Cleaning & property
How long will it take to make two cleaning passes over a carpet?
Reduce head width by the overlap percentage. Divide area by effective width in metres, multiply by passes, then divide by travel speed. Allow separate time for turns, furniture and refilling.
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Worked example
With the example inputs below, the calculator returns these results.
Machine travel (m) 592.59
- Carpeted floor area
- 120 m²
- Machine head width
- 45 cm
- Overlap between strips
- 10 %
- Passes over the floor
- 2 passes
- Operating travel speed
- 12 m/min
Other results
- Machine running time
- 49.38 min
- Effective strip width (cm)
- 40.5
Use your own figures
Compare how an extra pass or a wider head changes the on-floor schedule. Open the worksheet, replace the example values, then copy or print the result.
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