Floor Plan Drawing Services

Who uses our floor plans

• Estate and letting agents: clean, branded plans for portals and brochures, with consistent styling across every listing. See design for estate agents.
• Landlords and holiday lets: plans for listings, inventories and fire safety information.
• Offices and shops: layouts for fit-outs, desk planning and moving furniture on paper first.
• Homeowners and builders: an accurate existing-layout drawing to start planning an extension or renovation.
• Venues: event and seating layouts.

What we draw from

A floor plan is only as accurate as its measurements. We draw from:

• Room-by-room measurements you or a surveyor take, ideally with a laser measure, including wall thicknesses, door and window positions and ceiling slopes.
• Existing architect or builder drawings, checked against any later changes.
• Older plans, PDFs or scans, which we redraw rather than trace (see CAD conversion).

A simple sketch of the layout with the measurements written on it is ideal. Where measurements do not close (rooms that do not add up to the overall size), we flag it rather than quietly stretching a wall. For estate agents, combining a plan with property photography gives buyers both the look and the layout.

Area measurement: GIA, NIA and IPMS

Total area figures cause more arguments than any other part of a floor plan, because there is more than one way to measure. The most common bases in the UK are:

• Gross internal area (GIA): measured to the internal face of the external walls on each floor, used widely for residential marketing, valuation and building costs.
• Net internal area (NIA): the usable area, typically used for offices and shops, excluding items such as stair wells, plant rooms and toilets.
• IPMS: the International Property Measurement Standards, a set of international definitions intended to make areas comparable between countries.

RICS sets UK measurement practice. According to the RICS website, its members should currently use the 6th edition of the RICS Code of Measuring Practice and/or IPMS: All Buildings, while a draft 7th edition goes through consultation. We state on every plan which basis the area uses and that it is approximate. For valuation, lease or legal purposes you need a measured survey by a RICS-qualified surveyor; our plans are for marketing and planning, not for those.

Styles and disclaimers

Marketing plans are usually clean black-and-white or lightly coloured drawings, with room names, dimensions and a compass point, laid out to fit a portal image or A4 brochure page. Technical plans keep wall thicknesses, door swings, window positions and services, drawn in 2D CAD at 1:50 or 1:100. We add a short disclaimer to marketing plans noting that measurements are approximate and the plan is for illustration only, worded as you or your agency prefers.

Furniture, desk and fit-out layouts

A floor plan becomes a planning tool once furniture and fittings are added. Offices use them to test desk arrangements and meeting rooms before buying furniture; shops to plan shelving, counters and customer flow; landlords to show tenants how a room can be furnished; venues to work out table plans. We draw furniture at true size from manufacturers' dimensions or yours, show door swings so nothing blocks an opening, and can produce several options side by side for comparison.

Layouts drawn by us are design proposals, not fire risk assessments or building regulations approvals. Escape routes, accessibility and occupancy limits should be checked by the responsible person, building control or a fire safety adviser.

Price

Floor plans are £45 an hour + VAT. A small flat drawn from good measurements is quick; a large house with outbuildings or a complex commercial unit takes longer, especially where measurements need checking. Agencies sending regular work can agree a fixed price per plan by property size. See prices or ask for a quote.

What you get

• Marketing floor plan as high-resolution PNG and PDF
• A branded template that keeps every listing consistent
• DWG or DXF of the plan for builders and designers
• Room schedule with dimensions and total area
• Furniture layouts for lettings, offices or fit-outs on request

How it works and what it costs

Logos from £150, brochures from £295, photography from £295 a half day and CAD at £45 an hour, all + VAT. You get a fixed price before we start.

1. Tell us the brief

   What it is for, who will see it, where it will be used and any examples you like. Rough is fine.

2. Fixed price

   We confirm the price and what you get, in writing, before any work starts.

3. First designs

   We design, shoot or model it and share the first version for your comments.

4. Refine

   We make the changes, check every detail, and prepare the files properly for print, web or manufacture.

5. Final files

   You get the finished files in the formats you need, ready for your printer, website, social channels or manufacturer.

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