Hello everyone,
can someone help me understand which rooms in our floor plan are counted as living space and which as usable space?
Basement:
Kitchen: 25.52 m² (275 sq ft)
Pantry: 9.23 m² (99 sq ft)
Dining: 20.48 m² (220 sq ft)
Living room: 35.94 m² (387 sq ft)
Hallway: 8 m² (86 sq ft)
Garden equipment room (inside the house): 14.36 m² (155 sq ft)
Utility room (technical room): 8.68 m² (93 sq ft)
Guest toilet: 4 m² (43 sq ft)
Laundry room: 16 m² (172 sq ft)
Upper floor:
Entrance area: 9.28 m² (100 sq ft)
Bedroom: 13.44 m² (145 sq ft)
Dressing room: 11.12 m² (120 sq ft)
Master bathroom: 15.25 m² (164 sq ft)
Child 1 room: 18.45 m² (199 sq ft)
Child 2 room: 18.45 m² (199 sq ft)
Children’s bathroom: 8 m² (86 sq ft)
Hallway: 9.84 m² (106 sq ft)
Is usable space calculated differently from living space in new construction?
Thanks 🙂
can someone help me understand which rooms in our floor plan are counted as living space and which as usable space?
Basement:
Kitchen: 25.52 m² (275 sq ft)
Pantry: 9.23 m² (99 sq ft)
Dining: 20.48 m² (220 sq ft)
Living room: 35.94 m² (387 sq ft)
Hallway: 8 m² (86 sq ft)
Garden equipment room (inside the house): 14.36 m² (155 sq ft)
Utility room (technical room): 8.68 m² (93 sq ft)
Guest toilet: 4 m² (43 sq ft)
Laundry room: 16 m² (172 sq ft)
Upper floor:
Entrance area: 9.28 m² (100 sq ft)
Bedroom: 13.44 m² (145 sq ft)
Dressing room: 11.12 m² (120 sq ft)
Master bathroom: 15.25 m² (164 sq ft)
Child 1 room: 18.45 m² (199 sq ft)
Child 2 room: 18.45 m² (199 sq ft)
Children’s bathroom: 8 m² (86 sq ft)
Hallway: 9.84 m² (106 sq ft)
Is usable space calculated differently from living space in new construction?
Thanks 🙂
EberhardT300111 Jan 2022 12:23Thank you for your responses.
We are preparing a cost estimate for the new build and want to know if we should calculate the entire floor area at full cost or if there are areas that could be less expensive. For example, we will not heat the utility room and storage room, and we will not install underfloor heating there.
We are preparing a cost estimate for the new build and want to know if we should calculate the entire floor area at full cost or if there are areas that could be less expensive. For example, we will not heat the utility room and storage room, and we will not install underfloor heating there.
A price per square meter* rule of thumb is too rough to make distinctions on a room-by-room basis.
If you don’t have thermal separation between the rooms, it doesn’t make sense to plan different heating concepts.
You will still heat the rooms and simply increase the thermal loss to the adjacent rooms.
If you don’t have thermal separation between the rooms, it doesn’t make sense to plan different heating concepts.
You will still heat the rooms and simply increase the thermal loss to the adjacent rooms.
Then the answer can be found here.
ypg schrieb:
When building a house, the floor areas are not important unless you need to prepare a cost calculation for yourself or the bank. In that case, everything within the thermal envelope is counted as living area, and outside the thermal envelope a reduced factor is applied for cost calculation.
ypg schrieb:
If it’s about your house, then the basement and the garage, provided both are outside the thermal envelope, count as usable area and I would estimate costs at 1500/sqm (140 sq ft). Everything else will be heated and counts as living area. The balcony is considered an extra and is calculated separately.
EberhardT3001 schrieb:
The point is that we want to create a cost estimate for the new build and need to know whether we should calculate the entire floor area at full price or if there are areas that can be counted at a lower rate.For example, a bathroom is a relatively expensive room—mainly due to the sanitary fixtures and special features you might include—not so much because of the open floor space. A storage room is relatively cheap—but only partly, based on the floor area (assuming you choose less expensive tiles there). The amount of less smooth or even wall plaster in such rooms can only be correlated to the floor area to a very limited and individual extent. And you will probably connect it to a controlled mechanical ventilation system too—not as a broom closet, but if it is considered a "room." And to be honest, if you take an average of about 2500 euros per square meter (10cm (5 inches) = approx. 2500 €/m²) as a reference: if you price all utility rooms at 2400 and all living rooms at 2600, does the difference to a flat 2500 really make a significant impact overall?If your calculation shows that your budget only covers 157 square meters while you want 160*, you’re unlikely to solve that gap just by trying to count storage rooms as cheaper space ;-)
*) P.S.: Now that I think about it, it’s quite late, but since you’re the one building the villa on the Ponderosa—how does this question fit with that project at all???
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