I'm no Carol Vorderman..

[jumpinjackflash]

If I have an area of floor measuring 6x6 foot and I can get 50x50cm carpet tiles - how many carpet tiles do I need to cover the area?

Thanks,

JumpinJackDunce

[Brendan]

What time did the first train leave Birmingham again?

[SimonM]

16

[david_carnell]

Wrong.

Me, not SimonM

[jumpinjackflash]

cheers fellas.

Brendan: 06:54am

[Tony.London Suburbs]

jumpinjackflash Wrote:

If I have an area of floor measuring 6x6 foot and I can get 50x50cm carpet tiles - how many carpet tiles do I need to cover the area?

Fair question but I have to give up.

What is the answer(?)

[karter]

what simonM said....

[Ladygooner]

18 - but I have had a couple of glasses of merlot....

[SteveT]

The professionals always allow 10% extra for wastage, so Ladygooner and her assistant 'merlot', would be seen as the winners.

[Huguenot]

Well it technically depends how much flex you have on the carpet tiles I guess...

6ft is 182.9cm, so 6 foot square is 33,452 square cm. A 50cm x 50cm tile is 2,500 square cm. Hence in strict suface area calculations you'd only need 13.38096 tiles.

In other words the cut-off cast away of one tile may well fit the exposed gap on another area of your floor.

It would be crackingly dull though, as the cut-offs became smaller and smaller with each successive iteration of the floor filling process until you cursed my name and drowned my offspring. This error would be compounded if the floor tiles had a pattern or texture that only worked in one direction.

You would, nevertheless, have made the point.

So, yes, 16 would cover the issue ;-)

[Jeremy]

I don't see why you'd need extra, as long as you don't muck up when you're cutting the edge pieces.

[Ant]

Just buy different carpet tiles. A single six-foot-square tile would suffice.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Jeremy: you seem a capable fellow - would you come and put up my new curtain rail please?

Hugenot: offspring and issue in the same post. Has your clock been put off kilter by seasonal adjustments?

[Huguenot]

To SteveT, 18 would be overkill, but allow for scissor errors.

You can lay 9 without alteration, leaving 6 more that should be cut to 50cm x 32.9cm, and the final one to be cut to 32.9cm x 32.9cm.

Having said this, the final two could be carried over to your next job and you could thus charge the customer twice for your single purchase. Very smart.

That would effectively render your purchase price over the two consecutive jobs at a (1-(34 [purchased tiles]/36 [charged tiles]))*100 = 5.5% discount to the retail price. Since average business margins are around 10%, you'd have delivered more than half of this with a single swindle.

[Huguenot]

PGC, it's funny you should say that.... :-$

[HonaloochieB]

And I'm no suitable presenter of Countdown.

I am Des O'Connor.

[Jeremy]

Peckhamgatecrasher - of course, you'll find my rates are very reasonable!

[Jimbob]

its just as well you,re no carol vorderman, she would have used 2 small ones and any 4 others, would have made a right mess.

[SimonM]

...or you could just buy 16 at 50 x 50 cms and reduce each one to 45cm x 45cm (ish)

[jumpinjackflash]

look what i started!

did I mention this was for a garden shed so that my mutt can sprawl out in comfort!!

[Brendan]

Have you considered a nice shag pile instead?