How to choose a house plan – Part 5 of 10
When comparing plans, home to one of the most important features you might consider is the area of buildings – the size of the plan – measured in square feet.
But I'll tell you a secret about "Surface" – is not measured in the same day the house plan. This means that the two plans, the house appears to be equal to the area can not be true!
Makes little difference when you are choosing a plan? You bet I do! Differenceonly 10% of the plan of 3,000 square feet can cost tens of thousands of dollars unexpected!
Apples Apples
Builders, architects, Real Estate Professionals, bankers, accountants, appraisers, and often the amount of square material, all different, a better package to their specific needs. House Plan services vary in the calculation of the protocols, to compare Carefully plant the areas to make sure that the areas are numberedsame.
In general, builders and real estate professionals want to show that the house is as large as possible, allowing them to offer lower cost per square meter, and at home seems more valuable.
County Auditors and appraisers usually only measure the circumference of the house – usually in a very approximate calculation of the area – and call it a day when architects break the size of individual elements, first floor, second floor , porches, finished lower leveletc
To get to the "apples to apples" comparison of the areas of the house, you know what is included later. Does the area include only room heated and cooled? Is all this "protection" (I have seen garages contained in some areas of the plan), but only "living space"?
At the top and bottom, inside and outside
But even if we find the place are taken into account when calculating the space you need to know how to calculate the volume,and that is the total net or gross square material.
Gross area is the sum of everything inside the outer perimeter of the house of total net exhibition area is the same – less wall thickness. In other words, without the square is part of the flooring material that can be walked on – gross includes parts can not.
The difference between these two may be up to ten percent – depending on the type of floor plan design. "Traditional" plan (with more pronounced roomsAnd therefore more walls) can have a ten per cent of net / gross, while the current plan can only have six or seven percent.
Similarly, larger houses tend to have more walls – because larger houses tend to have more rooms, rooms not only larger.
You'll probably never see the size of housing plan contained in the site plan, but the number of representatives from the area of the plant depends on the size often are not counted. Usually, the "top of the" two-storeyrooms (hall, family room) is not considered as part of the plant. Similarly, the stairs are only once. But not always – look at how to calculate the volume is to make sure you know how big the plan really is.
The plan that the service of designing their own plans will have a coherent policy in the area (and volume), but service delivery plans to sell, probably not.
How can a designer or a service plan for the purchase of the calculation of the plan? Sometimes this information is available atInternet service or a book, and sometimes you have to call to find out. But you certainly know – you can have a big difference in the cost of building a house can finally!