Owners of the so-called Khrushchevs sooner or later come to the realization of the need to redevelop their homes. Buildings from the time of Nikita Sergeevich and later do not meet the modern requirements for housing. Starting from the height of the ceilings, insulation of rooms, their sizes and ending with the layout.
There is an opinion that Khrushchev repair is money down the drain. Many who have the opportunity, prefer to sell an old apartment, save up money and buy something more suitable for housing. Often the choice falls on the housing stock of the times of Stalin's construction or on modern apartments with a free layout. But if you do not have the opportunity to purchase other housing? Or no desire? Then get ready - you are waiting for a major overhaul of Khrushchev. This is a long, expensive business that requires careful planning. But the result can be simply stunning!
Where to start repairing an apartment-Khrushchev? Of course, from the project! The real plan of the apartment can be fulfilled independently, taking measurements, or you can use the sketch available among the documents for the apartment.
Redevelopment
Full repair of Khrushchev implies redevelopment. Often the apartment has passage rooms, narrow corridors that unnecessarily occupy the living area, a small kitchen, which is difficult to deploy, as well as a toilet and bathroom, which, to put it mildly, are inconvenient for operation. Before preparing a redevelopment project, consider how many people will live in the apartment and what kind of family will be. The number of necessary isolated rooms depends on this. If possible, then one of them can be combined with a kitchen, thereby obtaining a spacious room.
The problem of the size and layout of the bathroom is often solved by combining the toilet and the bathroom. Consider how to use the corridor more rationally. Perhaps it is precisely due to it that it will be possible to isolate the passage room or expand the kitchen.
Performing repairs of Khrushchev with their own hands, you can achieve an increase in living space due to a balcony or a loggia. This is done by combining with an adjoining room. Even if you intend to leave the balcony insulated, we recommend that you insulate it.
Communications
Repair Khrushchev, most likely, will entail a complete replacement of communications, gas equipment, as well as a new wiring of electricity.
In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to the hoods and the ventilation system as a whole. Most often it does not work.
One of the methods is the implementation of individual ventilation ducts with an exhaust system.
In this case, it will be possible to completely abandon the old. And by blocking them, you can significantly improve the sound insulation of the apartment.
Windows and doors
If these works have not been done before, then surely it will be necessary to replace all windows and doors, with control of hydro and sound insulation.
This, among other things, will have a beneficial effect on the thermal insulation of housing.
It is also worth thinking about additional external thermal insulation of walls, which in recent years has become widely used for Khrushchev.
These methods will reduce heat loss in the winter and overheating in the summer.