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Flooring Calculator: How Much Hardwood, Laminate, or LVP Do You Need?

Flooring Calculator: How Much Hardwood, Laminate, or LVP Do You Need? To calculate flooring, measure your room's square footage and add 10% for waste. A 12×15 foot room (180 sq ft) needs approximately 198 square feet of flooring material. For diagonal installations or complex patterns, add 15-20% instead. Consider a representative case: installing LVP across 1,140 square feet of a main floor -- living room, kitchen, and hallway as one continuous run. Ordering 62 boxes at $3.50 per square foot, budgeting 10% waste, leaves exactly 3 boxes left over. The closets and hallway transitions add 85 square feet that are easy to forget to measure, which can leave a project short mid-install with a two-week backorder wait. Use our Flooring Calculator(/construction/flooring-calculator) to get precise material quantities for any room shape or installation pattern. !Flooring cost per square foot comparison chart for vinyl LVP, carpet, laminate, tile, and hardwood with waste...