Drywall Sheets & Compound
Drywall 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.
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.
Example: 500 ft² of wall in 4 × 8 sheets is 16 sheets, 18 with 10 % waste; at 10 gallons per 1,000 ft² the compound is 5 gallons.
Sheets by area,
compound by the pail's own number.
How the take-off is formed and which figures are the product's rather than ours.
Sheets
Net area = area to board − openings. Sheets = net area ÷ sheet area, rounded up, then your waste allowance, rounded up again. Sheet sizes are the common trade sizes (4 ft × 8, 10, 12 ft; 1200 × 2400, 2700, 3000 mm) and can be overridden. The count is by area, not by layout: on long walls a longer sheet means fewer joints, and the cut plan is yours.
Compound, pails, screws
Joint compound is taken at a coverage per area of panel. The ready-made profile quotes USG's submittal sheet J1969 (rev. 6-22) for Sheetrock Brand All Purpose Joint Compound: “approximately 10 gal./1,000 sq. ft. of gypsum panels” — the imperial statement, converted exactly to 40.75 L per 100 m² (the sheet's own metric line, 37.8 L/100 m², is that 10 gallons in litres per 1,000 ft², so it is not used). Pails are rounded up from the size you buy. Screws are sheets × the count per sheet you enter — it depends on framing spacing and the fastening schedule, so no rate is assumed.
What is not included
Tape, corner bead, skim coating, second-layer or fire-rated assemblies, and any fixing or fire rule. Product names identify the document quoted; ARZENTIQ is not affiliated with or endorsed by any manufacturer. Inputs stay in your browser; the same four anonymous usage counts as the rest of the site apply.