Gross floor area gfa in real estate is the total floor area inside the building envelope including the external walls and excluding the roof.
Carpet area vs floor area.
Well if you are a civil engineer you must know how to read a floor plan of a building.
For example underneath kitchen units or in the bathroom.
Some areas will not be carpeted.
The floor area ratio is the relationship between the total amount of usable floor area that a building has or has been permitted to have and the total area of the lot on which the building stands.
Technically speaking it means the net usable floor area within a building excluding the area that is covered by the walls or any other areas specifically exempted from floor space index computation.
Carpet area does not include the space covered by common areas such as lobby lift stairs play area etc.
In simple terms this is the area inside your apartment where a carpet can be laid and is measured wall to wall.
A good plan gives a better idea of whole structure in single sheet.
If your carpet area efficiency is poor or very poor then you might have been bluffed by your developer builder or otherwise the planning design of the apartment flats is really very bad.
So when you are in.
As the name suggests carpet area means the space where you can lay a carpet in the flat like a bedroom living room hall while calculating the carpet area exclude the wall thickness utility area and shaft area.
To make it ease in the plan we use so.
If it is good or very good feel happy that you are not bluffed you bought a flat from a good builder.
In simple terms any floor level which is below the normal floor level will be excluded like the bathroom utility area excluding.
Definitions of gfa including which areas are to be counted towards it and which areas aren t vary around the world.
These will contribute to the floor area but not the carpet area.
Carpet area is the area that can actually be covered by a carpet or the area of the apartment excluding the thickness of inner walls.