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Carpet & Underlay

Carpet from a roll: strips, seams and roll length for both orientations, the cheaper layout, waste, underlay from its own roll width, and gripper less doorways.

The best orientation with strips, strip length, roll length and seams, the carpet area and waste percentage, the underlay roll length, gripper length and costs from your prices.

Example: A 5 × 4.2 m room from a 4 m roll: two strips along the width = 8.6 m of roll (34.4 m² for a 21 m² room, one seam) beats two strips along the length (10.2 m); underlay 1.37 m wide needs 16.8 m.

v0.1.0 · last reviewed 21 September 2026
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What Carpet & Underlay assumes.

No black-box numbers.

How the result is calculated

Describe the formula and its source.

What this utility does not do

State the limits plainly.

SOURCES

  • Strips = ⌈across ÷ roll width⌉, strip length = run + cutting margin, both orientations compared; waste = roll area − room area; gripper = perimeter − door widths

Last reviewed 21 September 2026. How results are checked: How we verify.