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Honest material calculator

Calculators that tell you what to buy.

Every other calculator gives you a number you can't take to a shop. Nobody sells 14.6 litres of paint, 1.32 cubic metres of concrete or 34.7 square metres of turf — they sell tins, truckloads and pallets. These work out what you actually put in the trolley, what's left over, and when the honest answer is to buy less.

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What makes these different

Concrete, aggregate and ground

ConcreteSlabs, pads, footings and post holes. Bags or ready-mix, and which one you actually want.Bags or bulk Gravel & aggregateDriveways, paths, sub-base and bedding sand. In tonnes, with compaction built in.Sold by weight AsphaltDriveways and patching, at compacted depth. Plus the reason it has to be laid the day it lands.Tonnage

Surfaces and coverings

PaintWalls, ceilings, woodwork and masonry. Which tins to buy, and what you'll have left.Tins, not litres TileFloors, walls and splashbacks, with pattern-aware waste. The one page that tells you to buy more.Boxes Siding & claddingSquares and boxes — plus the corners, channel and trim that aren't in that number.Squares
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Timber, framing and ground cover

DeckingBoards by length, not by area — because which length your yard stocks changes the order by half.Boards Studs & joistsFraming counts, including the off-by-one that sends people back to the yard.Spaces plus one Sod & turfPallets — and why the delivery date matters more than the quantity.Perishable

Setting out and framing

StairsRisers, treads, run and stringer length — checked against the limits an inspector will use.Code checked FencingPosts, rails and pickets, with the gaps spread evenly instead of a sliver at one end.Bays plus one RebarBars, laps and ties for a slab — including the overlap most calculators forget.Laps included BalustersSpindle spacing with every gap inside the limit — including the two against the posts.Safety rule

Finishing

CarpetWhich way to run the roll, how much comes off it, and where the seams land.Roll width Skirting & baseboardCounted wall by wall, because skirting cannot be joined invisibly mid-wall.Wall by wall

Why there are no prices here

Bake prices into a calculator and it's out of date within months. Worse, the sums stop making sense: a 10 litre tin is often the same price as two 4 litre tins, and a bulk load can cost less than half as many bags — which flips the answer entirely. Only your supplier knows today's price.

So we don't quote prices. We accept them. Type in what you were quoted and we'll total it, work out the cost per square metre, and find the exact point where bulk delivery overtakes bags for your supplier. That answer can't go stale, because it's built from your numbers on the day.

Free, no login, no email. These calculators are funded by the advertising on the page and nothing else — no affiliate links, no lead generation, no data sold. That matters, because a tool paid for by the people selling you the materials can never tell you to buy fewer of them.

Coverage figures, densities and bag yields are trade-typical and deliberately cautious, so you don't run short. Where your product states its own figure, use theirs — every calculator lets you override ours. See every figure we use, and where it came from, or tell us if one is wrong.