Laminate Flooring Calculator — Boxes, Waste & Cost

How to use

1. Measure room length and width in feet at the widest points.
2. Pick a waste preset: 5% straight, 10% diagonal, 15% pattern — or a custom percentage.
3. Enter your box coverage from the box label (23.8 sq ft is typical) and price per box.
4. Read square feet needed, boxes to buy, cost, and the planks-per-row estimate.

About this tool

Laminate boxes flatter nobody: the label says 23.8 square feet, but cuts, defects and layout waste eat more than first-timers expect. This calculator takes room length and width, applies a realistic waste factor — 5% for straight runs, 10% for diagonal, 15% for pattern layouts — and converts to boxes to buy, rounded up because dye lots matter. It also estimates planks per row from a typical 54-inch plank against your room width, totals the cost from your price per box, and reminds you that underlayment is ordered at the raw room square footage, not the waste-inflated number. Measure the room at its widest points, then run the numbers here — all in your browser, nothing saved.

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