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Summary: In order to measure a room for carpet, the necessary supplies are a long tape measure, a calculator and a piece of paper for write down measurements. Find out how to measure from baseboard to baseboard with help from a home repair specialist in this free video on home construction and remodeling.
Tim Gipson is a home repair specialist and remodeling contractor in Nashville, Tenn. He holds a MST and BS from Middle Tennessee University. Gipson is insured, licensed and bonded with...read more
"Hi, I'm Tim Gipson. I'm going to talk about how to measure for buying carpeting. Now, you're going to need a tape measure and one that's long enough for your room. You're going to need a piece of paper; something to write down your measurements on, and then it's a good idea to have a calculator just to help you with your calculations. Now, when we measure the room we're going to take our tape measure, and of course if you need to you need to move your furniture around, but in this case we can actually get back to the baseboard. We want to measure baseboard to baseboard. So, we're going to take this tape measure and we're going to go all the way across. When we measure down to this baseboard we got 16 feet exactly that way, okay, so that is our width, and now we need to measure our length. So, for the length measure the length of our room and we get 14 feet 7 inches, so we'll write that down on our piece of paper here, 14 x 7. Now, we'll how we handle the 7 is we'll take the 7 and we'll divide it by 12. There's 12 inches in a foot so we can convert that into a decimal and we come up with 14.53 feet, but what we're going to do is we're going to round that up to 14.6. It's usually a good idea to round up to make sure that you don't short yourself on carpet; you have a little bit of extra. So in that case, when we multiply those together and we use our calculator then we come up with 234 square feet. Now, in this case we've got a living room here, and we've got a a a hearth area, a tiled hearth area that we could deduct that square footage, but when you're buyin' carpet because you've got a turn down and you've got a seam it's usually a good idea that you buy a little bit extra, so you may want to add 5 percent onto that in any case, so in this case, with 234 square foot measurement I wouldn't deduct for the tile, and I'd probably add just a few more feet and get 250 square feet just to make sure we've got enough carpet. I'm Tim Gipson, and that's how to measure for carpet."
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