Tile and Paver Layout Patterns

What Tile and Paver Layout Patterns is for

Tile and Paver Layout Patterns is the page to open when you need tile and paver layout patterns from measurements you already have. It belongs with the other construction calculators because that is the work this arithmetic supports. The floor area those materials have to cover is the area in square feet. Type the entries first. The result stays hidden until you press Calculate, so a half-finished form never flashes a number you might mistake for the answer.

How to fill in this calculator

This page is the written companion for the tool. Where the form asks for a measurement, enter it in the unit printed on that field, then press Calculate. Nothing is computed while you are still typing.

The formula in plain language

Tile count is the room area divided by the area of one tile, with the grout joint added to both the width and the length of the tile. Round up to a whole tile. Boxes are the tile count divided by the number of tiles in a box, rounded up.

A worked example

A 10 foot by 12 foot floor is 120 square feet. A 12 inch tile with a 1/8 inch joint covers about 1.02 square feet, so the floor needs 118 tiles before cuts. Buy extra for the cuts along the walls.

Flooring, tile, and carpet are wasted by the same room measurement. This tile and paver layout patterns result belongs with carpet calculator and cost of flooring.

Mistakes that move the answer

• A 12 inch tile with grout is slightly larger than one square foot. Ignoring the joint overbuys by a little, which is safer than underbuying.
• Diagonal layouts need more waste than a straight grid.

How to check the result

After Calculate shows the tile and paver layout patterns result, redo the last operation with a pencil using the rounded figures on the screen. Matching that check means the inputs were read correctly. If you edit a label or a sentence in this HTML file, reload the page. The form and this article both live in the file, so the edit is what visitors will read.