Floor Plan Software - Free & easy to use?

waterwatereverywhere

Hi,

We are considering trying to sell our house privately and would like to try(?) to prepare some floor plans.

Pls can anyone advise how we should best go about this and whether there is any easy to use free software that could help us?

Many thx in advance.

Principia_2

waterwatereverywhere wrote: »

Hi,

We are considering trying to sell our house privately and would like to try(?) to prepare some floor plans.

Pls can anyone advise how we should best go about this and whether there is any easy to use free software that could help us?

Many thx in advance.

How would you be marketing your house as I believe you can't get a listing on rightmove or zoopla unless you are a registered estate agent?

daveyjp

If you have a tablet there are a few which utilise the camera function - Magicplan being one for ipad- just put the on screen cursor into the corner of the room, take a photo and it draws the plan. You then add doors, windows, stairs etc.

Owain_Moneysaver

You can use Google Sketchup to make a floor plan

or just draw one with lines and boxes in MS Word / Powerpoint / Openoffice / Etc.

The Mobile Agent has a 14-day free trial

Benet

Got an iPhone? There's a free app called Roomplan that can create a floorplan for you.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/roomscan-app-that-draws-floor/id571436618?mt=8

Lifehacker write-up = http://lifehacker.com/roomscan-draws-a-floor-plan-when-you-hold-your-iphone-a-1550584819

[Deleted User]

I'm sure MS Visio has an architecture template for making floorplans

bod1467

Visio isn't exactly free though, is it.

[Deleted User]

Nope, but it's not uncommon (or at least i've always had it...) to have it, possibly on a 'work' computer

Sketch-up is cool though. I made a 3D model of our new home (before we'd even completed) to work out what furniture we could fit and would look good.

Since the OP will be saving £££££ on an estate agent it's not crazy to think they might want to invest in some software

Owain_Moneysaver

Or you can pay someone to produce a plan from a sketch, prices look to start from about £15.

Floor Plan People

TrickyDicky101

ringo_24601 wrote: »

I'm sure MS Visio has an architecture template for making floorplans

i created my floorplan on Visio. Considering the hassle i should have sucked up my EA's £25 charge for the floorplan! I think it was mainly problematic becausebi very rarely use Visio. Would have loved an iPad app to do it!

Prothet_of_Doom

ten minutes on powerpoint, and then save as PDF