Top Summer Home Projects to Boost Your Remodeling Business

Gather Room Measurements More Quickly

Ditch your tape measure. It's old-school and takes up too much time. Instead, simply grab your smartphone or tablet and use a digital floor plan app, like magicplan, to capture and document the dimensions of any room. With the right app, you can even avoid the hassle of having to move furniture out of the way. That’s because theapp’s smart technology will automatically sense a room’s full dimensions through your mobile device’s camera. All you have to do is walk around the space with your device and let the app capture the measurements and sketch a floor plan automatically.

Read more: Professional Floor Plans: Sketching the Hard Way vs. the Easy Way.

Plan Summer Projects Better and Faster

A good floor app does more than just measure and sketch. It’s also a terrific planning tool! Use it to move efficiently through all of the following steps:

• experiment with different design alternatives

• visualize how people will move through a redesigned space

• turn a concept into a concrete form and present it to your customer

• work through any potential challenges

• note what exactly needs to be done

• estimate your remodeling plan accurately to develop a budget

• order the correct amounts of materials and supplies

• determine labor hours and plan a work schedule

• double-check your next steps before starting any demo work

• communicate your plan to any subcontractors you hire