That s what the lowe s flooring estimator is for.
Is carpet measured in square feet.
It also helps to sketch out a diagram of your home s layout.
Total square feet 9 square yards.
Carpeting is usually sold by square yards and most come in rolls of 9 12 or 15 feet wide.
How to convert square footage to square yards of carpet.
Carpet square foot vs.
Assume you have a rectangular area such as a room and for example you want to calculate the square footage area for flooring or carpet.
Remember carpet comes 12 feet wide that is 12 width x 10 length 120 square feet divided by 9 13 33 yards.
While our carpet area calculator determines how many square yards of carpet you need you can once again.
Here is what a 10 x 10 room would add up to 13 33 yards.
Width x length area.
To calculate your total square footage for a room just multiply your room width and length together.
To calculate the square footage of carpet you ll need multiply the length times the width in feet of any space where you ll install flooring.
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.
Square meters is also a common measure of area.
Therefore you need to know how many square yards not square feet of carpet you require.
This yields a product called the area which is expressed in square feet or square inches if you are calculating a much smaller space such as a dollhouse.
To find square feet multiply the length measurement in feet by the width measurement in feet.
In this case there would be 2 feet x 10 feet of carpet.
Square footage is area expressed in square feet.