How To Measure For Floor Plans

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How to measure for floor plans.

For instance if one wall is 10 feet 3 0 m and the other is 8 feet 2 4 m multiply these to get a total floor space area of 80 feet 24 m square. Measure the remaining walls the same way you measured the first. Put down the tape measure and grab your iphone to measure the dimensions of the rooms in your house and put them together to form a floor. Measure along the baseboard the length of one wall from one corner of the room to another.

Record this number on your rough floor plan and in your notebook. For accuracy measure to the nearest 1 4 inch. Multiply to get the area. Take the length and multiply it by the width to get the area of floor space in square units.

Service yards in newer hdbs come installed with a laundry rack which are represented by 3 black lines in floor plans. If the building exists measure the walls doors and pertinent furniture so that the floor plan will be accurate. If you need elevation drawings you ll want to do these on separate sheets of paper. An elevation is a ground level view of a wall.

Measure each wall from floor to ceiling and use the wall to wall measurements you already have. Measuring for elevation drawings.