What areas get free in-home measures?

The map answer takes one line, and most people asking this question already suspect they are on it. The decision underneath is the useful one: whether a free measure is the right next step for you this month, or whether you want a number for a different reason and there is a faster way to get it.

The free part does not thin out toward the edges

One showroom covers St. Charles, Warren, St. Louis and Lincoln counties, and the free in-home measure reaches every address in them. A short run across Wentzville and a long haul north or west get the same visit and the same written estimate, and neither costs anything. What the drive changes is the calendar rather than the paperwork, which is its own question and worth reading before you plan around a date.

Three ways to get a number for your rooms

None of them is wrong. They answer different questions, and picking the wrong one is how people end up either waiting on an appointment they did not need yet or ordering material off a figure that was never meant to carry an order.

• The calculator on this site. Put the rooms in, get square footage, a waste allowance and a box count back, in a couple of minutes, without handing anyone your email. It is built for planning, and it does the arithmetic on the page.
• Your own tape. Numbers you took yourself are plenty to talk in ranges at the sample rack, and the showroom will work from them happily. They are an approximation of your house, not a description of it.
• The free in-home measure. One visit, at your address, where the rooms get measured on the actual subfloor. This is the only one of the three that a material order can be built on, because it is the only one that has seen the doorways.

What picks between them

Ask what you are going to do with the number. If you are working out whether this is a this-year project or a next-year project, the calculator is enough and you can have it right now without leaving the page. If you are still arguing about color, take your own rough dimensions to the showroom and spend the time on samples instead, because color is the part people underestimate.

Book the measure when you are close to ordering, or when the rooms contain something your own tape cannot settle. The in-home measure page lists what gets checked, and these are the conditions where a homeowner's own figures usually stop being useful.

• A staircase, which gets counted piece by piece rather than as area. The measure page explains why a stair is its own arithmetic.
• More than two materials meeting each other. Every place one floor stops and another starts is a decision somebody has to make standing in the doorway.
• Angled walls, a bay, a closet run, or a room that was added onto the house at some point.
• A slab underneath, a floor that has been patched, or a spot that leaked once. That changes what should go down, not just how much of it.
• Doors that already clear the existing floor by very little, since the new floor may sit at a different height.

If your address sits outside the four counties

Call and ask rather than assuming it either way. A minute on the phone is better than a wasted drive in either direction, and the person who picks up can tell you straight. The showroom itself has no boundary around it at all. Looking, handling the product and taking samples home cost nothing and commit you to nothing no matter where you live, which is worth knowing if you are close to the line.

Have the shortlist in your hands when we come out

The single most useful thing you can do before the visit is get the choice down to two. Transitions are the reason. Every place one floor stops and another starts has to be decided at your address rather than at a rack in Wentzville, and that decision goes fast when both finalists are physically in the house and slow when they are still at the store. The measure page covers how a transition gets settled.

So the order that works is samples first, measure second. Light is the one variable nobody can carry out of a store, and the showroom page says what to do with a sample once it is home. If you have not started narrowing yet, the floor finder will hand you a ranked shortlist in seven questions, and the showroom is at a Wentzville address you can walk into Monday through Saturday. Then call 636-332-0654 and put the measure on the calendar for whichever corner of the four counties you live in.