What's new
What changed on MovePik, newest first. Small wording and layout fixes are left out. Found a mistake? Tell us on the contact page.
- New guide: how much crown molding or coving to buy, wall by wall, with mitered corners or corner pieces, adhesive and filler.
- New guide: how much paint for a ceiling, from the floor area of rectangular, L-shaped and open-plan rooms, with a ceiling in its own color.
- New guide: square and cubic feet, yards and meters, with a depth in inches turned into cubic yards and how to type feet and inches.
- New guide: how to measure stairs for a stair runner or for paint, with worked examples in feet and inches and in metric.
- New guide: how much caulk to buy, with a table of how far one cartridge goes at each bead width.
- How to measure a room: a worked example for a room with a chimney breast, common measuring mistakes and a checklist.
- Curtain fabric calculator: the measuring steps in order, and two common mistakes with what they change.
- Exterior paint calculator: common mistakes with gables, and how many cans they change.
- Lawn calculator: measuring an odd-shaped lawn step by step, with a worked example and common mistakes.
- Flooring calculator: the stair runner answer links to the new stairs guide, and the floor-shape option is named as it appears in the planner.
- New contact address: contact@movepik.com. The About and Contact pages say who runs the site.
- Each page now shows the date its text or calculator last changed, and this What’s new page lists changes.
- Longer, original introductions on the section pages (Indoor, Outdoor, Guides).
- The site is now called MovePik and lives at movepik.com. New About page, privacy policy and terms.
- New visual design across the site, including dark mode and a new icon.
- An impossible number of coats now shows an error next to the field.
- Switching units keeps the package size of a priced example.
- A restored backup stays open after you keep it and reload the page.
- Room workspace: empty rooms stay on the list, and the rooms that need attention are named.
- Outdoor planners: example values stay marked, a "See results" link, and CSV export fixes.
- Two open tabs no longer overwrite or switch each other’s saved projects.
- Undo after removing a room, material or area, in the room workspace and the outdoor planners.
- Planners open on the first step; the project bar moved below the steps.
- Checks for unlikely measurements by room type, and for doors and windows that do not fit the walls.
- Fixes to the printable plan, the PDF and the shopping list.
- A visible focus ring on inputs for keyboard users.
- New lawn seed, turf and feed calculator.
- New deck and fence stain calculator, later with patio and driveway sealer, jointing sand and replacement fence boards.
- New board-and-batten panelling calculator, later with picture-frame moulding and full-cover boards.
- New curtain fabric calculator.
- New exterior paint calculator; the room workspace gained typed painted areas and a stairs helper.
- Mulch, soil and gravel: landscape fabric, edging, raised-bed boards, sandbox sand, pots and stepping stones.
- Room workspace: peel-and-stick sheets, stair runners, epoxy kits, transition strips, grout colourant, floor finish, weatherstrip and coving.
- Wallpaper: half-drop pattern match.
- New answers to common questions on the paint, flooring, tile, wallpaper, mulch and lawn pages.
- First pages: paint, flooring and room refresh planners, plus three guides.
- Projects: keep them on this device if you choose, download or restore a backup, and get a shopping list, CSV and printable PDF plan.
- New wallpaper, tile, and mulch, soil and gravel calculators.
- Sealant and filler group, and a package mix that finds the lowest-cost combination of package sizes.
- No third-party code on the pages where you enter your measurements.