Those people who are faced with the issues of supplying gas to their home have to face various difficulties and obstacles from the gas service. The most important thing is that the legislation does not collect all the norms and requirements for equipping the boiler room of a private building in a separate document. Therefore, the country's gasmen can manipulate the requirements at their discretion, paying attention to some details, and lowering their vigilance, in other cases. But the basic requirements of gas workers from different regions are still largely similar. Requirements for a gas boiler room are aimed at observing safety rules for working with gas-using heating devices. They are designed to minimize losses from gas leaks and explosions.
Basic requirements for a gas boiler room in an individual residential building
Boiler room - the location of the gas boiler. The boiler is allowed to be installed in a separate boiler room, in the kitchen, in another utility room of the basement or basement floor, in a completed extension. In each case, special requirements are imposed on the premises. The requirements are regulated by the following documents: SNiP 42/01/2002, SP 42/101, as well as "Instructions for the placement of heating units intended for heating and hot water supply of single-family or blocked residential buildings" (Resolution of the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation of 09/13/96 18/69) and others. You can download SNiP 42/01/2002 at the end of the article.
Observe the basic requirements for a gas boiler room!
Those people who are faced with the issues of supplying gas to their home have to face various difficulties and obstacles from the gas service. The most important thing is that the legislation does not collect all the norms and requirements for equipping the boiler room of a private building in a separate document. Therefore, the country's gasmen can manipulate the requirements at their discretion, paying attention to some details, and lowering their vigilance, in other cases. But the basic requirements of gas workers from different regions are still largely similar. Requirements for a gas boiler room are aimed at observing safety rules for working with gas-using heating devices. They are designed to minimize losses from gas leaks and explosions.
Kitchen
The height of the room where the heating unit for heating and the stove for cooking is installed must be at least 2.5 meters.
Room volume indicators vary within 15 cubic meters + 0.2 cubic meters, which are calculated for each kilowatt of gas boiler power,> 60 kW.
the situation in the gas boiler room
gas boiler room requirements
The room must necessarily have adequate ventilation. This includes the gas chimney and vents.
The kitchen should have a wide enough window with a window that opens outward. The glazing area is three hundredths of a square per one cube of the room volume. For a room with a volume of 16 cubic meters. m, windows should be 0.48 sq. meters. That is, in such a room, a window with dimensions of 0.5 m in width and 1 meter in height is acceptable (do not forget about the window that opens outward).
A metal thin sheet or foil should be attached above the installed gas stove on the ceiling.
There must be a sufficient gap or additional ventilation at the bottom of the door.
The requirements for a gas boiler room located in the kitchen are not much different from the conditions in other isolated areas of a house without a stove.Additionally, it should be noted that placement in a separate room provides for the separation of the boiler room from adjacent rooms by walls with the required fire resistance limit (not <0.75 h). The total area of such a room, its volumes depend on the power of the boiler and should be designed so as not to create obstacles for comfortable, competent placement and maintenance of all equipment.
Boiler room in the utility room
Our citizens are not so rich and wasteful as to equip a separate room only for a boiler room. Therefore, they combine a boiler room with a sanitary unit with an installed washing machine, sink and bath, toilet bowl. Gasmen "oppose" the toilet, demanding that it be enclosed at least with a plasterboard partition with a door. They are silent about the washing machine, probably because at the time when the standards were being developed, there was no general installation of new-type washing equipment, and an ordinary washing machine was a portable item. Regarding the sink and the bathroom, there are no special points in the requirements for a gas boiler room.
The boiler room must be 2.5 meters high or more. Many owners had to sacrifice a storage room to convert the premises into a boiler room. But in this case, in the old pantry, it was necessary to enlarge the window, install a window, drill holes at the bottom of the doors. In addition, ventilation had to be installed. If there were problems with the height of the room, then our enterprising owners, having read the requirements of the law that the height from the base of the heating boiler to the ceiling should be 2.5 meters, carried out digging in the boiler for the missing 20-50 cm. In this case, the heating device was in the pit, and the height requirements were respected. Now, in many areas, gas workers are forced to bury such holes, agreeing with the existing height for the time being. In addition, various types of floor or wall-mounted heating devices have come to replace the old floor-standing boilers of huge sizes. Some of them are very small in size, so you can solve the problem with the height of the room by changing the floor unit to a hinged one. Its installation does not require a boiler room.
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Illegal places for installing a washing machine
You can not put washing equipment in living rooms, as this will require water communications. In the event of an accident, the damage will be significant and no insurance company will compensate for the damage to neighbors, since the culprit has deliberately created a dangerous situation.
The legal place to install washing equipment is in wet areas and non-residential part of the apartment, but installing a washing machine in living rooms is an unacceptable option.
With a small area, you need to use special models of washing machines that can be hidden in a closet or installed under the sink.
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Boiler room in the annex
If there is no place in a residential building for boiler room equipment, an additional room is attached. But, in this case, permission of the architectural plan will be required for the completion of the building and its commissioning. In addition to the costs of materials and the cost of work, the costs of the project and the commissioning of the completion into operation with a change in the technical passport and explication documents will be required. So, costs, in any case, cannot be avoided. If issues with architectural bodies are positively resolved, you should adhere to:
- the required height of the room (2.5 meters), placement - no closer than 1 m from window and door openings;
- the obligatory presence of a wide window with an outward opening that meets the requirements for the area of glazing (0.03 m2 per cubic meter of volume) to create the necessary natural lighting;
- requirements for the presence of correctly performed exhaust ventilation;
- a properly equipped chimney;
- outward opening door with ventilation holes;
- room size requirements
- fire safety requirements (limit of fire resistance of structures, limit of fire spread, etc.)
The boiler room located in the annex, utility basement or basement floor must necessarily have an exit to the street with doors opening outward. At the bottom, the door should have openings for air circulation. In addition to such rooms, it is necessary to have equipment that monitors gas pollution in an automatic mode. Requirements for a gas boiler house of this type are aimed at the safety of service.
Is it possible to install a gas boiler in a bathroom?
It is difficult to answer your question unequivocally, not knowing what kind of house you have (its S) and the bathroom (what is in it: toilet bowl, sink, bathtub, indoor shower).
For the installation of household gas boilers, there are several new requirements of the joint venture,
SNiP 42-01-2002 "Gas distribution systems" and fire safety. All of them are based on the specifics of gas supply and hot water heating:
For normal operation of the gas burner of the boiler, a certain balance of air flow is required - air supply and exhaust.
The gas is poisonous not only by itself, but also with incomplete combustion, fire and explosion hazard.
The water boiler can explode from overheated steam.
Boilers are different
If the first one can be installed in the toilet with minimal alteration of the bathroom, then the other 2 are already problematic.
According to the standards, the installation of boilers is strictly not allowed in the corridors - in the event of a fire, you cannot go out, in the bathrooms due to high humidity. A mixture of gas with water vapor leads to incomplete combustion and explosion. In other rooms "water heaters" (single-circuit boiler up to 60 kW) can be installed subject to the following conditions:
- S premises of at least 4 m² and V - 15. The volume of the room is calculated - for 1 kW the power of the gas boiler should be 0.2 m³.
- The entrance door is at least 0.8m wide;
- The room must have an openable window - 0.3 m² by 10 m³
- Ceiling height not less than 2.5 m;
- An earthing loop must be installed;
- A cold water pipeline must be installed;
- The chimney corresponds to the boiler output;
- The walls are made of non-combustible material.
- The room must have a gas analyzer and a valve that automatically shuts off the gas in the event of a leak
Boilers from 150 kW to 350 kW can only be installed on the first or basement floor.
The house has the most ideal place for a small gas boiler heating the kitchen. It has all the conditions. But it is forbidden to put double-circuit boilers in them.
Hope this information will help you with your boiler installation.
Toilet bowl in the boiler room of a private house
Boiler selection
The main point when choosing a boiler is its power, which depends on the size of the heated area. The approximate power of the heater is 1 kW for 10 squares of area with a ceiling height> 2.5 meters. In this case, it is worth considering the level of insulation of the house, giving small discounts on heat loss (approximately + 15%). When choosing a heated device, price indicators are taken into account. Double-circuit boilers, in addition to heating, have the ability to heat water. They are more expensive. With a limited budget, they stop at single-circuit designs that work only for heating. Floor heating boilers can be equipped with inflatable and atmospheric burners. Boilers with inflatable burners are easier to use and cheaper. They work without much noise. On the contrary, boilers with atmospheric burners will be more expensive, but they have the highest level of efficiency.
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Output
When arranging your boiler room, it is best to consult with a knowledgeable gas service specialist in your region. Therefore, as linemen checking the installation of heating equipment, they can find any reason to draw up a prescription with aggravating conditions or a fine. It is better to fulfill all the instructions of gas workers and similar services in advance. You can get acquainted with the opinions of neighbors on equipping a room with a boiler, get acquainted with information on the Internet. Then you will never pay extra money to representatives of the gas or chimney and ventilation facilities for the maintenance of chimneys and other "inventions" of enterprising workers of such services. If there are no conditions for installing floor-standing boilers, it is better to install wall-mounted boilers that do not require such stringent requirements regarding the room. True, when installing hinged structures, special conditions are imposed on the piping system, couplings and adapters.
You can download SNiP 42-01-2002 here.
