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How to measure your room for flooring.
How to measure a room for flooring.
Follow the below steps to measure flooring for a perfectly square or rectangular room.
Stages 2 and 3 for stone and ceramic floor tiles.
Then just calculate the square footage of each component and add them together to get the total.
To measure flooring start by measuring the length and width of the room.
Then multiply the 2 numbers together to get the area in square feet.
The essential approach is to measure each room separately and add their totals together.
If the room you re measuring the floors in isn t a rectangle or square divide it into smaller segments that are and calculate the area of each segment.