Every calculator and guide, in one list
Ten calculators grouped by the job, seventeen guides grouped by topic, and the pages about the site itself.
Concrete and paving
- Concrete calculator: Bags or ready-mix yards for slabs, footings, columns and post holes.
- Asphalt calculator: Hot-mix tons for a new driveway or an overlay, by compacted thickness.
Yard and landscape
- Gravel calculator: Cubic yards, tons and bags of gravel, with compaction for a driveway base.
- Rock calculator: River rock, lava rock and crushed stone by the ton, with coverage by rock size.
- Mulch calculator: Bags of mulch or bulk yards for every bed, with the two prices side by side.
- Topsoil calculator: Cubic yards and bags of topsoil for a lawn, a grade fix or raised beds.
Measuring
- Square footage calculator: Area of any room or lot shape in square feet, yards and meters.
- Linear feet calculator: Add up board lengths, or turn square feet into linear feet by board width.
Wood and walls
- Decking calculator: Deck boards, joists and screws for your deck size and board width.
- Board and batten calculator: Even batten spacing, boards and trim for an accent wall or siding.
Guides
Measuring and converting
- How many cubic feet are in a cubic yard, and what one yard covers
- How many wheelbarrows in a yard, by tray size and weight
- How to calculate board feet
- How to calculate cubic yards from square feet and inches of depth
- How to calculate square footage of a room, a floor or a house
- What a linear foot is and how to calculate linear feet
Concrete and asphalt
- How many bags of concrete each fence post takes
- How many bags of concrete make a cubic yard
- How thick a concrete slab should be, for a patio, a driveway, a garage or a shed
- How thick an asphalt driveway should be
Gravel, mulch and soil
- How deep mulch should be, by plant and by material
- How many bags of mulch make a cubic yard
- How much a cubic yard of dirt, gravel, sand, mulch or concrete weighs
- How much a yard of gravel costs, and how a ton price becomes a yard price
Decks and walls
- Board and batten spacing, inside and out
- Deck joist spacing: how far apart deck joists should be, by the decking
- How much it costs to build a deck, from the published figures