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Calculating overall square footage and cost

  • 20-02-2016 5:54pm
    #1
    kevh1987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 ✭


    Hi all. This may sound like a stupid question but what is the correct wasy to calculate the overall square footage of a 1.5 story house. To me it does not make sense to simply ad the ground floor to the first floor as elements such as the foundations and roof cover both.

    Basically If the ground floor area is 1743 Sqft and the first floor is 1636 Sqft is it just a case of 1+1 =2?


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  • #2
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Measure the area at each level around the external walls.
    Foundations etc shouldn't even come into the equation.


  • #3
    kevh1987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 ✭kevh1987


    Thanks fo the reply but would it not be dearer to bulid a 2500 sqft bungalow then a 2500 sqft dormer?


  • #4
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    kevh1987 wrote: »
    Thanks fo the reply but would it not be dearer to bulid a 2500 sqft bungalow then a 2500 sqft dormer?

    Yes it would. But that's not what you asked in the OP.


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