🏚️ The Return to the site: A remodeling horror story

By Sarah Bird, CEO at Canvas

Every remodeler knows the feeling. The project’s wrapped, the gear’s packed, and you’re halfway home when the text comes in:

“Hey… did we ever measure behind the stairwell?”

Cue the thunderclap.

It’s the classic horror story of remodeling: the return to site. The scramble for keys after hours, the echo of an empty house, the quiet creak that wasn’t there before. You retrace your steps, tape measure in hand, hoping the flashlight app lasts just long enough.

At Canvas, we’ve heard this story more times than we can count and we’ve made it our mission to end it. When you scan with Canvas, every corner, contour, and alcove is captured in detail the first time. Our LiDAR-powered tech doesn’t just take measurements, it creates a digital twin of your space, one that’s ready for Revit, SketchUp, or Chief Architect (amongst others) long after the real lights are turned off.

So this Halloween, if you find yourself forced to revisit a spooky site for one last measurement, remember: the real nightmare is working without complete data.

Scan once. Measure forever.

And leave the haunted houses to the ghost hunters. 👻

Happy haunting (and happy scanning). 

—Sarah