Areas, quantities, and layouts for building work: concrete, aggregate, lumber, masonry, tile, roofing, paint, drywall.
Gravel, sand, crushed stone, or asphalt from area and depth: cubic yards or metres, then tons and tonnes from the density your supplier quotes.
You get: The volume and the tonnage to order, in short tons and metric tonnes side by side, from a density you can point to — yours or a cited reference.
Open Aggregate & Asphalt TonnageBoard feet for a lumber list from nominal sizes, each item’s dressed (actual) size from the American Softwood Lumber Standard, linear feet, and cost.
You get: A priced lumber tally you can hand to a yard — board feet per item and in total, the actual dressed dimensions, and the dressed volume kept separate from the nominal count.
Open Board Foot & LumberBricks or blocks for a wall from the unit size and joint, openings taken out, your waste allowance, mortar volume from the joint geometry, and bags.
You get: A unit count, pack count, and mortar quantity for a single-leaf wall that you can trace to the unit size, joint width, and area you entered.
Open Brick, Block & MortarConcrete volume for a slab or a round hole, a waste allowance, and the bag count from a manufacturer-stated yield or your own — with the rounding shown.
You get: Cubic metres or yards to order, or how many bags to buy and how much is left over, traceable to your dimensions, waste figure, and the yield you chose.
Open Concrete Volume & BagsDrywall or plasterboard sheets for an area from the sheet size, openings, and your waste; joint compound from a stated coverage, pails, and screws at your rate.
You get: A board take-off you can order from — sheets, compound, pails, and screws — with every figure traceable to the sizes, coverage, and rates you entered.
Open Drywall Sheets & CompoundLitres or gallons for walls and ceilings from area, openings, coats, and a coverage you can name — manufacturer-stated or your own — with cans and spare.
You get: How much paint to buy for a room and how many cans that is, traceable to the area you measured, the coats you chose, and the spreading rate on the product.
Open Paint CoveragePitch as rise-per-12, degrees, or percent; rafter length from span and overhang; sloped roof area, squares, and shingle bundles at your count per square.
You get: The roof figures a gable job needs: the pitch in every form, the rafter line length, the actual sloped area, and how many squares or bundles to order.
Open Roof Pitch, Rafter & AreaArea of a room, floor, or surface built from rectangles, triangles, circles, and trapezoids — openings subtracted — in square feet, yards, and metres at once.
You get: The area of an irregular space, section by section so it can be checked, with a waste allowance and a cost at your price per square foot or metre, exportable as CSV.
Open Square Footage & AreaNumber of risers, riser height, tread depth, total run, stringer length, and angle for a straight flight — checked only against the limits you enter.
You get: A stair layout from the floor-to-floor height: how many steps, how tall and deep each is, how far the flight runs, and how long to cut the stringers.
Open Stair Rise, Run & StringerHow many tiles or planks an area needs from the tile size and grout joint, with your waste allowance, boxes by count or coverage, and the spare after rounding.
You get: A tile or plank count and box order for a floor or wall — with the joint accounted for, the rounding visible, and the cost at your price per box.
Open Tile & Flooring Quantity