Let s say you re trying to find the length of your bedroom wall.
Carpet linear feet.
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.
How to measure linear feet.
If you have a remainder it will be another section.
Linear footage measurements do require a straight line measurement.
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.
A linear foot is a 1ft length from a roll of carpet nomatter however wide it may be.
That s what the lowe s flooring estimator is for.
Linear footage is a measure of length or distance while square footage is a measure of area.
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.
If you re determining the amount of area such as for carpet or other flooring it will have to be in square something square feet square yards square meters etc it can t be in just feet yards or meters since that would be just a linear length measurement.
How to convert linear feet to square feet.
Carpet can be sold by linear feet but you d need to understand the mathematics required the get the correct square footage you d need.
Retailers sell carpet in precut widths on a roll most commonly 12 feet in width.
Before doing any calculations it s important to understand what linear feet and square feet are.
Linear footage is a measure of length one foot is one linear foot.
For example if the carpet is 16 feet wide and the room is 18 feet by 24 feet you would divide the 18 foot side into one 16 foot section and one 2 foot section.
To find linear footage you simply need to find the measurement in feet and that s the answer.
You should probably get some extra to allow for possible waste.
For example if the carpet is 16 feet wide and the room is 32 feet by 64 feet you would divide the 32 foot side into two sections.
You need 21 linear feet of carpet.
Such long and unneccessarily complex answers.
Multiply 18x14 to calculate the square footage of the room and then divide by the width of the roll 12 ft.
13 5 and 15 feet widths are also available.
Grizzly grass brown plush carpet interior exterior item 1354382.
You need 21 feet.
Because these are different types of measure some additional information will be needed to convert between.