Square Footage Calculator

Measure a house one room at a time and turn the total into a flooring order. The single room mode takes feet and inches on each side, so 12 ft 6 in becomes 12.5 without you doing the sum, and returns square feet, square yards, square metres and the perimeter. The room by room mode adds up to six rectangles together and lists each one beside the total. The flooring mode then applies a waste allowance, divides by the coverage printed on the carton and rounds up, because you cannot buy part of a box. Everything is measured as rectangles, so an L shaped room goes in as two of the six.

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Measured In
The big box takes the whole feet or whole metres and the small one takes the remainder, so 12 ft 6 in and 3 m 80 cm are both entered as two numbers.
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Rooms Measured In
Every room below is read in this unit, and the room-by-room breakdown comes back in it too. The total is always given in all four area units.
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Areas Measured In
The floor area, the carton coverage and the price all follow this choice, and so do the areas in the answer. A carton coverage is printed in whichever unit the shop sells in, so take it off the box as it is written.
Around 10% for straight lay, more for diagonal or herringbone
Printed on the end of the box
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