Quantifying Assumptions

Residential Plans

As far as possible, we will quantify your plans observing general trade standards, while minimising waste and aiming for optimal number and placement of seams.

The following are our standard quantifying conventions, however, where your requirements might vary, you can change these on a project by project basis when you upload your plans.

Also, if you decide to change one or some of these parameters after we initially quantify your plan, you can resubmit the plan, and we will make those changes at no charge.

Unless advised otherwise, roll products are assumed to have no pattern.

Unless advised to the contrary, rooms drawn separately will be quantified as if roll product direction can vary from room to room.

Cross Joins (T-seams)

No more than two cross joins in a room, except where common sense would dictate otherwise. For example we might allow for joins in a cupboard or wardrobe.

Cut Square

Cuts will be placed on rolls to minimise waste. If the Cut Square option is selected, our software will reduce nesting to generate more full-width (guillotine) cuts. This option uses more product but makes the project more installer-friendly. An example follows below. On the right, the plan has been set to cut square resulting in 10 width cuts as opposed to six where the cut square option has not been selected. In this instance, an additional 1.5m of carpet was used.

Cut Gap

A cut gap of 0.05m is allowed for roll product unless requested otherwise.

Waste

Apart from the cut gap on roll products, no waste is allowed for. Clients will need to determine their waste factor for area product (tiles, etc.).

Cross Joins in Hallways

We will generally avoid cross joins in a hallway, unless specified otherwise.

Stairs

To minimise waste, we will allocate stairs individually. We assume standard tread and riser dimensions of .3m and .2m respectively.