Is the Council lying or just being unhelpful?

Spoonie_Turtle

Maybe not difficult (for most people) to create a floor plan, but time consuming and probably very awkward in parts to measure accurately. 
Not everyone has unlimited energy and the time to do things like this, cut the OP some slack.

Silvertabby

coconutcurls said:

It is a purposed council block to house council tenants, when I checked, very few were sold and unfortunately, not on my side of the building (4 flats per floor) so the layout is completely different

How hard is it for me to draw a floor plan? Extremely hard

The apps are not free either and are very expensive indeed - some of them a very cool and put furniture in there, do 3D stuff, but they need a floor plan to layout on top. 

Are the layouts really completely different, or just the other way round (ie, windows/doors on the left instead of the right)?

If so, could you 'flip' the floorplans?

coconutcurls

Silvertabby said:

coconutcurls said:

It is a purposed council block to house council tenants, when I checked, very few were sold and unfortunately, not on my side of the building (4 flats per floor) so the layout is completely different

How hard is it for me to draw a floor plan? Extremely hard

The apps are not free either and are very expensive indeed - some of them a very cool and put furniture in there, do 3D stuff, but they need a floor plan to layout on top. 

Are the layouts really completely different, or just the other way round (ie, windows/doors on the left instead of the right)?

If so, could you 'flip' the floorplans?

Completely different, especially bathroom and kitchen  - years and years ago, coincidentally, I rented a bedroom in this very own block, but on the opposite side, and I know from the inside how different it is.

F70

1, Paper.
2, Pencil or pen.
3, Ruler or other straight implement.
4, Tape measure.
5, Camera phone.

Job done.

coconutcurls

@f70
6. Time
7. Energy

I have: a full time job, a demanding course to study for (thick books and exams), I’m single parent of a child with very challenging mental health and other complex issues (reason why I want to move) meaning I’m always swamped with appointments, meetings, emails, professionals and new things to learn and do to help said child. I’m classed as said child’s carer too. Let me go ahead and add housework, cooking, laundry, grocery shop, prescription collection and management. All by myself - no family, no help. 
When I have free time, I’d rather relax with a cup of tea and pet my cats. Many people in my situation would have had already a total breakdown. 

sheramber

You could do it in the time you would be contacting the council.

sammyjammy

I'm sure the council have more essential things to be concentrating on, a floorplan is not essential.  Just measure the rooms and give sizes on your advert.

coconutcurls

sheramber said:

You could do it in the time you would be contacting the council.

maybe you could do it - for me it will take longer than the 5 minutes of writing an email in my phone

theoretica

If you can't easily make one with all the measurements, you could try a sketch - show where the rooms are, how many rooms, which are twice as large as others, is the kitchen long and thin or square...  It would be enough to give people an idea of the property.

Every time a property is sold, the estate agents draw a new floor plan.  It isn't something that most properties 'have' and gets reused.

sheramber

coconutcurls said:

sheramber said:

You could do it in the time you would be contacting the council.

maybe you could do it - for meYit will take longer than the 5 minutes of writing an email in my phone

You 've  sent 3 emails to the council so that is at least 15 minutes  without a result , plus the time you have spent on here since  the suggestion was made.