We measured the floor in the auxiliary accommodation as 5m by 2.3m and went to the carpet shop and ordered some carpet accordingly. The fitter turned up today, chirpy chappy, and he set out fitting it, only to discover that the piece of carpet is 3cm too short. Apparently, although you might order carpet in a 5m width, the manufacturing process means that it can turn out to be plus or minus several cm either way i.e 4.97m or 5.03m. The fitter chappie says that you should order it in 5.10m width - but that would mean it would be 4m the other way incurring a lot of wastage and extra expenditure, which is why the shop had ordered it in 5m width. (You can't get 5.10m by 3m). So, bad luck mate, your bit came out 3cm short. Ho hum. Any road up, the helpful fitter chappie has cut a strip from the side off-cut to fill in the gap (there's 0.7m spare that side), the only problem being that the weave goes in the other direction so, on close inspection, it looks a bit odd. I think we'll be putting the wardrobe or some such at that end of the room!
We live and we learn. Apparently.
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