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Before you ask for a price
How to measure your room
Kitchen, bath, laundry, garage or office, it is the same job. A tape, a sheet of paper and about twenty minutes, done in this order.
The same seven steps for any room
Cabinets are cabinets. A laundry wall, a garage run and a kitchen are measured the same way, and we would rather have rough numbers now than perfect ones in a fortnight.
Draw the room as a box, from above
Rough is fine and it does not need to be to scale. What matters is that every wall is on the page, and that you mark which way the door opens. One sheet of paper per room.
A plan of the roomEvery wall on one page, with its overall length. This is the drawing we work from. Measure each wall corner to corner
Measure the whole wall before you measure anything on it. Then measure it a second time at a different height, near the floor and nearer the ceiling. If the two numbers differ, write down both.
Two readings, not oneWalls are rarely parallel. The difference is what fillers absorb, which is why we would rather know it now than on the day. Measure floor to ceiling, in more than one place
At each end of a run, and in the middle. A quarter inch of fall across a room is ordinary, and it decides whether tall cabinets clear the ceiling or fight it.
Mark every opening
For each door and window: how far it starts from the nearest corner, how wide it is, and how far off the floor it sits. A sill lower than 36 inches changes what can go underneath it.
What an opening needsThree numbers per opening: distance from the corner, width, and height off the floor. Mark the services
Water, waste, power, gas and any vent. Measure each one from the nearest corner. Moving a waste pipe is the most expensive surprise in any room, and it is almost always avoidable if we know where it is first.
Measured from the cornerA single distance from one corner is enough for each. We are not asking for a plumbing drawing. Note what has to stay
Anything that is not moving: the machines in a laundry, the boiler, the meter, a radiator, a hatch. In a kitchen, the width, height and depth of the range, fridge and dishwasher, whether or not you are keeping them. Fixed things drive the cabinet list more than taste does.
Photograph each wall, straight on
Stand back against the opposite wall and take one photo per wall, square to it rather than at an angle. Those four photographs answer more questions than a page of notes, and they are the fastest way for us to spot something you did not think to mention.
What good enough looks like
You do not need software, a neat drawing or every number. Send us a photograph of your sketch, the wall lengths, and the photos of each wall. We will come back with questions if we have them, and with a price if we do not.
Send it over
Your measurements and photos
Attach the photos straight from your phone. A picture of your sketch counts as a photo.