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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.
Materials calculators for real renovation jobs - tiles, paint, concrete, flooring and more. Every tool shows its formula, handles wastage properly, and works in feet or metres.
17 material calculators, each with its formula shown and wastage handled. More on the way.
Finish a room - tiling, flooring, painting, papering and boarding.
How many tiles and boxes to buy for a floor or wall, with wastage built in.
Open calculator →02Litres or gallons of paint for walls and ceilings, with coats and coverage built in.
Open calculator →03How many rolls of wallpaper to buy for a room, with the pattern repeat built in.
Open calculator →04Planks and boxes of laminate, vinyl or hardwood flooring, with layout wastage.
Open calculator →05Studs, plate/track and plasterboard sheets for a partition wall.
Open calculator →06Sheets, screws, joint compound and tape to board and finish a room.
Open calculator →Build outside - decks, fences, patios, steps and concrete.
Cubic volume and bags of concrete for slabs, footings, pads and posts.
Open calculator →08Cement, sand, aggregate and water for any concrete mix ratio.
Open calculator →09Deck boards, total board run and joists for a deck of any size.
Open calculator →10Pavers, gravel sub-base and bedding sand for a patio, path or driveway.
Open calculator →11Posts, rails, pickets and post-mix concrete for a fence of any length.
Open calculator →12Risers, treads, rise, run, stringer length and pitch - checked against your country's stair code.
Open calculator →13Common rafter length, roof angle, slope and rise from any pitch.
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 →15Volume and bags of gravel for driveways, paths and drainage at any depth.
Open calculator →16Volume, litres and bags of topsoil for lawns, turf and garden beds.
Open calculator →17Soil volume and bags to fill one or more raised garden beds, with mix ratios.
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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