VastuScan's Vastu Rules: Every Room, Every Direction, in One Place

These are the Vastu rules VastuScan grades every home with: the same tables the app uses, published in full so you can check any report, or any advice you're given, against them.

How to read the tables

Each room is graded in 16 directions, measured from the centre of the whole home. Each grade means one thing:

The test that separates Problematic from Critical is not how serious a problem sounds, but whether anything short of construction can fix it. If a remedy exists, it is Problematic. If the only answers are rebuilding or moving, it is Critical.

Every room, every direction

On a phone, scroll the table sideways. Each room also has its own page, with the reasons behind each grade.

The main door: 32 entrance padas

The main door is graded more finely than any room. Each side of the home is divided into eight padas (positions), each with its own deity and grade, so two doors on the same "east-facing" wall can be graded very differently.

One pada, S2 (Pusha), is conditional: our rules give two readings depending on circumstances a plan can't show, so it is not scored, and a report explains both.

The seven Critical defects

These are the only placements our rules treat as having no remedy short of structural change:

1. A toilet in the north-east.
2. A kitchen in the north-east.
3. A main door in the south-west.
4. A staircase in the north-east.
5. A staircase at the centre of the home (the Brahmasthan).
6. A toilet directly above or below a pooja room (in multi-floor homes).
7. A toilet directly above or below a kitchen (in multi-floor homes).

How a home is scored

Each graded room earns points: Ideal 100, Acceptable 85, Problematic 50, Critical 0. Rooms count for different amounts: the main door 20, the kitchen, master bedroom and each toilet 15, the living room and pooja room 10, and every other room 5. The weighted average is the home's score out of 100.

A single Critical defect caps the whole home at 40 and makes the verdict Avoid, however well the rest scores, because no remedy can lift it.

Remedies, and the score a home can reach

Every Problematic or Acceptable placement comes with remedies, ranked by cost:

The score after remedies assumes each remedy is carried out: a remedy closes two-thirds of the gap for an Acceptable placement and half the gap for a Problematic one, and nothing for a Critical one. A home where most rooms are badly placed also has a lower ceiling, because room-by-room remedies can't fix a layout that is wrong as a whole.

What these rules don't cover

• The plot and its surroundings: slope, roads, neighbouring buildings, soil and water on the site.
• Septic tanks, borewells, lifts and T-point plots: not graded yet.
• How you use a room, where that changes the answer (a pooja room in the west is one such case).

Vastu Shastra is a traditional system, and these rules are guidance, not architectural or structural advice. If our rules change, this page changes with them.