# What actually fits in a 20GP of flooring and trim > Container quantities for SPC skirtings, stair nosings and reducers, why palletising costs you roughly a quarter of the load, and how to plan a mixed container. - Published: 2026-08-21 - Topic: Logistics - Reading time: 6 min - Publisher: Shandong Home Top New Material Co., Ltd. --- ## Key figures from this note - Palletising SPC trim costs roughly 11% to 31% of the loose-loaded container quantity, depending on the profile. - A 20GP holds 23,400 Home Top T-mouldings loose-loaded, against 20,800 palletised — an 11% reduction. - An SPC stair board (FNSSBR) drops from 8,400 pieces loose to 5,760 palletised, a 31% loss, the largest of any profile. - Accessory container quantities are driven by profile height rather than length, since every profile is 2400 mm long. --- Most flooring quotations cover the boards and leave the trim as an afterthought. That is usually where a container plan goes wrong, because accessories are awkwardly shaped, they are quoted by the piece, and they eat volume faster than their weight suggests. All the figures below are published in full on our [accessories page](https://flooring.aisoft.cc/accessories/). ## Palletised loading costs about a quarter of the load Every SPC accessory we make is quoted two ways: loose-loaded and palletised. The gap is consistent and larger than most buyers expect. | Item | Loose (PCS/20GP) | Palletised | Lost | |---|---|---|---| | T-moulding (FNSTM) | 23,400 | 20,800 | 11% | | Reducer (FNSRD) | 25,200 | 19,200 | 24% | | End cap (FNSEC) | 35,100 | 28,800 | 18% | | Stair board (FNSSBR) | 8,400 | 5,760 | 31% | | Skirting 100 (FNSS100) | 7,500 | 5,520 | 26% | Loose loading is worth it when labour at the destination is cheap and the goods go straight into a warehouse. Palletising is worth it when the container is discharged by forklift on a tight window, or when the goods are cross-docked — the handling damage you avoid usually exceeds the freight you lose. The one case where palletising is not optional is a stair board. At 2400 × 115 × 24 mm and 22.5 kg a box, loose-loaded stair boards get damaged. ## Profile height drives the quantity, not length Everything is 2400 mm long, so the differences come entirely from cross-section. Compare the skirtings: | Skirting | Section (mm) | PCS/20GP | |---|---|---| | Skirting 50 (FNSS50) | 50 × 13 | 13,900 | | Skirting 60 (FNSS60) | 60 × 12 | 13,700 | | Skirting 70 (FNSS70) | 70 × 12 | 10,974 | | Skirting 80-1 (FNSS80-1) | 80 × 15 | 13,900 | | Skirting 90 (FNSS90) | 90 × 15 | 8,320 | | Skirting 100 (FNSS100) | 100 × 15 | 7,500 | Note that the 80-1 at 80 × 15 loads *better* than the 70 at 70 × 12. Section alone does not predict the answer — it depends on how the profile nests in the box and how the boxes stack. This is why we publish per-item figures rather than a rule of thumb. Specifying 60 mm skirting instead of 100 mm nearly doubles the pieces per container. On a large project that is a real freight saving, and it is a decision worth taking deliberately rather than by default. ## Planning a mixed container The published figures are single-item full loads — nobody ships a container of nothing but end caps. For a real order, work from the take-off: 1. **Floor area** in m², which sets the board quantity. 2. **Room perimeter** in linear metres, minus door openings, divided by 2.4 — that is your skirting piece count. Add 8–10% for cuts and mitres. 3. **Transitions**: one T-moulding per doorway, one reducer per change of floor height or covering. 4. **Stairs**: one stair nose and one stair board per tread. Send us those four numbers and we will return a loading plan with the exact carton count per profile and the residual volume available for boards. It is usually worth a short conversation before the order is fixed, because trim is the part that is expensive to air-freight when it is forgotten. ## A note on the weights Our printed catalogue carries both kilogram and pound columns and they disagree on several rows — Skirting 70 is listed as 12.5 kg and 14.33 lb, but 12.5 kg is 27.6 lb. **The kilogram figures are the correct ones** and are the only ones we publish here. If you have an older PDF with the pound column, work from the metric values. --- ## Sources for the figures in this article - Home Top SPC catalogue p.29-30 (per-box, per-pallet and per-20GP quantities) - Home Top laminate catalogue p.16 (MDF accessory CBM per carton) --- **Shandong Home Top New Material Co., Ltd.** SPC rigid core and HDF laminate flooring manufacturer, Chiping County, Liaocheng, Shandong, China. Telephone: +86 0635 2983818 Canonical: https://flooring.aisoft.cc/blog/what-fits-in-a-20gp-container/