How Do You Figure Square Footage When Laying A Laminate Floor?
Before you buy the laminate floor, you will need to figure the square footage needed. The room size and amount of lamniate that you need are determined by the taking measurements. Laminate flooring comes in boxes. These boxes have so many square feet per box. When you are looking for flooring, you will need the square footage of the room that you are doing so that you can determine how many boxes of laminate floor you need. Measure the width of the room with the tape measure. Measure from wall to wall. Use the tape measure to measure from wall to wall for the length of the room. Multiply the width by the length. For instance, if your room is 15 by 15, your square footage will be 225 square feet. Use the calculator to add waste to the square footage that you need to lay the laminate floor. Because you will need to make cuts, you must add 10 percent to this total for waste. For instance, the square footage is 225 plus 10 percent would require 247.5 square feet of laminate. Determine how
