You ve measured your roof and calculated the area in square feet.
Roof shingle conversion 25 linear feet to square feet.
10 feet by 10 feet 100 square feet.
When you get to the home improvement store you find out the roofing materials are sold by the linear foot.
100 square feet 1 roofing square 9 290304 cubic meters si unit.
For example let s find how many linear feet of hardwood flooring will be needed to cover a 120 sq.
1 roofing square 9 290304 m 3.
To find the squares divide the overall roof area by 100 and then round up.
However shingles are packaged in a way that they are light enough for the average person to carry around.
Length 120 sq.
You re ready to re do your roof and it s time to purchase the materials.
A square of shingles is the number of shingles needed to cover 100 sq feet of roof area.
This is simply 100 square feet of roof.
A square simply refers to a 10 x 10 square of roofing.
As a rule of thumb there are 3 bundles to a square assuming that you are using three tab strip shingles.
Each plywood sheet is 4 x 8 feet or 32 square feet which coincidentally is almost exactly equivalent to the coverage of one bundle of traditional three tab shingles.
Convert the width measurement to feet.
Using an international foot of exactly 0 3048 meters length.
It s easy to convert a measurement in terms of square feet to one in terms of linear feet.
3 12 25 now convert to linear feet.
Room if the boards are 3 wide.