How many square metres of carpet do I need?

cattie

I'm thinking of buying some carpet online as I've seen a couple of matching end rolls of a quality carpet that I like, but want to be sure I'd be buying enough to cover the whole area I want carpeted. So I wonder if somebody here would be good enough to let me know the minimum square metres I need to buy.

I make it around 30 square metres, but not sure I'm working it out correctly.

The carpet comes in 4 metres width & I want it for the following;
1 room 10' x 12' 4" approx
1 room 10' x 10' 4" approx
1 lobby 8' 6" x 4' approx

The largest of the roll ends on offer measures 4 mtr x 4.59 mtr. Would this be enough to do both one of the rooms as above and the lobby? There is another roll end available in the same carpet that I know will be ample to do the other room.

Thanks so much if you can advise.

cyclonebri1

cattie wrote: »

I'm thinking of buying some carpet online as I've seen a couple of matching end rolls of a quality carpet that I like, but want to be sure I'd be buying enough to cover the whole area I want carpeted. So I wonder if somebody here would be good enough to let me know the minimum square metres I need to buy.

I make it around 30 square metres, but not sure I'm working it out correctly.

The carpet comes in 4 metres width & I want it for the following;
1 room 10' x 12' 4" approx
1 room 10' x 10' 4" approx
1 lobby 8' 6" x 4' approx

The largest of the roll ends on offer measures 4 mtr x 4.59 mtr. Would this be enough to do both one of the rooms as above and the lobby? There is another roll end available in the same carpet that I know will be ample to do the other room.

Thanks so much if you can advise.

Revised to say yes, I mixed the feet and metres originally. Keeping the units of measurement common always helps in a question like this.

jcb208

room1 will need 3.048 * 4.0 mtrs
room2 will need the same
room3 will need 1.21 *4mtrs so yes you can get 2 rooms out of 1 piece

teddysmum

You could do either 1 or 2 with 3, from the large piece.


Draw yourself a plan of the remnant, placing the larger piece in one corner, then work out the dimensions of what is left (an L shape which you can trim to a rectangle).


You can't work out carpet by area .eg 4m by 4m is 16sqm. 3m by 4m is 12sqm and 2m by2m is 4sqm. 12sqm+4sqm=16sm, but you cannot cut the two areas from the 4m by 4m piece.

martinthebandit

Just a thought but if your buying carpet measured in metres why do you measure your room in feet and inches?

martin.cat

Another smart answer

cyclonebri1

martin.cat wrote: »

Another smart answer

It is a very valid point.

cattie

martinthebandit wrote: »

Just a thought but if your buying carpet measured in metres why do you measure your room in feet and inches?

Because I'm of the age where imperial measurements were the only ones taught & which I'm most comfortable with.

With something like carpets & fabric, it's sold as a standard width, ie; 4 mtrs, but I still tend to work out what length I need in yards/feet and inches. Old habits die hard & you can't teach an old dog new tricks and all that.

Although I do understand some metric measurements, I'm not confident in my ability to convert unless a measurement was dead on, say 4 metres, or 5 metres.

For instance I'd have no idea of what say a length of something measuring 1 metre + 14" were for example in metric units, so rather than risk getting it completely wrong (which I often have in the past) I stick to the imperial measurements that I completely understand.

Mark_Mark

cattie wrote: »

Because I'm of the age where imperial measurements were the only ones taught & which I'm most comfortable with.

With something like carpets & fabric, it's sold as a standard width, ie; 4 mtrs, but I still tend to work out what length I need in yards/feet and inches. Old habits die hard & you can't teach an old dog new tricks and all that.

Although I do understand some metric measurements, I'm not confident in my ability to convert unless a measurement was dead on, say 4 metres, or 5 metres.

For instance I'd have no idea of what say a length of something measuring 1 metre + 14" were for example in metric units, so rather than risk getting it completely wrong (which I often have in the past) I stick to the imperial measurements that I completely understand.

Why would you measure 1 metre +14"?

Stick to the same measurement 1.355 metres.

googler

cattie wrote: »

Although I do understand some metric measurements, I'm not confident in my ability to convert unless a measurement was dead on, say 4 metres, or 5 metres.

For instance I'd have no idea of what say a length of something measuring 1 metre + 14" were for example in metric units, so rather than risk getting it completely wrong (which I often have in the past) I stick to the imperial measurements that I completely understand.

This is what online conversion websites, spreadsheets and converter apps for PC, iPad and other devices are for.

If you can measure what length you need in yards, feet and inches you must be using a tape measure or other measuring device. Why can't you use the same device and read the metric measurements instead of imperial?

cyclonebri1

googler wrote: »

This is what online conversion websites, spreadsheets and converter apps for PC, iPad and other devices are for.

?

Or simply do what the rest of the world does and buy a tape measure, every 1 made has both inches and metric on the same side of the tape. Converting means looking from the top to the bottom edge of the tape, simples.;);)

edited to add;
sorry googler just read the last bit of your post.