Example plan

Living room 6 × 4.5 m: chevron, oak parquet

A made-up room of 27 m², laid by the planner’s layout engine. These are the figures it counted.

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Laying plan of a 6 × 4.5 m room in chevron: whole pieces filled, the 177 cut pieces hatched.
Whole pieceCut piece (hatched)

The figures

Floor laid
26.69 m²
Pieces in the plan
833
Whole pieces
656
Cut pieces
177
Planks or tiles to buy
809
Packs of 36
23
Waste
6.1 %

Why this plan wastes 6.1 %

Chevron pieces have angled ends that meet in a point, and every piece that meets a wall is cut on a slant as well. As with herringbone, the slanted offcuts are hard to reuse, so the 6.1 % grows with the length of the walls: 177 cut pieces in this room.

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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