Estimate how much flooring to order for any room with room to spare for cuts and mistakes. Enter the room length and width in feet to get the base square footage, then add a waste factor that accounts for offcuts, damaged planks and pattern matching. A straight lay usually needs about ten percent extra, while diagonal or herringbone layouts often need fifteen percent or more. Enter the coverage printed on the flooring box, commonly around twenty square feet, and the calculator tells you how many boxes to buy, always rounding up so a single short plank does not stall your install. This works for laminate, luxury vinyl plank, engineered wood, hardwood and tile alike. All math runs locally in your browser, so you can compare rooms and layouts instantly without sharing any project details.
It multiplies room length by width to get square footage, then adds a waste factor percentage for cuts and mistakes.
A waste factor covers cutting, breakage, and pattern matching. A typical allowance is about 5 to 10 percent for straightforward layouts.
Yes. It divides the total area including waste by the coverage per box to give the number of boxes to purchase.
Estimate how much flooring to order for any room with room to spare for cuts and mistakes. Enter the room length and width in feet to get the base square footage, then add a waste factor that accounts for offcuts, damaged planks and pattern matching.
Yes. Flooring Calculator is completely free, with no sign-up and no usage limits.
Yes. Flooring Calculator runs in any modern web browser. There is nothing to download or install.
Yes. Flooring Calculator runs entirely on your device in your browser, so nothing you enter is uploaded to a server.