Setting up a chevron floor
This page opens the flooring calculator on engineered oak glued down in 60° chevron, with 480 × 90 mm boards (Ted Todd’s Cashmere Chevron, which Ted Todd lists as 30°), in a 4 × 5 m room. Change the cut angle to match your boards: 45° for the classic square point, 60° or 62.5° for a flatter V. Then type the board’s width and the length of a long side, and the box coverage printed on the pack.
The calculator turns each board into a parallelogram at that angle, lines up the rows so their points meet on straight lines down the room, and counts every board the room touches. It also tries three other starting positions and shows the spread, because where the first row lands against the walls moves the total.
Reading the result
The picture under the figures lays area 1 at the chosen angle: dark boards stay whole, pale ones get cut, and the faint shapes beyond the walls are the offcuts. Compare that picture with the maker’s photo. If the V in your sample looks flatter or sharper than the drawing, the maker measures its angle the other way, so try the other setting.
Chevron has two hands, so the order is split into A and B boards. If the fitter can use the piece cut from one wall at the opposite wall, keep offcut reuse on; turn it off to see what the floor needs with no reuse at all. The figure to add on top is for mistakes and damaged boards only: the cuts are already in the count.
Rooms against halls
In a narrow hall a chevron strip can be wider than the floor, and then boards get cut at both walls and leave no usable offcut. The tables below show how much that swings with the angle, for real boards from Havwoods, Ted Todd, Scheucher, Adler and Quick-Step. For herringbone blocks, where the ends meet the sides square, use the herringbone calculator instead.
Chevron angles by maker
The angle each maker gives, and the angle to pick here, where it is always measured between a board's end and its long side.
| Maker | Floor | Sold as | Pick here | Board |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Havwoods | Alsace HW2022 | 45° | 45° | 725 × 130 mm |
| Havwoods | Alabastro HW16601P | 45° | 45° | 24 × 3½ in |
| Ted Todd | Raw Cotton Chevron | 45° | 45° | 540 × 90 mm |
| Ted Todd | Cashmere Chevron | 30° | 60° | 480 × 90 mm |
| Scheucher | MULTIflor.11 NOVOLOC 5G 740 | 45° | 45° | 740 × 140 mm |
| Scheucher | MULTIflor.11 NOVOLOC 5G 500 | 60° | 60° | 500 × 140 mm |
| Adler Parkett | chevron, 100 mm | 45° | 45° | 500 × 100 mm |
| Adler Parkett | chevron, 100 mm | 60° | 60° | 540 × 100 mm |
| Quick-Step | Intenso INT3903 | 62.5° | 62.5° | 600 × 310 mm |
| BOEN | Exquisite Chevron | 60° | 60° | not listed |
Chevron waste by angle and board
Each board above laid at all three angles, the points running along the room, the pattern centred, and counted by the calculator's own engine when this page was built. Each cell: extra boards over a floor needing no cuts, first with a new board for every cut one, then with offcuts reused at the opposite wall. The maker's own angle is in bold.
| Board | 4 × 5 m room | 1.2 × 4 m hall | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45° | 60° | 62.5° | 45° | 60° | 62.5° | |
| Havwoods, 725 × 130 mm | +17% · +8% | +34% · +29% | +38% · +32% | +89% · +77% | +18% · +18% | +18% · +18% |
| Havwoods, 24 × 3½ in | +18% · +10% | +14% · +8% | +14% · +9% | +58% · +49% | +87% · +81% | +90% · +83% |
| Ted Todd, 540 × 90 mm | +24% · +17% | +23% · +19% | +25% · +22% | +40% · +34% | +66% · +60% | +70% · +64% |
| Ted Todd, 480 × 90 mm | +11% · +5% | +10% · +6% | +12% · +9% | +24% · +19% | +48% · +43% | +49% · +46% |
| Scheucher, 740 × 140 mm | +20% · +10% | +39% · +30% | +39% · +33% | +90% · +81% | +21% · +21% | +21% · +21% |
| Scheucher, 500 × 140 mm | +17% · +10% | +15% · +10% | +19% · +13% | +33% · +27% | +55% · +49% | +60% · +55% |
| Adler Parkett, 500 × 100 mm | +17% · +9% | +15% · +10% | +20% · +14% | +31% · +25% | +55% · +49% | +56% · +52% |
| Adler Parkett, 540 × 100 mm | +25% · +17% | +23% · +19% | +29% · +22% | +41% · +34% | +67% · +60% | +68% · +63% |
| Quick-Step, 600 × 310 mm | +21% · +13% | +12% · +6% | +18% · +13% | +63% · +55% | +94% · +86% | +94% · +86% |
One board can swing by tens of points from one angle to the next, most of all in the hall: a chevron strip is the board's length × sin θ wide, so the angle decides whether the hall's width takes whole strips or leaves boards cut at both walls.
Sources, checked September 2026: the product pages linked in the table; Quick-Step, chevron flooring (ends cut at 62.5°); Adler Parkett's drawings of its 45° and 60° patterns on the same page as its sizes.