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Originally Posted by gregpark

That's going to be one busy floor! The 8" butt joints spacing they call for does not apply to patterned goods. Patterned goods also require more material. Non patterned tiles add 5% for waste, patterned at least double. They won't break cartons for you either.
The planks will stay together without staggering as long as every joint is truly locked. If you want to stagger, start the next course from the middle out to split the difference of the pattern running on at the ends. Your room is 9' ? That's only 2 planks plus a 6" fill on the ends, right? That's a lot of waste, 3' out of the middle of a plank. The planks must be locked together all around and can run in only one direction. It's always adds significant cost to use a Patterned material.

OK, good to know that these shouldn't be or, at least, don't have to be staggered.

I got a bunch of extra (I think 50%). I was anticipating (waste, screw ups and maybe even having some extra for repairs if necessary.

Yes, a bunch of waste. I think the room is about 9.5' square. Then we've got another ~5'x6' 1/2 bath upstairs where we'll be using the same flooring, so we need about 120-130sqft. I think I ordered ~190sqft.

Hopefully, we have enough extra waste to manage the old 1/2bath which is 4x6. I don't think we planned on doing that room, but depending upon how much waste we have and how I can get it to lay out, I'll see what I can do.