Flooring takeoff software, free in your browser
Measure floor areas by room and finish, take off wall base and transitions, and roll up quantities for your flooring bid, all on any PDF plan set in the browser. TRACEBUILD auto-detects and names rooms, so area takeoff by room goes fast, with nothing to install.
Free while TRACEBUILD Lite is in early access. No download, no credit card.
What you can take off
- Floor areas in square feet for carpet, tile, LVT, VCT, hardwood, and epoxy.
- Rooms detected and named automatically with Detect Spaces for fast per-room areas.
- Wall base and trim lengths in linear feet.
- Transitions, thresholds, and reducers counted from the drawing.
- Each finish on its own group, so areas roll up separately.
- Quantities exported to CSV and Excel, ready for your estimate.
How flooring takeoff works
- Open your floor plans. Drag the architectural sheets into the browser. Nothing uploads, nothing installs.
- Set the scale. Click a known dimension and type its length, or pick a standard scale. Every measurement then reads in real feet.
- Detect and measure. Run Detect Spaces to outline and name rooms, then assign finishes and measure base and transitions.
- Export. Send areas and base lengths to Excel or CSV, then add your waste factor for the order.
Built for flooring estimating
Area by room, fast
Detect Spaces outlines and names rooms from the drawing's own text, so per-room floor areas come together in seconds.
Keep finishes apart
Put carpet, tile, LVT, and the rest on separate takeoff groups so each finish rolls up on its own.
Works on any PDF
Vector or scanned architectural sheets, with text search and OCR to find finish schedules and notes across the set.
Estimate-ready export
Clean CSV and Excel output that drops straight into the way you already bid flooring.
Common questions
Can I take off floor area by room?
Yes. Detect Spaces outlines and names rooms from the drawing's own text, giving you per-room floor areas in square feet, and you can also measure any area by hand to scale.
Can I take off by finish type?
Yes. Keep each finish (carpet, tile, LVT, VCT, hardwood, epoxy) on its own takeoff group so areas roll up separately, and take off wall base and transitions alongside them.
Is TRACEBUILD really free for flooring takeoff?
TRACEBUILD Lite runs free in the browser during early access, with markup, measurement, and takeoff included. A Windows app, Pro, adds pricing and on-device AI and is coming soon.
Can I export my flooring takeoff to Excel?
Yes. Areas and base lengths export to CSV and Excel so they drop straight into your estimate.
Takeoff by trade
TRACEBUILD does takeoff for every trade, from MEP to sitework and finishes. Browse construction takeoff software by trade to find yours.