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Every calculator publishes its formula and a worked example, so you can check the result before you spend money on materials.
Figure out exactly how many tiles, how much paint, how many bags of concrete or boxes of flooring to buy — and what it'll cost. 34 free calculators, each showing its formula, with wastage handled properly in metric or imperial.
34 material calculators, each with its formula shown and wastage handled. More on the way.
Finish a room - tiling, flooring, painting, papering and boarding.
Total area of any room or plot in m², sq ft, sq yd and hectares.
Open calculator→How many tiles, boxes, adhesive and grout to buy for a floor or wall, with wastage and cost built in.
Open calculator→Litres of paint for walls and ceilings, with coats and coverage built in.
Open calculator→How many rolls of wallpaper to buy for a room, with the pattern repeat built in.
Open calculator→Planks and boxes of laminate, vinyl or hardwood flooring, with layout wastage.
Open calculator→Linear metres of broadloom carpet to buy from your room sizes and roll width.
Open calculator→Epoxy, kits and cost to coat a garage floor, DIY or professionally installed.
Open calculator→Linear metres of skirting board and how many stock lengths to buy.
Open calculator→Studs, plate/track and plasterboard sheets for a partition wall, with cost built in.
Open calculator→Board feet, volume and cost for any number of timber sizes.
Open calculator→Gyprock sheets, screws, jointing compound and tape to board and finish a room.
Open calculator→Batts, rolls or blown-in bags - and cost - to hit a target R-value for walls, roof space and ceilings.
Open calculator→Build outside - decks, fences, patios, steps and concrete.
Cubic volume and bags of concrete for slabs, footings, pads and posts.
Open calculator→Cement, sand, aggregate and water for any concrete mix ratio.
Open calculator→Bricks or blocks, plus mortar and sand, from your wall sizes and unit size.
Open calculator→Bars each way, total length, weight and tie wire for a slab or footing reo grid.
Open calculator→Concrete blocks (besser block), plus mortar and sand, from your wall sizes.
Open calculator→Deck boards, total board run and joists for a deck of any size.
Open calculator→Pavers, gravel sub-base, bedding sand, jointing sand and cost for a patio, path or driveway.
Open calculator→How many interlocking deck or patio tiles, packs and cost, with wastage built in.
Open calculator→Posts, rails, palings, rapid-set concrete and cost for a fence of any length.
Open calculator→Water velocity and friction loss for a pipe, from the flow, material and inside diameter.
Open calculator→Rise, run, risers, treads, stringer length and pitch - drawn as a diagram and checked against your country's stair code.
Open calculator→Common rafter length, roof angle, slope and rise from any pitch.
Open calculator→Shingle bundles, roofing squares and underlayment from your roof area and pitch.
Open calculator→Fibre-cement or vinyl cladding and weatherboards, plus trims and corners from your wall sizes.
Open calculator→Pool volume in litres, cubic metres and gallons.
Open calculator→Fill and cover by volume - mulch, gravel, topsoil and garden beds.
Volume and bags to cover beds with mulch or bark at any depth.
Open calculator→Volume and bags of gravel for driveways, paths and drainage at any depth.
Open calculator→Volume, litres and bags of topsoil for lawns, turf and garden beds.
Open calculator→Soil volume and bags to fill one or more raised garden beds, with mix ratios.
Open calculator→Rolls and pallets of turf, or kilos and bags of grass seed, from your lawn size.
Open calculator→Sprinkler heads, flow and the number of reticulation zones, from your garden size and water supply.
Open calculator→Blocks, caps and gravel base for a retaining wall, from your wall and block sizes.
Open calculator→It's not a separate tool - every calculator already lets you go past the defaults. Set a custom waste percentage for your exact layout, and enter your own tile, plank, board, box and tin sizes, so the count reflects the materials you'll actually buy.
The same numbers an estimator would run by hand - transparent, unit-aware and rounded the way a real order is placed.
// TILE.FORMULA
area = 5.0 × 4.0 = 20.0 m²
per_tile = 0.6 × 0.6 = 0.36 m²
tiles = ⌈ 20 ÷ 0.36 × 1.10 ⌉
→ 61 tiles
Every calculator publishes its formula and a worked example, so you can check the result before you spend money on materials.
All calculations run in exact metric units internally and convert at the display layer - switching units never changes the answer.
Layout-specific allowances (grid, offset, herringbone) instead of a vague “add some extra” - so you buy enough, once.
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