Flooring and Tile Takeoff ($249): Room-by-Room Quantities, Stairs, Subfloor Notes, Shower Specs and a Budget by Grade From Your House Plans

Flooring & TileTakeoff from plans

Flooring and Tile Takeoff: Your Plans Measured, Every Room Assigned a Floor, and a Budget by Grade, Before Anyone Quotes

For a new house, an addition or a basement: the room-by-room sheet I would do for my own build, with the materials, the stairs, the subfloor notes and the numbers, done on yours.

Flooring is the finishing line that gets quoted off a sample board and an allowance more than any other. A takeoff is the measured alternative: every room off the drawings, the floor you want in each, waste by layout, the stairs and landings counted, the slab rooms flagged for moisture and the heated rooms flagged for the surface limit, the showers specified down to the drain, and a budget at three grades. Hand it to three installers and the quotes come back on the same page; hold it against a builder’s allowance and you know in a minute whether the number was honest.

Done by a Tarion-registered Ontario builder who has taken off a few hundred houses and floored most of them over heated slabs. Turnaround five business days from receiving the drawings.

What you get

Flooring and Tile Takeoff
$249

One house, addition or basement, from your plans. HST added at checkout.

  • Every room measured off the drawings, with the flooring assigned to each and waste by layout
  • Stairs, landings and transitions counted; baseboard footage by room
  • Subfloor and substrate notes: slab or plywood, where a membrane, levelling or moisture test is needed, heated-slab rooms flagged with the surface limit
  • Tile schedule: floor, shower pan, walls, niches, with the waterproofing system specified
  • A budget at builder, mid and premium grade at October 2026 Ontario rates, per material and per square foot of floor
  • The twelve-line scope to send to three installers so the quotes come back comparable
  • The allowance check, if there is a builder’s contract to hold it against
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Flooring and Tile Quote Review
$99

Up to three quotes, plus your photos. HST added at checkout.

  • Every quote put on the same twelve-line grid, side by side
  • The square footage checked against your rooms, with waste, and the stairs counted
  • The product each one actually named: brand, line, thickness, wear layer, or “flooring” and nothing else
  • What each one leaves out, in dollars: tearout, levelling, moisture test, membrane, baseboard, transitions, bin
  • For showers: whether a waterproofing system is named, and whether a flood test is promised
  • The price per square foot checked against Ontario October 2026 rates
  • A plain answer: sign this one, go back to that one with these questions, or walk
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Building new or finishing a basement? Read what the takeoff covers.

Houses over 4,000 sq ft, multi-unit buildings, and plans without a finish schedule or sections are quoted separately; email first. If the house ends up being built by ICFhome.ca, the takeoff fee comes off the contract.

How it works

  1. Order. Pay by card on the Stripe page; HST at checkout; receipt and a page telling you what to send.
  2. Send the drawings. Reply to the receipt with the plan set as a PDF: floor plans, sections, and the room finish schedule if there is one. Say which rooms get which floor if you have decided, whether the basement or main floor is a heated slab, and what tile and shower layout you have in mind.
  3. Get the takeoff. Within five business days: a spreadsheet and a PDF. Rooms with areas and materials, waste by layout, stairs and transitions, baseboard footage, the subfloor and moisture notes by room, the tile and shower schedule with the waterproofing system named, the three-grade budget by material and per square foot of floor, the twelve-line scope, and notes on anything in the plans that will cost more than it looks (the curved stair, the 24×48 tile on a wood floor, the great room that faces south with dark vinyl in it).
  4. Use it. Send the scope to three installers. Compare on the grid. Or take it to the builder meeting and ask about the allowance.

What it is not

It is not an installer’s quote; it is the thing an installer’s quote should be checked against. The installer’s site measure and moisture readings govern the contract. It is not a structural review of the floor framing for stone or large-format tile (that is the designer’s and the building department’s), not a radiant heating design, and not a product endorsement. It is a builder’s measured takeoff with a builder’s budget, which is what I would want before I signed anything with anyone.

What gets found, most sets

  • A finish schedule that says “hardwood” for a basement rec room on a slab, with no install method and no mention of the slab.
  • A heated slab on the main floor and solid 3/4 in. maple on the allowance sheet.
  • Three bathrooms with “tile” and no shower sizes, drains or waterproofing on any page.
  • A flight of stairs, two landings and a stair to the basement on no one’s list.
  • An open plan with four floor changes and no transitions, which is a tripping hazard with a budget line.
  • An allowance of $4.50 a sq ft on a house the owners think is getting engineered oak.

Before you order, the free version

The flooring cost calculator does this takeoff for rooms you type in, with the three grades and the per-square-foot number, and the tile and shower calculator does the bathrooms. If your plans are simple and you have an hour, that is the free version. If the house has a heated slab, three bathrooms, a curved stair, an allowance to check, or you want it on paper with a builder’s name on it, that is what the $249 is for.

Questions people ask

What format do the plans need to be in?

PDF, with floor plans and ideally sections and a finish schedule. Scanned paper plans are fine if the dimensions are readable. A sketch with room sizes works for a basement.

Can you do just the basement?

Yes, and it is a common order: a basement plan with the slab noted, so the moisture control, the subfloor system and the stair get counted. Same price.

Will the installers accept your takeoff?

They will measure the house themselves, as they should, and the good ones will be glad to have the same room list the other bidders have. Where they disagree with the areas, you will have a specific conversation instead of a vague one.

Does this cover the heating system under the floor?

It flags which rooms are heated and what the floor covering must meet, and it links the takeoff to the compatibility checker result for each. The heating system itself is designed and priced separately; see the hydronic cost guide.

The document the quotes should start from

Every installer pricing the same house, from the same sheet, with a builder’s budget beside it. Five business days, $249.

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