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Measure Irregular Yards by Boxing Out

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How to Measure Estimate and Install Sod and Turf

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For irregular-shaped yards, the key is to 'box out' the area into multiple smaller, regular shapes (squares or rectangles). Draw straight lines to divide the irregular shape into manageable sections. For example, an L-shaped yard can be broken into two or more rectangles. Measure each section independently, calculate its square footage, and then sum all the square footage totals. This method works for any shape, including circles (by boxing out the largest square within or around the circle).

Goal: Calculate sod quantity for an irregular-shaped yard

Tools and materials

  • Calculator — Performing calculations for each section
  • Measuring Tape — Measuring the dimensions of each boxed-out section
  • Pencil/Pen — Drawing the diagrams and recording measurements
  • Sketchpad/Notebook — Sketching the irregular yard and its boxed-out sections

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but what happens if you don't come into a perfectly square yard let's go through a scenario that you may see Let's do let's just make let's just do a weird shape I don't care let's just do any kind of uh maybe it's a you got a skinny portion of a yard and a fat portion of a yard and none of it is square you break it into squares it's as simple as that so in this case in this yard you may go look at this is kind of this irregular shape is kind of a square and You' be a little long on some a little short but you break it into as close of a square as possible and let's just call this one 40 by 10 okay so you break this portion of the yard up and then you look at this one and go up a man I maybe you have to do more than one square up for a portion of a yard so in this case you go up like this over and down and then this would be 10 by 10 by 30 for this portion of the yard and then over here you would go okay this portion would be 30 by 30 so now you've taken this odd shaped yard and you've broken it down into manageable pieces that you can measure it don't care what shape you got I don't care what shape you got imagine it in boxes that's what you have to do and it doesn't have to be perfectly Square let's go through the formula for these so in this case we have three sections we have to calculate we got to go 40 by 10 and then we have to go third okay so we broke it into three sections three quadrants the first quadrant is 40 by 10 the second quadrant is 30 by 10 so we just multiply 30 * 10 and the third

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