Storage rooms are provided in three residential buildings:

• Friendship
• House with a beaver
• Cosmodom

The average area of ​​premises located in the basement floors is from 2.4 to 6.5 square meters. m. They are sold out long before the houses are put into operation, and this is no coincidence. The ability to store things outside the apartment is not only a convenient, but also a practical solution. Cost of 1 sq. m of utility room - about 40 - 60 thousand rubles. For this money, Perm residents buy warm cellars (as storage rooms located outside the apartment are called in Europe) with a separate entrance, a metal door, and electricity. Your property will be reliably protected from cold weather and theft!

Advantages of modern storage rooms

The developer Orso Group is implementing projects with storage rooms due to their popularity and success among buyers. About six months before the completion of the House with the Beaver, almost all the kellers were sold out. Why are storage rooms in new buildings so in demand? There are several obvious reasons:

• Affordable cost (on average 100 - 200 thousand rubles, depending on the area and project);
• Security (premises are equipped with fire alarms);
• Reliability (all pantries are equipped with a metal door).

Kellers are practical and functional. Each storage room is equipped with supply and exhaust ventilation. Storage rooms are suitable for storing seasonal items (skis, sleds, sports equipment, bicycles, car tires), household chemicals, and unclaimed furniture. They can be used as cellars for storing vegetables and homemade preserves.

Buying a storage room in the basement of a house is a much more advantageous solution than organizing any kind of storage system directly in the apartment. Non-residential areas will save valuable square meters of housing. By purchasing real estate in new buildings of the Orso Group, clients can take care of the comfort of their family in a new home by choosing the optimal utility room option, taking into account financial capabilities.

Storage room in the basement: an indispensable thing in an apartment building

Before you figure out whether a storage room is needed in the basement of an apartment building and what advantages it brings, you need to understand how basements are used in general.

Basement in an apartment building

In apartment buildings, the basement, as a rule, performs a technical function - all communications, equipment and systems responsible for the life support of the house are located there.

List of systems and communications with access to underground premises:

• Supply of cold and hot water;
• Sewage outlets and drainage of water for technical purposes;
• Electricity of the net;
• Steam heating;
• Main distribution board throughout the entrance;
• Boiler room with equipment;
• Household meters;
• The base of the elevator shaft.

Access of unauthorized persons to the basement and their interference in the functioning of various systems is prohibited. This may affect the operation of certain communications, which may lead to a risk to the lives of all residents.

For this reason, basement windows are usually covered with metal bars and doors have iron locks. As a rule, access to the basement is given to the person in charge of the house, elected at meetings of residents, as well as to utility workers.

Associated use of a basement in an apartment building

Sometimes a part of the basement where communications are not installed can be used by the management company to arrange utility or technical premises.

• For example, a house management company can equip its technical areas or repair shops in these places;
• The Ministry of Emergency Situations in the city can make a bomb shelter or warehouse to house protective equipment in case of danger;
• In the basements of houses with a ground floor, various government agencies, archives or interest groups can be located.

But such phenomena are infrequent, especially bomb shelters. This also applies to the old stock of secondary housing; at the moment, if public utilities occupy the basement, then only an insignificant part of it.

It is necessary to take into account the fact that modern houses have basements equipped for use for economic purposes. To do this, the design includes storage rooms in the basement of an apartment building in places where there are no communications.

About the storage room in a multi-storey building: how can owners use the storage room?

The high price per square meter of real estate leads to the fact that owners try to make the most of every square meter provided to them. Accepting the equivalence of underground ownership, residents try to adapt part of it for personal needs.

Many owners would like to use the basement for various purposes:

A home workshop, which is used not only for repairing and repairing household items, but also works to order, for example, repairing shoes, small household appliances, etc.;

Pantry for preserving food for the winter, both prepared ingredients and fresh vegetables. If the basement is equipped with ventilation systems, it is dry and there is protection from unauthorized persons - this is a very beneficial solution for the population in the city;

Storage room for currently unnecessary furniture, items that are not currently in use, sports equipment, skis, bicycles, etc.

Owners living on the first floors of the house can redesign part of the room by filling the floor and insulating the walls. This requires approval and permission from the BTI. After such work, the entrance to the underground is cut out in the apartment and additional space is equipped at your discretion.

Quite often there are cases when residents at a general meeting decided that the basement should be converted into a gym, swimming pool or sauna. This purpose requires a thorough refurbishment of the premises, the main thing is that communications and load-bearing walls are not damaged.

As you can see, the basement storage room can be used in any way. How you use your own pantry is up to you. In general, having your own place in the basement is good for young parents and for sports lovers, since a stroller, bicycle, snowboard and others take up a huge space on the balcony, and leaving it in the entrance is inconvenient and sometimes unsafe. Therefore, if you have no place to store necessary but bulky things, the pantry is a faithful assistant.

The Belozersky residential complex is interested in your safety and comfort, so we are interested in whether you want your own storage room in the basement - vote. Detailed information by phone.

How to save money on your pantry?

Purchasing a storage room is always an additional financial cost for new residents. Not everyone is ready for them, because they strive to reduce expenses to a minimum, denying themselves the most necessary things: comfort, convenience, space for life. Compact premises are as accessible as possible, but not everyone can afford them. Do not rush to refuse the purchase - negotiate with your neighbors and purchase the premises together.

And now the common corridors connecting several apartments are cluttered with old furniture, leftover building materials and even unnecessary shoes from neighbors. All kinds of cabinets, chests of drawers and even chests used for “convenient” storage clutter the passage and cause scandals. And, by the way, they violate fire safety rules. These problems will be solved by storerooms available to residents of new buildings in Perm. Having agreed in advance with your neighbor on the procedure for using the storage room, register shared ownership - the convenience is obvious!

Is it possible to have a storage room in the stairwell?

Is it true that storage rooms have been banned and how can we now equip space for strollers in the entrance?

“Recently, firefighters came to our house, inspected everything and decided to remove the storage rooms behind the garbage chute. They say this violates fire safety. During the entire time that we have lived in this house, we have never had such complaints. What can be done? The storage room is much needed!

According to the Housing Code of the Russian Federation, corridors, basements, stairs and landings are classified as common property. They are not transferred to individual ownership, which means they cannot be occupied for personal needs or fenced in any way. Theoretically, you can decide to equip a storage room at a general meeting of owners, as stated in Article 36 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation. But it will belong to all the owners, and not to the residents of a particular apartment (even if they equipped the storage room with their own money even before the owners’ meeting).

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However, it is worth keeping in mind that there are fire safety standards that significantly limit your right to dispose of common property. Thus, paragraph 23 of the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation “On the fire safety regime” prohibits the placement and operation of storage rooms in elevator halls, staircases and floor corridors. It is also not allowed to store things, furniture and other flammable materials under flights of stairs and on landings. That is, in fact, the decree describes almost all the places in the entrance where, theoretically, a storage room could be placed. The only exception is the basement.

As the essence of this ban was explained in the department of supervisory activities and preventive work of the city of Kirov, emergency exit routes in case of fire should not be blocked. If something catches fire in the pantry, it will turn out that the flight of stairs engulfed in fire will block people’s path.

On the other hand, according to the chairman of the council of the house on the street. Lenina, 20 Valeria Semenishcheva, fire safety rules are not so absolute, and, focusing on the standards, it is still possible to equip a pantry. True, it will not be easy to understand them. You need to study the Code of Rules 1.13130.2009, SP 4.13130.2009, SP 54.13330.2011, as well as the “Technical Regulations on Fire Safety Requirements.”

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Fire safety inspections detect violations of fire safety based on complaints from citizens, or during special raids in apartment buildings (however, ONDPR did not tell us the frequency of such raids). The last mention in the media of such a mass inspection that we were able to find was dated November 2013, as a result of which fire safety violations were identified, including those related to storage rooms.

If violations are detected, fire supervision issues an order from the Criminal Code or Homeowners Association to eliminate them. If the storage room is not dismantled, the fine for management organizations in accordance with the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation will amount to up to 200 thousand rubles.

In our house there are many mothers with children under one year old. There are no ramps at the entrance; you cannot get into the elevator with a stroller. How can we equip a place to store strollers so that we don’t have to take them down the stairs every time?

As in the case of storage rooms, the issue must be submitted to a general meeting of residents and an application must be submitted to the management company and the HOA. It is necessary that two thirds of the residents vote “yes”. The costs of equipment and maintenance of the wheelchair will be borne by all owners (they will be included in the line “Housing maintenance”). And all residents, not just parents of small children, will have the right to use a stroller. For example, they will be able to leave bicycles in the stroller.

However, there is a nuance here too. The equipment of the wheelchair should also not contradict fire safety standards. It is quite difficult to verify this. There are no independent expert services in this matter in Kirov. And inviting a fire inspector to make sure that a stroller will not contradict the norms is not practiced. Moreover, it is not a fact that fire control officers will not detect violations. So, by and large, the installation of a stroller in a house where a stroller in the house was not originally designed is done at the owner’s own risk.

So, briefly - about the main thing:

• It is impossible to equip a storage room in the entrance without permission; this is contrary to the Housing Code.
• House owners can equip storage rooms by holding a general meeting. But these premises will still belong to the common property of the house and all residents will be able to use them on equal terms.
• According to the decree “On fire safety”, storage rooms cannot be installed in stairwells and floor corridors.
• If the stroller room was not originally designed in the house, it can also be equipped by the decision of the owners and subject to compliance with fire safety standards.

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Choosing the right pantry

Choosing a storage room is a responsible decision that will affect the further comfort of your stay. There are four important criteria that you should pay attention to:

1. Number of people living in the apartment
2. Having a small child
3. Square footage of the apartment
4. Your hobbies

The larger the family, the more things and unnecessary items it has. For a young couple, a compact keller of 2.5 square meters is enough. m, where you can leave car tires, a couple of bicycles, jars of grandma’s jam. A family with children, especially small ones, requires a spacious utility room of at least 3.5 square meters. m. This is due to the need to safely store the stroller, which takes up about 0.6 - 0.8 square meters. m. The square footage of the apartment affects the number of items that require storage: in spacious apartments there is more furniture that needs to be removed during repairs, it is larger. Many developers offer owners of 3-4-room apartments storage spaces of up to 10-15 square meters. m! The maximum area of ​​the cellar offered by the developer Orso Group in Cosmodom is about 10 m². Keen athletes will definitely need a place to store snowboards, skis, longboards or equipment for hiking and rafting.

Investing in the future

A storage room in the basement or basement can be a great investment. In Moscow and St. Petersburg, the rental segment of individual cells in specially created storage centers is successfully developing. Similar centers also operate in Perm, but the cost of annual rental of an ultra-compact cell exceeds 30 - 35 thousand rubles. At the same time, the occupancy rate in such centers remains at a level of more than 80%.

Demand creates supply: if people are willing to pay for storing seasonal items, you can rent out your own utility room. Residents of nearby houses would be more willing to rent space within walking distance than to travel to a remote area of ​​the city to ski or sled. The costs of purchasing a pair or three storage rooms will pay off within 3 to 5 years, and the premises will continue to generate a stable income.

You can “make money” from your storage unit much faster by reselling it. Despite the large number of premises provided for storage in the houses of the Orso Group developer, they are not yet sufficient to meet the needs of all residents. But they are in increasing demand as new buildings are occupied, and storage rooms in a rented house can be sold at a price higher than the original price.

A separate pantry is a solution in favor of profit and comfort

Having your own pantry is the dream of many. After all, every day many Perm residents are faced with the need to leave valuable items at the entrance and worry about their safety. Entry thefts along with the discomfort of storing things in the hallway are reasons to think about buying an inexpensive, spacious room located a few minutes away by elevator. The construction of cellars in Perm is a relatively new idea, which was picked up and successfully used by the developer Orso Group. Storerooms in new residential buildings are a progressive solution in favor of comfort and coziness, which has already been appreciated by hundreds of Perm new residents.

Sale/purchase of storage rooms in a multi-apartment building

All my life I lived in a private house in the Murmansk region. When our grandchildren appeared, my husband and I sold our house and moved closer to our daughter near Vsevolozhsk. My husband worked as a foreman for 26 years and understands construction. Together we chose and bought an unfinished one-story house on a deep basement.

During the first summer, the façade was clad, the roof and all the finishing work were completed.

In the fall, I harvested apples and plums from the plot and dug up several bags of potatoes. In the old house we had a cellar where we stored mushrooms, berries, our own salted fish and garden gifts. We were used to having a supply for several months in advance, since in winter there was no road to our wilderness. We didn’t have time to dig a cellar in the new house, so we decided to make storage in the basement.

Decorating the house, buying furniture and household appliances ate up our savings.

We couldn't afford to pay for construction services. We did it ourselves.