Flooring estimating software for flooring contractors and interior trades. Floor areas measured room by room against the finish schedule, base and transitions measured by length, substrate preparation quantified as its own scope, and material calculated with real waste by pattern and roll width.
Flooring is deceptively simple to measure and easy to under-price. The floor plan gives an area; the finish schedule gives eleven different materials spread across it; and the cost per square foot varies by a factor of ten between broadloom carpet in an open office and quarry tile with an epoxy grout in a kitchen. Then there is everything that is not floor area at all: base, transitions, thresholds, stair nosings, substrate preparation and the moisture testing without which the manufacturer's warranty does not exist.
BidcoreAI measures flooring room by room and maps each room to its finish from the schedule. That structure matters — a room is the unit of installation, the unit of base measurement and the unit the finish schedule is written in. Area is measured net of walls and fixed elements, and the perimeter is captured at the same time, since base length is a perimeter problem that most area-based takeoffs never answer.
Material is calculated with waste that reflects reality. Broadloom carpet from a 12-foot roll in an irregular room wastes very differently from carpet tile, which wastes differently from a plank floor laid diagonally, which wastes differently again from a tile with a pattern repeat and a 45-degree layout. Applying a flat 10% to all of them is fast and wrong in both directions.
Preparation is treated as scope. Grinding, patching, self-levelling, moisture vapour testing, adhesive removal and old floor demolition are quantified separately, because on renovation work they routinely exceed the installed cost of the new floor and are the most common omission in a quick bid. Transitions, thresholds, reducers and stair treatment are counted by type rather than assumed proportional to area.
Floor plans, the finish schedule, floor transitions plan and interior elevations.
Measured room by room and mapped to the finish schedule rather than as one floor plate.
Perimeter captured with the area, because base length is a different measurement entirely.
Counted by type where finishes meet, which is where the fussy labor lives.
Its own scope, and on a renovation typically the difference between profit and loss.
Measured per tread and riser, since a stair is not a square-foot problem.
Calculated by product form, roll width and pattern repeat rather than a flat percentage.
Room-based measurement, schedule-driven materials, honest waste.
Rooms detected and measured across the plan set with area and perimeter captured together in one pass.
Each room mapped to its floor finish, base and transition from the schedule, with the reference kept on the line.
Base length taken from the measured room perimeter, with door openings and returns handled correctly.
Roll width, seam layout, pattern repeat and diagonal installation each drive their own waste calculation.
Grinding, patching, self-levelling and adhesive removal measured by area and depth as separate scope.
Transitions and thresholds counted by type at every finish change and door line, not estimated as a percentage.
Treads, risers, landings and nosings counted individually, because stairs are priced per unit and not per square foot.
Material converted to purchase units — cartons, rolls, boxes, pails — with attic stock carried where specified.
Rates by material, room size and layout complexity, since small rooms and diagonal patterns are slower per foot.
Moisture vapour testing and mitigation carried as scope where the specification or manufacturer requires it.
A re-issued finish schedule compared against the previous one so changed room finishes are flagged.
Room-by-room schedules with area, perimeter, finish and material exported to Excel or CSV.
Division 09 flooring sections plus the preparation work that precedes them.
Offices, healthcare, education, hospitality and retail — anywhere the finish schedule runs to several pages.
Rooms, then finishes, then everything that is not floor area.
The perimeter and the substrate stop being invisible.
Perimeter captured with area means base is a measured quantity rather than a guess derived from square footage, which is never right in irregular plans.
Self-levelling, grinding and adhesive removal on a renovation can exceed the new floor. Measuring them is the difference between a bid and a hope.
A diagonal plank layout in small rooms wastes nothing like carpet tile in open plan. Per-product waste stops one subsidising the other.
Every finish change is a piece of trim and a slow ten minutes. Counting them is how a fit-out with 40 rooms gets priced honestly.
Mapping rooms to the finish schedule catches the areas where the specification changed and the plan did not.
Cartons, rolls and pails with attic stock included means the order matches the job rather than the estimate.
Because the room is the unit, and most takeoff tools only know the floor plate.
Area and perimeter measured together per room, which is how flooring is installed, scheduled and billed.
Materials follow the schedule automatically, with the reference retained on every line for checking.
Roll width, pattern repeat and layout angle each drive their own waste rather than a flat percentage.
The scope that decides renovation profitability is measured rather than allowed for.
Measure and price from anywhere; the marked-up room plan opens on a tablet on site.
Flooring packages can be measured for you through professional takeoff services.
Send the floor plans and the finish schedule and have the package measured for you — room by room area and perimeter, materials mapped from the schedule, transitions counted, preparation quantified and waste calculated by product form.
One platform, one cost database, one set of drawings — whichever scope you are pricing today.
Compare the base length, the transition count and the prep quantities against the job you last installed.
