When you are choosing between flats, answer the same questions for each and this tool sets them side by side. The questions are the ones on our checklist for buying a flat, with its own labels: ordinary checks such as light, damp, noise, water, lifts and parking; the few points with classical support, such as a wall that lets the bed lie with its head to the south or east; and the modern points. Each group is counted on its own, as “4 of 5 line up”. There is no combined score, because the checklist asks for most of a viewing to go on the ordinary checks, and a single figure would hide that.
How it works
Choose two or three flats and, if you like, give each a name. For every check, answer Yes, No or Not sure for each flat. “Not sure” leaves that point out of the count, so a flat is not marked down for something you could not see.
Ordinary checks. Daylight and moving air, damp, noise at rush hour and late in the evening, water hours and pressure, and lifts with backup power and parking. The checklist calls these ordinary due diligence and gives them most of a visit.
Classical points. The building’s facing, read against Acharya’s summary of the Manasara, which prefers east or north-east and rules out south-east and says nothing either way of the other five directions, so those are left out of the count. An entrance that is easy to pass through (Brihat Samhita 53.79 to 53.81). A bedroom wall that lets the bed lie with its head to the south or east (53.124). A worship corner in the north-east and the kitchen in the south-east (53.118). If you add where each front door stands along its wall, the tool also reads its entrance pada with the entrance checker’s own table (53.72 to 53.75): a favourable pada lines up, a cautioned one differs, and a mixed or disputed one is left out. Like the entrance checker’s answer, it counts the wall as nine squares, and where cutting the wall into eight equal parts would put the door in another pada, the note for that door says so.
Modern points. Nothing standing straight in front of the door, which applies the verse about obstructions opposite a gate (53.76) to a corridor; an open middle, which applies the care of Brahma’s squares on a plot (53.66) to a flat; and toilets clear of the north-east, the south-east and the centre, the modern convention as our Vastu self-check gives it.
A “Vastu compliant” label is asked about but never counted, because no body certifies it.
Reading the result
The first line names the flat that lines up on the most ordinary checks, or says they tie. The next lines do the same for the classical and modern points. Where two flats line up on the same number of points, the one with fewer points that differ leads, and if that is equal too, the tool calls it a tie. No flat is named as leading a group unless at least two flats have answers in it and at least one point lines up; otherwise the tool says so.
Below that, a table gives each group’s count for each flat, and the full list shows every point with a short note. If a flat is sold as Vastu compliant, the result lists the questions our checklist suggests asking the seller.
A count is not a grade. Three flats can each line up on four of five points and still differ in ways that matter to you, such as the commute or the price, which no list here covers.
Where traditions differ
The classical verses were written for houses on their own plots and the outer gate of a house, not a flat off a shared landing. Our apartments and flats page goes through how much of the tradition carries over. The checklist’s labels follow that: the rule about obstructions and the care of the centre are classical in origin but modern when applied to a flat, and the tool counts them as modern.
Popular manuals grade every facing, and our checklist notes that they contradict one another. The tool uses only the points the checklist gives, with their sources, and leaves the rest out.
What it does not do
It does not check title, approvals, completion and occupation papers, the sale agreement, maintenance charges or a loan. Those are questions for a property lawyer and a financial adviser, and no Vastu reading stands in for them. It does not tell you which flat to buy, and it predicts nothing about life in any of them.
Once you own a flat, the facing, the door, the kitchen, the toilets and the lift core are fixed. What stays in your hands is small and free: where the bed goes, where a shelf for worship sits and how clear the middle is kept. Remedies without demolition explains why nothing needs to be bought or broken.
Frequently asked questions
↳ How do I compare two flats for Vastu?
Answer the same checks for both: the ordinary ones such as light, damp and water, the few with classical support such as the bed's direction and the worship corner, and the modern ones. Weigh the ordinary checks most, as our buying checklist suggests.
↳ Why is there no overall score?
Because the groups are not alike. A weighted total would let a classical point outweigh damp or a dry tap, which our checklist says deserve more of your visit. Each group is counted on its own instead.
↳ Which facing is best for a flat?
Acharya's summary of the Manasara prefers east or north-east and rules out south-east. It says nothing either way about the other directions, so the tool leaves them out of the count. The classical entrance table judges the door's exact pada, and every side holds both favourable and cautioned padas.
↳ What if I do not know an answer?
Choose "Not sure". The point is left out of that flat's count, so the comparison uses only what you could check.
↳ Is a Vastu compliant flat worth more?
That is your decision. No body certifies the label and consultants disagree on what it requires, so the tool does not count it. Ask the seller which rules it covers and which text each comes from.