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Answers (2)
Best Answer
- Carl Heldmann, "mrbuilder"
- Contributions:32
Great question! With a true walkout basement, if all "living spaces" meet local and national building code requirements of 2 means of ingress and egress (excluding baths), AND are finished in the same manner and/or quality as the floors above, then the "lower level", as I call it, should indeed be counted as a "floor". Read my page on Walkout Basements.
Carl Heldmann
Carl Heldmann
- hamma214
- Contributions:2
According to most legal listings you cant list your basement square footage,rooms,or bedrooms,as any living space unless you have two ways of an exit out of basement. Plus your exit must be ground level walk-out. Not a flight of steps. Now adding insult to injury,you shouldnt have to pay insurance for a part of your house that is not counted as square footage. But thats just part of uncle sams way of getting taxes. And on the other hand if you pull permits for the work,you will now increase your square footage of your home,and your twnp will reep the benifits because now you have more sq footage so that means more money in taxes when completed and assested. Doesnt that just piss you off ???!!!!
How does one determine square footage for a single story home with a finished walkout basement?
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