Kitchens with a gas boiler: design - issues and solutions

In modern new buildings, autonomous heating systems are increasingly being used, which allow residents to be independent of the mood of public services. Apartments are equipped with units that create a comfortable for a particular family temperature in the premises. The owners of these apartments are real lucky ones: when in the dank autumn the whole city tensely awaits the coveted connection, they start the gas boiler in one motion and, voila, it becomes warm and comfortable in the house. However, these darlings of fate in the repair lurks a difficult task: how to design a kitchen with a gas boiler? The most interesting thing in creating such an interior is to decide how to beat this complex mechanism so that it, depending on individual preferences, either soloes or dissolves in the kitchen ensemble.

Technical difficulties

Gas services operate on the principle of "It is impossible!", You should always remember this and try to design the kitchen with artistic means so that it is comfortable for your family, makes an indelible impression on the guests, but does not frustrate the engineers serving the VDGO. Fines do you no good?

So, what requirements need to be met, conceiving a kitchen design with a boiler?

It is very important: understand well the norms of the “Gas Supply” SNiP. Of course, you trust your designer, he is a professional. But in practice it often happens that it is better to check everything yourself.

In a new building, private house, old apartment

When buying a new apartment with the AOGV system, you already get a room with a wall-mounted gas boiler, which is located where it was located by the gasman. Its transfer is fraught with large technical, paper, time and financial difficulties, so it is easier to leave everything as it is, and hide the device and pipes in a furniture column that will line up with all the lockers in the headset. With this arrangement, it is necessary to leave the top of the column open, to provide a large opening at the bottom (it can be camouflaged with a ventilation grill like an inbuilt refrigerator) to provide the necessary air exchange and calculate the internal dimensions of the canister so that the required air gaps remain. Yes, and the room thermostat will have to be made remote, so that it measures the real temperature of the apartment air.

Without erecting a complex structure, and leaving the unit open, you can place it in a series of kitchen cabinets, choosing the color. Beige, dull gray, silver, yellow, bright red, coffee, blue, lingonberry, coal black - in modern devices the widest range of colors. Or ask the graffiti masters - they will paint the front panel into all the colors of the rainbow. And your "warm" friend will look great in the tone of the furniture or in contrast with it.

If you are the owner of a private house, then how you will have the necessary equipment and tie kitchen furniture to it depends only on three factors:

• your imagination;
• the size of the room;
• preferred style.

Do not forget to put non-combustible flooring in the area of ​​the gas boiler, even if the rest of the area you have oak flooring.

In the old (pre-revolutionary) houses and buildings from the time of the Stalinist empire, niches are found in almost every room for cooking. But if you do not have it, then you can design it yourself, and entrust the implementation to the craftsmen. Visually changing the space, transforming its volume, you will make it more non-standard, and the interior will benefit from it.

The gas boiler, hidden in a niche made of GVL or light blocks, and closed with mesh doors that duplicate kitchen facades or imitate Italian shutters (if you prefer a retro style) will be perceived as an interesting volume of the wall, a highlight of the layout. When fitting the device into a niche, it is necessary to provide for a small gap between it and the inner surfaces of the box, which are finished with non-combustible materials or coated with special paint. The distance from the walls to the unit must be at least 2-3 cm on each side.

Gas boiler as an art object

The easiest way to make a gas boiler the focus of your kitchen universe, if the kitchen design is made in the following styles:

• Retro;
• Loft;
• Country music;
• Modern;
• Futuristic minimalism (then numerous pipes, which are intertwined at impossible angles, are easy to decorate, and the whole structure will look like an installation from the Museum of Modern Art).

The range of modern gas boilers is very wide: from replicas of old equipment with an outer casing of polished copper, which have everything inside made with the latest technology, huge floor systems, combining many functions and resembling English stoves of the Victorian era, to models that look like an appliance, taken from a spacecraft.

If your artistic taste is consistent with the available cash, then such a unit can become a dominant, the center of attention of the kitchen-dining room. Ask yourself: Are you ready for the constant admiration of all who see this miracle, and praise, flattering your vanity? If so, then a kitchen design that revolves around a gas boiler is an option for you!

Gas boiler in a small kitchen

How many square meters should be the area of ​​the room, so that in it the norms allowed the location of gas equipment? Push off from Khrushchev - they have only 4-5 sq. Meters at their disposal. The smaller the space, the more interesting the task to be implemented by the designer (or you - if you have taken this role on yourself).

Professional consultants will help you to choose a worthy result of technical progress in terms of power and characteristics, but you will have to decide which one is better: floor-mounted or wall-mounted. Nowadays, the most popular attachments, they are smaller in size, but not inferior to their grounded brothers in performance. So, it would seem, the choice is obvious. But this is only if you start the repair from scratch. And if you make repairs in an old apartment and there is no possibility or desire to change an expensive item?

In a small kitchen, it is better to use the boiler at the top of the room. You can not close it with a removable box or imitation of a fragment of the kitchen set. But even if you have planned the floor, then place it near the wall (corners), where the door is located. According to the laws of psychology of perception, a person pays less attention to objects located on the side and behind him when he enters a room. The best option is considered the left position, since most people start browsing right.

Designing the design of a small kitchen with an outdoor gas boiler, you further narrow the scope of possible design finds. Use shades of white on large planes (walls, ceiling, floor, curtains or blinds), it is in this case optimal, choose open shelves, reduced dimensions of kitchen furniture and a snow white boiler. General minimalism and monochrome will help to make the room airy, providing more free living space.

Precautionary measures

So that everyone in the house, especially in wood, lived happily ever after and gathered the whole family to drink tea with buns in the warm, beautiful kitchen, while developing the design of the kitchen interior, which includes a gas boiler on the wall, pay attention to the following points:

1. Be sure to consider the placement of gas detectors (gas leakage sensors). These devices are almost invisible, but can save you life.
2. Trust the connection of gas equipment only to official specialists.
3. Provide a fresh air ventilation device to keep the fresh air inside the room constant.