EPC's and Floor Area

Contessa

Having read in another thread that EPC's also list the floor area of houses I'm trying to use this as a comparisom tool. So, some questions.
Just what exactly is measured? Is it just the actual room sizes or does it include hallways and landings? Stairs? Cupboards?
Is there a standardised format that is used?
I've looked at the figures for some of the houses I've viewed and I'm a little surprised at the results.

Or should I just take the figures with a pinch of salt?

Better_Days

Have found this from Wikipidea

The total floor area is the area contained within the external walls of the property. The figure includes internal walls, stairwells and the like, but excludes garages, porches, areas less than 1.5 m high, balconies and any similar area that is not an internal part of the dwelling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Performance_Certificate#cite_note-6
And this was the reference
http://resources.peakdistrict.gov.uk/pubs/planning/housing/appendix6.pdf

I use the floor area as part of the comparison process, but it is only a part. Do find it useful though as I also work out the AP per square metre, so I all other things being equal I have a benchmark.

The EPC includes an email address for the person who carried out the EPC. You could email and ask for more info - and actually I would be interested in the answer too!

anselld

From ...

http://www.bre.co.uk/filelibrary/SAP/2009/SAP-2009_9-90.pdf

"Dimensions refer to the inner surfaces of the elements bounding the dwelling. Thus floor dimensions are obtained by measuring between the inner surfaces of the external or party walls, disregarding the presence of any internal walls."

moneyistooshorttomention

...and then there is the "spanner in the works" factor which means a house may be bigger than the measurement given.

I asked for the measurement on my EPC to be in both sets of measurements, that is: both square meters and square feet (so that people could look at the one they would understand best).

Someone didn't do the maths right and said that my house is a smaller number of square feet than that number of square metres really translated into. I had to get the maths put right, as otherwise viewers would have thought that my house was 100 sq.ft. smaller than it actually is.

wannahouse

well the house we are buying is 600 sq mt/ 6500 sq ft and they have listed it on the EPC as 300 sq mt so totally out of the ball park!!!

anselld

wannahouse wrote: »

well the house we are buying is 600 sq mt/ 6500 sq ft and they have listed it on the EPC as 300 sq mt so totally out of the ball park!!!

Are you sure? 600 sqm would be a mansion! Even 300 sqm is a fairly big house.

wannahouse

anselld wrote: »

Are you sure? 600 sqm would be a mansion! Even 300 sqm is a fairly big house.

yes, i'm sure!
its an old country regency gentleman's residence!
the lounge room is over 10 mtrs long!!!