DIY & light commercial
The weekend-to-two-week projects: fences, decks, sheds and slabs. Enter your dimensions, get a full material list with waste factor and a cost estimate you can take to the store.
Posts, rails, pickets, concrete.
Joists, beams, decking, footings.
Floor, walls, roof, sheathing.
Posts, beams, rafters, shade slats.
Nest boxes, run, hardware cloth.
Boards, corners, soil volume.
Yards, rebar, forms, gravel.
Material lists, worked examples and regional cost ranges for every calculator in this collection.
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Quantities round to the lumber lengths, sheet sizes and concrete bag weights carried at big-box stores, so the shopping list matches what you can actually put in the cart.
Most fences, decks and slabs trip a permit threshold somewhere — height, setback, or square footage. Run a permit lookup by ZIP first and you avoid the stop-work order.
Every result prints or saves as a PDF with quantities, cut list and cost estimate — one page to hand to the yard counter.