Example plan

Kitchen 4 × 2.8 m: herringbone, vinyl planks

A made-up room of 11.2 m², laid by the planner’s layout engine. These are the figures it counted.

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Laying plan of a 4 × 2.8 m room in herringbone: whole pieces filled, the 65 cut pieces hatched.
Whole pieceCut piece (hatched)

The figures

Floor laid
11.00 m²
Pieces in the plan
113
Whole pieces
48
Cut pieces
65
Planks or tiles to buy
99
Packs of 12
9
Waste
21.5 %

Why this plan wastes 21.5 %

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: 65 here, which makes 21.5 % waste.

The same room in another pattern

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