How do you calculate your yardage for panel fabric?

_Ludovico · 20th January 2012

Hi guys,

Was just wondering if someone here had developped a good method for calculating fabric yardage for standard 2x4 panels...with open sides?

Being so expensive, it's better to maximize use of fabric but it's kind of hard to figure out. I'm drawing plans with scale but there are infinite possibilities.

So, anyone nailed it right?

Aqualung · 20th January 2012

For 48" wide burlap, I'm buying 2 yards per panel. That's 1 foot all around to cover the sides and enough of the back to staple to the frame. Fwiw, I'll be building the frame from 1x2 furring strips, exactly the same size as the panel. It should add 1-1/2" to the depth of the fiberglass. The frame will be covered with cambric (dustcover fabric) or weedstop on the fiberglass side.

darkbuddha · 30th January 2012

Isn't it amazing how expensive the fabric becomes once you start figuring out how much you'll need?! In my case, I determined how I was going to build the panels and then estimated how much fabric would be required to cover what needed to be covered. I found a fabric I liked and it was conveniently 60" wide. It made a huge difference to have that extra width. In some cases it allowed me to use a single yard per 2x4' panel (depending on how I made them). In other cases, I still needed 2/3s of a yard to cover the back and one full yard to cover the front.

I guess if I were to generalize, I'd say 2 yard per 2x4' panel is probably a good rule of thumb.

20th January 2012	#1
_Ludovico Lives for gear Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 891 Thread Starter	How do you calculate your yardage for panel fabric? Hi guys, Was just wondering if someone here had developped a good method for calculating fabric yardage for standard 2x4 panels...with open sides? Being so expensive, it's better to maximize use of fabric but it's kind of hard to figure out. I'm drawing plans with scale but there are infinite possibilities. So, anyone nailed it right?

30th January 2012	#3
darkbuddha Gear maniac Joined: Nov 2011 Location: Sarasota, FL USA Posts: 174	Isn't it amazing how expensive the fabric becomes once you start figuring out how much you'll need?! In my case, I determined how I was going to build the panels and then estimated how much fabric would be required to cover what needed to be covered. I found a fabric I liked and it was conveniently 60" wide. It made a huge difference to have that extra width. In some cases it allowed me to use a single yard per 2x4' panel (depending on how I made them). In other cases, I still needed 2/3s of a yard to cover the back and one full yard to cover the front. I guess if I were to generalize, I'd say 2 yard per 2x4' panel is probably a good rule of thumb. __________________ -Wyatt Composer, researcher, educator

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20th January 2012	#2
Aqualung Gear interested Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 16	For 48" wide burlap, I'm buying 2 yards per panel. That's 1 foot all around to cover the sides and enough of the back to staple to the frame. Fwiw, I'll be building the frame from 1x2 furring strips, exactly the same size as the panel. It should add 1-1/2" to the depth of the fiberglass. The frame will be covered with cambric (dustcover fabric) or weedstop on the fiberglass side.