Is moving an interior door a redevelopment?

Chief architect Alexander Gorbulsky answers:

There is a technical plan (BTI plan). In accordance with it, any change that will be made to the plan and will lead to inconsistency with it is considered a redevelopment. This concept includes both the demolition and construction of partitions, as well as the removal of doors, the transfer and enlargement of wet spots, and the sealing of doorways. Even changing the shape of a doorway is considered redevelopment.

By law, you are required to approve the redevelopment before it is carried out, and then legalize it. However, many do not do this, leaving everything at their own peril and risk. This fact may come to light, for example, if your neighbor complains about suspicious manipulations and reports it to the appropriate authority.

Another bottleneck is purchasing an apartment with a mortgage. If the buyer takes out a mortgage from the seller for an apartment, the bank, as one of the mandatory conditions, can send appraisers to the property, and they will immediately notice the discrepancy between the layout and the BTI plan, and appropriate regulations and penalties will be applied. You can sell an apartment outside the mortgage program (one-time for the full amount) with an unauthorized layout, but in this case, responsibility passes from client to client.

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Sequencing

To obtain approval for redevelopment work, adhere to the following scheme:

• if the housing inspector considers the relocation of a door to be an appropriation of common property, it will be necessary to obtain the written consent of 75% of the residents of the apartment building;
• project developers must grant permission after providing consent from residents.
• with a load-bearing wall, it will be necessary to develop design documentation and obtain a technical opinion;
• it is important to obtain permission from the housing inspectorate for work on remodeling the doorway;
• after this you need to contact the BTI to make the appropriate changes to the documentation of the house.

Reinforcing an opening in a load-bearing wall

Designer Nadezhda Kuzina answers:

Relocating openings is a redevelopment, regardless of what floor the apartment is on and what is underneath it. This action is subject to approval. Of course, it’s good that there are non-residential premises under your apartment, but this makes other redevelopment actions easier, for example, moving a bathroom. What is underneath the apartment has little effect on the relocation of openings. Rather, on the contrary, it is easier to legitimize the transfer of openings on the upper floors.

It is important to understand whether the partition in which the opening is located is load-bearing or not. This is usually visible by thickness (more than 150 mm). If it is not load-bearing, then most likely the redevelopment will be approved. If it is carrier, then the low floor plays against you. In addition, by law you will be required to strengthen the opening; engineering calculations of the reinforcement will be needed. An ordinary construction team will not be able to do this: a special permit is required for such types of work.

Conclusion: if the partition is not load-bearing, then it is enough to contact the company that deals with the approval. If it is load-bearing, I would recommend rethinking the layout and, if possible, refusing to move it.

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Transfer within a load-bearing wall

Why do residents want to change the location of the front door? The fact is that sometimes neighboring structures are located in such a way that they cause inconvenience to residents. When one door opens, it is impossible to approach the other. It is simply completely closed by the adjacent sash. In most cases, no one pays attention to this, but there are special circumstances.

An interesting fact is that some housing inspectors classify such redevelopment as an operation of annexing common property. For them, filling the former opening is not particularly important. Even when the inspection gives permission for such a transfer, coordinating the work will still be very difficult. Typically, in panel-type houses, the entrance panels are installed in the main load-bearing walls, so the authors of the project are categorically against any transfer.

General Director Anton Goloveychuk answers:

According to the law, redevelopment is any change in the configuration of the apartment, which leads to a discrepancy between the actual layout and the floor plan in the Unified State Register of Real Estate. Thus, even the dismantling of a light non-load-bearing partition will also constitute a redevelopment. In your case, moving the doorway is also a redevelopment. This change, according to the law, is subject to mandatory approval by government authorities.

I would like to note that even with minimal changes to planning decisions, it is necessary to go through a full approval cycle: prepare a redevelopment project in a design organization, approve the project in a number of government agencies, including the Interdepartmental Commission under the district administration, carry out the procedure for obtaining an acceptance certificate after redevelopment and make changes to the cadastral registration of the property real estate.

What are the consequences of unauthorized redevelopment when selling an apartment? First of all, you will not be able to sell the apartment if the buyer wants to resort to mortgage lending. The bank simply will not approve a mortgage for him in case of illegal redevelopment.

If the buyer has “real” money, then get ready for the fact that you will have to significantly reduce the price of the apartment. Unauthorized redevelopment is an excellent reason for bargaining, in some cases reaching 20% ​​of the cost of the apartment. Few people will want to buy an apartment with “skeletons in the closet” and the risk of litigation. Therefore, approval of redevelopment is not only required by law. In the future, this will allow you not to lose significant sums of money when selling your apartment.

REDESIGNING THE ENTRANCE DOOR WITH THE ATTACHMENT OF A COMMON HOUSE TAMBURA

Many houses have an apartment vestibule. Often, when buying an apartment adjacent to the vestibule, homeowners combine two apartments by “seizing” the common property, that is, this vestibule in front of the entrance to the apartments.

At the moment, this kind of “seizure” of common property, done by law, is possible by meeting all the owners of the house and obtaining permission from 2/3 of them for such redevelopment. However, this agreement may be prohibited in the near future.

In fact, the event of attaching part of the common property to the apartment is more likely not a redevelopment, but a reconstruction. One of the meanings of the word reconstruction is “increase in area.”

If we briefly summarize the sequence of actions when agreeing to move the front door to an apartment, we can distinguish the following stages:

1. When moving the front door or moving an opening within the boundaries of a wall, since this redevelopment affects common property, it is necessary to obtain the consent of approximately 73% of the owners of the house.
2. If the transfer of the entrance door to an apartment in an apartment building occurs along a load-bearing wall , then in order to coordinate the redevelopment, it may also be necessary to develop a technical report on the condition of the load-bearing and enclosing structures from the author of the house or a research institute replacing the author of the house.
3. a redevelopment project is being developed based on a technical report . The project can be developed by any organization with SRO approval , including ours.

Our organization has many years of experience in coordinating redevelopments of any complexity. Including redevelopment of entrance doors.

We are ready to provide our services for coordinating the transfer of the front door to the apartment. Or we will prepare design documentation for you and advise you on further independent approval of the redevelopment . Call the phone number listed on the website.

Is moving a door a remodel? If we are talking about the entrance, then yes, such a door move is considered a redevelopment of the apartment. Moreover, it is quite difficult to coordinate this, and sometimes it is completely impossible.

There are two options to move the entrance to the apartment:

• ​Relocation of the entrance door with the addition of part of the apartment vestibule. Difficult to implement, since the common area of ​​the house is being added to the apartment. To carry out such a redevelopment, you will need to clearly obtain the consent of at least 73% of the owners of the apartments in your building. Under this condition, the apartment vestibule can be rented.
• Moving the entrance door to the apartment to the side, that is, within the same wall in which it was originally located. If the wall is solid, then the authors of the houses usually oppose moving the front door in the load-bearing wall, especially for panel houses of standard series, the author of which is OJSC MNIITEP. (These are the most common series of panel houses, such as II-49, II-57, P-3, P-3M, P-44, P-44T, P-46, P-55, II-18, II-68, I-209A.) In addition, under certain conditions, housing inspectors also classify such redevelopment as affecting the common property of the owners of an apartment building. But this option is much easier to coordinate than with the addition of part of the apartment vestibule, and in practice, most redevelopments of this type are approved.

Housing legislation expert Mikhail Kiselev answers:

The Housing Code of the Russian Federation defines redevelopment as a change in the configuration of the premises, relative to the layout that was originally included in the technical passport of the BTI when registering for inventory. Therefore, if in the technical passport of the BTI the doorway was indicated in one place, and you moved it to another, then yes, such a change must be legalized. If the wall is not load-bearing, then in Moscow this can be done according to a sketch.

I would like to note that in Russia there is no “free planning”. When a building permit is obtained, the developer submits to the authority issuing the building permit a house design, which indicates all the premises that meet the requirements of SNiP and SanPiN. A copy of the floor plan with an explanation of all the premises can be obtained from the manager; it is of a marketing nature and often misleads apartment owners.

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How to move a doorway in an interior partition

It often happens that a door located in the corner of a room prevents you from making optimal use of the space, for example, in a small kitchen. One way out in this situation is to move the doorway and install a new frame with a door in it.

The old door to the kitchen causes you terrible inconvenience; I would like to use the very corner of the room where it is located in a completely different way. To solve the problem, there is only one way out - to make a new doorway in the middle of the wall and wall up the old one, for example, using gypsum panels measuring 60557 cm.

The new opening will be noticeably wider; after all, a pre-painted door frame (73204 cm in size) still needs to be installed in it. Of course, you first need to purchase a door block in order to prepare an opening of a certain size. Nowadays there are a wide variety of doors on sale - with or without sound insulation, smooth or embossed, coated with white paint or clear varnish. You can purchase a door without a door frame at all.

In our case, the old wooden door frame will remain in its original place, since its vertical posts are embedded in concrete and their removal can significantly weaken the wall. Additionally, the outer stud will be used as side support for the new door frame. By the time work began, the door frames had already been removed.

If the door has a metal frame, it must be removed without fail by cutting off the racks at floor level and removing the remaining burrs with a file.

If the wall is made of durable material (vibrated concrete, brick, etc.), use a diamond cutting disc. When working, it is not recommended to stand on a stepladder or ladder; they may begin to vibrate in resonance with the instrument. It is better to make a construction scaffold for this purpose. When cutting a doorway in a 7cm thick partition made of plaster or other not very durable materials, use a hand saw.

Before work

In order to determine the strength of the material from which the partition is made, drill three or four holes in the center of the part where you decided to make a new doorway.
In this case, use a special concrete drill and switch the drill to vibration mode or use a perforation attachment on a regular drill. Then check the possibility of sawing the partition through the holes made and select a suitable tool - a cutting wheel or a hacksaw. Close the doors of adjacent rooms tightly, since cutting out an opening (especially with a cutting wheel) creates a lot of dust. We recommend using a respirator and safety glasses when working with a cutting wheel, and periodically cleaning the workplace with a vacuum cleaner.

Final finishing

Finish the renovated room according to your taste. For example, leave the door smooth, and apply decorative trim to the opening to make it more prominent. If this option does not suit you, apply some decorative ornament to the door or use paint and varnish materials for decoration.