Wallpapers - calculating what you need for that special job

Adrian Rayfield is a painter and decorator and we met on Twitter and his website is a fountain of information.

This week we discuss wallpapers - how does one calculate how much one needs? Seems easy but more often than not clients are often faced with either buying to many rolls or too few and have to go back to the shop in the midst of decorating!

His wallpaper calculator is really handy, I use it all the time and he even has a converter from feet to meters!

Photograph, Marenka wallpaper from ROMO can be found here.

"I created the calculator’s on propertydecorating.co.uk as a resource for everyone to use. I have used online wallpaper calculators before and found them very long-winded or complicated to use, this is why I decided to create my own.

 

The calculator is an online tool aimed at anyone wanting to work out how many rolls of wallpaper needed to paper any given area, DIY’ers and tradesmen alike, including myself.

 

The wallpaper calculator is quick, simple and hassle free to use, simply enter the height of the room or feature wall, then the circumference of a room (including windows and doors) or the width of a feature wall hit calculate and the calculator works it all out for you.

 

We have also included a feet to metre converter as I know many people still use feet and inches.Once the calculation is worked out a result is returned of how many rolls (UK standard size) are needed.

 

The wallpaper calculator is the ideal estimating tool also; it can be used onsite via a web-enabled device or of course back in the office.

 

As a decorator I often find that people don’t have any idea of how to calculate the number of rolls of wallpaper required, and even less so when it comes to the wallpaper symbols that are found on the rolls or the wallpaper sample books. This is why I have included a page on the site with their meanings.

 

I hope that the wallpaper calculator together with the wallpaper symbols, aid people in deciding on the correct type of wallpaper and getting the correct amount of rolls. We have received a lot of feedback and great comments of the usage of these resources."

 

Adrian Rayfield's wonderful blog can be found here at www.propertydecorating.co.uk - his blog is also a super place to find painting and decorating tips - a true professional Adrian loves his work!