32 square feet floorboards

[hairymary]

help please,how many boards would i need to cover 32 square feet if the boards measure 4inches wide and are 10 ft long i just cant calculate this at all and i might as well be cheeky and ask how much would this cost at 15pence per foot thanks so much

[rabseenesbit]

10 boards and a grand total of �15

[KARL]

Next time try doing all your measurement in a simple system - metric is a prime candidate (imperial is notoriously complex, which is why some like it - the easier to put people off checking whether they are being diddled). Measure both the room and a unit length of board (in metres, centimetres or millimetres) then simply mutiply the two dimensions of each and compare. A child above ten years of age could do it unsupervised. Example: one metre of board measuring 0.15m wide is 0.15 square metres (1.00x0.15); a room measuring 2.67m by 3.42m is 9.1314 square metres in total area. To cover this area with the available board size you need a total of 60.876m length of board (dividing 9.1314 by 0.15) - but remember to allow some for off-cuts (5% is not a bad margin with this combination of room and board).

[KARL]

Just a thought: Earlier this year I bought, and travelled a long distance to collect, recycled wood of a particular species and age cut to my sizes from a firm near Leeds called Machell's. They insisted on my quoting all dimensions in imperial board by board (not too difficult if you are forced to convert the normal/easier metric) while they quoted the price per cubic foot. Out of sheer laziness really (it is a real pain and using a calculator takes maybe many times longer than metric), I never actually converted everything to imperial volume until after the transaction was completed (it looked odd to me). When I queried it, giving all the figures, I was told: Sure, you were in truth overcharged by more than 75%, but tough because it is now too late. The wood is (mostly) fine and something I found very difficult to locate, but it seems to me morally wrong (and inexcusable) to betray trust - but then I am like that. The aftertaste was more objectionable than the chunk of money going down the drain.