how many tiles will it take
That is a VERY big kitchen!
102(12) AND 18!12) 1224 AND 216 DIVIDE BY 28 43.7 AND 7.7 SO YOU NEED 44 ALONG ONE SIDE AND 8 ALONG THE OTHER. TO FIND TOTAL, MULTIPLY THESE TOGETHER 352
1) 102 ft x 18 ft = 1832 ft^2 2) 144 inches^2 = 1ft^2 => 1836 ft^2 x 144 inches^2 = 264384 inches^2 3) 28 inches x 28 inches = 784 inches^2 4) 264384 inches^2 /784 inches^2 = 337 tiles
102 ft = 1224 inches = 44 tiles long 18 ft = 216 inches = 8 tiles wide 44 * 8 = 352 tiles
Hi, Are you sure it's 102 ft? That's more like a dining hall for a small army, rather than a kitchen. Maybe you intended 10 ft and 2 in by 18 ft. Anyway, the normal way to tile a room is to put down two chalk lines that cross in the center of the room and bisect each side of the room. One then starts laying tiles from the center of the room and works toward the sides and ends. If you mean that your tiles are 28 in by 28 in, then the required number of tiles for a 10' 2 x 18 ft room would be Approximately as follows: 6 tiles along long dimension would leave 2 feet at each end, and 4 tiles along the short dimension, assuming it is 10' 2, would leave 10 inches on each side. Dovering the center section would require 24 tiles Covering the uncovered part along the edges would depend to some extent on whether you have a matching pattern. To conver the ends you would need a at least 8 tiles. To cover the sides you could probably cut the tiles and use part of one tile for one side and the other part for the other side. (That depends to some extent on borders and how particular you are about matching.) So, if you cut the tiles, you would need either 6 tiles or possibly 7. So, in summary we have this: 24 .....tiles for the center section 8........ tiles for the ends 7........tiles for the sides. ------------------------ 39......tiles total. REMEMBER, in all of this I assumed that your dimension was not 102 ft, but 10ft and 2 in. You might possible get by with 38, depending if there is no pattern and no borders to worry about. Hope this is not too confusing. FE
