how to measure a room for tiles?

Question

need to find out how many Square feet, my bathroom walls are.

After ive measured the walls, how to convert the mesurements, to find out how many tiles i will need ????

Answer 1

the easiest way to measure a room is to measure each wall individually for instance if your wall is 3.5 metres long by 2.4 metres high you would times them together to get 8.4 square metres. so that is how many square metres are in that wall ,do that to every wall then add them all together and that is how many square metres that room is wall wise, then you find out how many tiles you would need to cover a square metre (say it takes 8 tiles to cover a square metre and you need 12 square metres of tiles ,you need 96 tiles to do the job . sorted i hope

Answer 2

The height multiplied by the width will give you the square of whatever form of measurement you use. Be it metric or imperial.

The boxes with the tiles on will tell you the average coverage. If they don't you will have the size of the tile, work out how many of these fits into the height, and then the width and you will then know how many tiles you need.

You will need to buy at least 1/3 more than you need for breakages and just go somewhere where they allow you to take any boxes back.

Answer 3

1st answer is all you need, but let me add that if you are figuring for, say, 12"x12" tiles you should round up the measurements to the nearest foot [or nearest 1/2 foot for 6"x6" tile] if you want to figure how may tiles you need. this would give you the exact net amount of full tiles you need. you should then allow for waste, mistakes, defective tile and spare tile to store away. the number of each of those tiles is up to you, based on your budget. if you were buying $50 a piece tiles you sure would just arbitrarily add 10% or 15% to your needs

to lay out each wall find the centerline of the room, use this as you "baseline", and measure back to corner from the baseline. count off the full tiles, if the "remainder tile" is less than 1/2 a tile move the baseline over by distance of 1/2 tile. this method will allow bigger tiles in the corner. the general rule is to always make the corner tile as big as possible.

Answer 4

All tiles come by SQFT. So if you have your square footage you are good. Most Tiles will come in boxes and it will say how much square feet is per box.
Measure each wall (the are you want to tile) join all square footages together and there you do.. add about 5%-10% on top of that square footage for overage.

Answer 5

take the measurements from the room total square footage it helps to get some graph paper and do a drawing of the room before going and ordering the tile show the location of the bath tub sink and toilet show the measurements from the door in and i would get at least 3 % more for errors and remember put the cut tile were you would not notice them easy

Answer 6

the height of the wall times the width use metric measurement as tiles come in metric now and about 10% for breakages and cuts because hardly any wall will work out to a full tile
if you go to a proper tile stockist they will be only to happy to help you with your measurements and choice

Answer 7

multiply the length by the height you wish to take the tiles up to for instance if its 9'x 2' that 18 square' or 2,592 square" now if your using 6" tiles thats is 36 square" each tile so that would be 72 tiles 75 thats 3 for breakage OK, got it! well done

Answer 8

If you are going to tile it and you dont know how to measure the area required in the first place, I would probably phone a professional. No disrespect meant. But, if your going to go for it yourself measure it in feet and times the length x breadth. that will give you total and do that for each wall, add it all together and voila. your measurement

Answer 9

best thing to do is wing it, get 4 boxes. if you run short get another box or 2. hire a tile cutter to save waste and achieve a very accurate finish. if you run short of about 2 tiles use the cut-offs to make a central decoration. so estimate and have a central focal point already marked out should you be short of a few tiles.

Answer 10

Multiply length times height of your walls in inches,then divide by 144 (number of sq inches in a sq foot.) then multiply times the number of tiles it takes to cover a square foot. Add a few extra for mistakes.