Cutting & Wastage

How Much Extra Flooring Should You Order?

When you have your exact measurements of your floor area, you will then need to decide how much extra you need for cutting, selection, and wastage.

This will depend on the shape of your room/rooms and how much cutting is involved. If you have lots of angles and ‘special’ cuts, you may want to allow as much as 10% extra, however if the room shape is ‘standard’ without much cutting required, as little as 5-6% may be OK.

Something to bear in mind when calculating the extra flooring you may require is the selection process itself.
Although our flooring is of high quality, the mix of grades A, B, C, and D will mean that there will be some planks that have some light sapwood within the face (both with the solid and engineered).

Some people like this sapwood appearance (we actually have people who ask for this) and some people don’t, so if you’re someone that doesn’t, you may want to order extra above the normal allowance to enable the selection of your flooring to omit any planks with excess sapwood.

It must be accepted and understood that the Oak we supply is a product of nature and no matter what some people may think, it is actually cut from a tree!

This means that we only have control over the grading process at factory level, and having made the decision to supply a mix of the 4 grades to provide a true ‘oak-like’ appearance within every floor, some sapwood content is unavoidable.

If completely clear boards are required with no sapwood, we can supply prime grade oak but obviously this costs more. Please enquire for more details.