Consider an interior room with 50 linear feet (if you measured the total length
of all the walls in the room) and a baseboard that is 6 inches tall. Suppose the deteriorated area was 6 by 12 inches in size, would that exceed the de
minimis level? The answer is no. The deteriorated area does not exceed ten percent of the total area.
Here are the calculations:
- Total area:
50 feet x 6 inches (0.5 feet) = 25 square feet total area
- Calculate ten percent of the total area:
25 square feet x 0.1 = 2.5 square feet
- Deteriorated area:
6 inches (0.5 feet) x 12 inches (1 foot) = 0.5 square feet
Since the deteriorated surface area (0.5 square feet) is less than ten percent of the total
area (2.5 square feet) and less than 2 square feet, the area does not
exceed the de minimis level.
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