(In round meters squared)

a) Total (i.e. total floor space of all lodgings in the dwelling: rooms, kitchens, hall, bathroom, toilet, pantry, veranda, etc.): _____
b) Of which, floor space of dwelling used exclusively for conducting economic activities: ____

1.Useful floor space of the dwelling is a total of the surfaces of all the spaces in the dwelling and particularly: rooms, kitchens (with and without a window), alcoves, pantries, ante-rooms, halls, bathrooms, toilets, verandas an porches and other spaces meeting the housing and economic needs of the residents of a premises, regardless of their use and usage.

The useful floor space of the dwelling should also include the space of rooms used exclusively for economic activity, which have been indicated in question 4b, as well as the surface of other spaces used for this activity, provided that they do not have a separate entrance from the street, yard or a common corridor. Apart from being mentioned in the general useful floor space of the dwelling (question 5a), the surface of the rooms and spaces should also be indicated separately in question 5b.

The useful floor space of the dwelling does not include: balconies, terraces, loggias, mezzanines, wardrobes and closets in the walls, laundries, drying-rooms, attics, cellars and storerooms used for fuel storage and garage surfaces.

2. Measuring of the useful floor space is done along the interior coated walls of the dwelling.

3. The useful floor space of the building usually includes the space of the hall. The hall is not treated as a part of the dwelling and its space is not included in the useful floor space of the dwelling only in case when:

The hall connects the residential part of the dwelling with the inventory or economic one

There is more than one dwellings and the hall is treated as a common corridor.

4. The space under the stairs situated in a private building is included to the useful floor space of the dwelling when there is only one dwelling in the building. It is not included when there are two or more dwellings in the building. The stairs and the space underneath them are treated as a common communication part.

5. In case of single-family buildings under construction but partly inhabited, the useful floor space of the dwelling should include only the surface of the rooms and auxiliary spaces which are completed.

6. The surface of the rooms and other spaces or of their parts built-in a slanting roof construction should be determined according to the Polish standards in the following way:

Of height (in light) bigger or equal to 2,20 meters- should be treated as 100%

Of height from 1,4 to 2,19 m- 50%

Of height smaller than 1,40 m -- should be omitted

7. The data on the useful floor space of the dwelling should be shown on the basis of the tenants? statement, or voluntarily shown documents e.g. contract of lease, rent books, a blueprint of a single-family house.

The dwelling users (particularly in single-family houses) who do not have such documents and do not know the space of their dwelling should be requested to measure particular spaces (being a part of the dwelling), count their surfaces and the surface of the whole dwelling.

8. Fill in the data on useful floor space of the dwelling in round square meters, rounding to decimal places according to the following principle: from 0,1 to 0,4 sq meters the decimal places should be omitted and from 0,5 to 0,9 sq meters the decimal places should be rounded up to full meters.