Example plan

Bedroom 3.6 × 3 m: running offcut, oak planks

A made-up room of 10.8 m², laid by the planner’s layout engine. These are the figures it counted.

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Laying plan of a 3.6 × 3 m room in running offcut: whole pieces filled, the 27 cut pieces hatched.
Whole pieceCut piece (hatched)

The figures

Floor laid
10.60 m²
Pieces in the plan
55
Whole pieces
28
Cut pieces
27
Planks or tiles to buy
50
Packs of 8
7
Waste
13.2 %

Why this plan wastes 13.2 %

The offcut left at the end of each row starts the next row, as long as the joints stay far enough apart. Almost every cut piece is used, so the 13.2 % is mostly the strip ripped off the last row and the very last offcut.

The same room in another pattern

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