Before rushing out to buy your floor tiles once your project room is ready for floor tile installation, you should at least calculate how many floor tiles you will need to purchase for the job. It is always best to buy these all in one go and get more than you need, as if you run out and have to make a trip back to the hardware store for additional, you may find that they are out of stock of that particular pattern. This does happen, and can be a major headache especially if you are halfway through the tiling project.
First of all, to find out how many floor tiles you will require, measure your room between its widest points at both opposing walls. This will give you the maximum dimensions of your room in square feet, so for example if your room is 10' feet wide at one point, and 12' feet wide at another, then multiply these figures together and you will find that your room is 120' square feet maximum in floor size. If you were to install 12" inch square floor tiles, (12" inch being equivalent to 1' foot), then you will need to buy 120 floor tiles.
Now, take for example in the bathroom that you have tub and a wash hand basin unit permanently installed, then obviously you don't need to tile this area. So for example your bath tub is 6' by 3' feet, (which is 18' square feet), and your sink unit is 2' by 4' feet, (which is 8' square feet), you then need to subtract this from your overall dimensions. With the full size of our example room being 120 tiles required, we subtract 18 tiles for the tub and 8 tiles for the sink, leaving us with 96 floor tiles in total.
Without being too exact though and leaving a margin for error, you should round this number up to 100, as you may find that sometimes you will be required to buy floor tiles in packs of ten anyway, especially with cheaper ceramic floor tiles. And when dealing with ceramic floor tile laying, because these are easily prone to breakage, chips, and hairline cracks, add another 10% for error which will give you a total of 110 tiles required for our example room. It is always better to have and not need, than to need and not have, so always go with excess when purchasing floor tiles.
If you decide to install matching tile baseboards, then measure the length of each visible wall which will be tiled in linear feet (straight line) and not square feet to find your quantity, then divide by three as the tile baseboards need only be 4' inch high from which a 12' floor tile will give three cuts. Again using our example room, if two walls are exactly 10' feet in length and the other two are 12' feet, then this will be 44' linear feet in total. Minus the wall space covered by the bath tub (9' linear feet) and the wash hand basin unit (6' linear feet) if both fixtures were in the corners of our room, this would give us 29' linear feet in total, divided by three cuts to each tile, would be 9.66 tiles. Round this number up to 10 and add 10% for error gives 11, plus our 110 for the floor gives a grand total of 121 ceramic floor tiles, almost right back to where we begun with our maximum size.
So that being the best way to calculate how many floor tiles you will need for your tiling project, the next step is to decide on what color coordination you are going to follow. Whether you will get the tiles to suit the existing room color or décor, or if you've got your eye on a floor tile design you really like and will adjust the décor of the room accordingly, the choice I will leave completely up to you.
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