They recommend that under a sloping ceiling the area should be taken to a point at which the floor to ceiling height is 1500mm.
Measure area of a floor.
Preview tab view a color coded floor plan to easily visualize the area type selection for each zone room in your project.
As a guide gia includes.
Then put the dimensions of each area in to the calcualtor if you re stuck on imperial as we are you can input in feet and inches and still get a square metres result then add the areas together.
The best way to measure a room is to break it down in to rectangular areas.
Gross floor area the total floor area contained within the building measured to the external.
Multiply to get the area.
Calculate the total area.
Measuring floor area for chipboard.
Gross internal area gia gross internal area is the area of a building measured to the internal face of the perimeter walls at each floor level.
In my example the floor to ceiling dimension goes down to 1200mm.
You can measure either in feet or metres.
Areas occupied by internal walls and partitions.
Mezzanines with permanent access.
Generally there are three major differences in measuring floor area.
If you cannot measure outside measure inside and add the thickness of the walls.
It is worth noting however that in taking the area to the inside face of the side walls i have gone against rics advice.
In architectural construction and real estate floor area floor space or floorspace is the area taken up by a building or part of it.
If you re room is rectangular then simply enter the width and depth of the room and the unit of measure and the resulting floor area of the room will be calculated in several different units of measure both metric and imperial useful if you are meauring the room in one unit but for example the floor tiles you want are measured in a different unit.
Choose one of these tabs.
What does gia include.
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Click or tap menu yellow button at the top left choose total area.
The best way is to go outside and measure the length and width of your house and multiply those figures together.
Gefa is defined as the area of a dwelling measured externally at each floor level.
For floor coverings such as chipboard which for ordinary flooring can be bought in tongued and grooved panels measuring 2 4m x 1 20m with smaller panels available for lofts the total area of your floor can be divided by the area of each board to give you the number of boards required.
For instance if one wall is 10 feet 3 0 m and the other is 8 feet 2 4 m multiply these to get a total floor space area of 80 feet 24 m square.