Contents
- What not to do when redeveloping an apartment
- Mistake 1. Moving the kitchen to the living room
- Mistake 2. Placing a bathroom above the living room or kitchen of a neighbor on the floor below
- Mistake 3. Attaching the loggia to the kitchen or room
- Mistake 4. Leaving the bathroom directly to the living room
- Mistake 5. Dismantling of ventilation shafts and ducts, including partial
- Mistake 6. Combining a kitchen with a gas stove and a living room
What not to do when redeveloping an apartment
Even designers, when creating a layout, do not always take into account all the subtleties of housing legislation. And then you have to redo everything.
What is the first thing owners do when they receive the keys to a new apartment? That’s right, repair. Sometimes they change everything: not only windows and floors, but also the layout. Well, why not? My own territory, whatever I want, I turn it over. But in fact, there can be big problems with “what I want”.
“Recently we were at the handover of keys in an elite residential complex in Moscow. When issuing the keys, the customers provided their planning solutions, which were going to be implemented in new apartments. Most of the projects were developed by design studios and private designers. Our initial analysis of the plans revealed that more than 70% of planning decisions contain violations that will be impossible to legalize in the future, ”says Alexey Parshin, head of the Gorod agency.
Especially for Wday.ru, the expert has compiled the top of the most common mistakes in housing planning.
Mistake 1. Moving the kitchen to the living room
Designers often resort to this move to expand the space, to recreate a living room with a kitchen on the principle of a studio.
What for: more often this decision is imposed by homeowners. After all, there are sewer and water supply risers nearby, you can make good waterproofing. Well, the last argument – the neighbor transferred it, and I will transfer it.
Why not: placing the kitchen above the living room of the apartment below is prohibited.
Alternative solutions:
– combining the kitchen and the room (provided that there is no gas equipment in the kitchen),
– moving the kitchen to the corridor or pantry, provided that at least 5 square meters are allocated in this utility room for the placement of the kitchen niche,
– Expansion of the kitchen at the expense of a pantry or a corridor.
Mistake 2. Placing a bathroom above the living room or kitchen of a neighbor on the floor below
What for: this change is also more often lobbied by homeowners themselves, referring to the fact that “the kitchen and the bathroom are one and the same, and both are a wet spot.
Why not: for the Moscow Housing Inspection, the concept of a “wet spot” does not exist. Projects with a bathroom extension at the expense of kitchen space are regularly rejected. Moreover, expanding the kitchen at the expense of a bathroom is also prohibited, since the bathroom of a neighbor who lives on the floor above will be located above your kitchen, and MZH does not allow this. If earlier in this case it was possible to write a consent to the deterioration of their own living conditions, now there is no such practice.
Mistake 3. Attaching the loggia to the kitchen or room
What for: the reasons are obvious – the desire to expand the living space at the expense of the loggia.
Why not: according to Resolution 508 on the territory of Moscow, the joining of loggias to the warm circuit of the apartment is prohibited. In the matter of agreeing on such a change, neither heat engineering calculation, nor good insulation of the loggia, nor the installation of additional electric convectors will help. Projects with the combination of a loggia and a room will receive a XNUMX% refusal in the MJI.
Alternative solution: you can dismantle the window sill, move the radiator and install a French window in the renovated room or kitchen. This technique is gaining great popularity, since the light in the room (kitchen) becomes much more. At the same time, no one forbids insulating the loggia and making it there, for example, an office.
Mistake 4. Leaving the bathroom directly to the living room
What for: nevertheless, it is convenient to get out of bed and go to the toilet without leaving the corridor.
Why not: according to the legislation, the exit from the bathroom should be directed to the corridor or hall.
Alternative solution: the exception is apartments with two bathrooms: one goes to the corridor, and the second to the bedroom.
Mistake 5. Dismantling of ventilation shafts and ducts, including partial
What for: for reasons of aesthetics.
Why not: according to the Housing Code, ventilation shafts and communication boxes belong to the common property of all house owners, and reducing their dimensions is prohibited. In this matter, it is important to build on the dimensions of the boxes indicated in the technical passport of the BTI for the apartment. In fact, you should keep exactly these dimensions! The owners are especially outraged by situations when the developer has not sheathed communications at all, and the owner has to sheathe them on his own, and not right next to the communications, but according to the BTI plan.
“Unfortunately, under the myth of ‘free planning’, developers impose on the owners the costs of erecting walls and boxes according to the BTI plan,” explains our expert.
Mistake 6. Combining a kitchen with a gas stove and a living room
What for: see point one – the desire to create a living room with a kitchen, a kind of studio.
Why not: such an association is contrary to fire regulations.
Alternative solution: you can turn off the gas in the apartment and increase the electrical power supplied to the apartment (to power the electric stove). It is also permissible to install a sliding partition between the kitchen and the room. This technique is often used by designers to visually combine spaces and at the same time comply with the law.
“It is clear that the owner cannot and is not obliged to know about all the nuances of legislation. However, it is still necessary to consult in time about the layout drawn up by the designer. Otherwise, everything will have to be demolished and done again – already according to the law, ”concludes Alexey Parshin.