What’s The Right Way To Measure Square Footage?
The business of measuring square footage may seem fairly clear, but that is not the case.
Some folks measure inside wall to inside wall, others measure to a point halfway into the wall. Some count garages, balconies, and patios, others do not. Some owners and builders count basements, others only count “finished” living space. Another way to measure space is to look at the outside dimensions of a house.
When someone says a home has a given number of square feet, it’s useful to ask how such calculations were made.
Here’s why:
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) establishes "the procedures to be followed in measuring and calculating the square footage of detached and attached single-family dwellings, including townhouses, row houses, and other side-by-side houses in the United States." The standard they use is called Protocol Z765-2003. The problem? It’s not a standard because it’s voluntary.
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