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Beautifying your outdoor space with landscape rock products will bring enjoyment, low maintenance, and added value to your home. You can mix styles and colors, and use the rocks for gardens, walkways, borders, driveways, and around trees and shrubs. If you decide to design with these products, here is a landscape stone calculator to help…

While planning your DIY project or re-graveling a patio area or driveway, you’ll want an accurate estimate to use to figure out how much material you’ll need to complete the job. Whether you’re a contractor or a homeowner, and whether you’re looking for pea gravel or ¾ inch crushed, there’s an easy way to figure…

This tile calculator will help you figure out the cost of different tile types—including ceramic and porcelain tile prices—and how much tile you’ll need to buy to complete your project. You’ll need a few simple measurements, and the calculator will take care of the rest for you. To make this calculator work, you need to…

On This Page: Vinyl Plank Flooring Calculator Plank Sizes How many boxes do you need? Sheet Vinyl Calculator Roll Lengths Roll Widths How to Measure Linoleum Calculator Vinyl Calculator by Room Size DIY or Pro? FAQs Vinyl Plank Flooring Calculator To calculate your vinyl plank flooring: Enter the length and width of your flooring project…

On This Page: How to Estimate Drywall or Sheetrock Sheets of Drywall in a Bundle Drywall Layout Calculator Calculating Angled Walls for Drywall Types of Drywall Joints Common Sheetrock or Drywall Measurements Drywall Coverage by Type Drywall Ceiling Calculator How to Calculate Sheetrock Waste Drywall Mud Calculator Drywall Estimator Square Footage FAQs How to Estimate…

This free lumber estimator gives you a tool to calculate how much lumber you need for your project. Find out what a board foot is, how to measure it and estimate how much wood you need for your deck, flooring or framing project. Board Feet vs. Linear Feet Lumberyards normally deal in board feet, particularly…

Tips on Measuring for Resilient Tile Enter the size of the rooms to be covered and then select the size of the tile you plan to use. The calculator will determine how many tiles you need, including a standard 10 percent waste allowance. Homeowner Tip – Individual tiles are commonly 12 inches square, but also…

Tips on Measuring for Wallpaper Before you begin, take the room measurements in the list below – round to the nearest foot. 1. Wall Height Measure from floor to ceiling. 2. Wall perimeter for areas you plan to wallpaper Measure the length of each wall. Add all lengths together to obtain the total horizontal distance,…

Use this handy tool to plug in the dimensions of your painting project, calculate the number of square feet and find how much paint you need per gallon for your interior room, ceiling or exterior siding. On This Page: Tips on Measuring for Paint Types of Paint Interior Exterior Cost Factors FAQ Tips on Measuring…

Photo: Vipada / Adobe Stock This roofing calculator will help you calculate shingles for your project and find the total number you’ll need to cover your roof, including an overage of about 10%. It also covers how many squares you’ll need and how many bundles of shingles you’ll want to buy for your project. Use…