What can be done in the apartment for the repair according to the SNIP (says Specialist)

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In our surveys, repairs and alterations apartments we often get comments that you can not do something, it is forbidden to do se.

But people do. And live.

To clarify some of the points we have to turn to professionals - the architect and interior designer Julia Krasnov.

Julia for many years engaged in the development of functional interiors for apartments in new buildings, and the old-style high-rise buildings. And it sort of activity does not just have to deal with the desire of customers to make alterations in their homes.

Julia says that it is forbidden to do and what it refuses to work, according to SNIP (building code).

It is clear that each country has its own rules, but the high-rise building codes have little or no difference, regardless of the country. After bearing wall, it anywhere left bearing wall.

Thus, the main points of SNP that is forbidden to do:

• Expand the living space by a bathroom. The only exceptions are the ground floor, for such apartments may be some options for redevelopment, exciting territory bath or toilet.
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• Violate strength bearing walls. In any case they should not be demolished, as it did not want. This is a very serious and dangerous violation.
• Increasing the kitchen or bathrooms at the expense of the living space. It is allowed to do only by storerooms or room dividers (non-load-bearing walls).
• Do decrease ventilation ducts.
• Combine ventilation kitchen and bathroom (if separate).
• Increasing the kitchen or bathroom area due to each other.

• Raise the floor in bathrooms on one level with living space. Sex in the bath and the toilet has to be below the level of the entire apartment 15-20 mm.
• Making the kitchen without natural light (windows).
• Fully integrate a balcony / loggia with kitchen.
• Combine the piping kitchen and a living room without creating between them partitions (can be extensible).
• Make one out of the bath or toilet in the living room or the kitchen (door should always go to the corridor).
• Make the kitchen to the balcony.
• Do niches holes in the walls of the pylons and diaphragms.
• Independently conduct the heat sink connected to the central heating on the balcony, loggia. Permitted heating with electricity (Heated floor, heaters).
• By combining the living room with a loggia / balcony, it is forbidden to do the dismantling of bridges over the opening (supporting structure) and the nut while eliminating window sill block (its elimination is possible, but not always allowed, you must specify).
• To seal gas tube in the kitchen or nonremovable trudnosnimaemymi materials (may be easily removed masking shields having openings for ventilation).
• To lay a gas pipeline in remote areas (too high, too low).

SNIP norms for the apartments have a lot of points and we will not list them all. This is only the most frequent questions that have to constantly deal with the designers of premises, and that concern many people preparing to repair.

We hope that the post was useful. If you are in some doubt, always ask about and take the resolution of the BTI or other existing licensed institutions.

If you had to make alterations to his apartment to share in the comments, whether it was easy take the resolution as passed a stage of negotiation, and whether to do such work without a corresponding authorization.

What can you advise people who are going to do with the reconstruction of a global overhaul of the living space?

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