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AI Disclaimer

Wallplan uses machine learning to read your wall photograph and to draw what an arrangement would look like. It does not use it to produce a single number you would drill against.

This page explains what the models do, where they fail, and — most importantly — what a drill plan is and is not.

The drill plan is a layout, not a safety assessment

A Wallplan drill plan is a layout suggestion. It is not a structural assessment and it is not a safety assessment.

The choice of fixing, and whether your wall can carry the load, are your responsibility. Before you drill you must satisfy yourself that there are no pipes or cables where the plan asks you to make a hole. If you are not certain, stop and ask someone qualified.

The plan tells you where the fixing points sit for the arrangement you chose, given the measurements you typed in. That is a geometry problem and we solve it accurately.

It does not tell you whether the wall behind those points is sound, what it is built from, how it was built, what services were run inside it, whether a previous repair weakened it, or whether the fixing you have bought is right for it. We have never seen your wall. We cannot see inside it. No photograph can.

This is why the wall construction question has no default answer, why load figures are shown as ranges with a caveat attached, why we do not name a brand of fixing, and why every plan sheet carries the same notice at the foot of it:

Fixings depend on what your wall is made of and what is inside it. Check for pipes and cables before you drill. If you are unsure, ask someone qualified.

That notice is never covered by the free plan's watermark. A paywall may obscure a measurement. It will not obscure that.

What the models actually do

Two model roles are used, and no others.

Reading your photograph

A vision model looks at the wall photograph you upload and proposes where the wall edges are, how high the furniture below reaches, and where sockets, switches and radiators sit. Everything it finds is editable: you can move it, delete it, or add something it missed.

Drawing the arrangement

An image model draws the pieces you described onto your wall photograph, so you can see what each arrangement would look like in your room and in your light.

There is no video model on this service. That is a decision rather than an omission — a drill plan is held in one hand while you measure with the other, so it has to be still, zoomable and printable, and several arrangements have to sit side by side to be compared. Video does neither.

No model draws a number

Every millimetre on a Wallplan drill plan is calculated by our layout engine from figures you supplied, and drawn as vector line work in your browser. No model renders any digit on it.

This is the single most important design decision in the product. Image models produce text that looks right and is wrong — a 450 that renders as 480, a decimal point that lands in a different place. On a poster that is a curiosity. On a sheet somebody is drilling against, it is a hole in the wrong place.

So the two outputs stay separate and are always labelled:

  • The arrangement picture is generated. It is indicative. Nothing on it should be measured.
  • The drill plan is calculated and drawn. It is what you take to the wall.

Across the whole service, one sentence: The picture is how it looks. The plan is what you drill.

Where it gets things wrong

Model output is probabilistic. Specific failures we know about and expect:

  • A socket or switch behind furniture, in shadow, or at the edge of the frame can be missed entirely.
  • A photograph taken at an angle rather than square on distorts the wall, and everything derived from it inherits the distortion.
  • Reflections, strong sunlight and patterned wallpaper all reduce accuracy.
  • The furniture line can be misjudged when the top of a sofa or console is soft or uneven.
  • Arrangement pictures may show a piece a few millimetres from where it would actually hang, may render a frame slightly the wrong shade, or may make a piece look heavier or lighter than it is.
  • If you type a measurement in wrong, everything downstream will be confidently, precisely wrong. The engine has no way to know your wall is not the width you said it was.

Check the obstacles the tool found against what you can see on your own wall before you accept a plan. That check takes ten seconds and it is the most valuable thing you can do with them.

This is not professional advice

Nothing produced by Wallplan is architectural, engineering, surveying, building-control or trade advice, and using the service does not create a professional relationship of any kind.

If any of the following apply, involve someone qualified before you drill: the piece is heavy; the wall is one you cannot identify; the property is listed, tenanted or shared; you suspect services run through the area; the wall is a fire compartment or a party wall; or you simply are not sure.

Asking is not an admission of incompetence. It is the correct answer to an irreversible action.

Uses this service is not for

Do not use Wallplan output as the basis for any of the following:

  • Structural work, load-bearing calculations, or anything a building warrant or permit would cover.
  • Fixing points for anything that would injure a person if it fell — overhead installations, heavy mirrors above beds or cots, television mounts, handrails or grab rails.
  • Commercial or public installations where a duty of care to third parties applies.
  • Anything where a legal, regulatory or insurance requirement calls for a qualified assessment.

If a piece is heavy enough that its falling would matter, the person who decides how it is fixed should be qualified to decide that.

Bias and training

Models learn from what they were shown. The image models used here have seen far more of some kinds of interior than others, which means arrangement pictures can lean towards a particular decorative idiom regardless of what your room is like. Detection accuracy can also be uneven across socket and switch designs that vary between regions.

We do not treat that as solved. It is one reason every detected obstacle is editable and none of them is trusted silently.

Photographs of your home are not used to train models — not ours, not a third party's. Our AI processing provider is contractually prohibited from using your content for training. The Privacy Policy sets out the detail.

What we ask of you

  • Photograph the wall square on, in even light.
  • Measure the wall yourself rather than estimating it, and type the measurement in accurately.
  • Answer the wall construction question honestly, including choosing 'something else' when that is the truth.
  • Check the obstacles the tool found against the actual wall.
  • Use a detector to check for pipes and cables before you drill, every time.
  • Treat the arrangement picture as a picture and the drill plan as the plan.

Questions about this document go to support@styleyourspacesedinburgh.com, or call +44 7524930364, Monday to Friday, 09:00-17:00 UTC.