Floor-plan measurement guides.
Plain guides to measuring rooms, walls and openings from floor plans, written by the team building QWIKIT Plans. They work with any plan and a calculator, and none of them needs our software.
The guides.
How to measure a PDF floor plan: scale, units and a checklist
Find the scale, check it against a known dimension, get the units right and run a checklist before you trust a number.
Vector vs scanned floor plans: what can be measured reliably
How to tell vector PDFs from scans, how resolution limits accuracy, and what to check before you trust a number.
What a floor-plan takeoff includes: rooms, walls and openings
What goes into a room, wall and opening takeoff, how net and gross differ, and what a takeoff leaves out.
Free calculators.
Once you have the measurements, work out the materials with the drywall calculator, the paint calculator and the baseboard calculator. They run in your browser, and nothing you type is sent anywhere or saved.
What if you didn't have to do this by hand anymore?
QWIKIT Plans is packaged desktop software for Windows and Mac that we're building to read rooms, walls and openings from a floor-plan PDF and write the report for you. The app is not released yet, and joining the waitlist is free.
Join the QWIKIT Plans waitlist