1 story equals how many feet in height?

[NJ Valuator]

Completing a split level house with 4 levels above grade but classified it as a 2 story dwelling. Client wants me to call it a 4 story house, but a 4 story house, in my opinion, is like a mid rise garden apartment or condominium building. Each level of a split level does not constitute a full story especially since each floor is only a few stairs up/down from each other.

Would you consider each floor to be a full story? What in your opinion is the height of a story?

 

[JTip]

Picture. Please.

 

[Overimprovement]

Completing a split level house with 4 levels above grade but classified it as a 2 story dwelling. Client wants me to call it a 4 story house, but a 4 story house, in my opinion, is like a mid rise garden apartment or condominium building. Each level of a split level does not constitute a full story especially since each floor is only a few stairs up/down from each other.

Would you consider each floor to be a full story? What in your opinion is the height of a story?

Bottom line is you are the author of the report. Call it what it is. My avatar is a 4 story SFR. I am guessing yours looks nothing like that.

 

[Surf Cat]

Is the Subject like this or like Overimprovement's avatar?

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

4 levels above grade

Sounds like 4 levels and 4 levels equals 4 stories...or are the owners short people and have 6' walls?
“Shoot Low, Boys—They're Riding Shetland Ponies”, - Lewis Grizzard

 

[NJ Valuator]

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Is the Subject like this or like Overimprovement's avatar?

almost identical, but all above grade.

 

[NJ Valuator]

Bottom line is you are the author of the report. Call it what it is. My avatar is a 4 story SFR. I am guessing yours looks nothing like that.

you guessed correctly.

 

[Overimprovement]

Sounds like 4 levels and 4 levels equals 4 stories...or are the owners short people and have 6' walls?
“Shoot Low, Boys—They're Riding Shetland Ponies”, - Lewis Grizzard

Disagree. I level does not equal a story. We have all seen houses with a one or two step down den or similar room. Technically a separate level--would we call that a separate story?

 

[Charles West]

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Is the Subject like this or like Overimprovement's avatar?

Split level with a basement, 2 story.

 

[NJ Valuator]

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Is the Subject like this or like Overimprovement's avatar?

almost identical but all above grade.