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How to Estimate by Linear Feet

Estimating in linear feet presents a standard and effective way of estimating the amount of space that your belongings will take up if placed into a particular space. As such, estimating in linear feet can be a valuable and quick way of determining how much storage space you need for your goods, or how much space your goods will take up when you are moving them. The premise of estimating in linear feet is that, if you have living space of a certain size, then your belongings most likely will take up a certain number of linear feet if moved into a differently shaped space.

Instructions

- 1
  Measure the size of the room containing your belongings in square feet.
- 2
  Obtain a conversion factor from your moving company to determine the number of linear feet that your goods will take up for their particular space. For a trailer that is 8 feet wide by 9 feet tall, the conversion factor, approximately, is that each foot of linear space that you will take up in the trailer corresponds to 120 square feet of space.
- 3
  Divide your square footage by your conversion factor (in this case, 120) to estimate the number of linear feet that you need for your goods. If, for instance, you have 840 square feet of space in your studio apartment, then dividing 840 by 120 gives 7 linear feet for the amount of space that your belongings would take up in an 8 foot by 9 foot trailer.

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