How to legalize the redevelopment of an apartment

Consultants: consultant for the approval of redevelopment Yulia Yudenich, deputy head of the information department of the Moscow Housing Inspection Tatyana Filippova.

Is it possible to attach a loggia to the room?

In theory, yes. In the Law of the city of Moscow there is a phrase that seems to allow such redevelopment: “joining the loggia to the living room according to a specially developed project approved by the Moscow Committee for Architecture and Construction.” But I will say, relying on personal experience and the experience of my colleagues: over the past two years, no one has been able to receive such a permit officially. The fact is that according to the BTI, the loggia has a payment coefficient of 0,3, since this is a non-residential premises. This means that the first thing to do is to transfer the loggia from the status of a non-residential premises to a residential one. I do not know of a single “coordinator” who has gone from the prefecture to the Moscow Committee for Architecture and Construction to the end. There was one desperate man, but he was answered: “Yes, connect, but then all over the riser.” The thing is that if the loggia is connected only in one apartment, heat exchange is disturbed. Freezing, leaks, mold – this is what the neighbors from below can face after such a seizure of territories. The law says that it is strictly forbidden to take out water heating devices (central heating batteries) to the loggia. Even if you admit (although this is prohibited!) That you are insulating the loggia, use only electric heating devices.

As a rule, we offer customers such a scheme. First, you should remove the window sill area. In those houses that are glazed according to a single project, for example, in new buildings, this is easier to do – removing the window sill is regarded as an internal redevelopment, and there is no need to obtain permits for reconstruction. In old houses, where a single glazing of loggias is not provided, such a permit will have to be obtained. It is expensive but possible. In any case, a double-glazed unit must be installed in the resulting opening – so that the thermal circuit is not disturbed. By the way, many, having approved the redevelopment, remove it – until the next inspection of the BTI …

Do I need to coordinate the combination of the kitchen with the living room?

The main rule: the sink (the so-called “wet zone”) and the stove should not be located above the living quarters of neighbors. If you have a gas stove, then there are more problems. In order to extend gas to a new location, you will have to do a separate project that must satisfy a number of requirements – lighting, the presence of a window in the room, and so on … (By the way, replacing gas with electricity is expensive, difficult, but possible.) If you have an electric stove , it is a little easier to carry out the operation called “moving the kitchen”. You can, for example, arrange a so-called kitchen-niche, that is, place it in a non-residential area (for example, in a corridor, hallway, closet or in the place of one of the bathrooms). It is also difficult to agree on this, but quite realistic. You can put the stove and sink strictly in the corridor area, and all other kitchen furniture, as well as the refrigerator and dining table, in the living area. This space should be called the kitchen-dining room. And this is of fundamental importance, because if your plan says “kitchen-living room”, they will not agree on it, but if “kitchen-dining room”, they will agree. By the way, on the first floor (or on the second, provided that there is a non-residential premises below) there is much more freedom.

When cleaning a pantry, do I need to make out a redevelopment?

The works that can be performed without registration of design and permits include:

1. Repair (cosmetic) of premises, including the replacement of finishing coatings of walls, floors, ceilings, external joinery elements (without changing the pattern and color of the latter). *
2. Arrangement (disassembly) of built-in furniture: cabinets, mezzanines (not forming independent rooms, the area of ​​which is subject to technical accounting).
3. Replacement (without rearrangement) of engineering equipment with similar parameters and technical device.
4. Rearrangement of household floor electric stoves in the dimensions of the kitchen room.

Since we are not talking about built-in furniture, but about a pantry, then, if the supporting structures and utilities are not affected, the redevelopment can be coordinated according to a sketch made by hand on a copy of the BTI floor plan.

In addition, you must submit:

• title documents for the premises,
• technical passport of the apartment,
• sketch,
• application in the prescribed form.

* As amended by the decree of the Moscow government dated September 25.09.2007, 831 No. XNUMX-PP.

Based on materials from the ELLE DECOR magazine and the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.