Often there is need to precisely learn the area of the room. It can be required at repair for calculation of necessary amount of paint or floor covering, upon purchase of new furniture or at re-planning of the apartment. The total useful area of housing is usually specified in accompanying documents for the apartment or the house therefore the size of each room separately should be calculated independently.
Instruction
1. As is well-known from school course of geometry to calculate the area of rectangle, it is necessary to increase its length by width. Respectively, to learn the area of the room, it is necessary to multiply lengths of its parties.
2. First of all we begin with measurement of the sides of the room. It is better to do it by means of construction tape measure which has sufficient length and well holds equal form. Length and width of the room are measured along walls. For this purpose release space about wall and put tape measure along plinth. It is important to watch that the measuring tape of tape measure was not bent and did not stretch excessively. It is better to write down the obtained data at once on the sheet of paper that it was not necessary to take measurements once again.
3. Having measured both sides of the room – length and width, we do necessary calculations. For example, if the long party makes 5 m, and short – 3 m, then the area of all room will be 5х3 = 15 sq.m. It is necessary to pay attention that if lengths are always measured in meters, then the surface area of floor or ceiling only in square meters.
4. In case of absence in the house of construction tape measure, it is possible to use normal tailor's meter for measurement. But it is important to remember that in this case the error of the received results will be much higher as the centimetric tape is easily bent and displaced. Besides it is much shorter therefore length of one party should be measured, consistently moving centimeter on uniform pieces.