Example plan

Small bathroom 2.5 × 2 m: half offset, tiles 60 × 30

A made-up room of 5 m², laid by the planner’s layout engine. These are the figures it counted.

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Laying plan of a 2.5 × 2 m room in half offset: whole pieces filled, the 17 cut pieces hatched.
Whole pieceCut piece (hatched)

The figures

Floor laid
4.87 m²
Pieces in the plan
35
Whole pieces
18
Cut pieces
17
Planks or tiles to buy
32
Packs of 8
4
Waste
18.4 %

Why this plan wastes 18.4 %

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 18.4 % is mainly the strip ripped off the last row and the ends too short to reuse.

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