Tool Category Measurements & Areas

Flooring is quoted per square metre and sold by the pack, and the gap between those two facts is where budgets go. This draws the floor as you measure it — rectangle, L shape or tapered — adds the cutting…

A flat ceiling is the same area as the floor under it, which is the useful shortcut and also the reason the figure gets forgotten — people measure the floor and assume. Then there is what interrupts it: a skylight,…

Wall area is the figure every decorating quantity hangs off — paint, wallpaper, plaster, boarding, tiling — and it is always the same two measurements: the perimeter of the room, times the height, less the openings. The perimeter is the…