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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 ;-)

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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.

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