wallpapering a room

Question

How do I work out how much wallpaper I will need for a room?

Philip · Accepted Answer

Start the calculations with the height of the room (say 3 metres, 100 inches). Take the length of the roll of wallpaper (printed on the packaging) Dividing the height of the room by the length of the whole roll will give you how many “Drops” you can get from each roll.Then measure the width of the wall to be papered (say 5 metres,160 inches) , divide this by the width of the wallpaper roll to work out how many drops are needed for each wall. When calculating total lengths of each drop care should be taken if applying patterned wallpaper, as matching the pattern can add up to 18 inches to each “Drop”. Plain papers, single colour paper or lining paper can be cut/spliced into the corners of the room, saving time, effort and materials. Alternatively invite me round to do the calculations for you.

David · Answer

Measure the height and width of the room as a total and then look at the length and width of the rolls of wallpaper if a plain no patterned paper that doesn’t need matching up.

Mark · Answer

A standard roll of wallpaper is approximately 10.5m (33ft) long and 530mm (1ft 9in) wide. If you measure the height of the walls from skirting to ceiling, you can work out how many strips of paper you can cut from a standard roll - four strips is about average. If wallpaper has pattern and should match, than average will be three strips, it depends on how big are steps of patterns.

Brian · Answer

Ideally count how many full strips and divide by 4 
And another roll to cover smaller bits, if a big pattern match or double match divide by 3 .
If not papered count how many times 21 inches goes round the room and divide as above 
Brian from sortit4u

Dale · Answer

Average ceiling height of 2.1 metres will use four drops(one standard roll of single drop wallpaper.

Lee · Answer

The simplest way to measure up for me is. Rooms 2.7 and higher are 3 drops per roll 
Room that are the standard 2.1/4 are 4 drops per roll. Then just using 1 roll go round the room counting the drops.

Paul · Answer

Normally you will get three pieces from a roll depending on the match but if you got an old roll of paper and go around the room you can easily work it out

Darren · Answer

hi i use this to help 
https://www.wallpaperdirect.com/wallpaper-calculator

Terry · Answer

Depends on weather the paper has a match or plain. But the roll will tell you what the coverage is

Jamie · Answer

You have to work out the height of ceiling and width of the roll. Usually for a standard 2.4 metre floor to ceiling wall you would get roughly 3/4 drops per roll depending on the pattern.

wallpapering a room

…,;::::::::

Follow Us

wallpapering a room

…,;::::::::

Follow Us

Cookies

Manage Cookies

Essential cookies

Analytics & Tracking

Advertising