How Much Flooring Do I Need?

Q: we live in a mobile home that the flooring is in pretty good shape. my question is how much flooring will we need if we do our living room which measures at 12x 16 which is one of our larger floor areas we just don’t know how many boxes of flooring or underlying we need
Thank you
Lee Ann
A: This is a very common question as many people will see boxes of flooring at a local home store and not know how much is in each box.
All you need to do to determine how much flooring you will need is to calculate the square footage of the room or rooms you are doing (in this case 192sf for your living room). You will then want to add about 10% (19sf for you) to account for your cuts and ensure you have enough flooring as there will be some waste.
Keep in mind, each type of flooring has a different amount of flooring in each box, so you want to keep to the raw square footage you need. Overall for your project you’re going to want about 220 square feet of flooring (or as close to that number as you can get when ordering your boxes). This will be similar with your underlayment. Its likely you will have a bit of left over underlayment, since it typically comes in either 100sf rolls or 150sf boxes (depending on the type of underlayment).