How to measure covered area of a house?

Almost 5 months ago, I was trying to understand the exact covered area of my building during the planning of renovation work. But I was unable to understand. At that time, the renovation engineer helped me understand how to calculate covered area of a house. He said you must start by measuring the building's footprint's length and width, followed by a few steps, to determine its covered area. I have shared the process below.

How to Find Covered Area of a House?

1. Using a measuring tape or a laser measurer, find out the length and width of the building’s footprint.

2. To find the entire footprint area, multiply the length by the width.

3. Measure the length and width of any porches, balconies, or other structures that expand beyond the main walls of the home.

4. Multiply the length and width of each overhanging structure to determine its area.

5. Finally, the total covered area is calculated by adding the base area and the areas of all overhanging structures.

This is the easiest way to calculate the covered area of a building.

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Recently, I measured the covered area of my house. I will share the steps that I followed to calculate with you.

1. Add the wall width to each dimension in the floor plan if the wall is not already included. 

2. If the builder indicates that the wall is included in the floor plan dimensions, only half of the wall width should be considered.

3. Multiply the dimensions of kitchen, bathroom, living room, (Drawing+Dining+BedRoom(s)+StudyRoom+StoreRoom), balcony, or any other usable space.

4. After sum all the values and get the covered area of the house.

This is the covered area calculator method

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From what I practise, the covered area is the carpeted area plus the space occupied by a wall. Other unused surfaces in a flat, such as a balcony, patio, gardens, etc., are also included in the covered area. So the covered area calculator will help you understand the concept in a better way.

How to measure covered area of a house?

Wall to wall dimension of the entire flat is considered to be a covered area. It encompasses the interior walls and the carpet area. You can determine this by adding together 12–15% of the carpet area. You may want to think about the top end, or 15% if the wall is particularly thick. Built-Up Area is another name for a covered area. The following example will help you know how to calculate covered area in construction.

How to calculate covered area of a building?

Now, considering a carpet area of 1500 square feet, we calculate the covered area of a flat.

1500 square feet is the carpet area.

The covered Area is equal to the Carpet Area plus 15% of the Carpet Area.

= 1500 square feet plus 15% of 1500

= (1500 + 225) sq. ft.

= 1725 sq ft

How to calculate covered area of a house?

For example, if we multiply 30 by 40, we obtain 1200 sqft, which is the land area or plot area of the house. The area that has been built on that land is the covered area. The undeveloped portion of the property will not be regarded as a covered area because there is no development there. The location where the construction will be done is in the centre. The land area was approximately 1200 square feet, and if we remove the side that won't be built on, we'll be left with about 75 percent of that, which will be the covered space of one level. This works the same way with how to calculate covered area of a flat.

If you're building a multi-story structure, you can increase the 800 square feet by the covered area of that floor. For instance, if both floors' covered areas are the same, you would multiply the bottom floor's 800 square feet by the first floor's 800 square feet. It is to achieve 1600 square feet. This will be the portion of the house that is covered.

This is all about the covered area calculator.