All DIY Material Calculators

Estimate decking boards, plus a rough material list (joists, screws, hidden fasteners, and fascia) and an optional cost from your own price per board.

Estimate tiles needed for a floor or wall area, with tile size, waste factor, a layout pattern preview, and an optional user-entered tile cost.

Calculate deck mud for shower pans, pre-slope layers, floor mud, and flat mortar beds with slope, mix ratio, bags, and waste.

Estimate concrete volume in cubic feet and cubic yards, the number of bags from your chosen bag yield, and a rough slab cost using your own price per bag plus national-average cost ranges for context.

Estimate wall area and gallons of paint for a rectangular room using coats, coverage per gallon, and optional waste, plus a rough cost from your own price per gallon and national-average paint cost ranges for context.

Estimate drywall sheet count for room walls, with an option to include the ceiling and choose common sheet sizes.

Estimate pavers for a patio or walkway from project dimensions, paver size, and a waste factor.

Use this paver base calculator to estimate paver base gravel, bedding sand, tons, bags, excavation depth, waste, and optional cost for patios, walkways, and driveways. As a base calculator for pavers it includes a compaction factor, and as a paving base calculator it converts area and depth into cubic feet, cubic yards, and tons.

Estimate gravel volume and approximate tons from area, depth, density, and an optional compaction overage.

Estimate mulch volume in cubic feet and cubic yards, with optional settling overage and bag count.

Estimate fence pickets from fence length, picket width, spacing gap, and waste factor.

Estimate vertical batten count and adjusted spacing for a simple board and batten wall layout.