Add Additional Rooms
When measuring multiple rooms, each new room is connected to your existing floor plan through a doorway.
This allows the app to position each room correctly within the overall property layout.
Watch the video below to learn how to add and connect additional rooms, choose the most suitable connection method, and continue measuring into the new room.
Start Adding a Room
There are three ways to start adding another room to your floor plan.
From a door
Tap the door you want to connect through, then tap Add Room.
Using the green + button
Tap the green + button, then tap Room. Available connecting doors will flash blue. Tap the flashing blue door you want to connect through.
From Rooms
Tap Rooms, then Add Room. Available connecting doors will flash blue. Tap the flashing blue door you want to connect through.
Whichever option you choose, the app will guide you through selecting a connection method.
Choose a Connection Method
There are three connection methods available:
Wall Thickness — Recommended
Jamb-to-Jamb
Edge-to-Edge
Use the arrows in the app to view each method, or tap Learn More to watch a short video demonstration.
Wall Thickness — Recommended
We recommend using the Wall Thickness method whenever you can place LX1 on the wall beside the doorway.
This method uses three pause points:
Place LX1 flat against the wall beside the doorway and wait for the pause point to be confirmed.
Move to the door jamb and capture the second pause point.
Move through the doorway and place LX1 flat against the wall inside the new room to capture the third pause point.
As well as connecting the rooms, this method captures the actual wall thickness and provides the most accurate alignment between connected rooms.
For the first placement, position LX1 on the wall close to the doorway to help accurately establish the position of the connecting door.
Jamb-to-Jamb
If there isn't enough accessible wall beside the doorway to use Wall Thickness, you can use Jamb-to-Jamb instead.
This method uses two pause points:
Place LX1 against the door jamb on the side of the room you've just measured and wait for the pause point to be confirmed.
Move through the doorway and place LX1 against the opposite door jamb to capture the second pause point.
Keep your movement smooth and controlled as you move through the doorway.
This method connects the rooms using the position of the two door jambs, but does not capture the actual wall thickness.
Edge-to-Edge
If the door jambs are difficult to access, use Edge-to-Edge.
This method uses two pause points:
Place the active reference point of LX1 against the first edge of the doorway and wait for the pause point to be confirmed.
Move across the doorway to the opposite edge, switching the reference point while moving if required, then place the active reference point against the second edge and wait for the pause point to be confirmed.
Once both doorway edges have been captured, move through the doorway and place LX1 flat against the wall inside the new room. This becomes the starting wall for your new room measurement.
This method connects the rooms using the two doorway edges, but does not capture the actual wall thickness.
Continue Measuring the New Room
Once the connection is complete, the final wall placement becomes the starting wall for the new room.
Continue measuring around the room as normal, capturing each wall and any doors, windows, stairs or wardrobes / closets as you reach them.
When you reach the connecting doorway again, simply walk past it and continue to the next wall. The doorway has already been captured when measuring the previous room.
Continue until you return to the same wall plane where you started the room measurement.
Once the room is complete, repeat the process through another connecting door to continue building your floor plan.
Remember
Use Wall Thickness whenever possible.
Choose the connection method that best suits the doorway and the surfaces you can access.
Follow the placement order shown in the app.
Keep LX1 completely still until each pause point is confirmed.
Keep your movement smooth and controlled between pause points.
The final wall placement becomes the starting wall for the new room.
Don't measure the connecting doorway again.
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