Floor plan takeoff
Build a room-by-room floor, skirting and paint takeoff from traced walls, with door deductions and a 5, 10 or 15 percent waste line.
Worked examples
Each control loads that case on the sheet. The figures are the ones the scale, the outline, or the waste setting produces. They are not sample captions pasted over a different result.
Free files are a PNG, a table PDF, CSV, DXF and a project file. No account and no watermark. The pass, the month and the lifetime unlock an auto-dimension PDF, an auto-dimension SVG, and a takeoff zip with a signature page. Every paid line prints its formula. No prices and no tin counts.
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Skirting is the perimeter minus the door width you traced. Leaders are drawn only on segments you have already traced.
Living floor 3.30 m²
Skirting net 6.20 m
Paint, one coat 16.72 m²
Living room floor 3.00 m² x 1.10. Skirting 7.00 m - 0.80 m. Paint (7.00 m x 2.40 m - 0.80 m x 2.00 m) x 1.10.
Results depend on drawing quality, the calibration length, and where you trace. They are not a substitute for measuring on site, a statutory valuation, or a professional quantity survey.
How the numbers are produced
The takeoff opens on Elm Cottage at 10 percent waste. Living room net area is 3.00 m². Floor order is 3.00 m² times 1.10, which is 3.30 m². The formula line contains “3.00 m² x 1.10” and “7.00 m - 0.80 m”. Skirting net is the perimeter minus the traced door: 7.00 m minus 0.80 m is 6.20 m. That 6.20 m is before waste. Paint uses a ceiling of 2.40 m and a door height of 2.00 m, one coat, and no window area. Net wall is 7.00 times 2.40 minus 0.80 times 2.00, which is 16.80 minus 1.60, which is 15.20 m². One coat at 10 percent waste is 15.20 times 1.10, which is 16.72 m². The preview shows those three lines and the word Skirting. It is open under the sheet, not behind a tab.
Waste is a multiplier you choose, not a hidden allowance. At 5 percent the factor is 1.05 and the living floor is 3.15 m². At 15 percent the factor is 1.15, the floor is 3.45 m², and the paint is 17.48 m². Net skirting stays 6.20 m at 5, 10, and 15 percent, because the door deduction is applied before waste. The formula at 15 percent contains “x 1.15”. The free panel applies waste to floor area. The paid pack also applies it to skirting and paint and prints the formula on every line. There is no price and no tin count. Ceiling height, door height, coats, and window area are real sizes you type. They do not scale when you switch the drawing from 1:50 to 1:100. Default coats are 1. Coats are limited to the range 1 to 5.
At 1:100 the living room net area is 12.00 m². Floor at 10 percent waste is 13.20 m². The perimeter doubles with the lengths, so skirting net is 12.40 m. The door you traced also doubles, from 0.80 m to 1.60 m, because it is a span on the drawing. The ceiling you typed stays 2.40 m. If you need the paint to follow a taller room, type the new ceiling. Do not expect the 1:100 button to stretch a storey height. The same split is why a wrong scale hurts the floor line more than it hurts a typed ceiling: floor uses the square of the scale, paint uses the scale once on the perimeter and not at all on the typed height.
The paid file is a zip, floor-plan-takeoff-pack.zip. Inside it, the schedule PDF has a signature page and the CSV repeats the lines. You can read the same formulas in the preview before you pay. The preview does not upload the plan. The request that asks for the pack sends the deliverable name and the format only. Unpaid, that route answers 402. The auto-dimension PDF and SVG are separate files: leaders only on segments you have traced, extension lines, no prices. Walls you did not trace get no leader. The nine leaders on Elm Cottage are the reference and the eight room edges. Doors are deductions in the takeoff, not extra leaders.
Skirting is not the perimeter. The free measurement table can show a perimeter of 7.00 m while the takeoff shows 6.20 m, and both are right. The 0.80 m gap is the living door from (180, 400) to (340, 400). If you forget to trace the door, skirting stays at the full perimeter and the paint line does not deduct the door leaf. Trace the door as a span on the wall, not as a swinging arc. A second door is another span. The kitchen door on the sample is included in the kitchen line the same way. Window area is a number you type, in square metres, subtracted from the wall before waste. The default is 0, so the 16.72 m² figure has no window deduction. Type 1.00 and the net wall falls by 1.00 m² before the 1.10 factor.
This is a quantity list you can check. It does not price materials, write a quote, or manage a job. The signature page is a place to sign the quantities. It is not a contract and it is not a substitute for a quantity surveyor. Results still depend on the drawing, the calibration length, and where you traced. The 3.30 m² floor line is only as good as the 3.00 m² room. If the calibration lines do not agree, fix that on the measurement-tool page before you export. A 2.00 m line averaged with a 3.00 m line on the same 400 pixels produces 7.50 m² of total area and a warning. Do not put that average into an order.
Where these figures get used
A flooring order for the living room at 10 percent waste is 3.30 m². At 5 percent it is 3.15 m². At 15 percent it is 3.45 m². Pick the waste that matches the material. The net area above the preview stays 3.00 m² so you can see the allowance separately from the room.
A skirting run that forgets the door will be 0.80 m too long on this room: 7.00 m instead of 6.20 m. Paint that forgets the door leaf adds 0.80 m times 2.00 m, which is 1.60 m², before waste. The formula line is there so those subtractions stay visible. The paid PDF repeats them and includes a signature page.
If the drawing scale is the thing you are unsure of, leave this page and read the 40 mm table on the floor plan dimensions page. 1/4 in = 1 ft is 1:48, and 40 mm of paper is 1.92 m there, not the 2.00 m of 1:50. A 4 percent short wall becomes about an 8 percent short area. Waste cannot repair that.
Offset leaders, the 40 mm scale table, and the 1.92 m versus 2.00 m gap are drawn on the floor plan dimensions page.
Common questions
What does the waste percentage do?
It multiplies a quantity. At 10 percent, the Elm Cottage living room floor is 3.00 m² x 1.10 = 3.30 m². You can choose 5, 10 or 15 percent. The free panel does this for floor area. The paid pack also applies it to skirting and paint and prints the formula.
How is skirting different from the perimeter?
Skirting is the room perimeter minus the door widths you traced. The living room is 7.00 m - 0.80 m = 6.20 m before waste. The free measurement table shows the perimeter. The door deduction is in the takeoff.
How is paint calculated?
Net wall area is perimeter times ceiling height, minus the door width times the door height, minus any window area you type. The default ceiling is 2.40 m and the default door height is 2.00 m. One coat is the default. The living room at 10 percent waste is (7.00 m x 2.40 m - 0.80 m x 2.00 m) x 1.10 = 16.72 m². There is no price and no tin count.
Is this a full estimating system?
No. It is a quantity list you can check. It does not price materials, write a quote, or manage a job. The paid PDF has a signature page so someone can sign the quantities. It is not a contract and it is not a substitute for a quantity surveyor.
Can I see the pack before I pay?
Yes. The preview shows the same lines, formulas and the note that the PDF includes a signature page. Paying downloads the PDF and the CSV. The preview itself does not upload the plan.
The rest of the desk
Each of these opens the same measuring rules on a different job. Calibration is shared. A scale you set on one page is not stored for the next visit.