Measure your own floor before you buy the boxes
Upload your house plan, mark the rooms, get the metres you need for carpet, vinyl plank or laminate. No trade knowledge required and no surprises at the warehouse.
You do not need a flooring takeoff service for a one-off renovation, but you do need accurate numbers before you go and buy a pallet of vinyl plank or order carpet from a roll. This page is for you if you are renovating your own house, doing a granny flat, or fitting out a single rental property and want trustworthy maths on what to order — without paying a contractor to walk through with a tape measure.
Built for the way you quote
A one-off renovation is a fine use case
Most software for this job is built for trades who do thirty quotes a month. AreaSum works just as well for the one floor plan you are doing this weekend. Start the 14-day free trial, finish your project, cancel — that is a normal workflow for us.
Free calculators if you do not need the full tool
If you already have your room dimensions and you only need to convert area to plank count or carpet roll metres, the free calculators at /calculators answer that without an account. The full measuring tool is only worth it once you are working from a floor plan PDF.
Trustworthy maths without trade knowledge
You do not need to know the difference between linear metres and lineal metres, or what wastage percentage broadloom needs, to get the right number out. Default wastage figures match the trade standard so you arrive at the warehouse with the right count of boxes the first time.
See if AreaSum fits the way you quote
Try the demo with a sample plan or upload your own. No signup until you export.
What diy renovators ask first
How do I measure my floor plan if I do not have the original PDF?
Most council building approvals, real-estate sale listings and architect handover packs include a scaled floor plan PDF — check those first. Failing that, a clear photo of a printed plan with a tape measure or a labelled wall dimension visible in the frame is enough to set scale. The scale needs one known real-world distance, not the whole plan.
I am only doing one room. Is AreaSum overkill?
For a single rectangular room, yes — multiply the two side lengths in metres and you are done. AreaSum is worth it when the room has odd corners (a bay window, a chimney breast), when there are several rooms across a floor plan, or when you want a one-page document to take to the warehouse with the numbers on it.
How much carpet or vinyl should I add for cuts and offcuts?
For a typical DIY carpet job add 10 percent on top of your measured square metres. For straight-laid vinyl plank in square rooms add 8 percent; bump that to 12 percent for diagonal patterns or rooms with multiple corners. The exported quote shows both raw area and area-with-wastage so you can see exactly what the percentage is doing to the number you take to the warehouse.
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