How Do You Calculate The Amount Of Carpet Needed For Stairs?
Calculating the amount of carpet needed for stairs is an important step when ordering your carpet. You do not want to get to the last few stairs and realize you will not have enough. There are many benefits to using carpeting on stairs. It acts as a noise buffer on squeaky old stairs, it adds a degree of insulation in colder climates and it hides imperfections in the stairs’ quality. In order to reap these benefits you need to properly calculate how much carpeting you will need. With an expandable tape measure, determine the width of the staircase. When calculating for the purpose of buying carpeting, always round up to the closest foot. Measure the rise and depth of one stair. The rise is the height of the “kicker” portion of the stair. The depth is the distance from the stair’s edge until it meets the riser, or kicker. Take the tape measure and lock the edge at the bottom of a stair. Move the tape up the riser and across the depth of the stair until you reach the next riser. Write th
