How to Measure a Room for Carpets & Vinyl

This video is a simple guide on how to measure a room for carpet and vinyl flooring.

We help you to measure in such a way so that you minimise wastage, save money and get the perfect amount of flooring you need for your room transformation.

Measuring for wood, laminate or luxury vinyl tiles? Watch our second how to measure video guide: youtube.com/watch?v=brD_AyP9G64

Measuring stairs?: youtube.com/watch?v=22IUiRu0lJ0

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Video Transcript:

Before you purchase new flooring, you'll need to work out how much you need. But don't worry, the process is simple.

In this video we'll walk you through how to measure your room for carpet or vinyl flooring.

Getting started is easy. All you need is:

Paper - A4 works fine
- Pen or pencil
- Tape measure
- And a Calculator – for most people, this will just mean their smartphone

Roughly sketch the shape of the room you're measuring.

Make sure you include any doorways, as you'll need to take your measurements from half way into the door frame.

Use your tape measure to take two measurements, in metres, on both the length and width of the room.

For rooms that aren't a simple square, for example ones that have bay windows or alcoves, simply take measurements of the longest and widest parts.

Note down your measurements on your sheet of paper.

When ordering your carpet, you'll be asked for your room's length, as carpet and vinyl widths are set.

Carpets come in 4 and 5 metre widths,

And Vinyl in 2, 3 or 4 metre widths.

Let's look at these measurements. Because one of them is less than our 4 metre roll width, we'll mark this as our room's width and round it up to the size of our roll width.

The longer measurement will therefore be our length. You should always add 10cm to the length, and then round up to the next quarter metre, to account for any wastage.

If both of the measurements are shorter than the roll width, simply take the measurement that's closest and mark this as your width.

The shorter measurement will then be your length. Again, you should round your length measurement up.

We decide on the length and width in this way in order to minimise wastage, and prevent you from ordering too much flooring.

Enter your length measurement online, the website will show you the total price for the amount of flooring you need.

If both of your measurements are bigger than your chosen flooring's roll width, your room will require a join.

If this is the case, get in touch via the flooringsuperstore.com contact page to speak to the professionals.