Is your small bathroom preventing you from living in peace?Have to huddle in a narrow space? Redevelopment can solve this problem, we will tell you about the standards and prohibitions. Don't be sad if the bathroom is such that you can only move sideways in it. There are many ways to increase the area. One of them is to increase the number of square meters at the expense of the corridor, in which we spend much less time anyway, according to statistics.
Building codes and regulations prohibitto do such redevelopment at the expense of living quarters with a certain minimum permissible area of the room (clause 9.22 SNiP 31-03-2003). With a corridor, things will be much simpler, you will only need to get approval from the relevant authority, as is done in the case, for example, with the combination of a bathroom and toilet. The main condition is that the wall that will change its location in any of the options is not load-bearing.
Those wishing to save on expensive constructionwork can be done with less expense. For example, install sliding doors. Or hang several mirrors, which together with light tiles will visually increase the space. But if you have the means, time, and unused centimeters of the corridor, so necessary literally through the wall, then the game will be worth the candle. Read also: .
In order to expand the bathroom at the expense ofcorridor, it is necessary to move one wall the required distance. Even if it is 15 centimeters, but perhaps this is exactly what is missing to put a washing machine or a longer bathtub in which you can lie down without bending your knees. Mito Melitonyan, architect: - Since the corridor is a non-residential space, then enlarging the bathroom is possible as much as is optimal for the owner of the apartment. Having decided to make such a redevelopment, you will have to get approval from the BTI in any case.
It's worth starting with collecting the necessary documents.(passport, unified housing). calling a surveyor from the BTI to your home, who will measure the actual area and write a technical report. Next, a redevelopment plan is drawn up according to the project, it is signed by the district administration, changes are made to the cadastral and technical passport, a report is written and the project is approved. The whole process takes a month at most. Then you should start the renovation itself and “submit” it after it is ready to the already mentioned authority. Mito Melitonyan, architect: - Most often, if we consider standard houses, the layout is not changed. And if they do, then to change the functional feature of the room. This is if we are talking about combining a bathroom with a toilet or other work. When adding part of the corridor to the bathroom, it is necessary to leave a passage of an optimal size and consider the issue of wet areas. Competent waterproofing, which can be rolled or coated, will increase the resistance of the coating to possible water problems.
The issue of wet areas should be resolved bylegalization of redevelopment, since in an apartment building, under the desired place, there may well be a living space. Waterproofing must be in the floor structure according to SNiP 2.03 13-88, that is, the old coating must be dismantled. To lay the insulation, it is necessary to draw up an act on hidden works with a representative of the DEZ. Editor's opinion: - When we were doing repairs in the apartment, we were also concerned about the problem of a small bathroom and an excessively long corridor leading past the bathroom and living room directly to the kitchen. A solution was found: the passage was tightly closed. Now you can get to the kitchen only through the room on the left, which has become a living room, and the bathroom has increased in size by one and a half times precisely due to the corridor. In addition, a refrigerator easily fits into the niche left by the passage in the kitchen, thereby freeing up a significant part of the space.
How to properly increase the bathroom area: the rules of redevelopment and building regulations
