Example plan
Living room 5 × 4 m: herringbone, oak parquet
A made-up room of 20 m², laid by the planner’s layout engine. These are the figures it counted.
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The figures
- Floor laid
- 19.73 m²
- Pieces in the plan
- 657
- Whole pieces
- 468
- Cut pieces
- 189
- Planks or tiles to buy
- 616
- Packs of 36
- 18
- Waste
- 9.3 %
Why this plan wastes 9.3 %
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: 189 here, which makes 9.3 % waste.
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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