wallpapering a room

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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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"

"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."

"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."