Rooms & floor plans: planning difficult situations
Plan flooring for difficult layouts step by step, including skewed walls, attic slopes, columns, cutouts, open-plan areas, and small bathrooms.
Guides
Answers to common questions when laying.
Import a floor plan from a photo: how to digitise your plan
Photograph a paper floor plan, screenshot or sketch, detect rooms automatically and turn it into an editable, scaled draft – explained step by step.
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How to photograph a floor plan: 7 tips for accurate recognition
Straight perspective, readable dimensions and complete outlines: how to photograph or scan a floor plan so rooms and walls can be detected reliably.
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Out-of-square rooms: how to measure when nothing is at a right angle
Measure a room without right angles using diagonals and triangulation, draw skewed walls correctly, and calculate flooring materials accurately.
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Attic slopes: planning laminate under the roof pitch
Plan laminate in an attic room, including laying direction, knee-wall recesses, expansion gaps, and edges below the roof pitch.
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Recesses, columns, pipes: planning cutouts
What the m² formula leaves out: columns, ducts and pipes create extra cuts instead of less demand. How to draw cutouts and calculate honestly.
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Open-plan living and dining: one floor or a divide?
Choose a continuous grid or divided areas and plan flooring, expansion joints, field sizes, and material quantities for open-plan living spaces.
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Small bathroom under 5 m²: which format looks bigger?
Which tile size makes a small bathroom look bigger? Compare large and small formats, layouts, cuts, and waste directly on the floor plan.
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Laying tiles on underfloor heating: build-up, joints and impact sound insulation
Plan tiles over underfloor heating, including build-up height, expansion joints, impact sound insulation, suitable adhesive, and material quantities.
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Tiling a shower: slope, drain and waterproofing done right
Plan a tiled walk-in shower, including slope to a channel or point drain, waterproofing, suitable tile sizes, cuts, and material quantities.
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Real projects in the same view your clients get: floor plan, laying plan and material list – no account, no installation.
Attic room with a slope
A five-sided outline instead of length × width: the slope is drawn as a real edge and the planks run lengthwise – every cut along the slope counted individually.
- 14.71 m² with an angled edge
- 128 × 19 cm plank, laid lengthwise
- 87 planks · 11 packs
Three-room flat, one grid
Six rooms, eleven walls, five doorways – and a single herringbone grid running through every opening. Material is calculated for the whole flat at once.
- 63.79 m² across 6 rooms
- 90 × 30 herringbone, one grid
- 334 planks · 199 cuts
Small bathroom with tub and stud wall
Under 3 m² of floor left, but two cutouts: this room produces more cut tiles than full ones – exactly where the m² rule of thumb fails.
- 2.82 m² · 30 × 60 · 2 mm joint
- 9 full tiles, 22 cuts
- 35 tiles incl. 10% reserve
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Other topics
Laying & patterns: starting point, direction, bond
Starting point, direction, cut row and patterns – the decisions you make before the first tile.
12 articles→Material & waste: getting the quantities right
How much you really need: waste, format, joint width, offcuts, reserve and reordering.
10 articles→Terrace & outdoors: slabs, base, pedestals
Different rules outdoors: base, slope, joint width, slab quantities and support points.
5 articles→Save your plan for free
Create your account, then plan patterns, quantities and waste directly on your floor plan.