Example plan

Bedroom 4 × 3.5 m: herringbone, oak parquet

A made-up room of 14 m², laid by the planner’s layout engine. These are the figures it counted.

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Laying plan of a 4 × 3.5 m room in herringbone: whole pieces filled, the 156 cut pieces hatched.
Whole pieceCut piece (hatched)

The figures

Floor laid
13.78 m²
Pieces in the plan
466
Whole pieces
310
Cut pieces
156
Planks or tiles to buy
434
Packs of 36
13
Waste
10.3 %

Why this plan wastes 10.3 %

Herringbone lays every piece at 45° to the walls, so each piece that meets a wall is cut on a slant, and its triangular offcut rarely fits anywhere else. The longer the walls are compared with the floor area, the more pieces are cut: 156 here, which makes 10.3 % waste.

The same room in another pattern

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