Measuring requires accuracy, attention for details and attentiveness to include everything. You want carpets to occupy those staircases, walked over endless times yet look beautiful and not get misplaced. Choosing the runner rug could lead you into doubt of size and accuracy.
Well, being choosy and aware regarding the type of fiber, kind of weaving and compliance to a particular area with varying foot traffic would be enough to make that choice. However, the next hectic job in the process remain the size. This calls for a professional approach to measuring your stairs. And a professional approach demands the use of appropriate tools and supplies to arrive near perfection in results.
How to Measure Stairs for Carpeting
Tools you will require:
- A paper or a note making application
- A measuring tape
- A graph paper for drawing the floor plan and staircases
- Calculator
Steps to follow:
- Draw the floor plan
Trust me, trying your hands on drawing will only enable you to relieve the drawing classes you attended during the school days. Besides, you’ll end up finishing an essential step in measuring stairs for carpet. A rough sketch highlighting the architecture around the staircase must be enough to proceed with. Do not try hard to make a perfect drawing. After all, it is only required to refer during the measurement and need not be preserved.
- Pen down important parameters
On finishing the drawing, the next requirement stand is the labeling of the parameters that you must do alongside as you proceed with measuring the entities across the stairs. Also, note other information that you think may come handy in measuring stairs for carpet.
- Measure the rise and run
You may begin with measuring the surface you step your feet on. This surface of the staircase form the run.
On the other hand, the height or distance between consecutive steps form the ‘rise’.
Extend the measuring tape at the beginning and end of individual run and rise. Write down the finding on a paper or a note making application. It is beat to label it on drawing for clear understanding.
- Multiply the sum total of rise and run with number of steps for length
The rise and run that you measure in the above step added together forms the length. Alternatively, add for each steps the rise and run and multiple the sum with the total number of steps which are to be occupied by carpets.
- Measure the width
After you have measured the length, grab the measuring tape and run it run it through the width of the step to determine how wide a carpet you will need. Remember to round up the figure to the nearest foot to avoid inconvenience.
- Multiple the length and width determined in the 2nd and 3rd steps respectively
After successfully measuring for length and width in the 2nd and 3rd steps respectively, you are good to go with find the final area that is meant to be occupied by a carpet. Multiply the results of the second and third step and you will have you aspired measure of the stairs.
Besides, there are a number of online tools to accomplish this measurement. You just have to feed in the parameters to get the aspired area in measuring stairs for carpet.