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How Much Picture Frame Moulding Do I Need?


How To Figure out how much moulding it takes!
You can do all this stuff in one minute after the first time!

You now know the exact glass size or canvas size of the picture frame you want. Now you need to find the total "united inches" of your frame, to figure out how much moulding it takes to build your frame. This is really easy and will be very useful to you later in ordering glass and mats.

Lets say you want a frame that you can drop a canvas or glass into that measures 14 1/4" by 17 1/2". To figure the united inches of your frame, all you do is round your figures off to the next higher whole inch and add the two sizes together. Add only two sides, one long side and one short side. Do not add all four sides of your picture!

Repeat: Do not add together all four sides of the frame. Only one long side and one short side.

So if you needed the above frame. What you will order is a frame that measures 14 1/4" by 17 1/2", your glass size.

And you now know that this frame contains 33 united inches. (15+18=33 united inches.) This couldn't be any easier!

You should now know how to find out how many United Inches are in any frame you would want to order!

Examine the charts below. Soon you will know how much moulding it takes to build any frame you want.

The charts below are standard picture framers charts. They are very accurate. These charts show how much moulding it takes to build a picture frame with no waste left over. For example, it is impossible to build a 12"x12" picture frame using four feet of moulding. No picture framer can because of the cuts made to produce the four corners. The chart below tells you that to build a frame this size requires 5 feet of moulding because 12"+12" = 24 united inches.

It is easy to see that a 8x10 frame contains 18 united inches and takes 4 and 1/2 feet of moulding to build. A 23 1/2 by 35 1/2 frame contains 60 united inches (24+36=60) and takes 11 1/2 feet of picture frame moulding to build. Notice how the United Inches in the charts are in increasing size order.

Note that chart two is just a continuation of the first chart. This is all very simple. All you need to do is find the united inches in your picture frame, then using the charts below, figure out how much moulding it takes to build your picture frame. You might want to print this page out. Remember you are only concerned with the yellow column, to find out the footage you need that is listed beside it in the pink column.

When finished scroll down to the bottom of the page and see if you can answer the question.

Frame Footage Chart
Stock Sizes United Inches Footage
Required
5x7 0-12ui 3 feet
  13ui 3'
  14ui 3 1/2'
  15 3 1/2
  16 4'
  17 4'
8x10 18 4 1/2'
  19 ui 4 1/2'
  20 5'
9x12 21 5'
  22 5'
  23 5 1/2'
  24 5 1/2'
11x14 25ui 5 1/2'
  26 6'
  27 6'
12x16 28 6'
  29 6 1/2'
  30 6 1/2'
  31 6 1/2'
14x18 32 7'
  33 7'
  34 7'
  35 7 1/2'
16x20 36 7 1/2'
  37 7 1/2'
  38 8'
  39 8'
  40 8'
  41 ui 8 1/2'
18x24 42 8 1/2'
  43 8 1/2'
20x24 44 9'
  45 9'
  46 9'
  47 9 1/2'
  48ui 9 1/2'
  49 9 1/2'
22x28 50 10'
  51 10'
  52 10'
  53 10 1/2'
24x30 54 10 1/2'
  55 10 1/2'
  56ui 11'
Frame Footage Chart
Stock Sizes United Inches Footage
Required
  57ui 11'
  58 11'
  59 11 1/2'
24x36 60ui 11 1/2'
  61 11 1/2'
  62 12'
  63 12'
  64 12'
  65 ui 12 1/2'
  66 12 1/2'
  67 12 1/2'
  68 13'
  69 13'
30x40 70 13'
  71 13 1/2'
24x48 72 ui 13 1/2'
  73 13 1/2'
  74 14'
  75 14'
  76 14'
  77 14 1/2'
  78 14 1/2'
  79 14 1/2
  80 15'
  81ui 15'
  82 15'
  83 15 1/2'
  84 15 1/2'
  85 15 1/2'
  86 16'
  87 16'
  88 ui 16'
  89 16 1/2'
  90 16 1/2'
  91 16 1/2'
  92 17'
  93 17'
  94 17'
  95 17 1/2'
  96 17 1/2'
  97 17 1/2'
  98 18'
  99 18'
40x60 100 ui 18 1/2'

 

You should now be able to answer this question?

I need a frame that measures exactly _____x_____ glass size, has _______United Inches and needs ________ feet of moulding? And the price per foot of moulding is ________. Write these figures down somewhere then click on the quick frame order page link below. You can now order any frame you want.

Quick Frame Order Page

 
 


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