Flooring ‘N Tiles

When you want to do your own tiling in a bathroom, living room or counter top, and even for flooring or even grander projects, here’s how to measure your room for tiling:

Go ahead and take the entire space into consideration.  It often helps to make yourself a diagram on paper with some very specific notations about where cuts will be made.  These allow for fixtures to be applied, electrical devices and plugs, switches and the rest. On the paper, notate your larger wall dimensional measurements at the outermost limits first.  On the diagram, place these numbers where they belong.

Now, any variations need to be considered.  If the room is perfectly square or rectangular, then you are basically done.  But if there are odd shapes and sizes, the best way to approach these areas is one at a time.  Any variation, such as a small boxy area, should be dealt with on its own. Segment the areas to be measured and approach each one of them individually.  In the end, the total area will be a compilation of all these factors.

Triangular or circular spaces actually require some math formulae for perfect measuring.  Just the same, one can arrive at an accurate rendition by the following:

For right triangles, make what would be a square shape by extending the area to exactly match the existing one.  In other words, let the angular line bisect the rectangle.  Then what you have is a perfect rectangle and you will need half of that. Circular is a bit more problematic.  One way to handle something circular is to literally treat it as flat.  The height is a no brainer, but measure the curving arc.  Treat it essentially like a flat surface. This, while informal and somewhat inexact, will still reveal a number that will closely resemble, at worst, what the truest number will be,