MEASURING FOR CARPET - By: supercarpets

The first thing to do when measuring for carpet or flooring is to map out on a piece of graph paper a blueprint of all the areas you are going to carpet. leave the measurements at the moment this will come later. just map out the rooms roughly to the shape they are it does not have to be too detailed just a rough shape will do if you have stairs draw them as a long rectangular shape and write how many stairs make sure you draw the rooms and the stairs like a blueprint so it looks like your looking down from above
After deciding what carpet or flooring you want and are happy with your plan you can now start to measure the rooms etc. When measuring it is very important to measure the biggest point so make sure you measure into doorways as this is what most people over look. Just take your time to look at the areas and make sure you have allowed for all the areas in the room. Most carpet is 4 or 5 meters in width so take this into account ie.where joins will go if required or how much excess will there be to do other areas. Draw arrows on your plans to which way the material will go this will make it easier when estimating what size material you will need.
make sure you are very careful when working out how much material you will need if unsure call a carpet fitter as this will save you money. you now have your plan star to write down what sizes of carpet you will need do not order by square meter this never works always order by lengths you should by now know the width of your carpet take this into account

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