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Handy Lay

Your friendly tile and panel layout planner

Plan the perfect tile layout for your walls and floors! Avoid tiny pieces at edges and minimize cuts - making your DIY project look professional and save you money.

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The HandyLay planner with a 471 × 600 cm floor plan: two rooms divided by a partition wall, wood-textured panels laid with staggered joints, every wall dimensioned and a 230 cm ruler.

Why Choose Handy Lay?

Draw any room

Sketch walls of any shape, then join or subtract them to model alcoves, columns and doorways. Area, perimeter, wall lengths and corner angles update as you drag, and right angles stay right.

Ten layouts, or build your own

Straight grid, brick and vertical brick, herringbone, chevron, hexagons, rhombus, diamonds and more. Need something else? The pattern editor lets you assemble a layout tile by tile and reuse it across projects.

Click a tile, read the cut

Positions are computed from your real dimensions, joints included, so a 250 mm tile with a 5 mm joint starts exactly every 255 mm. Select any tile and its cut size is drawn to scale, with the leftover piece dimensioned beside it.

Move the starting point

The layout is drawn to scale on your actual room, so you see how the edges will fall before the first cut. Drag it across the surface and watch the cuts along the walls change, until no edge ends in a useless sliver.

Know what to buy

The plan counts the tiles the layout needs, splits them into whole and cut, and shows how much of the material ends up as offcut. A figure to order from, instead of a guess.

No account, nothing uploaded

No sign-up and no cloud. Your rooms stay in your own browser, and you can export a project to a file whenever you want to keep it.

A whole workshop in one toolbar

From the first wall to the shopping list without leaving the screen. Every tool does one thing, and does it to the millimetre.

The plan dimensions itself

As soon as there are walls, the drawing carries its own measurements, and they are recalculated while you drag.

Every wall, with its length
Click the figure and type an exact length: the wall goes to it, and the right angles beside it can be held while it moves.
Corner angles
Select a corner and read its angle, to a tenth of a degree.
Area and perimeter
Both stay on screen the whole time, for the whole floor, with the subtracted surfaces already taken off.
Measurements on the divisions
A joint or a rectangle carries its own dimension on the plan, so a division can be set out on site straight from the drawing.
Every piece, measured
Click a piece and you get its cut size, the size of the leftover and what share of a whole piece it is. The totals give pieces needed, laid whole, cut to fit, material and waste, broken down per run when the floor is divided.
Metric or imperial, and the joint
Switch between m/cm and ft/in and set the joint width. Positions are computed with the joint in them, so a 250 mm tile with a 5 mm joint starts exactly every 255 mm.

Open the planner and draw the first wall

How It Works

1

Measure Your Space

Enter the dimensions of your wall or floor

2

Choose Your Tiles

Input the size of your tiles or panels

3

Adjust and check the edges

Move the starting point until the cuts along the walls look right, then read the dimensions off the plan.

How to Use the App

Watch this quick tutorial to learn how to create perfect tile layouts with Handy Lay

Ready to Get Started?

Plan the layout before you buy the material. Free, no account, straight in your browser.

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