If you have a room 10 feet wide by 10 feet long you ll need to purchase a 12 foot by 10 foot section of the roll.
Linear feet carpet.
In fact linear foot is just a slightly different way to measure the area covered by the carpet.
Padding ranges from 10 cents to 60 cents a sq.
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You need 21 feet.
A linear foot is equal to 12 inches or 1 foot.
Retailers sell carpet in precut widths on a roll most commonly 12 feet in width.
That s what the lowe s flooring estimator is for.
Because these are different types of measure some additional information will be needed to convert between.
13 5 and 15 feet widths are also available.
For apartment grade material to over 10 per sq.
You need 21 linear feet of carpet.
For luxury natural materials.
You should probably get some extra to allow for possible waste.
Always add an additional 10 to your total figures to cover room irregularities accommodations for carpet grain.
Linear footage is a measure of length or distance while square footage is a measure of area.
Besides the carpet itself nearly all carpets require padding underneath.
In most instances the term foot refers to a linear foot.
How to convert linear feet to square feet.
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The term linear only applies to units of measure that are a straight line.
Multiply 18x14 to calculate the square footage of the room and then divide by the width of the roll 12 ft.
Multiply the linear feet x 1 333 to get your square yard figure.
If a board is 5 feet long it is 5 linear feet.
Such long and unneccessarily complex answers.
Padding is sold in the same manner as carpet but is much less expensive.
It isn t necessary to convert feet to linear feet because they are one and the same.
Costs for carpet can vary widely from 1 sq.
Before doing any calculations it s important to understand what linear feet and square feet are.
Carpet manufacturers and retailers often don t provide any information about what a linear foot really is.
You ve measured from top to bottom and now it s time to put down carpet but you still don t know exactly how much you ll need.