What is the difference between the tax assessor's square footage of a house vs. a painters square footage?

Question

The way they calculate square footage.

Answer 1

one considers only livable floor space while the other considers the surface to be painted (interior or exterior).

Answer 2

The tax assessor is calulating the square footage of the floor---the painter is calculating the square footage of the walls, which is significantly more.

Say you have a 10' X 10' room, with 10' high ceilings. It has three blank walls, and the fourth wall has a door and 2 windows.

The taxman is going to count that as 100 square foot room.

The painter has to calculate the square footage of each wall--each blank wall is 10 feet wide and 10 feet high, or 100 square feet each. That's 300 square feet to paint. The fourth wall is a bit less because of the door and the windows.

Answer 3

The tax assessor would be concerned about the square footage of floor space, a painter needs to know the square footage of wall space.

Answer 4

The tax man normally measures the outside of the house. Width and Lenght. The painter measure the inside of a house, each room that is to be painted. Also the painter would calculate the sq foot of the walls inside wall and outside walls, the tax man does not typically care how many sq of inside walls you have. Also if you paint the ceilings, that is also more sq ft to be paid for.

The area of a house is typically lenght x width. The area of painted walls in not really related to this number. Because in each room, you have 4 walls and maybe only one or two of them aare outside walls.