The classic American single-story home at roughly 1,100–2,400 sq ft. One level means one drawing and no stair math, but open-plan layouts and attached garages leave plenty of room for a takeoff to go wrong.
Expect an open kitchen/living/dining core, bedrooms grouped down a hallway at one end, and an attached two-car garage that is almost never in the flooring scope. L-shaped and U-shaped ranches add inside corners that rectangle-based estimates cut across, and the bedroom hallway is the classic under-count.
The reliable way to measure any ranch plan is off the drawing itself: calibrate against a printed dimension line, then trace each room along the inside face of the walls. Keep the garage as its own polygon and out of the totals unless the job actually includes it. Fold the bedroom hallway into the living area rather than leaving it unclaimed; the polygons should tile the whole conditioned floor.
PlanTape does the tracing for you. It detects every labelled room and the scale line in under two minutes, you fine-tune the corners, and the per-room areas and baseboard perimeters export as a CSV — in square feet and feet.
Typically 1,100–2,400 sq ft (102–223 m²) of internal floor area, with 3 bedrooms, single story. Exact size varies by year and builder; the floor plan for your specific unit is the only reliable source.
Upload the floor plan PDF to PlanTape: it traces each room along the inside face of the walls and calibrates scale from a printed dimension — feet-and-inches dimensions like 24′-6″ are read natively. Keep the garage as its own polygon and out of the totals unless the job actually includes it. Fold the bedroom hallway into the living area rather than leaving it unclaimed; the polygons should tile the whole conditioned floor. Then export per-room areas and perimeters as CSV, in sq ft and feet.
Expect an open kitchen/living/dining core, bedrooms grouped down a hallway at one end, and an attached two-car garage that is almost never in the flooring scope. L-shaped and U-shaped ranches add inside corners that rectangle-based estimates cut across, and the bedroom hallway is the classic under-count.
