Most of us are dissatisfied with something in our apartment: "Now if you move the doorway, add a loggia, unite a toilet and a bathroom, you can live." Do you want to do redevelopment? Carefully read this material and think: is it worth it?
Law on Guard
Dreaming about the convenience of his home, few people think about the legality of this event. If you arbitrarily re-plan your apartment, then according to Article 150 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, you are threatened with a warning or a fine of 1 to 3 non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens. The amount is simply ridiculous, and so many are resolved to do repairs and redevelopment of your favorite home without any permits. Problems begin in the event that you conceive your apartment to sell, donate, will or formalize as collateral for a bank loan. Then it turns out that without a certificate from the BTI, no such deal is not complete. And any commission, having verified the plan-scheme with the original of the apartment, will easily find 10 differences. Trouble can begin much earlier, even at the repair stage, if your neighbors are prevented by the sound of a jackhammer or construction debris on the site. They can call a commission with an audit, thereby violating all your plans.
Of course, the redevelopment of the apartment can be legalized and post factum, but it is better to arrange all the necessary documentation before the repair. You can trust all the approvals to the law firm: it will be more economical for your time and nerves, but much more expensive for your wallet. Given to some law firms, lawyers will need 5-6 months for the entire procedure for processing complex re-planning. Costs can be reduced if you do it yourself. True, there will be a lot of time spent - an average of 6-12 months, depending on the global nature of the plan. So, where do you start?
Complicated procedure
From the Housing Code it follows that the redevelopment to improve the improvement of the apartment can be carried out with the consent of the owner, adult members of his family and the local administration. If all the households agree, it's time to go for permission to the district administration. Here, after receiving your application, you will be required to show proof of ownership of the apartment and a technical passport, after which you will be given permission to develop the project. Then you can go to the project organization or to the architect who will develop the project of your redevelopment. Do not forget to check their license! The finished project should be coordinated with the chief architect of the district, as well as with the fire department and SES. After in the district administration you will be given permission to start work, you should agree on the repair and redevelopment of your favorite home with your housing office. The written consent of neighbors, too, will not interfere.
When the repair is completed , a commission is invited from the Housing and Communal Services Department of the district executive committee, which will put into operation your renovated apartment and issue an appropriate certificate. And only on this basis, finally, BTI will be able to make all the changes in the technical passport of your apartment.
Faced with these numerous instances, and, even worse, with bureaucratic delays and bribes in this area, many landlords decide to change their homes without any permits and approvals, deciding that "when necessary, I will do it." However, this is then more difficult and expensive. And when the question arises of selling or lending against bail, often the owners are forced ... to rebuild everything anew, returning the apartment to its original appearance! In this case, everything should be legal also because, you see, it is not very pleasant to live and realize that your neighbor from the bottom removed the load-bearing partition ... Conclusion? If you can not make the redevelopment legal, then do not do it at all. Your opportunities are not unlimited.
The redevelopment affects only the internal non-curtain walls in the apartment. But here there are limitations.
What can be changed:
increase the area of the bathroom by combining the bathroom and toilet or joining the corridor;
expand the area of living rooms due to corridors and auxiliary premises;
to make openings in non-bearing walls;
dismantle the window sill with the installation of swing doors to the balcony.
And what not:
increase the area of bathrooms due to residential premises;
To combine loggias and balconies with other premises by dismantling external walls; and transfer heating batteries to the loggia; affect bearing walls, floors and ventilation ducts.