Material Costs

Pick a trade, pick a grade, enter the quantities. Order quantity and material cost, free and without a signup.

Fourteen trades

Same engine behind each one: quantities rounded up the way suppliers sell them, then priced by the grade you choose.

PaintWall area less the openings, times the coats, divided by what a gallon covers.ORDERS IN GALLONSDrywallSheets for walls and ceilings, with the screws, compound and tape that go with them.ORDERS IN SHEETSFlooringArea plus waste. Diagonal and herringbone layouts cost you five points more in offcuts.ORDERS IN SQ FTRoofingPitch turns a footprint into real roof area. Squares and bundles come off that, not the ground plan.ORDERS IN SQUARESSidingWall area around the building less the openings, plus the waste corners and butt joints eat.ORDERS IN SQ FTConcreteSlab volume in cubic yards, ordered in quarter-yard steps the way the plant sells it.ORDERS IN CUBIC YARDSFencePosts, rails and pickets from one run length, priced by the running foot of finished fence.ORDERS IN LINEAR FTMulchBed area at the depth you spread it, in the cubic yards a landscape yard sells.ORDERS IN CUBIC YARDSInsulationCavity area to insulate, by assembly. Depth and R-value drive the price more than the area does.ORDERS IN SQ FTDeckingDeck surface area with the board run worked out, so you can see the linear feet you are buying.ORDERS IN SQ FTTileFloor or wall area plus waste, with the thinset and grout that go under and between it.ORDERS IN SQ FTMillworkRunning feet of base, casing and crown, with the stick count for a real order.ORDERS IN LINEAR FTDoors & windowsCounted, not measured. Openings price per unit, with the trim and hardware that follow each one.ORDERS IN UNITSFramingStuds, plates and headers from wall length and height, at whatever spacing you frame to.ORDERS IN LINEAR FT

How these calculators work

Each trade takes the measurements you already have — wall area, a footprint, a run length — and turns them into the quantity a supplier will actually sell you. Orders always round up, waste is a percentage you control, and the material cost comes from a grade you pick rather than a number we invented.

Nothing here calls a server. The maths runs in your browser, the result serializes into the URL so you can send it to someone, and when the numbers look right the same quantities carry into a real quote.

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