Series II-03 is nicknamed the people's Stalinist buildings, from which one can understand the approximate period of construction, as well as the nature of the housing. This is the second half of the last century, until the 60s. Usually the building is built of dark red brick, and after 1945 - of silicate brick; it was not faced. Series II consists of both standard housing with an improved layout and simpler ordinary housing. II-03 refers to the latter. Most often these were communal apartments, and the buildings themselves were erected near factories and factories, as well as on the outskirts.
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Design features of the series and facade finishing
Load-bearing walls in the standard design II-68-03 are all external panels, longitudinal panels located between apartments, as well as partially transverse panels between apartments. The external and internal walls are strong concrete blocks with a thickness of 40 and 39 cm, the interfloor ceilings are hollow-core slabs (their thickness was 22 cm)
, and the partitions between the rooms are made of gypsum concrete
(8 cm)
.
The facades of the houses in this series were not covered. A special feature of the series was that the first floors of these 12-story buildings were usually allocated for non-residential premises. In the houses of the series there is an exit from the stairs to a common fire-proof balcony, and the stairs themselves are equipped with an airlock (smoke-free)
.
Houses are not subject to demolition; since the late 2000s, mass renovation of high-rise buildings II-68-03 began in the capital and in Odintsovo.
Suitability for redevelopment or repair
Considering the considerable age of most houses, it is necessary to approach the issue of repairs, especially major ones, with caution. The loggias are dilapidated and can hardly be redeveloped.
Several projects for the repair or redevelopment of standard steel frames of the II-03 series have been completed. In general, the buildings are surprisingly well preserved, but the internal partitions and ceilings may be in poor condition.
Important information!
It is impossible to change the ventilation system and hood here, since it is located inside the load-bearing walls. If there is intervention, it will be very difficult to legitimize the alteration.
We strongly recommend that you check the condition of the ceilings, floors and partitions before repairing. This requires an inspection by experienced craftsmen of our company, and based on the findings, drawing up a redevelopment project. Then you can be confident in the safety of repairs not only of the target apartment, but also of safety for the surrounding apartments.
Important information!
Intervention in the load-bearing structures of such old houses is contraindicated.
Usually ordered:
- expansion of a narrow corridor;
- installation of niches, cabinets;
- checking the technical condition of balconies;
- kitchen remodeling;
- re-flooring.
Since the kitchens are gasified, consultation with gas workers is necessary regarding redevelopment.
Complete turnkey apartment renovation
- Everything is included The cost of repairs includes everything: work, materials, documents.
- Without your participation After agreeing on the project, we only bother the owners when the repairs are completed.
- The price is known in advance. The cost of repairs is fixed in the contract.
- Fixed repair period Turnkey apartment renovation in 3.5 months. The term is fixed in the contract.
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Features of apartment layouts
It is interesting that the houses of series II-68-03 do not have one-room apartments at all. In 2- and 5-room apartments of standard house design, fairly spacious kitchens are designed, but in some “three rubles” the kitchens remain cramped. All apartments in houses of type II-68-03 have separate bathrooms. Each apartment has hot and cold central city water supply, as well as natural exhaust ventilation. A significant drawback of these apartments, which cannot be corrected, is the low ceiling - only 2.48 m.
Main features of buildings of series II-03
Buildings in this series usually have three to five floors, with several entrances; there may be no basement, in which case the ground floor has wooden floors. The main characteristics of the house include:
- the main material used in construction is brick, of various types, locally produced;
- wide landings with six apartments each;
- most houses are equipped with a garbage chute, with a valve on each floor;
- load-bearing walls made of brick or hollow slabs;
- facing of facing bricks or tiles;
- balconies start from the third floor;
- there was no elevator in such houses;
- The roof is hipped, covered with roofing iron.
The mass production of such buildings for the middle class made it possible to solve housing problems in Moscow and the near Moscow region in the post-war period, so such buildings can be found in large numbers. Despite their deterioration, most of them are not demolished, but are modernized and strengthened.
Characteristics of apartments in series II-03
The apartments in these houses have classic sizes: from 43 meters for a one-room apartment, to 70 meters for a three-room apartment. The following characteristics can be noted:
- The kitchen is spacious, up to ten square meters, regardless of the number of rooms. With natural exhaust ventilation and gas stove.
- Separate bathroom with standard bath. Not all houses were provided with centralized hot water supply, so some of them were supplied with gas water heaters.
- The ceilings are high - up to three meters.
- There is access to the balcony in apartments starting from the third floor. There is no fire protection.
- The rooms are adjacent, but the typical redevelopment of series II-03 houses involves isolating them, without significant loss of space.
Houses of the II-03 series are affordable housing, which, under the right operating conditions, will last for many years, but it is worth taking into account the technical features of the construction of a particular building, since the materials used in each case are different and the wear and tear of the buildings is different.
Possibilities for redevelopment of apartments II-03
The high ceilings make the room look spacious, but there are some areas that could use some improvement. In some cases, it is important to combine the kitchen with the living room, which requires legalization due to the dismantling of the internal partition. Sometimes designers propose radical solutions, for example, moving a kitchen in a three-ruble ruble to the place of the former corridor.
If desired, you can turn a three-room “Stalin” building with a long corridor into an apartment with a full four rooms, a dressing room, a storage room and two bathrooms. The size of the apartments and the layout of the houses of the II-03 series allow you to organize quite practical ergonomic storage spaces. If necessary, you can make a spacious living room-kitchen-dining room.
In general, this type of housing is quite suitable for improving and optimizing living and utility space. Most changes require the development of new design documentation and its approval.
Layout features
This series presents houses from three to five floors with a different number of entrances, starting from one. There is no basement. All apartments on the third, fourth and fifth floors have balconies. The housing has a high ceiling height - 3 m.
The footage of apartments in these buildings is as follows:
- one-room apartments – 43-47 sq.m. m;
- two-room apartments – 53-54 sq.m. m;
- three-room apartments – 69-70 sq.m. m.
Kitchen area – 9-10 sq. m depending on the number of rooms and the location of the apartment on the floor.
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Features of the series, its modifications
House type II-68, when compared with prototypes, has its advantages. For example, spacious 6-meter loggias and a common balcony through which you can go from the hall with an elevator to the fire escape in case of evacuation. The area of the apartments also increased, the rooms became isolated.
For residents who want to remodel, houses in this series are attractive due to the absence of load-bearing walls inside.
Usually these are asbestos-cement partitions, which, if desired, can be removed, an arch can be made, or a doorway can be moved, although permission for this still needs to be obtained.
Panel house series II 68 allows such redevelopment
A disadvantage common to all panel and block houses is the low height of the premises - only 2.48 m.
Below there is only a basement, so you can forget about suspended ceilings in such apartments. On the other hand, the ceiling base is almost flat, with a minimum of seams, which facilitates the process of plastering and painting.
In some cases, during construction, not sandwich panels with internal insulation were used, but ordinary expanded clay concrete blocks 40 cm thick, used as wall filling. So house II-68 is not always panel.
In this case, the thermal efficiency of the walls does not meet modern standards, and in the northern regions they freeze.
The loads are taken by the frame, and the blocks are used as a non-load-bearing element of the wall filling
The houses in this series have spacious basements. Usually they are occupied by housing offices, shops, and children's clubs.
There are two elevators in the house - in addition to the passenger elevator, there is also a freight elevator. The number of apartments on a floor depends on their area - from six to nine, but more often it is 3 one-room apartments, 2 three-room apartments, and two two-room apartments (7 in total).
Size and layout of rooms
The largest apartment provided by the II-68 house series is three-room, with a maximum area of 65.5 m2 (living area 46.5) and an 8-meter kitchen.
In apartments with a smaller area, a larger area is allocated for the kitchen: in one-room apartments up to 9.5 m2, and in two-room apartments even up to 11 m2.
Each of them has 2 options for common and living space - and, accordingly, for the kitchen. Bathrooms are combined only in apartments with one room.
House layout II-68 in the photo:
Floor plans with room sizes - house series II-68
One-room
Although the houses of series II-68 were designed during Brezhnev’s rule, they were not far from the “Khrushchev” buildings.
On our website you can see ideas for planning a one-room “Khrushchev” apartment.
A standard 1-room apartment with an area of 30 square meters, the room size of which is only 14.7 m2. The bathroom is small, it is unlikely that a washing machine will fit there. The hallway is also cramped, with two “nooks” for a storage room and, possibly, a mezzanine.
Layout option for a one-room Brezhnev apartment
When the balcony has an area larger than the hallway and bathroom combined, you can change something in the layout.
Kitchen layout options
At the expense of the room, the kitchen has been enlarged, although in many other old series this ratio is 18/5 m2. However, it is hardly worth increasing the living space by taking away meters from the kitchen, because this object is no less important and the only one that pleases in this layout.
It’s a pity that when planning the loggia, only one exit was provided - from the room. This is a serious omission, because everything that there is no place for in the kitchen is usually stored on the balcony.
When leaving the kitchen, the loggia takes on a different meaning, and with underfloor heating, the room will become more functional.
Kitchen design in a house of series II 68 after redevelopment
You can try to get permission to expand the window opening to the size of a door and make repairs by raising the level of the balcony floor to the required level.
If the filling of the walls is block-based, there should be no problems with this. In many houses with the so-called improved layout, this problem is taken into account from the very beginning, and you can access the long loggia from both the kitchen and the room.
Instead of a door in the kitchen, you can make a floor-to-ceiling window
In houses of series II 68-04 built in 1995, there are one-room apartments with a larger area, the excess of which is almost entirely accounted for by the room.
There are some peculiarities here: due to the V-shaped facade, the loggia is not rectangular, but in the form of an irregular quadrangle, strongly narrowed on one side.
Apartment layout II-68-03. Repair in II-68-03.
II-68-03 series has received the widest mass distribution in the construction of houses in the capital. House series II-68-03 is a multi-section 12-story block building, which is distinguished by a long body. The houses of this series are recognizable by their unusual wide sections with unlined block walls, as well as windows without loggias and balconies at the ends.
The external walls of the house are made of concrete panel blocks, consisting of three layers, the total thickness of which is 30 cm. The internal walls are made of concrete blocks 39 cm thick. The partitions are made of 8 cm gypsum concrete. The floors are hollow-core reinforced concrete, 22 cm thick. Type of entrances: row and end. Number of steps in the entrances: in ordinary entrances - four double steps, in end entrances - 4.5 double steps. The cladding was done only at the entrance to the refurbishment area. External wall color: white, yellow. The roof is flat. The first floor of the house is residential.
In series II-68-03, house plans include 4 or 5 apartments on each floor. In houses II-68-03 the layout of the apartments is quite convenient. All rooms in two-room and three-room apartments are isolated. The ceiling height is 2.5 meters. The bathrooms are separate, the baths are standard, their length is 150 cm. Natural exhaust ventilation passes through the ventilation blocks, which are located in the kitchen and bathroom. Electric kitchens are installed in the kitchens. There are two high-speed elevators installed at the entrances: passenger and cargo-passenger. Smoke-free staircases have an airlock; there is no common evacuation balcony. A garbage chute with a loading valve is located on each floor for the convenience of residents.
Advantages of the house series II-68-03: the presence of a freight elevator, in most apartments the kitchens are more than 8 meters, all rooms are isolated from each other.
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