Acceptance of a finished apartment in a new building 
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Acceptance of a new apartment with finishing in a new building is a very important and responsible process. This is a job that needs to be approached very carefully and seriously. We will omit the process of document verification and consider the procedure for inspecting the apartment itself in order to check the finishing and everything that the developer promised to do.
If there are signals from other owners or doubts that the apartment is being rented to you in perfect condition with impeccable compliance with all building codes and clauses of the contract, my urgent advice is to find a professional receiver and go to accept the apartment with him. This is a specialist who will find all the shortcomings and explain how to get the developer to correct them. This is an inexpensive service that pays for itself many times over in almost 100% of cases with modern quality construction. Here is a link as a guide to what you need: https://legalmill.ru/priemka.php , this is a well-known company that operates in this industry in Moscow. It is advisable to start the process of inspecting and accepting an apartment with finishing from the common corridor, but we will only touch on the apartment.
You should start your inspection from the front door. You need to check the door for scratches, chips, holes and cracks. The handle and lock of the front door should open and close easily, and the key should fit into the lock without effort. If the door is opened and the door leaf begins to move on its own, no matter in which direction, this is already an indicator that the door is not level. It is advisable to also check the front door peephole and bell for functionality; any malfunction or defect is best recorded immediately.
In the hallway you need to carefully look for finishing defects. When inspecting the wall decoration, the joints of the wallpaper should not be visible, there should be no bubbles, creases, peelings (neither the wallpaper nor the plaster layer), and there should be no traces of painting. All sockets and switches must be checked for functionality; distribution boxes must be closed with lids. It is also important to check the floor covering for defects; these could be chips, ledges, cracks, stains from polyurethane foam. All defects found should be written down and, if possible, circled with an easily erasable marker. The ceiling must be the same color, without peeling, stains or traces of leakage.
The inspection in the rooms is the same as in the hallway. You can check whether the walls under the wallpaper are horizontally level using the rule. The verticality of the walls can be checked with a plumb line or using a level. Quite often, under normal lighting, wallpaper defects are invisible, so don’t hesitate to shine a flashlight along the wall; usually, with such light, all the defects are immediately visible. After inspecting the walls, sockets, switches and flooring, be sure to inspect the double-glazed windows and window unit for scratches, chips, as well as the window sill and slopes. Radiators must be installed strictly vertically; you can also gently pull them to check if they are securely fastened. Interior doors should also be carefully inspected for scratches, chips, and excess sealant (which masks defects).
In the kitchen, in addition to the same checks as in the rooms, you need to check the water supply connections, whether there are any traces of dampness, whether the electrical cable is routed under the stove, and whether it is working.
We are slowly approaching the bathroom inspection. Inspection and inspection of the bathroom should be carried out very carefully. A good place to start is by identifying voids under wall and floor tiles. You can detect voids by lightly tapping different parts of one tile; if the sound is loud, there is a void under the tile. If you miss this moment, then the tiles may peel off from the walls in the future. It is also very important to check whether there are any traces of dampness near the risers, whether the taps on the pipes are tight, whether cold and hot water flows from all taps, whether the toilet tank flushes. If the drain of the bathtub or shower stall is leaking, it is best to mark all defects found with a marker for further elimination. The ceiling must also be free of defects, scratches and cracks.
On a balcony or loggia, you need to inspect all double-glazed windows for scratches or cracks, open and close all windows that should open, inspect the floor screed for holes and cracks.
It is also important to check the functionality of the ventilation; this can be done with a piece of paper or a lighter. You need to open the window, close the front door, and bring a leaf or lighter to the hood, if the leaf is pulled into the shaft, then everything is working.
If, after inspecting the apartment, you have identified shortcomings and defects, you have the right to demand that the developer eliminate all comments. The developer, in turn, can fix everything himself, or compensate the apartment owner for the costs of eliminating defects.
It is very important to know that if you overlooked something and moved into an apartment, the developer gives a five-year warranty on the house and a three-year warranty on engineering equipment. If suddenly defects appear after some time, the plaster layer on the wall suddenly peels off, or a tile in the bathroom falls, you can contact the developer, and these defects will be corrected for you under warranty free of charge.