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Summary: Learn how to calculate area of walls for a building or remodeling project in this free home improvement video from a remodeling expert.
"Hi, this is Jon on behalf of Expert Village. In this video clip we'll be calculating the areas of the walls. In this particular project we're going to be painting this wall in accent color and we need to calculate the square footage of the wall so we know how much paint to order. First I'm going to do a rough drawing of my wall and I need to figure out what the height and the width is. The width of my wall is about 4 1/2 feet and the height was about 8 1/2 feet. When I plug in my numbers I get a total square footage of 38 1/4 square feet."
eHow Article: How to Calculate Area of Walls
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cdm2008 said
on 8/2/2008 This is excellent as are the others from John