How to combine a balcony with a kitchen or room without breaking the law

You can slightly expand the space of the apartment if you combine the balcony with the kitchen or room. This is especially true for small apartments, where every meter of free space is important.

It is necessary to prepare documents

Combining a loggia (balcony) with a room can be done in two ways:

1. Removing a window opening with a door, while the wall with a window sill block is not demolished and the sill is not removed. You don't need permission for this. After the completed work, you will need to take a plan of the apartment in the BTI, indicate what changes have been made.
2. When dismantling a window sill, removing the entire wall where the window and door were located, permission is required.

It is prohibited to attach a balcony to the room or kitchen. But there is no separate clause in more than one legal document. However, this is due to the fact that the building's heating system is not designed to heat additional areas.

The increase in the load on the heating system will be greater, leading to a decrease in the temperature in the premises. After that, the neighbors may develop fungus and mold.

The balcony with the room should be separated by a sliding frame or French doors. Also note that radiators are not allowed to be taken out onto the balcony or loggia. Therefore, you will have to think over the heating system for the additional zone and move the radiator, which was placed on the window sill, to a new place.

We'll have to draw up some documents:

1. It is necessary to take the technical passport for the apartment at the BTI.
2. Consent of those living in the apartment.
3. Neighbors whose balcony is located on a single slab with your structure must also agree in writing.
4. To draw up a redevelopment project, contact a design organization with a registration certificate or an organization that developed a typical project for your house.
5. Then you take the project, the documents for the ownership, write an application for redevelopment and go to the Housing Inspectorate to obtain permission for redevelopment.

After the repair is completed, you need to invite the Housing Inspector, he will issue the Redevelopment Act. It is provided to the BTI to obtain a new technical passport.

If it is necessary to demolish the sill and the remaining walls, this must be indicated in the project when submitting documents, which is necessary to obtain recommendations for strengthening the opening.

In monolithic houses, the window sill and sill can be dismantled. Since they are not load-bearing, it is even possible to remove part of the load-bearing wall.

In a panel house, you cannot remove the sill.

Joining a balcony to a room

We turn to repair work, and we will analyze in detail how to combine a balcony with a kitchen or room. We start by strengthening and insulating the structure:

1. We remove the old glazing, finishing materials, but do not touch the window block.
2. We level the floor, fill in the unevenness formed during dismantling with concrete mortar.
3. We lay out the wall of the required height. It is advisable to use aerated concrete. It is lighter than brick.
4. Next, we sheathe the balcony from the outside with siding, profiled sheet or clapboard.
5. We insert two-chamber or three-chamber double-glazed windows. Single chamber structures or window profiles will lose a lot of heat.
6. We remove the window block, if the redevelopment provides for the removal of the window sill wall, we also dismantle it. This is the most difficult process. This will require perforator and grinder. The radiator will have to be moved to another wall, because it is strictly forbidden to take it out to the balcony. When transferring, do not forget to turn off the water, cut the structure and reinstall it to another place. You will most likely need to add additional batteries because the area of ​​the room will increase.
7. If the nut is wooden, then it can be removed without problems. Concrete must not be touched. We leave it and in the future we beat it in the form of a podium. This is a great solution for options when a connected balcony with a room in the form of a bedroom or living room. You can organize a seating area, with a dressing table and armchairs.
8. We take all measures to strengthen the structure.
9. Let's move on to the wiring. We think over how the lighting will be located, install all the necessary lamps. It is not recommended to have sockets on the balcony. We use extension cords, we hide the wire in a box or pipe.
10. We begin to engage in insulation, walls, floors. We also insulate the ceiling in order to avoid large heat losses in the future. It is advisable to think carefully about which material to use. It is preferable that these are modern insulation materials that will allow heat to pass through minimally. Mineral wool mats or expanded polystyrene can be used.
11. The metallized coating will additionally insulate the balcony. We fix metal or wooden bars. It depends on the type of balcony cladding.
12. We lay underfloor heating if provided.
13. We cover with finishing material, paint or paste over with wallpaper. Finishing work and the material used depends on the type of room with which the loggia is combined, as well as on the design solution.

How to combine a loggia with a kitchen

Usually, the kitchen does not have enough free meters, and this option allows you to organize a dining area or additional space for equipment.

For dismantling, it will be enough to remove the window and the door, the wall can be left alone, and the window sill block can be used as:

• bar counter;
• table;
• flower stands;
• the countertop on which the hob will be located.

A good bar counter will turn out from the window-sill block, and what is convenient, you do not have to carry the radiator.

You can move the working area to the former balcony, but it is worth considering that:

1. This area should not be loaded with heavy furniture and appliances. Before coming to this decision, you need to decide on the permissible load.
2. Do not forget that it is prohibited to place sockets on the balcony. They should be in the kitchen.

How to conduct electricity to the balcony, combined with the kitchen, it is advisable to consult with specialists.

How to combine a balcony with a kitchen photo

On the balcony you can arrange a dining room, a bar counter, a place for tea drinking,

The bar counter can be built using enlarged window sills, shelves or cabinets are arranged under them. It remains to buy high bar stools and spend time comfortably with friends over a glass of beer or a cup of coffee.

Combining a balcony with a kitchen can not only enlarge the room, this additional space is often used as a full-fledged kitchen. They place a kitchen set in it, and all the necessary equipment with a sink, stove and even a folding bar counter. And from the vacated part of the room they will organize a dining room.

This option is suitable for apartments located on the ground floor, where pipes and wiring can be installed to implement the project. Therefore, it is better to make the working area on the same side where the equipment was before.

Options for combining a balcony and a kitchen

Any electrical equipment can be taken out onto the balcony, for this it is worth taking care of available sockets.

You can not take out a gas stove, a sink on the balcony.

Usually for a refrigerator, due to its large dimensions, you have to look for a suitable place. Combining a kitchen with a balcony solves this problem.

You can put a small sofa, put some pillows, it turns out good rest zone.

You can also organize a dining area with a large table, hang a TV.

You can hang several shelves, put a cupboard. A good option is to put a folding table.

If the window sill cannot be removed, it can be used in different ways, even insert an aquarium.

Kitchen interior arrangement

After the combination of the loggia with the kitchen is completed, you can start decorating the room. So that the kitchen does not turn out to be tasteless and ridiculous, it is important to follow the rules:

1. For the design of both kitchen areas, a similar finishing material is used in the same range or similar in tone.
2. The resulting threshold or podium can be used as a way of zoning a room. In this way, the sofa or dining area is beautifully emphasized.
3. The balcony exit looks beautiful in the form of arches, with columns.
4. Depending on the interior, curtains, curtains with lambrequins can be hung on the windows. Or a more practical option, Roman blinds, as well as roller blinds and panel ones.
5. If the balcony is not large, then you should not clutter up the space with large objects. Open shelves, a folding table and portable light chairs would be appropriate.
6. A good option is a transformer table, which can be easily expanded from a table into a cabinet with shelves and a bed.
7. Lighting can also integrate the interior of the balcony and kitchen. For this, spotlights are located on the ceiling, and sconces can be hung on the walls.

Advantages and disadvantages

There are positive and negative sides to joining a loggia (balcony) to the room.

Pros:

1. A good solution to combine the loggia with the kitchen, it will become cooler in such a room.
2. Increasing the area of ​​small apartments.
3. Adds design options. The living room can be supplemented with a seating area or a library. In the children's room, you can equip a dressing room or playroom.
4. In the bedroom, you can also arrange the added meters as a working area, for example, put a computer desk.
5. Increasing the lighting of the apartment, especially if the combined loggia faces the sunny side.

Minuses:

1. In a room with an attached loggia, it is always 3-4 degrees less than in the room, so you should not expand the bedroom in this way, especially if the children have poor immunity or the owners are sensitive to cold.
2. There will be much more noise in the room, if you are annoyed by extraneous sounds, you should not attach the loggia to the bedroom, study.

When not to attach a loggia

There are options when this is absolutely not necessary:

1. If the structure has the form of a long and narrow opening, the width of which will be less than 75 cm after sheathing, the connected balcony with the room will look awkward. The result is a warm, narrow corridor. It will not be possible to put a computer table in it, place a clothes dryer. She needs 60 cm, 10-15 cm will remain, it will be inconvenient to hang linen
2. Do not attach small corner balconies. In such a space, a table and cabinet will not fit. This will be unnecessary costs, heat loss, and unnecessary noise.
3. If the design is winding, many-sided.
4. Do not connect balconies with front glazing. It goes in a single contour from the very bottom to the top of the house. The unitary structure is almost always made of cold aluminum. It will not be possible to cut a piece out of it and make it warm. You cannot even replace the double-glazed windows with a warmer version. Such a balcony cannot be insulated, because there is a distance of 10 cm between the plate and the glass unit.
5. A complex process, and to do the repair yourself, you need experience and skill.

Many construction companies offer their services, develop a project and carry out all repair work. And they will also help with the preparation of all the necessary documents.

Is it possible to combine a balcony with a kitchen, the answer is unequivocal, yes. This is a very good decision, it remains only to decide in which way. The kitchen will become much more functional and convenient.

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