Measuring a Room

Measuring your room should be easy. Just follow our simple measuring tips below*:

You will need a tape measure, pen or pencil, paper and calculator to hand.

• When measuring a room, simply measure from the furthest skirting board at the longest and widest points of the room.
• Take care to measure into any bay windows and door frames, as carpet should end under a door.
• Always add 5cm minimum to both the length and width of the carpet measurements.
• Tesco’s carpets are 4 metres and sometimes 5 metres in width. Therefore, once you have ascertained the room width, you will need to check that it is less than the width of the carpet you are buying to avoid any joins.
• For example, if your room width exceeds the width of the carpet, you will need to buy either the length of the room by the width twice and use the second piece as a filler to give you your required width or, if you are fitting another room, you may find that you have excess from that room that can be utilised here.

When measuring your room, you should always ensure that you keep the flooring running in the same direction to maintain texture, pattern and colour consistency.

If you change the direction then the pattern, texture and the pile of the carpet will reflect the light differently.

We would always suggest getting a proffesional to come out to your home or business and complete a site survey. As this is not always possible below are some basic rules to follow when measuring yourself. For any information please don’t hesitate to call us.

Measuring Hall, Stairs and Landing

• First, measure your hall as if it was a square room.
• Remember to measure into doorways and to maximum points in the hall.
• Make sure when measuring the landing that you measure from the threshold of the door across the landing and over the nosing down onto the first step.
• Note where the stairs enter the hall.
• Always add 10cm minimum to the length and width of the carpet measurements.
• The width of the carpet ordered has to be rounded up to 4 or 5 metres in width depending on the carpet ordered

Measuring the stairs

• Count how many stairs there are.
• Next, measure the width and length of one step.
• For ease, and if these are all the same, you can then multiply this by the number of steps.
• This will then give you the width and length you need.
• Always add 5cm minimum to the length and width of the carpet measurements.
• The width of the carpet ordered has to be rounded up to 4 or 5 metres in width depending on the carpet ordered
• The most economical way to fit a stair carpet is to use the width of the carpet cut in strips across the width and fitted to the stairs with joins where the riser meets the step. Fitting in this way minimises wastage and ensures the pile runs in the same direction as the hall or landing, thereby avoiding shade variation. A qualified carpet fitter will be able to measure your hall, stairs and landing to minimise wastage and ensure a professional matched installation. (See: “Find a fitter” NCIF)
• Begin your measurements in the centre of doorways rather than the bottom of walls.
• Carpet should all run in the same direction to maintain texture, pattern and colour consistency.
• Seams should always be kept to a minimum and avoided where possible.
• Tesco’s Carpets recommend that you purchase all your carpet requirements at the same time, as there may be variances in dye batches.

Conversions

• 1 yard = 0.9144 metres
• 1 foot = 0.3048 metres
• 1 inches = 0.0254 metres
• 1 centimetres = 0.01 metres
• 1 millimetres = 0.001 metres
• 1 square yard = 0.83612736 square metres
• 1 square foot = 0.09290304 square metres