Ordering laminate by the box
Laminate is what the flooring calculator opens with on this page. It is sold in boxes (cartons) that each cover a set area, printed on the label. Enter every room, hallway and closet you’re laying as an area, type the coverage per box, and you get a count of full boxes that already carries the waste.
That waste starts at 10%, the factor in Pergo’s project planner. Pergo’s own planner rounds up twice, once for the square feet and once for the cartons, and the calculator does the same: it never rounds down to a part box. If a room is small or full of corners, raise the allowance.
Several rooms, one order
The page starts with three areas, a 15 by 12 ft living room, a 10 × 11 ft bedroom and a 3 × 10 ft hallway, to show a whole-floor order: change them to your rooms, remove the ones you don’t need or add more. Adding the rooms before rounding matters: rounded room by room, these three would take 10 + 7 + 2 = 19 boxes of 20 sq ft, but together they need 18, because the part boxes are shared. The results table lists each area so you can check the measurements. Further down, a grid of seven room sizes against four box sizes shows how much the box size changes the order.
Price
A price can go in per box, per square foot or per m². It’s multiplied by everything you take home, the unused end of the last box included.
Boxes of laminate by room and box size
Floor area plus Pergo's 10% waste factor, divided by the square feet per box and rounded up.
| Room | Floor | To order | 18 sq ft boxes | 20 sq ft boxes | 22 sq ft boxes | 24 sq ft boxes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 × 10 ft | 100 sq ft | 110 sq ft | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| 10 × 12 ft | 120 sq ft | 132 sq ft | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 |
| 12 × 12 ft | 144 sq ft | 158.4 sq ft | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
| 12 × 15 ft | 180 sq ft | 198 sq ft | 11 | 10 | 9 | 9 |
| 14 × 16 ft | 224 sq ft | 246.4 sq ft | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 |
| 16 × 20 ft | 320 sq ft | 352 sq ft | 20 | 18 | 16 | 15 |
| 20 × 24 ft | 480 sq ft | 528 sq ft | 30 | 27 | 24 | 22 |
Source, checked September 2026: Pergo, Wood and Laminate Flooring Project Planner.