Flooring Plan and Quantity Takeoff for Your Floor Plan

Know what to buy before you buy it. The new Project planner lays out your floors room by room on the 3D model and adds up everything you need.

What shipped#

Flooring plan

• Room by room on your model. Pick carpet, tile, hardwood or your own floor from a photo for each room, and the floor is laid out on the model as you go.
• Your real product. Set the tile or plank size, how many come in a box or pack, the grout gap, the carpet roll width and your price. You also choose which way planks or long tiles run, and whether the room gets skirting.
• Where and how to lay it. The model shows which pieces get cut and where to start. Each room gets short steps under How to lay it.
• Waste for each room. See how much of the floor is cut off and thrown away, and watch it change as you change the tile, its direction or the skirting.

Quantity takeoff

• One total for the floor. The floor area to cover, how much to buy with cuts included, the waste, the skirting and the cost at your prices.
• A full shopping list. Boxes of tiles, packs of planks or metres of carpet, plus what goes with them: underlay, gripper strip, tile adhesive, grout, skirting lengths and door threshold strips.
• Extra for breakage. Choose how much extra to buy on top of the tiles, planks and skirting.
• A spreadsheet to take with you. The full report has a room-by-room table, and one button downloads it as a spreadsheet.

Why it matters#

Measuring every room, working out the cuts and counting boxes usually takes hours, and a mistake means a second trip to the shop or a pile of leftover tiles. Here the numbers come from the floor as it is actually laid out, so a room with awkward cuts is counted as one. Your model has to be right first, so the planner starts by checking its size. To build a model, see convert a sketch to 3D.

How to use it#

1. Open your model and press Planner in the bar above it. On a phone, use the Planner tab.
2. Under Scale, check the size of your home and the width of the front door. Press Looks right or Fix the scale.
3. Under Works, press Flooring.
4. Pick a room and choose its floor. Set the size and price, then move on to the next room. Fill the rest with tile covers the rooms you haven't done.
5. Press See my plan for the totals, then Full report for the quantity takeoff and the spreadsheet.

Your choices are saved with the project, so you can come back and change them. To reshape a floor first, see edit your 3D model.

FAQ#

How does it work out how many tiles I need?#

It lays out the whole floor, tile by tile. Every cut piece counts as a new tile, and you can add extra on top for breakage.

Are the prices real?#

The prices are yours. Type what your shop charges and the cost follows. Each room can have its own product and price.

Can I use it on a floor with several rooms of the same tile?#

Yes. Each room is planned on its own, and the plan adds them all up into one shopping list.

Does the plan cover paint or plumbing?#

Not yet. Flooring is the first job the Project planner covers.