Tool library

Construction calculators and estimators

Each tool separates base quantity, waste, purchase rounding, assumptions, examples, and sources.

Post Hole Concrete

Estimate concrete bags for fence, deck, and mailbox post holes with post displacement and waste.

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Concrete Slab Cost

Estimate concrete slab area, yards, material cost, labor range, and installed total.

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Flooring Area

Calculate room square footage, waste allowance, and flooring box count.

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Shower Tile

Estimate shower wall and floor tile, waste, thinset bags, and grout bags.

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Baseboards

Estimate baseboard linear feet, stock boards, waste, optional shoe moulding, and material cost.

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Deck Stain

Estimate deck stain gallons by deck size, coats, coverage rate, railings, and waste.

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Stud Count

Estimate wall studs from wall length, spacing, corners, openings, and waste.

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Roof Square Footage

Estimate roof area from footprint, pitch, waste, roofing squares, and shingle bundles.

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Driveway Cost

Estimate concrete driveway square footage, yards, finish cost, removal allowance, and installed range.

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Sonotube Concrete

Calculate concrete volume and bag count for round cardboard form piers.

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Crushed Concrete

Estimate crushed concrete tons and cubic yards from area, compacted depth, density, and allowances.

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Concrete Blocks

Estimate concrete blocks and mortar bags from wall dimensions, openings, block size, and waste.

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Concrete Delivery

Estimate delivered ready-mix concrete cost from dimensions, price per yard, delivery fees, and short-load fees.

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Concrete Per Yard

Estimate material-only ready-mix concrete cost from cubic yards, base price, mix type, region, and extra quantity.

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Rebar Sizes

Look up common U.S. rebar sizes, nominal diameter, area, weight per foot, and order weight.

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Epoxy Flooring Cost

Estimate epoxy floor kits, coated area, prep labor, and total cost range.

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Hardwood Refinishing

Estimate hardwood refinishing cost by square footage, finish type, coats, stairs, and region.

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Deck Joist Span

Look up cautious MVP deck joist spans for selected species, sizes, and spacing assumptions.

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Deck Footing

Check round deck footing diameter against a simplified load and soil-bearing model.

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Deck Post Spacing

Plan deck beam post count, post spacing, end insets, and estimated tributary load per post.

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Floor Joist Span

Compare a proposed residential floor joist span with a limited source-backed planning lookup.

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Rafter Span

Compare a proposed rafter horizontal span with a limited planning lookup for common species, sizes, and spacing.

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LVL Beam Span

Estimate required uniform line load and compare it with a user-entered manufacturer LVL allowable load.

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Header Spans

Compare an opening width with a limited built-up wood header planning lookup.

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60 Amp Wire

Look up common 60 amp copper and aluminum conductor sizes with voltage-drop and code limitations.

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100 Amp Service

Look up common 100 amp dwelling service conductor sizes for copper and aluminum.

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125 Amp Wire

Look up common 125 amp feeder conductor sizes for copper and aluminum.

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150 Amp Wire

Look up common 150 amp feeder conductor sizes for copper and aluminum.

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200 Amp Service

Look up common 200 amp dwelling service conductor sizes for copper and aluminum.

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400 Amp Service

Review cautious 400 amp service conductor planning rows with strong utility and engineering limitations.

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Breaker Sizes

Round a calculated load to the next common standard breaker size with continuous-load adjustment.

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Water Heater Breaker

Estimate electric water heater breaker size from wattage, voltage, and continuous-load assumptions.

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Dryer Breaker

Look up common electric and gas dryer breaker sizes with conductor and voltage-drop warnings.

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6/3 Conduit

Review planning conduit sizes for 6/3 NM-B cable sleeves or individual #6 conductors.

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Wire Size

Look up common residential conductor sizes for selected circuit ratings with prominent electrical limitations.

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Metal Roof

Estimate metal roofing panels, adjusted roof area, pitch factor, and roofing squares.

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Gambrel Roof

Estimate gambrel roof area, upper and lower rafter lengths, roofing squares, and shingle bundles.

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Rafter Length

Calculate rafter length from horizontal run, roof pitch, overhang, ridge thickness, and cut allowance.

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