What do Floor Plans Identify?

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• Floor level – e.g. ground, garage, first floor etc.
• Room names and their internal sizes.
• Width of openings and thickness/type of walls, – e.g. brick, timber.
• Overall dimensions of the building, cupboards, halls, and spaces.
• Position of fixtures – e.g. for wet areas such as bathrooms, kitchen and laundries, the position the bath, shower, toilet, cupboards, basins should be indicated.
• Type of floor covering may also be shown.

In a nutshell, the floor plan is two-dimensional plan of how the house will look from the top down. Floor plans are a kind of cross-section, showing the layout of the house from a perspective roughly three or four feet (about a metre) above the floor.

If the house has more than one storey, your floor plan will feature clearly labelled diagrams showing each separate storey.