Flooring Calculator
Estimate how much flooring material to order, with a waste allowance based on material and layout.
Imperial / Metric
Field tool
Plan Takeoff
Measure lengths, areas and counts straight off a PDF sheet or a scanned drawing. Set the scale from a dimension you already know, keep the measurements in named layers, and send any total to a calculator.
- Camera & photosWhat it works from
- Any deviceA PDF or an image of the drawing
The drawing is opened inside this page and never uploaded. This site ships a policy that forbids the browser from making any outbound request at all, so there is nowhere for it to go.
Set the scale
Click the two ends of something on the drawing whose real size you know — a figured dimension, a door, a scale bar — then type what it should be. That is more reliable than the printed scale, which is only right if the sheet was printed and scanned at exactly full size.
Click 2 more points in “Set scale” mode
Layers
Internal walls and external walls are both lengths and are bought as different things, so a single running total of every line on the sheet would be worth nothing. Each layer adds up on its own.
No layers yet. Add one to start measuring.
Where this tool stops
A drawing is a true projection, so the scale set here is exact for the sheet in front of you. It is only as good as the sheet, though: check the revision, and remember a scan can stretch. Everything rests on the one dimension you typed — if that is wrong, every measurement is wrong by the same factor and nothing on the page will look unusual. Set the scale, then measure a second dimension you also know, and see whether it comes back right. The file is opened inside this page and is never uploaded.
How to use the Plan Takeoff
Open the drawing
Choose a PDF or an image. It is rendered inside this page; nothing is uploaded, and the site ships a policy that forbids the browser from making any outbound request at all.
Set the scale from a dimension you know
In Set scale mode, click the two ends of something whose real size you know — a figured dimension, a door, a scale bar — and type what it should be. This beats the printed scale, which is only right if the sheet was printed and scanned at exactly full size.
Check it against a second dimension
Measure something else you also know and see whether it comes back right. A calibration error is invisible otherwise, because every number on the sheet is wrong by the same factor.
Add a layer for each thing you are counting
Internal walls and external walls are both lengths and are bought as different things, so each layer adds up on its own. Layers come in three kinds: length, area and count.
Measure
Click along a run, around a room, or on each fitting you are tallying. Near-straight segments square up automatically, and clicking near a corner you have already placed snaps onto it so a traced room really closes.
Keep the totals
Keep a layer total and every calculator input that measures the same thing will offer it, converted into that box's own units. Counts are kept too, though no calculator input takes a plain tally.
Where this tool stops
Everything rests on the one dimension you type to set the scale — get that wrong and every measurement is wrong by the same factor, consistently and invisibly. A drawing can also be superseded, and a scanned sheet can stretch on the glass.
Plan Takeoff — frequently asked questions
- Is my drawing uploaded anywhere?
- No, and not as a matter of policy alone. The page renders the file locally, and the site ships a Content-Security-Policy carrying connect-src 'none', which means the browser itself refuses every outbound request this page could make. You can confirm it in your browser's network tab.
- Why does it ask me for a dimension instead of the drawing scale?
- Because a printed 1:50 is 1:50 only if the sheet was printed at full size and scanned square, and a PDF exported from CAD may be at any scale at all. A dimension you can read on the drawing is a fact about the file in front of you rather than about the file somebody meant to send.
- Some text in my PDF looks wrong.
- That is the privacy policy showing through. Rendering certain fonts would need the browser to fetch font data at run time, which this site forbids, so substitutes are used. It does not affect anything you measure — line work is vectors, and geometry is what a takeoff is made of.
- How accurate is it?
- A drawing is a true orthographic projection, so the scale is exact for the sheet — unlike a photograph, which this site measures with a different tool and a stated caveat. The real limits are the sheet itself (revision, stretch on a scan) and the precision of the calibration line you drew. Zoom in before placing it: the longer the known dimension, the smaller the error it carries into everything else.
Turn this measurement into a quantity
A reading on its own does not order material. These calculators take what you just measured and give you quantities, cuts or cost.
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