Why can’t you dismantle the kitchen door with gas supply? | Home/Repair | Real Estate

Replacing a door with an arch in a room often allows for the expansion of living space, especially in typical apartments. However, the law does not allow for the removal of the door between the kitchen and the corridor. “In gasified multi-apartment residential buildings, the requirements for redevelopment and reorganization are quite strict,” explains lawyer and expert on redevelopment issues, Lev Lev. “The ventilation system is designed in such a way that in the event of a gas leak, the gas can be safely removed through it and not enter adjacent premises. For this reason, it is not allowed to dismantle the door between the kitchen and the corridor, and the door itself, for greater airtightness, should also have a threshold. In some regions of Russia, special attention is paid to this condition, and it is also prohibited to replace wooden windows with plastic ones in order not to disrupt the natural air circulation.” https://regionews.ru/tech/leakage-of-500-million-records-of-russians-on-the-internet/ The law also prohibits combining a gasified kitchen with a room, laying ventilation ducts (for example, when expanding the kitchen at the expense of an adjacent pantry with a vent duct), relocating the gas stove and its pipes, expanding the kitchen at the expense of the bathroom.