We tell me that it is possible and cannot be changed in the kitchen, as well as what documents you need to make changes.
Reference to the kitchen in a Khrushchev or any other house cannot be started without making permission if you decide to transfer walls or engineering systems. First you need to get a technical passport for an apartment and a house, it is issued to the technical inventory bureau (BTI). Plus you have to assemble a package of documents: those that confirm that you are the owner, the consent of the owners, as well as the ready-made draft of the new redevelopment. After all this needs to be provided to the state housing inspection of your city, which, according to the result, can give you permission for future changes or, on the contrary, refuse them. About what can accurately approve, and what is not, will be discussed in our article.
All about redeveloping kitchen
Demolition of wallsIncreased by residential rooms
Union with balcony loggia
Ventilation change
Transferring communications
Increase at the expense of non-residential rooms
1 demolition wall between kitchen and room
In any residential building, it is forbidden to demolish the bearing walls, and it does not matter, between which rooms they pass. If your apartment carrying structures share the kitchen space and the room adjacent to it, unfortunately, you will not be able to transfer their borders. The only way to improve the interior is to do in such a wall with an additional strengthening, for example, a frame of steel. Such a change is theoretically possible, however, to practically legalize such a kitchen union with a room is very difficult. In the hill scope will be repelled on what floor there is an apartment (if high, then the load on the supporting structures is much greater) and how thick you have walls. Also a lot depends on the type of house and its design features.
If the wall is not carrier, demolished or move it. But here there are nuances. If the gas is carried out in your apartment and it is a gas stove, then according to the rules between residential and kitchen premises, there must be a barrier and the door. This requires safety.
Redeveloping a kitchen with a gas stove is possible under the following conditions: First, you can brew gas (do it must make gas supplies), in this case you can put the electric stove and make the opening you need. Secondly, the Rule has a loophole: you can carry the walls between the kitchen space and the room, but in return to put the sliding partition. However, security in this case still suffers, because, most likely, most of the door you will keep open. We advise you to put the gas sensors so that when you have a dangerous situation, it is time to react on time. And one more important point: it is impossible to make the entrance to the kitchen with a gas stove from the dwelling, if it is the only one.
2 Transfer and expansion at the expense of residential rooms
Transfer of kitchen space into a place that was not for this purpose can only be implemented in two cases: if your apartment is located on the first floor or is over a non-residential room, for example, shop. In other cases, it is impossible to transfer, as it is written in the norms that wet zones (i.e. bathrooms and kitchens) cannot be above the premises that are considered residents.
In this case, there is also a loophole: if you want to expand the space at least visually, you can leave wet zones in our places, and technique and furniture are out of the kitchen room. In this case, the space for cooking will seem more, but you will have to use part of the area of the next room, which will make it less.
3 Association with a balcony or loggia
This most difficult version of redeveloping the kitchen, the coordination of which is most often impossible. The balcony and loggia are designs, the load on which is strictly limited. The square meter of the balcony plate can withstand 200-250 kg (with each year of operation, these figures decrease by 1%), the "square" of the loggia is designed for 400 kg.
It is impossible to attach a balcony to the kitchen, as it is very dangerous and the stove may not withstand the load, because you will have to put fat double glazed windows, insulate the walls and floor. Another reason for the prohibition is a violation of the thermal contour of the house, because of which the room will be much colder. For a senior alteration threatens a fine, and you are also obliged to return the source species to the balcony.
The joining of the loggia is also a very complex process that requires compulsory harmonization and thorough engineering calculations. You need to know that the loggia has elements whose demolition is prohibited. For example, the spawns (a small part of the wall under the door) is a supporting structure, so it is impossible to remove it and do a smooth filling floor. Sleeple (parts of the walls near the windows) belong to the fire system of the building, in the apartments above the fifth floor it is impossible to shorten them. The windows block (wall under the window) is allowed to demolish if it does not apply to the supporting structure, but it can be done only after thorough calculations.
The only possible option for the full joining of the loggia to the kitchen is to replace the wall on the glass partition (French windows). You will need to prepare a project performed by professionals. They will determine which structures can be removed, and which one cannot be touched, and also calculate the necessary thermal insulation characteristics of windows. It is important to understand that the latners are not able to keep heat as well as the walls. Therefore, the room can be colder, and condensate will begin on the glass.
4 Changing the ventilation holes
The general requirement that concerns not only the premises where we are preparing food, but also all rooms where there is ventilation - it is impossible to clean or decrease it. Since the mine does not belong to you, but refers to public property, you are not right to change its design. For this, the law may face a fine, and you will also be forced at your own expense to restore the spoiled hole.
5 Transfer of communications, sink and stove
We have already mentioned such a thing as wet zones. These include washing and plumbing communications. It is impossible to endure them outside the zone. However, if you just want to move the sink to another place, the resolution and plan are not needed. In other cases, for example, transfer to the window or to the island, you will need agreement.
If you have an electric stove, then there are no prohibitions for the transfer inside the kitchen space. With the gas stove, the case is much more serious: it is possible to rearrange it only after the approval of the new plan. At the same time, there is a whole good of prohibitions that need to be remembered even after the coordination of the project: it is impossible to strike the carrying walls for laying new pipes and affect gas trunk risers, it is also forbidden to close the pipes and restrict access to the valves.
6 Transfer from non-residential premises
Another question that worries many owners of apartments with a small area: Is it possible to combine the kitchen with a non-residential room, such as storage room? The answer to the last question is positive. You can expand the kitchen space at the expense of the corridor, pantry or hallway. Other non-residential zones are banned: to attach the bathrooms can not be changed in some places with them - too. Also, the only entrance to the bathroom cannot be from the kitchen room.
In the case of the pantry, the rules allow its complete accession, if you do not have a gas stove and gas has not been carried out. In the resulting niche, if it is not very big, many have a refrigerator or a washing machine. In a large space, you can even arrange a dining room or a seating area.
