Measure Rubber Tile
When measuring out a room to calculate the number of tiles needed to cover that area, the first thing to do is to section off the room into squares to calculate the total square feet of the room. See the picture below for a visual example.
In this example of an L-shape room, the total square feet of the room is then the length x width of the red square plus the length x width of the blue square.
I.E. Blue area square feet = 14 X 10 = 140 square feet Red area square feet = 24 X 12 = 288 square feet Total square feet = 140 + 288 = 428 square feet
After the total square feet of the room is calculated, the best practice to figure out how many tiles are needed is to divide the total square feet by 7.5.
Note: Each tile is actually 8.25 square feet in total area however there is a 10% loss factor to calculate into installing flooring and using 7.5 square feet per tile as the unit of measure automatically adds that factor into the equation. Remember it is always better to have extra than not have enough.
I.E. 428 square feet ÷ 7.5 square feet/tile = 57.0666 tiles We then recommend to always round up to the next whole tile increment which would be 58 Tiles
