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The Roomveil manual

Everything the free room planner does, step by step, with pictures. Updated 2026-10-01.

Chapter 01

How to use Roomveil

What Roomveil is, a five-step quick start, units, what is saved, and using it on a phone.

Roomveil is a free planner for home projects that runs in the web browser on any phone, tablet or computer. You measure, choose a look, see it on a photo of your own room, and get a list of exactly what to buy. There is nothing to install and no account to make.

What you can do with it

WallsPaint, wallpaper or tile on a wall or a whole room. Cans, rolls and tiles counted.
FloorsWood or vinyl planks, or floor tiles. Boxes counted, with spare for cuts.
Doors & windowsThe right size to order from what you measured, in the style you like.
BathroomsPlace a toilet, sink, tub and shower, and check each has the space US code asks for.
Measured drawingsA floor plan, four wall views and lists, printed to scale or saved as PDF and CAD.
QuotesFor trades: your prices, labor, tax and a one-page quote with your company name.

What you need

A tape measure. A laser measure is quicker. On an iPhone, the built-in Measure app is fine for a first idea.
A phone camera, if you want to see the result on your own room. This is optional; there is a sample room to try things on.
About five minutes for a wall or a floor.

Quick start in five steps

Open roomveil.com and press Start a room.
Pick a job, for example Walls.
Answer one question at a time. Type your sizes in any unit: 12' 6", 150in or 3.8m all work.
Choose a look and see it on your photo, or on the sample room.
Read What you'll need. Take the list to the store, or press Share to send it.

The Roomveil homepage.
**Start a room** takes you to the list of jobs.
**Open drawing mode** goes straight to measured drawings.
This manual.
For contractors: a shortcut to the tools for trades.
**Get a system built**: custom software from the makers of Roomveil.
**Settings**: units, money, everyday or architect’s words, and Pro mode.

The list of jobs. Tap a row to start.
The job. Every tool asks one plain question at a time.
Tap the arrow, or anywhere on the row.
**Everyday words** or **Architect’s terms**. Only the wording changes, never the features.

Moving around

Step 3 of 6 at the top tells you where you are. The line under it fills up as you go.
The big button at the bottom always moves you forward. Its words tell you what comes next, like See it on my wall.
The arrow at the top left goes back one step. On the first step it goes back to the homepage.
The curved arrow at the top right is Undo. It appears once you have changed something.
The cog opens Settings.

Units and money

Roomveil guesses your units from your phone's language. Change them any time in Settings, or on the first step of the walls, floor, bathroom and drawing tools. Whatever you choose, you can still type any unit into a box and Roomveil converts it: 4.2m, 420cm, 13' 9" and 165in are all understood. In feet and inches, a plain number in a door or window box means inches.

Money can be shown in $, £, € or Rs. The prices are examples only; you can type your own on any line.

What is saved, and what is not

Saved on this device: your room drawings, your units and money symbol, any prices you typed, your Pro mode business details, and your choice of everyday or architect's words.
Never uploaded: photos. Roomveil opens your phone's own photo picker, the photo is used inside the browser, and it is gone when you close the page.
No account and no cookies. Visits are counted anonymously.

On a phone

Chapter 02

How to measure a wall, a room, doors and windows

How to measure a wall, a room, doors, windows and a bathroom, with drawings.

Good numbers come from good measurements. Every tool asks for sizes, and the rules are the same everywhere: measure to the finished surface, write the number down, and check it once.

What to measure with

Tape measure: hook it on one side, read it on the other. For a long wall, ask someone to hold the end.
Laser measure: put it flat against one wall and aim at the other. The quickest way to measure a room.
Phone Measure app: good for a first idea. Check with a tape before you order anything cut to size.

Measuring a wall

Measure the width along the floor, corner to corner (1 to 2), then the height from the floor to the ceiling (3). Measure over the baseboard, not above it.

Measure the whole wall. Roomveil takes the windows and doors off for you when you add them.
If the ceiling slopes or the floor is uneven, measure at the highest point.

Measuring a room

Measure wall to wall across (width) and front to back (length). Roomveil names the walls A, B, C and D, clockwise from the top of the plan.

Measuring doors and windows

There are three different things you might measure, and each one gives a different size to order. In the doors and windows tool, every door and window asks What did you measure? so it can work out the right size.

Replacing a door: measure the old door itself. Building a new opening: measure the framed hole. Replacing a window: measure inside the old frame three times and use the smallest.

What you measured	What Roomveil tells you to order
The old door slab, edge to edge	The same size. Standard widths are 24, 28, 30, 32, 34 and 36 inches, usually 80 inches tall (96 inches for tall doors).
The rough opening (framed hole, stud to stud) for a door	About 2 inches less wide and 2½ inches less tall. A 32 × 80 inch door needs a 34 × 82½ inch opening.
The rough opening for a new-construction window	About ½ inch less each way.
Inside the old window frame (replacement window)	The smallest of your three measurements, less about ¼ inch each way.

Measuring a bathroom

Measure the floor wall to wall, across and front to back. Then measure where the pipes come out: the toilet drain is usually 12 inches from the wall behind it (this is called the rough-in).

Chapter 03

Walls: paint, wallpaper and tile

Paint, wallpaper and tile, step by step, for one wall or a whole room.

Use this tool to see a new paint color, wallpaper or tile on your wall, and to find out how many cans, rolls or tiles to buy. It works for one wall or a whole room.

Open the walls tool

Step 1 · How big is the wall?

Step 1 for one wall.
**One wall** or **A whole room**.
The wall, drawn to scale. Drag the orange dot to resize it.
**Width**: corner to corner, along the floor.
**Height**: floor to ceiling.
Units. You can still type any unit in the boxes.

Choose A whole room to paint every wall. You still measure the wall you will photograph, then add the room's length from front to back. Roomveil adds the other walls for you. It starts with 1 door and 1 window on the other walls; set them to 0 if there are none.

Step 2 · Anything on this wall?

Add each window, door or closet on this wall so it is left out of the count. A plain wall? Just press Continue.

A window and a door added.
**Add window**, **Add door** and **Add closet**. **More** has fireplaces, switches, radiators, shelves, TVs and pictures.
Drag an item to where it really is. Tap it to select it, then drag its orange dot to resize it.
Each item is listed with its size. Tap it for exact sizes.

Windows, doors, closets and fireplaces are taken off the wall. Radiators, shelves, TVs and pictures are not: the new finish goes behind them.

Tap an item twice (or tap it in the list) to type exact sizes. In feet and inches, a plain number means inches.

Step 3 · Add a photo (optional)

Stand back and take one photo of the whole wall. Your phone's own photo picker opens, so there is no permission popup. Or press Sample room to try it first.

Adding a photo.
**Use my photo** opens your phone’s photo picker.
**Sample room** puts the practice room back.
Your photo. Drag the four orange dots onto the corners of the wall.

Lining up your photo. The better the dots sit on the corners, the more real the result looks.

Step 4 · Choose a look

Paint.
**Paint**, **Wallpaper** or **Tile**.
Colors, or **Any color**. These are for the preview; at the store, pick the matching color card or ask them to match it.
**Coats**. Two is normal. Use three when painting a light color over a dark one.
**Add primer** for new drywall, patched walls or a big color change. **Paint the ceiling too** appears for a whole room.

Wallpaper. Choose store-bought rolls or a custom printed mural, the pattern, the roll size and the pattern repeat.

Roll size: a US double roll is 20½ inches × 33 feet; a European roll is 0.53 × 10.05 m. The size is printed on the label.
Pattern repeat: the label says how far down the pattern repeats. A bigger repeat means more waste, so more rolls.
My own pattern lets you try a picture from your phone.
Wallpaper counts do not take off doors and windows: the offcuts go above and below them and still have to match the pattern.

How the rolls are counted. Roomveil adds one spare roll. Buy them all with the same batch number, so the color matches.

Tile. Choose the shape, color, grout and where on the wall it goes.

Backsplash runs 18 inches up from the counter to the bottom of the wall cabinets. Lower 4 ft covers the bottom of the wall. Whole wall goes floor to ceiling. Set height lets you type your own.

A backsplash also asks for the Counter height (floor to the top of the counter), which starts at 36 inches. Tiles include 10% spare for cuts; tap the tile line to change it to 5% or 15%. You can also turn on Also paint the rest of the wall to add paint for the part above the tile.

Step 5 · Here’s how it looks

Before and after.
Drag across the photo to compare the wall before and after.
**Match the room’s light** keeps the shadows from your photo, so the result looks real.
**Try it on my own photo**, or line up your photo again.

With your own photo, a Covering furniture or plants? row appears. Brush over anything that stands in front of the wall, and it stays in front of the new finish.

Step 6 · What you’ll need

The shopping list.
Each line shows what to buy and how it was worked out. Tap a line to see the working and set your own price.
**Show prices**: example store prices. Turn them off to hide money altogether.
**Share** sends the list and your plan.
**Done** goes back to the homepage.

Further down the list.
**Send this to a contractor** opens your phone’s share menu (on a computer, it copies instead) with your sizes and the list, ready for a text or email.
**Get proper drawings of this room** opens drawing mode. The first time, your sizes are already in; if drawings are already saved on this device, those open instead.

Share. Share sends the list as text, ready for WhatsApp, email or a message. Copy copies it. Take a screenshot to send the picture. — Share. **Share** sends the list as text, ready for WhatsApp, email or a message. **Copy** copies it. Take a screenshot to send the picture.

How the paint is worked out

Paint covers about 375 ft² per US gallon (makers say 350 to 400), or about 10 m² per litre. Roomveil takes the doors and windows off the wall area, multiplies by the coats, divides by the coverage and rounds up to cans you can buy. A little over a whole gallon becomes a gallon and a quart, not two gallons. Walls and ceilings use different paint, so the ceiling is a separate line.

Chapter 04

Floors: planks and tiles

Wood or vinyl planks and floor tiles, and how many boxes to buy.

See new wood planks or floor tiles in your room, and find out how many boxes to buy, with spare for cuts.

Open the floor tool

Step 1 · How big is the room?

Step 2 · Add a photo (optional)

Take one photo of the room showing the floor, then drag the four orange dots onto the points where the floor meets the walls. Or use the sample room.

Step 3 · Choose your floor

Choosing a floor.
**Wood or vinyl planks**, or **Tiles**.
Color, then size.

One box covers: the area printed on the box. Change it to match yours; this number decides how many boxes you buy.
Add underlayment: the foam layer under the floor. Not needed if the planks have a pad attached.

Step 4 · See it in your room

Before and after. Drag across the photo to compare.
Drag across the photo.

Step 5 · What you’ll need

The floor list: boxes, the trim around the room, and the tools and bits you also need.

The area is the room's floor plus 10% spare for cuts and mistakes, divided by the box coverage and rounded up. Tap the floor line to change the spare to 5% (simple rooms, straight lay) or 15% (lots of corners, or a diagonal pattern).

Chapter 05

Doors and windows: styles and sizes to order

Choosing new doors and windows and the right size to order.

Choose new windows and doors, see them in your room, and get the size to order. The most important part is telling Roomveil what you measured.

Open the doors and windows tool

Step 1 · Measure your windows and doors

Exact sizes. At the bottom, What did you measure? For a window: inside the old frame, or the framed hole. For a door: the old door itself, or the framed hole. — Exact sizes. At the bottom, **What did you measure?** For a window: inside the old frame, or the framed hole. For a door: the old door itself, or the framed hole.

See Measuring doors and windows for the three ways to measure and what each one means.

Step 2 · Pick your styles

Your windows and doors, each with its style and the size to order.
Tap one to choose its style.

A window: style (casement, sliding, double-hung or fixed), frame color, glass (clear, frosted or tinted), and at the bottom the size to order.

Doors also ask Which side are the hinges? Stand on the side the door opens toward you, look at it, and choose On my left or On my right.

Step 3 · See them in your room

Step 4 · What you’ll need

The order list. Each line repeats what you measured and the size to order.

Chapter 06

Bathrooms: layout and space check

Placing fixtures, the code space check and drain slope.

Place a toilet, sink, tub and shower on a plan of your bathroom. Roomveil checks that each one has the space the common US building code asks for, and works out the drain slope for your plumber.

Open the bathroom tool

Step 1 · How big is the bathroom?

Type the width and the length, wall to wall. A standard bathroom is filled in to start (in feet: a tub, toilet and vanity; in metric: a shower, toilet and sink). Change it to your sizes.

Step 2 · Place your fixtures

Placing fixtures.
Drag a fixture to move it. Tap to select it, tap again to turn it or remove it. The green area in front of each is the space it needs.
Each fixture shows **Enough space**, or what is wrong.

When something does not fit, it turns red and says why. Here the room was made 4′ 6″ wide, too narrow for a 5 ft tub.
The problem, in plain words.

The minimum spaces Roomveil checks (International Residential Code P2705.1 and R307.1).

Step 3 · Space check

The space check, and the numbers for your plumber: drain slope and the toilet rough-in.

Type the Drain pipe length, from the fixture to the main drain, and Roomveil works out how much the pipe must drop.

Drain pipes must slope down to the main drain (IRC P3005.3).

Step 4 · What you’ll need

The fixtures and the small parts that are easy to forget: wax ring, supply lines, drain kit and caulk.

Check the rough-in before you buy a toilet: most new toilets are made for a drain 12 inches from the wall, some for 10 or 14.

Chapter 07

Measured drawings: plan, walls, PDF and CAD

Plan, wall views and lists; PDF, CAD and spreadsheet exports.

Draw a measured room: a floor plan, the four walls, and lists of doors, windows and finishes. Print them to a real scale, save them as a PDF, or send a CAD file to an architect or builder. Roomveil keeps your drawings on this device.

Open drawing mode

Step 1 · Draw your room

The room.
The plan. Drag the orange dot to resize. The walls are named A, B, C and D, clockwise from the top.
Room name, width, length and ceiling height. **More details** adds wall thickness, the room number and a check that the room is square.
**The room as it is** (a survey) or **A new layout** (a design).

Step 2 · Doors and windows

A door and a window on wall A.
Add a **Door**, **Window** or **Doorway**. **More** has built-in closets, fireplaces, radiators, and sockets or switches. Tap a door to make it hinged, double, sliding or pocket.
The wall view. Drag the window up or along the wall; the sizes to each side update as you go.

Step 3 · Furniture and fixtures

Furniture and fixtures are optional. Green means there is enough space around them.

Step 4 · Floor, walls and ceiling

Write what each surface is, or will be, then read the areas: floor, walls to finish, ceiling, baseboard, distance around, air volume and paint.

Step 5 · Your drawings

Vector sheets (SVG) are there too, for Illustrator, InDesign or Affinity.

For architects and designers

Switch to Architectural in Settings (or Architect's terms on the homepage) for sill height, AFF, FFL, structural or rough opening, and schedules. The US version uses feet and inches; the UK version uses millimeters.
Sheets come in A3, A4, 11 × 17 or Letter, at a standard scale from 1:20 to 1:500, or 1/2″ to 1/16″ = 1′-0″, with a title block and revision. With Architectural words the sheets carry a NOT FOR CONSTRUCTION stamp; everyday sheets say Check sizes on site before ordering.
The DXF (AutoCAD R12) uses AIA / US National CAD Standard layer names such as A-WALL-E, A-DOOR-E, A-GLAZ-E and A-ANNO-DIMS.
Checks, for guidance: door clear width (ADA 32″, Approved Document M4(1) 775 mm), door swings hitting furniture, fixture space, and rooms out of square.

Chapter 08

Your shopping list, prices and sharing

Reading the shopping list, prices, and sending it on.

Every tool ends on What you'll need: the shopping list. This chapter explains how to read it, change it and send it.

Reading the list

The top lines are the main things to buy, with the amount in the sizes stores sell: gallons and quarts, full boxes, whole rolls.
You'll also need lists the tools and small parts people forget.
Tap any main line to see How we worked it out. Depending on the line, you can change the coats (paint), the spare for cuts (floors and tiles), the box coverage (floors) and the price.

Prices

The prices are example store prices so you can see a rough total. Tap a line to type the price from your own store. Turn Show prices off to hide them. Change the money symbol with the $ £ € Rs buttons under Total.

Share sends the list as text: to WhatsApp, email or a message. Take a screenshot of the before and after to send the picture.
Send this to a contractor opens your phone's share menu (on a computer, it copies instead) with your sizes and the list. A contractor can price it without visiting first to measure.
Get proper drawings of this room opens drawing mode. The first time, your sizes are already in. If you already have drawings saved on this device, those open instead, so check the sizes.

Chapter 09

Pro mode: prices, labor and quotes for trades

For trades: price list, labor, markup, tax and a PDF quote.

Pro mode is for painters, flooring and tile installers, window and door fitters, remodelers and general contractors. It turns the shopping list into a priced quote with your labor, your markup and your company name. It is free. Your prices are saved on your device for next time.

Open a tool in Pro mode

Turning it on

Open Settings (the cog) and turn on Pro mode, or use the Pro mode switch in the Professionals part of the homepage. Choose My trade so the tips and examples fit your work.

Your priced list

The list in Pro mode.
Materials and labor, each on its own line. Tap a line to set your price.
**Markup, tax and terms**.
**Quote** turns the list into a quote for your client.

Tap a line to see how the amount was worked out and to set your own price per gallon, box or roll.

Markup, tax and terms

Markup on materials is built into the material prices your client sees.
Charge tax on materials only, everything, or nothing. In some states, including Florida, a contractor doing home repairs usually pays sales tax when buying the materials and builds it into the price, instead of adding sales tax to the client's bill. If that is you, leave Sales tax at 0. Rules differ by state and by type of contract, so check yours.
Minimum job, Deposit to book and Quote valid for are printed on the quote.

Your business details and labor rates

Open it from Settings → My business and price list (shown once Pro mode is on), or from Edit my business details and rates on the quote.

My business: your name, phone, email, license number and logo, your labor rates per trade, and the terms printed on your quotes. Saved only on this device.

Making the quote

The quote: client, job address, the before and after, the lines, subtotal, tax and deposit.

Send quote gives a text quote for WhatsApp, text or email.
PDF opens a one-page quote, with a drawing of the wall, to print or to save as a PDF and attach to an email.

Whole-room and multi-room quotes

In drawing mode, draw each room once. With Pro mode on, step 4 has Quote this room (or Quote these rooms), which prices the walls, floor and ceiling of every room from the measured plan. See Measured drawings.

Roomveil on your own website

Homeowners can plan the job on your website, with your finishes and your prices, and send it to you measured, with a price range. It works with a noumansadiq.com back-office system.

A contractor’s own planner (this is a demo company).

Try the live demo · How it works on your website

Chapter 10

Help and common questions

Fixes for common problems and answers to common questions.

Answers to the questions people ask most. Tap a question to open it.

The paint or tile count seems high.

Tap the line to see the working. Check the coverage on your product's label, the number of coats, and that you added every window and door. Rolls, boxes and cans are rounded up to what stores sell, and floors and tiles include spare for cuts.

My photo looks wrong: the paint goes past the wall.

Go back to the photo step and drag the four orange dots exactly onto the corners of the wall. Where furniture hides a corner, put the dot where the corner would be.

A sofa or plant is painted over.

With your own photo, use Covering furniture or plants? on the preview step and brush over it. It stays in front of the new finish.

The preview color does not match my paint chip.

Screens and photos change colors. Use the preview to decide on a color family, then choose the exact color from a real chip at the store, in your room's daylight.

Everything I planned is gone.

Walls, floors, doors and bathrooms are not saved when the page closes. Share or screenshot your list before you close. Room drawings and Pro mode prices are saved on the device you used; they do not move to another phone or computer, and clearing your browser data removes them.

My custom mural says it may print blurry.

The picture has too few pixels for the size of your wall. Tap It may print blurry to see how many pixels you need, and find a bigger copy of the picture. Screenshots and pictures sent through chat apps are shrunk.

The numbers do not match what my contractor says.

Roomveil uses common rules of thumb and shows its working. A contractor who has seen the room may know about things a tape measure cannot see. Show them the list; it makes the conversation quicker.

Can I use Roomveil for paid work?

Yes. It is free, including for contractors' commercial use. Turn on Pro mode for prices, labor and quotes.

Are my photos uploaded anywhere?

No. The photo is processed inside your browser and is gone when you close the page. There is no account.

Something is broken or missing.

Email info@noumansadiq.com or send a WhatsApp or text to +1 (929) 939-4060. A real person replies.

Chapter 11

Glossary of building words

Building words explained in plain English.

The words you may meet in Roomveil and at the store, in plain English.

Baseboard (skirting): The strip of wood along the bottom of a wall.
Backsplash: Tile on the wall above a kitchen or bathroom counter, usually up to the wall cabinets, about 18 inches.
Batch number: A code on wallpaper, tile and flooring. Different batches can differ slightly in color; buy one batch.
Coats: Layers of paint. Two coats is normal.
Coverage: How much area one can, box or roll covers. It is printed on the label.
DXF: A drawing file that CAD programs such as AutoCAD open.
Elevation (wall view): A drawing of one wall seen straight on.
FFL / FCL: Finished floor level and finished ceiling level, the heights on a wall view.
Grout: The filler in the lines between tiles.
Hinge side (handing): Which side of a door the hinges are on, seen from the side it opens towards.
IRC: The International Residential Code, the building code most US towns base their rules on.
Pattern repeat: How far down a wallpaper pattern goes before it repeats. A bigger repeat means more waste.
Plan: A drawing of a room seen from above.
Primer: An undercoat for new drywall, patches or a big color change.
Rough-in: How far the toilet drain is from the wall behind it, usually 12 inches.
Rough opening: The framed hole in the wall that a door or window fits into, stud to stud.
Scale: How much smaller the drawing is than the room, like 1/4″ = 1′-0″ or 1:50.
Schedule: A table listing every door, window or finish in a drawing.
Sill height: How high the bottom of a window is above the floor.
Slab: The door itself, without its frame.
Underlayment: A thin foam or felt layer laid under a floor.

The Roomveil manual

How to use Roomveil

What you can do with it

What you need

Quick start in five steps

Moving around

Units and money

What is saved, and what is not

On a phone

How to measure a wall, a room, doors and windows

What to measure with

Measuring a wall

Measuring a room

Measuring doors and windows

Measuring a bathroom

Walls: paint, wallpaper and tile

Step 1 · How big is the wall?

Step 2 · Anything on this wall?

Step 3 · Add a photo (optional)

Step 4 · Choose a look

Step 5 · Here’s how it looks

Step 6 · What you’ll need

How the paint is worked out

Floors: planks and tiles

Step 1 · How big is the room?

Step 2 · Add a photo (optional)

Step 3 · Choose your floor

Step 4 · See it in your room

Step 5 · What you’ll need

Doors and windows: styles and sizes to order

Step 1 · Measure your windows and doors

Step 2 · Pick your styles

Step 3 · See them in your room

Step 4 · What you’ll need

Bathrooms: layout and space check

Step 1 · How big is the bathroom?

Step 2 · Place your fixtures

Step 3 · Space check

Step 4 · What you’ll need

Measured drawings: plan, walls, PDF and CAD

Step 1 · Draw your room

Step 2 · Doors and windows

Step 3 · Furniture and fixtures

Step 4 · Floor, walls and ceiling

Step 5 · Your drawings

For architects and designers

Your shopping list, prices and sharing

Reading the list

Prices

Sharing

Pro mode: prices, labor and quotes for trades

Turning it on

Your priced list

Markup, tax and terms

Your business details and labor rates

Making the quote

Whole-room and multi-room quotes

Roomveil on your own website

Help and common questions

Glossary of building words