How do you calculate liner feet?
Question:I am trying to install hardwood flooring myself and it is asking me to caculate the liner feet so I can figure out how much product I will need. Is there a formula to caculate this?
Answers:
I worked in the flooring dept. at Home Depot for 2 years and NEVER had to calculate linear feet. It's ALWAYS square feet. Take the size of you room: say 12' x 12' = 144sf. Then take the number of sf per box...the average is about 15 sf per box of hardwood. 144/15 = 9.6...round up to 10 boxes. But you also want to calculate for cutting and waste (20%) and add that to your total. I don't know how many times people bought exactly what they calculated and then came back to not have any left and they can't finish their job. You can always take what you don't use back.
Linear feet is the same thing as "feet".
well, for the sake of hardwood floor, linear feet is how many feet of wood you need. so what you need to do is find the area of the space you're trying to refloor, then divide it by the width of the wood flooring.
so, say you have a 6x6 ft room and each board is 1/2 foot, thats (6 x 6) / (1/2) = 72 linear feet of flooring.
Measure the floor. Length and width. Now you have to know how wide your flooring boards are. Devide the width of the room by the width of the flooring board. That will tell you the number of runs you have. Number of runs times length of floor tells you how many linear feet you need.
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Liner feet is feet in a straight line. Just map out your area with all the measurements, and take the map to your flooring store. They should be happy to help you, and you are already paying for their expertise. Good luck and God bless you!
i like brads answer "Another good example would be boards, wire fencing, and rolls of cloth, all of which are often sold in linear feet. That just means they are not taking the width into account. If you bought 100 linear feet of lumber, laying them down end to end would stretch for 100 feet"
from the site he posted.
Most of the above answers are good ones. Keep in mind that the width of a flooring board is not the same as the coverage of that board.
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