Example plan

Kitchen 3.5 × 3 m: half offset, tiles 60 × 30

A made-up room of 10.5 m², laid by the planner’s layout engine. These are the figures it counted.

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Laying plan of a 3.5 × 3 m room in half offset: whole pieces filled, the 20 cut pieces hatched.
Whole pieceCut piece (hatched)

The figures

Floor laid
10.31 m²
Pieces in the plan
65
Whole pieces
45
Cut pieces
20
Planks or tiles to buy
60
Packs of 8
8
Waste
4.8 %

Why this plan wastes 4.8 %

Each row starts half a piece further along, so every row ends in a cut. The offcut from one row end is about what the next row needs to start, so most of it is laid; the 4.8 % is mainly the strip ripped off the last row and the ends too short to reuse.

The same room in another pattern

The planner opens with this room already laid. Change the size, the pattern or the material and every figure is counted again.

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