ᐅ 130 m² house, one and a half stories, ratio of usable area to living space
Created on: 2 Jul 2017 17:26
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Hausbau83
Hello everyone,
we have now agreed on the general design of our house and have already created a floor plan. However, the question arises: how big is the house actually?
One home builder talks about usable floor area, another about living area or built-up area.
In our floor plan, the external dimensions are 9.63 x 9.825 meters (32 x 32 feet). I have subtracted all walls from this floor plan and added that to the living area, so it should be about 130 m² (1,399 sq ft). Is that correct? It seems a bit large to me.
Could someone clarify this for me? It is important to us to have a rough floor plan so that we can also calculate a price.
Thank you
we have now agreed on the general design of our house and have already created a floor plan. However, the question arises: how big is the house actually?
One home builder talks about usable floor area, another about living area or built-up area.
In our floor plan, the external dimensions are 9.63 x 9.825 meters (32 x 32 feet). I have subtracted all walls from this floor plan and added that to the living area, so it should be about 130 m² (1,399 sq ft). Is that correct? It seems a bit large to me.
Could someone clarify this for me? It is important to us to have a rough floor plan so that we can also calculate a price.
Thank you
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Hausbau833 Jul 2017 08:27@Lumpi_LE, that’s what I was thinking too. I simply took the net usable floor area and came to 81m² (870 sq ft) on the ground floor.
@11ant, the provider has only specified the usable floor area in their house types as well.
@11ant, the provider has only specified the usable floor area in their house types as well.
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Hausbau833 Jul 2017 10:29It’s mainly about an approximate size because we don’t pay for living space but for usable floor area, and I want to aim for around 130m2 (1400 sq ft), since 5m2 (54 sq ft) in house construction already means a significant additional investment.
Hausbau83 schrieb:
I simply calculated the net usable floor area, which comes to 81m2 (870 sq ft) on the ground floor Hausbau83 schrieb:
because we pay not for living space but for usable floor area If you treat all room floor areas equally, that might be about right—I would have estimated around 78 m2 (840 sq ft). Regardless of which standard or version you apply, there are proportional considerations for parts of rooms under pitched roofs based on height zones—so the term "one-and-a-half storeys" fits quite well. At least without knee walls, this almost matches up.
Hausbau83 schrieb:
and I want to be around 130m2 (1,400 sq ft) The question is what size rooms are needed, and you shouldn’t forget hallways and stairs. If you sum all floor areas equally, this also applies to utility rooms and storage spaces.
Whether you reach 130 m2 (1,400 sq ft) is hard to verify with inadequate floor plans.
For the price, the total floor area matters in the end—that is, whether a higher knee wall reduces the required foundation slab area roughly balances out, so the effect is approximately neutral.
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Hausbau833 Jul 2017 20:16I clarified it with the structural engineer; this area would have been just under 140 square meters (about 1,500 square feet) of usable space. He provided me with a floor plan that I only needed to slightly reduce in size.
Sorry about the staircase; I used the program Edraw, and it only had this type of staircase available.
Sorry about the staircase; I used the program Edraw, and it only had this type of staircase available.
Hausbau83 schrieb:
He gave me a floor plan that I only needed to reduce in size a little. And the result was the drawing shown here?
Reducing a functional floor plan by 10 sqm (108 sq ft) is not a trivial task...
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11ant schrieb:
And the result was then the drawing shown here?
Reducing a functional floor plan by 10 sqm (108 sq ft) is not a simple task...... regarding a rough cost estimate for a house of 130 sqm (1,399 sq ft)... 140 sqm (1,507 sq ft) minus 10 sqm (108 sq ft)... can be done without a drawing [emoji23][emoji85]
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