Floors now come from the enlarged plans

An architect's permit set usually draws the whole house once on an overall floor plan at 1/8" = 1'-0", then draws the bathrooms and bedrooms again, twice as big, on enlarged floor plan sheets. We used to measure every floor on the small overall plan. At that size a closet opening is only a few pixels wide, so a bathroom often took the closet behind it, and every floor came back as a suggestion for you to check.

Now we find each room on the enlarged plans too, by the name printed there, and measure it where it's drawn biggest.

What you'll see

• More floors arrive as measured numbers. A bathroom or bedroom measured on an enlarged plan, closed in on every side, lands with the "measured from the drawings" label — no tap needed.
• The bigger drawing wins. When the two plans disagree, the enlarged plan's number is the one used. The overall plan's number is kept on file with it, with a note saying why it wasn't used, and it's never priced.
• One room, one card. Finding a room again on an enlarged sheet never adds a second card for it.

What it won't do

• It won't land a number that looks too big. If a room measures more than 15% bigger on the enlarged plan than on the overall plan, it's offered as a suggestion instead. That usually means a hallway cut off at the edge of the enlarged view got counted with the room.
• It won't guess which room a repeated name means. A name printed more than once on a sheet, like two closets labelled the same way, isn't linked to either one.
• It doesn't change your numbers. A floor you typed in yourself is never overwritten.