There are not so many ways to increase the area of apartments. The most accessible is the union of a balcony or loggia with a room or kitchen. Let them join and not very large square, but in small-sized apartments and it is like a find.
What documents are needed to combine the balcony / loggia
The alignment of the balcony can occur in two ways: just removing the window block without demolition of the wall part of the wall and the hole and with its removal. If you decide only to remove the window / doors, no permission is required for it. At the end of the work you take the plan of the apartment in BTI, bring the changes made
For such an embodiment of a balcony and room or kitchen permissions do not need
If it became necessary to remove the sub-part of the wall, then such a change is called redevelopment and requires a number of resolving documents for its implementation. And keep in mind that recent years in the capital to remove the bottomroom block are allowed only under the condition for the installation of glass sliding doors. Also note that the radiators are not allowed on the balcony or loggia. It will be necessary to separately organize the heating of the balcony, as well as define a new place for the radiator, which was previously on the sub-block.
In any case, you will need:
- Take in the BTI supasport to the apartment.
- With technical equipment to contact the project organization with a certificate for the right to provide similar services to compile a refreshing project. The second option is to order a redevelopment project in an organization who has developed a typical project of your home (for residents of the capital is a more reliable option).
- Taking the received project, documents confirming the rights of ownership, a completed redevelopment application, contact the housing inspection.
After receiving the resolution, you can proceed to work. At the end of repair, you will need to invite a residential inspection representative to obtain an end to redevelopment. With this document, appeal again in BTI to obtain a new technical suggestion.
Such association requires documentary
Please note that when choosing a second option, a demolition is only as follows that was under the window. Remove the remaining side walls, boosters without additional matching it is impossible to categorically, like cutting down the window beam. For them may also need to strengthen measures. All work will be spelled out in the redevelopment project and you need to be scrupulously.
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If you need to remove the walls and beam, stipulate it in the project organization when submitting documents. They calculate whether such an option is possible. If yes, there are measures to restore the bearing capacity and the list of work.
Order of work
The focus on the work on the connection of the balcony to the kitchen or the room should be worked out with insulation. It will be necessary to warm up all parts of the design except the inner wall. At the same time, the most effective materials, otherwise in winter it will be very cold in the whole room. Also, when installing glazing, it will be necessary to pay special attention to the place of the junction of the frame with the wall - lay a vaporizolation material. It will block access to warm air from the room, preventing the formation of condensate. In general, the order of work is:
- Dismantling of old glazing and finishing materials on the balcony / loggia (we leave the window block into the room while in place). A metal fence remains on the balcony, the loggia is a thin standard partition, if there is such. If there is no partition on the loggia, only a metal frame remains. It is necessary for the safety of work.
Dismantling of old glazing and finishing materials
- Floor alignment at the wall installation site. After dismantling old finishing materials, the balcony stove is very uneven on the edge. Since on the edge of the slab will have to install the wall, the base should be even. The pits are concreted by the conventional M300 brand solution.
If the edge of the balcony slab is uneven, it is concreted
- The construction of the wall at the specified height. Today, for the construction of the wall on the balcony, a gas concrete is considered the best option. The thickness of the used blocks is 100 mm (about the laying of partitions from the gasoblock, read here). It is warm, easy in laying, little weighs.
- If the standard balcony or loggia finish was removed, in parallel with the construction of the wall, it is necessary to squeeze it outside the selected finishing material. Usually - siding. For which the wooden bars are fastened outside, siding to them.
In parallel, we are trimming outside
- Installing window blocks. For glazing, you need to use two-chamber double-glazed windows. Their area will be large and single-chamber will not be able to ensure proper extent of thermal insulation. The profile for windows should also take with a large number of cameras - at least five. Although the profile has a smaller area, it is strongly dried in heat.
Windows usually sets a campaign
- Removing the window block, if necessary, the destruction of the sub-circuit wall, measures to strengthen the walls and the window beam.
Disassembly window block
- Staying wiring, installation of mounting boxes for sockets, switches, wire output for installing lamps. To improve the security, it is possible to lay the wires in a special non-flaxing corrugation.
Laying electrical wiring
- Heal insulation, ceiling walls. The most common type of insulation is between wooden fraud bars. For insulation, or extruded polystyrene foam or mineral wool mats is used. The polystyrene foam is used more often, since with the same degree of thermal insulation has a smaller thickness and not afraid of wets (condensate). For the middle strip of Russia, the thickness of the polystyrene should leave 70-100 mm. Place the insulation in two layers with seam overlap. Fasten with special plastic umbrella dowels or glued to the mounting foam.
Warming of all cold surfaces
- Layer of metallized insulation (type of foam). It additionally saves heat.
Laying foam
- Laying the warm floor (if provided).
- Trimming with finishing materials. It may be plywood or GLK, followed by their putty and pasting wallpaper or painting.
In fact, the union of the balcony can be considered completed after laying of the foam. Further, finishing works begin, and they strongly depend on the room joins the balcony / loggia or kitchen, as well as from the design of these rooms.
Kitchen combined with a balcony: ideas + design photos
Combining the balcony and kitchen allows you to make this room more comfortable: a sufficiently solid area is added, unloading the "main" room.
But not everyone can be taken out of the kitchen on the balcony. Allowed to install there:
- Electrical appliances and household appliances. You can put the refrigerator, the eletroduct, electric stove, microwave, in general, any technique operating from electricity. It is important not to forget to make a sufficient number of outlets.
You can make any electric technology
- Furniture. You can make cabinets, table with chairs and make a dining area on the balcony.
You can make a dining area
- It is impossible to carry out gas appliances and washing. They must remain on the "main territory".
Several photo examples of the possible design and use of the windowsill remaining inherited from the former window.
Electric stove Fashionable on the former window sill
Make a comfortable table due to wide countertops
Take out a small kitchen on the balcony refrigerator
Maximize the use of space by developing an individual project
Release all furniture with electric stove on the balcony or loggia (without washing)
Use the area as a seating area
Dining table replace with a wide countertop
Balcony and Room Union: Square Use Options
Even a small area of several 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 an attached loggia (balcony):
- Workplace or mini-office. Often you have to take work on the house, but we have nowhere to emanate? Make a workplace on the attached balcony.
The remaining windowsill window can be used as a table.
Make a real mini-office
Properly equipped workplace
- Sleeping place. In a small apartment, it is difficult to find a place to relax. Order a sofa / mattress for the size of your loggia.
Sleeping on the loggia
- Recreation area. Put comfortable chairs, flowers.
Make a relaxation area on the attached balcony
- Place cabinets, but make them compact and beautiful.
Balloon cabinets - usual use
Arch design
How harmoniously the attached loggia will look largely depends on how to arrange the passage. In some cases and styles, the rectangle looks good. Then everything you need is to beat it correctly. And from the lack of planning it turns into the decoration.
So that the openness did not look like something alien, beat him, for example, after installing shelves
In the bedroom with an attached balcony there is an arc output - close all translucent tulle from the wall to the wall. Hard lines are softened, harmony is restored.
Tulle hides the shortcomings
Sometimes a simple rectangle does not fit categorically. Then the corners should be rounded, adding smoothness.
To justify such a portal, two niches are made on the sides
Another option to give the meaning of the remaining part of the windows wall is to make the shelves over it.
Shelves - useful and beautiful
If the arch is rounded only on the one hand, it will fit better in modern design, with the corresponding design it is suitable for minimalism and high-tech.
Asymmetry is emphasized also with furniture
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