The area and location of the kitchen relative to other rooms in standard apartment layouts do not always suit the owners. The owners decide to expand the space by adding a balcony or loggia. Such repairs require the destruction, transfer, installation of partitions, therefore, before starting work, it is necessary to obtain permission from the administrative authorities. Coordination of the redevelopment of a balcony or loggia is carried out in the BTI.

How to legalize the association of a loggia or balcony with a kitchen

From a technical point of view, an increase in living space due to the addition of non-residential space not only requires the dismantling of the partition, window and door unit (with the exception of the threshold), but also increases the load on the heating system. That is why the coordination of the redevelopment of the balcony is difficult.

But there is a solution: install a transparent glass partition like French windows with a sliding door. The technical plan of the apartment in this case will fully comply with the redevelopment. Some owners make the partition removable and install it only for the duration of the inspection. Glazing to the floor will solve the issue of legitimizing redevelopment, but will not eliminate the need for high-quality insulation of a balcony or loggia.

To obtain a new technical plan, a project will be required indicating the partition and detailed thermal engineering calculations confirming the possibility of such changes.

Approval procedure

The approval process in our company is carried out in one of two ways:

• We prepare documents, develop a project and transfer it to the customer. The owner independently submits an application for approval of the redevelopment of the balcony through the MFC.
• The customer draws up a power of attorney for our company, and we take care of all the hassle of transferring documents and obtaining permission.

The turnkey redevelopment approval service is convenient for those who do not have the time or opportunity to personally deal with documents.

Such a laborious process as joining a loggia to the kitchen justifies itself by a significant expansion of the functionality of the usable area of ​​this part of the apartment. Due to several square meters, there is more "calm" in the dining area and space in the cooking sector.

Significant aspects of the reorganization

Before diving headlong into the design of the future kitchen, it is necessary to solve a number of organizational and technical issues. In the project for the development of a new territory, it is necessary to highlight:

• necessary changes in the loggia fencing (glazing, insulation, cladding);
• transfer, creation of additional points of the electrical network (lighting, sockets);
• heating source;
• output of pipelines of water supply, gas, sewerage;
• the amount of furniture and household appliances outdoor placement.

It is necessary to commensurate the desire to attach a loggia with the restrictions imposed by the legislation, the bearing capacity of the structures and the allocated budget for financing each stage.

Legalization

The redevelopment of a residential apartment is carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation (Articles 25, 26).

Reorganization and redevelopment, including actions to replace, relocate, install equipment, networks, change the location of walls (partitions), require changes to the technical passport of the apartment. This is what BTI does.

An expert opinion on the possibility of making the desired alterations is issued by a specialized design organization. Coordination takes place in the department of architecture, supervisory authorities. When accepting work, specialists from the operating organization are present.

Documents to be collected:

• project;
• application with copies of the identity card;
• information about the composition of the family;
• consent of all registered tenants for redevelopment;
• extract from the personal account (issued by the house management);
• certificate of non-affiliation of the building to cultural heritage sites.

If the interests of the client are represented by an intermediary firm, then an appropriate power of attorney to represent the interests must be issued.

When the balcony has already been connected to the kitchen, its legalization begins with the payment of a fine.

A competent intermediary not only helps to correctly draw up an application, but also significantly increases the chances of the package passing through different authorities the first time.

Problematic issues

It is most difficult to obtain permission for an attached area for the following items:

• removal of the central heating radiator;
• changing the area of ​​the balcony bearing plate, moving the fence;
• removal of the gas stove;
• installation of household appliances that require the connection of technological communications that create vibrations.

For coordination with the fire authority, you will have to present fire safety certificates for the materials used.

When dismantling the balcony block, square meters from the total area are transferred to the heated category.

The outer wall of the kitchen (with access to the loggia) is an integral part of the supporting structure of the building. Its complete dismantling is prohibited, so it is necessary to take into account the side support parts and the threshold in the design of the future room.

Space expansion technique

In order for the balcony to become a full-fledged living space, you need to properly insulate it.

Operations for the arrangement of combined areas will be divided into 2 categories: mandatory and secondary (at your choice).

You definitely need to do:

1. Waterproofing of the slab, frame structure.
2. Insulation of floors, ceilings, walls.
3. Installation of energy-saving glazing (triple glazing, profile with a thermal insulating insert).
4. Consider ventilation.
5. Use environmentally friendly (non-toxic) finishing materials.

If the climatic zone is with severe winters, then it is necessary to decide on the additional heating of the added cubic capacity of air. A pragmatic solution would be to install an infrared emitter or install built-in electric heating (underfloor heating).

Using the slab opening

The balcony block is dismantled along with the window sill. The vacated ledge with a heating battery can be used under a table, one half located in the kitchen (the distance from the floor to the countertop will be less), the other part - in the recreation area, where you can put a seating area and chairs of the appropriate design.

If you maintain a standard table height of 0.75 m, then on the opposite side you will get a height close to the bar counter of 0.9 - 1 m. A wide range of moisture-resistant chipboard or artificial stone can serve as a material.

If necessary, when saving the ledge, you can always quickly restore the window with the door. It is not necessary to transfer the battery, it is simply closed with a bezel with a ventilation grill. For this, drywall, chipboard, plywood and pasted over with non-woven wallpaper for painting in a common tone with the rest of the situation are suitable.

Another option is to remove the ledge, leaving the threshold and the load-bearing floor on top. An opening to save heat, change spatial perception can be closed with blinds, a sliding partition, French windows (from floor to ceiling). Overlapping the opening is also useful in the summer, when the air conditioner is running. For more information on combining a balcony with a kitchen, see this video:

Style selection

You can design the design of a new room based on the advice of an invited specialist, your own taste and creativity, search in catalogs, sites. For more information about kitchen design, see this video:

Commonly used styles include:

• modern (gold, silver decor elements, accessories);
• ethno (natural materials, crafts, embroidery);
• classic (wood, fabric);
• minimalism, urbanism (straight lines, steel, glass, a lot of free space);
• oriental style (it is important to distinguish between Arabic with silk, tassels, jugs and the Asian segment with bamboo and rattan).

The colors of the finishes, design elements are chosen warm, not aggressive, taking into account the fact that there is a kitchen, a dining area and the accompanying rest.

There are not many ways to increase the area of ​​apartments. The most accessible is the combination of a balcony or loggia with a room or kitchen. Let not a very large area join, but in small apartments it is like a godsend.

What documents are needed to combine a balcony / loggia

The balcony can be combined in two ways: simply by removing the window block without demolishing the window sill part of the wall and the threshold, and by removing it. If you choose to only remove the window/doors, no permission is required. Upon completion of the work, you take the plan of the apartment in the BTI, make the changes made

If it became necessary to remove the window sill part of the wall, then such a change is called redevelopment and requires a number of permits for its implementation. And keep in mind that in recent years in the capital it is allowed to remove the window sill block only if glass sliding doors are installed. Also note that radiators are not allowed to be taken out to the balcony or loggia. It will be necessary to separately organize the heating of the balcony, as well as determine a new place for the radiator, which was previously on the window sill.

Required Documents and Actions

In any case, you will need to:

• Take the BTI registration certificate for the apartment.
• With a technical passport, contact a design organization that has a certificate for the right to provide such services to draw up a redevelopment project. The second option is to order a redevelopment project in an organization that developed a standard project for your house (for residents of the capital, this is a more reliable option).
• Having taken the received project, documents confirming ownership rights, a completed application for redevelopment, contact the Housing Inspectorate.

After receiving a permit permit, work can begin. Upon completion of the repair, you will need to invite a representative of the Housing Inspectorate to receive the Certificate of completion of redevelopment work. With this document, you apply again to the BTI to obtain a new registration certificate.

Please note that when choosing the second option, only the part that was under the window is subject to demolition. It is strictly impossible to demolish the remaining side walls, the threshold without additional approval, as well as to cut down the window beam. They may also require strengthening measures. All work will be spelled out in the redevelopment project and must be carried out scrupulously.

If you need to remove the walls and beams, please specify this with the design organization when submitting documents. They are considering whether such an option is possible. If yes, they issue measures to restore the bearing capacity and a list of works.

Work order

The main attention when working on attaching a balcony to a kitchen or room should be given to insulation. It will be necessary to insulate all parts of the structure except for the inner wall. Use the most effective materials at the same time, otherwise it will be very cold in the whole room in winter. Also, when installing the glazing, it will be necessary to pay special attention to the junction of the frames with the wall - to lay with a vapor barrier material. It will block the access of warm air from the room, preventing the formation of condensate.

Preparatory work

First you need to destroy everything to the ground, then ... to build everything anew. In general, the order of preparatory work is as follows:

If the standard decoration of a balcony or loggia was removed, in parallel with the construction of the wall, it must be sheathed from the outside with the selected finishing material. Usually siding. Why wooden bars are attached outside, siding is attached to them.

Finishing the balcony outside should be carried out at this stage. Then you will need to call the promalps, and their services are not cheap at all. In the meantime, there is no glazing, you can get insurance and do everything from the balcony.

Glazing and insulation

Gradually, the concrete platform sticking out on the wall takes on a different look. Now you can believe that not only birds can be here. We carry out glazing in parallel with insulation. And it is better not to save on a heater. Otherwise, the room will be very cold, and the heating bills will be high.

• Installation of window blocks. For glazing it is necessary to use double-glazed windows. Their area will be large and single-chamber will not be able to provide the proper degree of thermal insulation. The profile for windows must also be taken with a large number of cameras - at least five. Although the profile has a smaller area, heat flows through it a lot.

  

• Removal of the window block, if necessary - destruction of the window sill wall, measures to strengthen the walls and window beams.

  

• Laying of electrical wiring, installation of mounting boxes for sockets, switches, output of wires for the installation of lamps. To increase safety, wires can be laid in a special non-flammable corrugated hose.

  

• Insulation of the floor, ceiling walls. The most common type of insulation is between wooden battens. For insulation, either extruded polystyrene foam or mineral wool mats are used. it is used more often, since with the same degree of thermal insulation it has a smaller thickness and is not afraid of getting wet (condensate). For Central Russia, the thickness of expanded polystyrene should be 70-100 mm. The insulation is laid in two layers with overlapping seams. They are fixed with special plastic dowels-umbrellas or glued to mounting foam.

  

• A layer of metallized insulation (such as penofol). It additionally retains heat.

  

• Underfloor heating (if provided).
• Sheathing with finishing materials. It can be plywood or plasterboard, followed by puttying and wallpapering or painting.

Kitchen combined with a balcony: ideas + design photos

Combining a balcony and a kitchen allows you to make this room more comfortable: a fairly solid area is added, unloading the “main” room.

But not everything can be taken out from the kitchen to the balcony. It is allowed to put there:

Several photo examples of the possible design and use of the window sill, which was inherited from the former window.

Make a comfortable table due to the wide table top

Combining a balcony and a room: options for using the area

Even a small area of ​​​​a few square meters provides a lot of opportunities for its use. The final choice depends on what is more priority for you. So, what can be done on the attached loggia (balcony):

• Workplace or mini-office. Often you have to take work home, but nowhere to retire? Make a workplace on the attached balcony.
• Sleeping place. In a small apartment it is difficult to find a place to relax. Order a sofa / mattress according to the size of your loggia.

  

• Recreation area. Put comfortable chairs, flowers.

  

• Place cabinets, but make them compact and beautiful.

  

  - habitual use

Arch design

How harmoniously the attached loggia will look depends largely on how to decorate the passage. In some cases and styles, the rectangle looks good. Then all you need is to beat him correctly. And from a lack of planning, it turns into an ornament.

In the bedroom with an attached balcony there is an arc exit - to close everything with a translucent tulle from wall to wall. Rigid lines soften, harmony is restored.

Sometimes a simple rectangle doesn't fit categorically. Then the corners should be rounded, adding smoothness.

Another option to give meaning to the rest of the window sill wall is to make shelves above it.

Shelves - useful and beautiful

If the arch is made rounded on only one side, it will fit better into modern design, with appropriate design it will be suitable for minimalism and hi-tech.

It includes the combination of a balcony with a room or a kitchen with a loggia. Such a redevelopment gives many obvious advantages (unless, of course, your apartment has a loggia or balcony that can be attached to an adjacent room).

However, you should be aware of the rules and restrictions that apply to combining a balcony.

You can often hear the opinion that if the apartment is in full ownership, then it can be unauthorized to carry out any redevelopment, including, for example, combining a balcony with a room or kitchen.

In addition, the temptation to save money, to manage on their own in preparation for redevelopment, is also great. Many people think that in order to prepare for the unification of a kitchen or a room with a loggia or a balcony, a photo of similar redevelopment will be enough, because who better than you to know exactly how you want to equip the interior of the room, moreover, if the project has already been implemented, many believe that it may or may not be reconciled at all.

Combining a balcony and a room

The danger of this misconception is that if the work on combining a balcony or loggia is done incorrectly, with violations of building codes, this can lead to unpleasant consequences for you. The appearance of cracks on the facade wall, the dismantling of fire walls on the balcony - you will have to eliminate these consequences completely at your own expense.

What else do you need to know if you want to combine a balcony with one of the premises of the apartment? To begin with, at least about the fact that the concept of "association" of premises in this situation is very conditional.

We mean that in practice, the redevelopment project will have to include the installation of a glass partition in the place where the window sill was. Typically, such a partition is made in the form of sliding "French" doors or double-glazed windows to the floor with one door.

Why is the combination of a balcony (loggia) with a kitchen (room) not allowed without a double-glazed partition?

The fact is that at present in the capital's housing legislation (PPM 508 in edition 840) there is a clause expressly prohibiting the combination of balconies and loggias with the interior of apartments.

There is one more circumstance: the authors of house projects, such as JSC MNIITEP, also do not approve of the complete unification of these premises. But the explanation here is different - heating extra cold areas in winter will increase the load on the heating system of the building, especially if rooms with balconies are united by the owners of several apartments at once. In the opinion of the design organization, this event, when mass-produced, leads to a violation of the thermal circuit of an apartment building.

For the same reason, the redevelopment project with the combination of a balcony or loggia with a kitchen / room will have to include a heat loss calculation (thermal engineering calculation).

It also follows from this a ban on the transfer of batteries to loggias or balconies contained in PPM 508. - heating of cold zones is not provided for by projects of residential buildings (even if the balcony is glazed and insulated, it is still considered a "cold" room). Therefore, it is worthwhile to find in advance a place for a radiator, which was placed on the window sill before the redevelopment.

Dismantling the window sill and formally combining the kitchen with a loggia in a one-room apartment with glazing:

Frequently Asked Question: Is it possible to install between the room / kitchen and the balcony / loggiaaccordion partition ?

We answer: Not every partition in the form of an accordion can be installed when combining a room with a balcony or loggia. Today, the Housing Inspectorate allows the installation of accordion sliding partitions if they consist of double-glazed windows and have clear guides at the top and bottom.

An example of a correct accordion partition between a balcony and a room:

Along with this, many owners install the so-called "false partitions", which have nothing to do with a full-fledged partition, the housing inspection suppresses such options as a result of a refusal to agree. Photos are presented below.

An example of a "wrong" harmonica:

As we can see, the partition consists of a single layer of glass and does not even have guides from below, which does not provide proper heating of the room in winter and negatively affects the thermal circuit of the house as a whole. To agree on such a partitionIT IS FORBIDDEN!

Coordination of combining a balcony or loggia with a room or kitchen

In order to connect the kitchen and living room balcony in the apartment , it is necessary to dismantle the window sill block. Therefore, the possibility of such a redevelopment depends on house designs . There are more problems with panel, block and brick houses: a wall section with a window sill block can be a load-bearing or self-supporting structure and, say, you will not be allowed to cut the overhead lintel or expand the opening.

With monolithic houses, the situation is simpler - the facade walls in them are usually non-bearing and the opening can be expanded in height and width.

But in any case, no matter what the design of the house, fire safety requirements should be observed, which establish the width of the walls. The side should be at least 1.2 m, and the wall between the two exits to the loggia - from 1.6 m. This is due to the fact that the exit to the loggia is emergency.

Prohibited options for combining a loggia with a room, photo:

It is also forbidden to touch threshold, which often holds the balcony slab, or closes the interpanel joint, or simply protects the apartment from freezing (in typical panel houses).

An interesting redevelopment, during which a large loggia was simultaneously combined with a room and a kitchen, having dismantled two window sill blocks. The project included reinforcement of openings with metal structures.

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Until recently, it was not required to issue a TZK for the dismantling of a window sill, but now most housing inspections require it to be provided, even for monolithic new buildings.

The redevelopment project with the integration of the balcony can develop an architectural designro with SRO approval, - on the basis of the above technical report.

In order to start registration, you need to prepare the following documents:

• floor plan with explication
• a copy of the title documents for the apartment

Together with these documents, you will need to provide the Housing Inspectorate with:

• redevelopment project for combining a balcony and a room or kitchen, developed by a licensed design organization, or by the design organization that developed the project for your house series
• application for redevelopment

Only after a written permit is received from the Housing Inspectorate, you can begin work on combining the balcony and the kitchen or room.