Home & DIY Tools
Free home and DIY tools for planning projects, measuring, estimating costs, and getting things done around the house.
About Our Home & DIY Tools
Our home and DIY tools help you plan projects, estimate materials, convert measurements, and budget for renovations or simple repairs. Each tool is built to be simple, practical, and free to use.
All tools run entirely in your browser — no account required and no data sent to any server.
Decking Calculator
Plan a deck build — total area, deck boards, joists, screws, and cost. Supports multiple sections, board gap, joist spacing (12"/16"/24" or 300/400/600 mm), waste percentage, and imperial or metric units.
Flooring Calculator
Estimate flooring for one or many rooms — total area, area with waste, boxes to buy, and total cost. Switch between feet and meters. Works for laminate, hardwood, LVP, tile, vinyl, and carpet.
Appliance Energy Cost Calculator
Estimate what any appliance costs to run from watts, daily hours, weekly usage, quantity, and tariff price per kWh. See daily, monthly, and yearly electricity cost instantly.
Concrete Calculator
Estimate concrete volume, bags, ready-mix yards, and total cost for slabs, columns, footings, and stairs — all in one pour list. Imperial or metric.
Fence Material Calculator
Estimate fence posts, rails, pickets, and concrete bags for picket, privacy, and split-rail fences. Imperial or metric.
Roofing Material Calculator
Estimate roofing squares, bundles, underlayment rolls, drip edge, and ridge cap for gable, hip, and shed roofs. Imperial or metric.
Mulch Calculator
Estimate mulch volume, cubic yards, bags, weight, waste, and cost for garden beds, borders, and tree rings. Imperial or metric.
Lawn Seed Calculator
Estimate grass seed weight, bag count, coverage, and cost for new lawns or overseeding by grass type. Imperial or metric.
Tile Layout Calculator
Estimate tile count, boxes, edge cuts, and cost with a live to-scale visual preview of the layout pattern — straight grid, brick (50%), 1/3 offset, or diagonal 45°.
Tile Grout Calculator
Estimate how much grout you need by weight, volume, and bags — based on tile size, joint width, joint depth, and grout type (unsanded, sanded, epoxy).
Paver Calculator
Estimate pavers, base gravel, bedding sand bags, edge restraint length, and total cost for a patio, walkway, or driveway. Running bond, herringbone, basket weave, or stack.
Curtain Size Calculator
Work out rod length, panel width, and drop length for your window — including fullness, header allowance, and hem. Sill, floor, or puddle lengths supported.
Topsoil Calculator
Estimate topsoil volume, bags, weight, and cost for garden beds, raised beds, and lawn fill. Supports rectangular and circular beds, imperial or metric.
Compost Calculator
Estimate how much compost you need by volume, bags, weight, and cost for garden beds, raised beds, and borders. Supports rectangular and circular beds, imperial or metric.
Shed Base Calculator
Estimate materials for a shed base — concrete slab, gravel, paving slabs, or timber frame. Get concrete bags, sub-base, gravel, bedding sand, slab counts, joists and timber lengths. Imperial or metric.
Wallpaper Calculator
Estimate wallpaper rolls, strips, usable coverage, and total cost for a room. Includes doors and windows, roll dimensions, trim allowance, and pattern repeat waste.
Wall Painting Calculator
Estimate gallons or litres of paint, cans to buy, and total cost for a room. Includes doors and windows, optional ceiling, number of coats, paint type coverage, and waste allowance.
Insulation Calculator
Estimate insulation bags, batts, or spray-foam board-feet and cost. Pick an R-value tier (R-13 walls, R-19 floors, R-30/R-38 attic, R-49 ceiling) and material (fiberglass batt, blown-in, spray foam) — coverage rates set automatically.
Stair Stringer Calculator
Work out stair stringer length, riser count, riser height, tread run, and stair angle from your total rise and run — with a right-triangle diagram and a US (IRC) or UK (Part K) building-code compliance check.
Drywall Calculator
Calculate drywall sheets (4×8, 4×10, 4×12), screws, joint compound buckets and paper tape for any room. Subtracts doors and windows, optional ceiling, with a to-scale wall-elevation preview that shows the sheet layout.
Gravel Calculator
Estimate gravel volume, weight, bags, and total cost for driveways, paths, drainage, and landscaping. Supports rectangle, circle, and ring shapes with imperial or metric units.
Brick Calculator
Estimate brick count, mortar bags, and total cost for any brick wall — with a to-scale SVG preview of running bond, stack bond, ⅓ offset, or herringbone. Supports modular, queen, engineer, Norman, and UK bricks.
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