Linear Feet Carpet

You ve measured from top to bottom and now it s time to put down carpet but you still don t know exactly how much you ll need.

Linear feet carpet. If you have a room 10 feet wide by 10 feet long you ll need to purchase a 12 foot by 10 foot section of the roll. For luxury natural materials. You should probably get some extra to allow for possible waste. In most instances the term foot refers to a linear foot.

You need 21 feet. Always add an additional 10 to your total figures to cover room irregularities accommodations for carpet grain. Just plug in the length and width of the room and our square foot calculator for flooring will tell you how much carpet is needed while the flooring estimator determines the average man. Stainmaster essentials aristocrat ii 15 ft textured interior carpet.

In fact linear foot is just a slightly different way to measure the area covered by the carpet. Such long and unneccessarily complex answers. For pricing and availability. Because these are different types of measure some additional information will be needed to convert between.

That s what the lowe s flooring estimator is for. 13 5 and 15 feet widths are also available. Multiply 18x14 to calculate the square footage of the room and then divide by the width of the roll 12 ft. How to convert linear feet to square feet.

Padding is sold in the same manner as carpet but is much less expensive. Select elements home office cobblestone heather green needlebond carpet interior exterior item 749405. Padding ranges from 10 cents to 60 cents a sq. The term linear only applies to units of measure that are a straight line.

A linear foot is a 1ft length from a roll of carpet nomatter however wide it may be. Besides the carpet itself nearly all carpets require padding underneath. Before doing any calculations it s important to understand what linear feet and square feet are. If a board is 5 feet long it is 5 linear feet.

Carpet manufacturers and retailers often don t provide any information about what a linear foot really is. A linear foot is equal to 12 inches or 1 foot. You need 21 linear feet of carpet. If you know the width of the carpet roll you can calculate the number of linear feet of carpeting you will need for your floor area.

Multiply the linear feet x 1 333 to get your square yard figure. Retailers sell carpet in precut widths on a roll most commonly 12 feet in width. It isn t necessary to convert feet to linear feet because they are one and the same.