How Many Square Metres Needed?

[pussyfoot]

Hi all,
I have a kitchen floor space for tiling, could someone tell me how many square metres of tiles I'd need please! The space is 8 x 8ft and I've already allowed extra for just under the plinth.

Many thanks x

[Mamyalynne]

Almost exactly 6 sq metres but you won't have any spare for matching etc.

[Zacs-Master]

A smidge under 6sq m.

[sandyRoe]

Just under 6 square metres .
5.946

[Baldric]

https://www.calculateme.com/area/square-feet/to-square-meters/64
5.9458

[Buenchico]

Knowing the area (in metric units) of an 8' x 8' space doesn't actually help much!

Since you can't buy tiles which fit exactly to the width required, you'll need to allow a bit extra for what needs to be cut off around the edges. We can't tell you exactly how many tiles you'll need without knowing how big the tiles are. (25cm x 25cm? 30cm x 30cm? 40cm x 40cm? 50cm x 50cm?)

[pussyfoot]

Thank you Buenchico,I never though of that, they are 30 x 30cm

[pussyfoot]

Sorry Buenchico I meant 33 x 33cm

[Tuvok]

https://incompetech.com/graphpaper/

Create a sheet of graph paper from the above site, then sketch out your floor surface on it, so you can visualise where you need to cut tiles.

[Old_Geezer]

8' = 2.4384m
0.3m tiles means 9 tiles across and down which means 81 tiles.
Add 10% for wastage = 89, call it 90, tiles

[Old_Geezer]

Ignoring grouting space, of course.

[fiction-factory]

I know we get used to certain units but it's far easier to work these things out if measure things in metric units if the items you are buying are in metric units

[Old_Geezer]

Sorry, you wanted square metres.

2.4384 x 2.4384 = 5.9458 m²

[sandyRoe]

You'd need 66 tiles.

[Old_Geezer]

Depends on the pattern and whether you can reorientate and use parts of one tile in multiple places.

Get them on use or return.

[KARL]

Why don't you use metric measure ? Multiply the size of one side of the floor in cm by the other in cm (assuming a rectangle) and you have the area. Then do the same (in cm) for your tiles. Divide the latter into the former and that tells you how many tiles. Could it be any simpler ? Always use the same unit of measurement and forget imperial, it just confuses you. Add a few tiles for the need to cut and waste.

[jackthehat]

http://i67.tinypic.com/212b82g.jpg

[Buenchico]

^^^ O_G's figures have been based upon 30cm tiles, rather than 33cm ones.

I don't know what Sandy's planning to do with all the spare tiles he'll have left over ;-)

8' x 8' = 2.44m x 2.44m.

So you need a grid of 7½ tiles by 7½ tiles (with each nominal 'half' tile actually being trimmed to just a bit under a half). So that's 56¼ tiles, meaning that you'd need to purchase 57 tiles (or whatever number of packs you'd need to ensure that you'd got that quantity).

As JTH's illustration shows, you lay a 7 x 7 grid of tiles (using up 49 of them). You then cut 7 tiles into nominal 'halves', to fill round all of the edges except for the top left-hand corner. You need just a (nominal) quarter of the remaining tile to fill that tiny gap.