consecutive bringing the remaining rooms of the new building to condition.

Among the most popular horror stories for new buildings, it is customary to consider stories about the shrinkage of the walls of the house and its foundation. In reality, a similar process for a multi-storey building should finally be completed by the time the building is put into operation. This period is on average no more than 18 months. If, after 1.5 years, cracks form in the corners, the ceiling or at the joints and in the masonry of the walls, the tiles in the bathroom fall off, and the doors are deformed with skewed doors, this means that the new building has certain problems with the stability of the foundation. With the repair, you should wait until the main thing is clarified - what is happening with the new building.

Before starting work, first of all, inspect the lock on the front door.The model and standard equipment of the door can be subject to separate agreement. Indicate in the addendum to the contract which model of door and lock you want to install. If it becomes necessary to take additional security measures, first of all, change the lock supplied when the new building was handed over.

At the next stage, it is necessary to resolve the issue of installing an electrical switchboard, connecting an electric meter. This will make it possible to start using a power tool when repairing an apartment. To get rid of the need to use a large number of carriers and extension cords, plan the layout of the electrical wiring in the apartment. When doing this, consider the following:

For kitchens and bathrooms, wiring must be laid in sealed hoses and sleeves;
Lay a separate wire cable to the bathroom for connecting a boiler or washing machine. The cable section must be rated for a current of at least 25 A;
An additional wire must be laid to the place where the air conditioner is installed;
It is necessary to lead a wire to the bathroom, to the kitchen, to the hall, which will be connected and used in the future when organizing additional grounding.

In addition to electricity, to create more or less normal conditions, it is necessary to connect hot and cold water meters and collect sewage in the bathroom and toilet. It is necessary to start work with the installation of a toilet and a washbasin.

Considering that good plumbing is expensive, for the first time you can install an inexpensive toilet bowl, assemble and connect plastic sewer pipes, a bellows and a washbasin sink. During the renovation of an apartment, plumbing can be replaced at any time. The installation of expensive plumbing increases the risk of damage to it during the repair; it must be installed at the final stage of the renovation of a new building.

To lay a plastic water supply using a perforator, we pierce channels in the walls of the bathroom, toilet, kitchen with a depth of 2.5-3 cm. Next, you need to solder the water pipes and connect the leads to the cistern and washbasin. Finally, we will install and connect cold and hot water meters to the domestic water supply system.

Before starting work, you will need to perform a large amount of cleaning the remnants of concrete and mortar. The main part will be for rough cleaning of walls, floor, ceiling, their chasing, alignment and trimming of seams. Such work gives a large amount of dirt and dust, so it will be necessary to organize good ventilation and wet cleaning inside the new building.

A separate point is to highlight the preparation of floors in each of the rooms for finishing. During the repairs in the apartment, it will be necessary to close up all the cracks, holes in the seams between the slabs, in the floor, in the interior walls of the new building. The most difficult thing will be leveling the floor with a cement mortar screed and reinforcing mesh. This procedure will need to be performed upon completion of the preparation of the walls and ceiling for finishing.

We will perform similar work in the kitchen, bathroom and toilet.

After rough cleaning, it will be necessary to prepare the walls in the kitchen and toilet for laying tiles on the walls and floors. Facing tiles can be laid with your own hands, but it is troublesome and takes a lot of time. Therefore, it is better to entrust the laying of tiles to masters specializing in this kind of finish. While the tiles are being laid, you can do your own repairs in one of the rooms of the apartment. The best option would be to lay decorative plaster or liquid wallpaper on the walls. If at the time of the start of repairs in the apartment of the new building the double-glazed windows in the windows were in a satisfactory condition, then you can start applying plaster on the walls of the room immediately.

Upon completion of the laying of tiles on the floor and walls in the kitchen, bathroom and toilet, you need to lay inexpensive linoleum in the corridor connecting these three rooms and the room in which the renovation was carried out using decorative plaster. This will reduce the amount of dust being raised and make cleaning the apartment easier.

Before finishing the walls in the apartment, it is necessary to align, and if a defect is found, to repair the interior doors. If your future plans include wallpapering, normally closing doors are essential for high-quality wallpapering. After the wall decoration is completed, we proceed to laying linoleum, laminate or carpet on the floor of the apartment. The most practical is considered to be a laminate for living rooms; for a corridor, an office version of linoleum with increased abrasion resistance. This type of work does not require special qualifications and is easily done with your own hands during the renovation of a new building apartment.

The final stage of the renovation is the connection of lamps and the installation of furniture in the apartment. Approximately 70% of the volume of work during repairs in a new building is quite available for doing it yourself. And only when performing special types of finishing - laying parquet, installing stretch ceilings, installing double-glazed windows or entrance doors in a new building, you will need the services of specialists.

Step-by-step instructions for repairing a bathroom and toilet.According to most finishers, repairs in an apartment should be started from the bathroom. Let me explain why: this is the dirtiest and dustiest part of the renovation, requiring not only the dismantling of old tiles, plumbing fixtures, doors, and sometimes the entire bathroom walls.So the first thing we do is we take out the old plumbing: a bath, a sink, a toilet bowl ... Everything that costs, weighs, lies.• Next stage: with the help of a grinder we cut off all the old pipes to the crane located on the riser.• Using a punch, knock down the old tiles.It is important if the plaster under the tiles moves away from the wall, bunches ... it must also be beaten off.• We dismantle the old door together with the box.• Change risers... Now we turn our attention to the plumbing and sewer risers. This is a very important part of the renovation and must be changed. After renovation it will be very problematic. If you are not a specialist in plumbing work, then to replace the risers, it is better to invite qualified craftsmen, but you can do the internal wiring of the water supply yourself.• Checking the hood... Let's move on to the hood. If we do not want the bathroom to be stuffy, we need to check the operation of the hood. To do this, we bring a burning candle to the hood and evaluate its work by the tongue of the flame: the better the hood works, the more intensely the flame is sucked into the chimney pipe. If the hood does not work correctly, we either clean it or install a fan in it.• We ground the walls... At the next stage, I propose to clean up properly: take a broom and sweep out all the debris and dust from the bathroom. After all the dust has settled, we take a deep penetration primer and prime the walls.• Installing beacons... After the primer has completely dried, we install beacons for further plastering of the bathroom. Lighthouses must be installed strictly according to the level, observing the plane of the wall and maintaining angles of 90 degrees.• Plastering walls... Have you installed the lighthouses? Let's start plastering. To do this, we need a rule, a spatula, a drill and a drill mixer attachment. Bathrooms are plastered, as a rule, with dry gypsum mixtures, since there is no shortage of them on the market. I usually use Rotband plaster. We take a bucket of 12 liters and prepare a solution in it as written in the instructions. Using a spatula, we throw a solution between the beacons of one wall 50 centimeters from the floor. Then we take the rule, press it against the lighthouses and pull it up - we get a flat surface. We remove superfluous from the rule.And so on all the walls - from floor to ceiling. There are not large pits left - it does not matter - then we level them with a spatula. If everything is smooth and beautiful, then you have coped with the task.• Leveling the floors... The next stage is the floors. We level them with the help of "self-leveling floors". We dilute the mixture as stated in the instructions, you can even slightly - a little thinner, and spread it all over the floor using a needle roller. After drying, the walls and floors, just in case, we check by level, we eliminate unevenness.• We make a detailed plan of the bathroom... At the next stage, we must decide on the design of the bathroom, where? as? and at what height? there will be a bath, a sink, a mirror, a washing machine (if any), a towel dryer, a toilet bowl, a box covering the risers. To do this, we take a tape measure and measure our bathroom - after plastering, the dimensions have changed. Then we take a pencil and a sheet of paper, and sketch everything. Let's call this a bathroom plan. For the plan to be accurate, at this stage, we need to buy all the bathroom objects. It is important to remember: if the bathtub is tied to the size (I mean that your bathtub is not half a football field, but for example 1m.70cm by 1m.50cm), then the bath should be bought as long as possible. And if your size is 1m.68cm. - you need to buy a bath for 1m.70cm. Then 2cm. screw it up. With this sort of sorted out.

If the floor has not been waterproofed for a long time in the bathroom, then the screed will have to be dismantled. In this case, a moisture-proof film is laid on the floor slabs, protecting the neighbors from below from possible leaks, and a new base floor is created.The screed fill can be prepared from a mixture of sand, cement and water. This option for creating a floor is budgetary, but it has a significant disadvantage - it will take a month for the cement screed to completely harden... Such long delays in bathroom renovation can be avoided by using modern self-leveling pastes when installing the floor screed. Their use will make it possible to obtain a flat floor surface in a short time, which will greatly simplify the laying of the floor covering.

Updates carried out in a residential area often apply to a bathroom. In this regard, individual property owners need to know exactly - where to start self-repairs? In this case, the initial steps should be the same as when repairing a separate bathroom.

At the stage of rough finishing of the bathroom, they carry out:

punching grooves in the walls to accommodate electrical cables and water pipes;
alignment of all surfaces of the room;
installation of a warm floor (if any);
laying of water and sewer pipes;
replacement of electrical wiring.

Walls and ceilings are leveled in the process of plastering, which is quite difficult to carry out with high quality without certain skills. Perfectly flat wall surfaces are obtained if they are sheathed with waterproof plasterboard. This material is attached to the lathing, which is made from timber or metal profiles. The joints of the sheets are sealed with a serpyanka and putty.

"Advice:" For bathrooms, moisture-resistant drywall is best suited. Its leaves are green

Warm floor is used as an additional heating system. There are two types of it - electric and water. In apartments, the heat carrier, most often, becomes an electric cable, and in cottages - hot water from a heating boiler. Installation of a warm floor is not difficult and, depending on its type, is carried out at the stage of filling the screed or before laying the floor covering.

After the walls are leveled, they begin to replace the water pipes. Metal structures requiring welding are a thing of the past. They were replaced by PVC pipes, which are either twisted together using fittings, or are soldered with a construction iron. Any man can now handle this job.

"Forbidden:" When installing plastic pipes, excessive stress and kinks must not be allowed. Such a pipe will not last long.

Forbidden. in the absence of the necessary knowledge of electrical engineering and work experience as an electrician, independently change the electrical wiring in the house. Such self-activity is fraught with fires and electric shock to people.

The laying of the electrical cable should be entrusted to the employees of one of the many specialized companies, which will give a guarantee for the work performed.

Initial knowledge of where to start a repair will not be enough to complete it successfully. Each stage of repair work has its own characteristics and nuances.

Advice. finishing work in the bathroom begins from the ceiling only if it is supposed to be painted. Otherwise, proceed to the wall cladding of the bathroom.

In connection with operation in an aggressive environment, special requirements are imposed on building and finishing materials for the bathroom. They must be moisture resistant and not lose their aesthetic appearance over a long service life.

The following are the main options for finishing the walls of the bathroom:

Wall decoration of the bathroom with PVC panels. This is the cheapest option. Installation is very simple and does not require skills and time consuming. Along one of the corners of the room, with the help of self-tapping screws, a special plastic corner is attached. A panel is inserted from one side of it, then the other is butted to it, and so on.The junction of the panels and the ceiling is glued with a curb, and with the floor - with a plinth;
Stone cladding slabs are expensive and require some skill when decorating the walls with them. It is not recommended to install them on your own. Even minor violations of technology made during their installation can cause serious defects in the wall cladding;
Tiles are ideal and therefore the most popular finishing material. Its installation can be handled without much difficulty.

To work, the wizard will need the following set of tools and materials:

a tile cutter with a spare knife;

drills "ballerinas";

straight and notched trowels;

level;

a sufficient number of plastic "crosses".

Advice. In the process of working with tiles, some of it may become unusable, so you will need to have a small surplus of this material (about 1 sq. M.). When renovating a bathroom in Khrushchev, due to the small size of the room, this stock of tiles can be limited to 0.5 sq. m.Notches are made on the aligned walls of the bathroom, which are needed for their better adhesion to the tile adhesive. Then, they calculate the number of tiles that will fit in one horizontal and one vertical row. This is done so that incomplete tiles are placed in inconspicuous places, for example, behind the bathroom. Tile adhesive should be of the desired consistency, medium in density.Facing with tiles begins from any lower corner of the room. Using an even trowel, the glue is applied to the wall section. A second, similar tool is used to apply glue to the back of the tile. The glue mass is leveled, and the tiles are firmly pressed against the wall. If the tile is not skewed (it is best to check with a level), then spacers (crosses) are placed between it, the wall and the floor. Their presence will allow you to maintain the same distance between the individual elements of the tiled wall. Image - DIY toilet repair in a new building

After finishing the cladding work, the joints between the tiles are processed with a suitable color grout. It is applied with a roller, and its excess is immediately removed from the surface of the tile.

Floor tiles are used as flooring for the bathroom. It is superior in size to wall tiles, but the installation process is the same as for wall tiles. Property owners also have the opportunity to choose one of the options for decorating the ceiling:

painting its surface with emulsion paint;
false ceiling installation;
installation of a tension cloth.

In order for the paint to lay in an even layer, and there are no streaks on the surface of the ceiling, it is necessary to use a spray gun when applying it. Installation of a suspended ceiling is also not particularly difficult. When installed, a frame is created at a distance of 3 cm from the base ceiling. Elements of the suspended structure are embedded in its cells.

A stretch ceiling can become an original decoration of the bathroom. However, it will not be possible to install it on our own - this will require special equipment in the form of a heat gun or a construction hair dryer.

To repair a bathroom in a new building, you should always use the services of professionals who can carry it out, taking into account the upcoming shrinkage of the house.

This completes the bathroom renovation, and all that remains is to install plumbing equipment.

Buying a new apartment is a joyful event for any person. It is especially pleasant to get ownership of an apartment in a new building, in which no one has lived before. As a rule, apartments in new buildings do not have any repairs. The owners can see the walls without any decoration, electrical wires and plumbing pipes. To turn rooms with bare walls into cozy and comfortable rooms for living, you need to make some effort, gradually completing a number of important activities.

DIY repair in a new building

This is what a newly built apartment looks like.

Bare walls - plenty of room for action

Do not buy expensive building and finishing materials for the first renovation in a new building. The building will shrink for several years, under the influence of which the finish can significantly deform and even completely collapse. In view of this, experts recommend giving preference to unpretentious and plastic materials.

New high-rise buildings will shrink for a few more years.

Plan your renovation carefully. It is not necessary to draw up many drawings detailing various sizes and important nuances. Simple sketches will suffice. Think about whether you will be redeveloping the apartment, what materials, in your opinion, will best fit into the interior of the premises, where lighting fixtures and sockets should be installed, etc.

Remember: proper preparation before starting work will save money, effort and time in the future.

It is best to start repairs in a new building with a rough surface preparation. Align the ceiling and walls. For these activities, you will need spatulas, a trowel, and different sized rules. Pre-clean surfaces from dirt and dust. Perform leveling with ordinary plaster mixture. Recommendations for the preparation and use of the formulations are usually given directly on the package.

Plastering walls on lighthouses

Throw in the solution along the markup

We do the markings, pull the guide threads and install a few more beacons

We throw the solution onto the new wall of your apartment

We rub the grooves with a solution

Before plastering, the walls must be impregnated with a primer. It will provide a better and more reliable adhesion of the plaster to the surface.

If the thickness of the plaster layer is more than 3 cm, it is recommended to carry out the work in two stages. At the first stage, the surfaces are simply leveled, at the second, they must be carefully ironed.

Apply the first layer of the mixture with a trowel. Thoroughly level the plaster and let it dry completely. Apply a primer to the dry layer of plaster, let it dry, and then apply a second layer of plaster. The application procedure remains the same, but this layer must be smoothed as efficiently as possible. Periodically check the evenness of the plaster with a spirit level.

Piping in a new building

Plumbing installation is a rather difficult stage of apartment renovation

After the surfaces are completely dry, you can proceed to the finishing decoration of the walls and ceiling. However, before that, it is recommended to install plumbing fixtures, and, if necessary, mount (replace) double-glazed windows and doors, so as not to damage the finish in the future.

The rough preparation of the walls has already been completed, therefore, in the future, new door frames and double-glazed windows will not be stained with plaster and putty. If there are doors, dismantle them together with the frame, because new canvases usually come with their own boxes.

Plumbing installation can also be done in-house. Domestic users most often prefer toilets with horizontal outlet. The installation of such a toilet bowl is reduced to its connection to the sewer pipe. The legs are usually rigidly screwed to the floor. Usually, installation instructions are included with the toilet, so there will be no special problems with this.

The installation of the remaining plumbing fixtures is at the discretion of the owner.

Installing an acrylic bathtub

Diagram of connecting the sink and bathtub to hot and cold water and sewerage pipelines

Choosing wallpaper for the room

In the previous steps, you leveled the surfaces and prepared them for finishing, so you don't have to carry out any additional preparatory measures.

For wall decoration in living rooms, wallpaper is usually used. Choose the finishing material for the ceiling yourself. During the first repairs in a new building, it is better to limit yourself to ordinary plastering or painting, because the building, as noted, will shrink, as a result of which the finish may collapse. It is better to use more expensive finishing options within a few years after buying an apartment.

The technology of applying paint to the surface in several layers

When painting walls, fantasize

Make the walls in the kitchen and bathroom at your discretion. Typically, such premises are decorated with ceramic tiles.

In the bathroom, we put tiles on the wall and floor

Laying tiles on the wall with your own hands

When choosing a ceiling finish, start from your preferences and available budget. Inexpensive finishes can be done using:

paints;
whitewash;
wallpaper;
foam tiles.

Styrofoam ceiling tiles

How to glue ceiling tiles

Ceiling tile gluing options

The surface must be leveled before using any of the above finishes. As a standard, putty and primer are used for leveling.
Among the more expensive and interesting options for decorating the ceiling, one should highlight:

installation of plasterboard structures. First, guide profiles are attached to the surfaces, after which drywall sheets are fixed to them. Using drywall, you can equip both simple single-tier and complex multi-tiered curly structures. Also, this finish allows you to hide the wiring, elements of the ventilation system and other communications, which is very convenient;
arrangement of stretch fabrics. The PVC film is stretched and secured to the pre-assembled frame. The installation procedure is more complicated than in the case of plasterboard structures, because when performing repairs, it becomes necessary to use a special heat gun;
plastic hinged structures. Also attached to the frame. The main advantages are: ease of installation, high assembly speed, low cost and beautiful appearance.

Stretch ceiling installation diagram

Scheme of a two-level plasterboard ceiling

As a rule, when a newly built house is delivered, there is wiring in it, but there are no electrical appliances, or their quality leaves much to be desired. After finishing the ceiling and walls, proceed with the installation of outlets, switches and lights. Remember the elementary precautions: you can work with an electrician only after the apartment is completely de-energized. Choose the location for the installation of sockets and lighting devices at your discretion.

Remember safety precautions!

Repair in a new building traditionally ends with the arrangement of the floor. As a rule, the condition of the floors in newly commissioned houses is poor. If the house is built of concrete panels and the apartments were handed over in a draft version, the screed must be poured.

Screed cracks (new building)

A screed is a layer of concrete mortar poured over the sub-floor and necessary to level the base. There are several types of this alignment. The most popular and easiest to do it yourself is a wet screed. All work comes down to eliminating irregularities and cracks with a concrete solution.