Calculators
How much material the job takes
13 calculators for the jobs people measure before they price — about 7.8 million searches a month between them. Each one ends in real product, in the sizes the material is actually sold in, and prices it on the same page.
13 live · 0 in build · Last reviewed 2026-09-16
Asking what a job costs rather than how much material it takes? 26 more jobs are priced on their own pages — and every one of those carries a calculator too.
What things costThe calculators
- ConcreteYards, bags, rebar and joints for slabs, footings and piers.Slab · Footing · Bags · Round pier
- Concrete slabYards with the thickened edge, base, barrier, steel and joint layout.Concrete pad · Control joints · Rebar · Thickness
- StairsRisers, treads, stringer length and the code checks, with a scale diagram.Stringers · Risers · Rise and run · Deck stairs
- Board feetVolume, weight and price of lumber, plus the three log rules that disagree.Nominal vs actual · Hardwood quarters · Lumber weight · Log scaling
- Square footageArea and volume for any shape, in the units the job uses.Cubic feet · Cubic yards · Acres · Linear feet
- BTU / HVAC sizingHeating and cooling load by room, climate zone and insulation.AC tonnage · Furnace size · Heat pump
- Roof pitchRise and run, degrees, grade and the area multiplier, in both directions.Pitch to degrees · Area multiplier · Measuring it
- PaintGallons by coat and substrate, not one flat spread rate.Interior · Coverage · Garage epoxy
- Recessed lightingHow many, how far apart, the layout drawn to scale, and what it costs installed.Spacing · Layout · Installed cost · Circuits
- DeckBoards from real stock lengths, framing, stairs and 25-year cost.Deck boards · Stairs · Composite · Framing
- AsphaltTons by compacted depth, plus seal, overlay or rebuild priced side by side.Tonnage · Driveway · Millings · Sealcoating
- GravelTons or yards by stone type, at the compacted depth.Crushed stone · Pea gravel · Driveway
- MulchYards or bags, with last year's mulch subtracted and bulk compared to bags.Bags · Bulk yards · Coverage · Rubber mulch
In build
Listed in the order they will ship, which is the order of the demand they answer. A calculator appears here before it exists so you can see what is coming — and it is deliberately not linked, because a link to a page that is not finished is just a dead end with good intentions.