Home & Construction

35 tools

Work out materials, areas and running costs before you order, build or install anything.

Materials and running costs, worked out before you order rather than after. How many bricks, bags of cement, tiles or litres of paint a space needs, what a solar array or an inverter will actually save, and what an air conditioner costs to run.

Material estimates include the wastage allowance that ordering exactly the calculated quantity ignores — which is why a job that was measured correctly still runs short.

Electricity Cost Calculator

Work out what each appliance costs to run per day, month and year at your own tariff.

Solar Savings Calculator

See what a rooftop solar system would save on your bill and how long it takes to pay for itself.

Solar Panel Calculator

Work out how many solar panels and how many kW you need, and whether your roof is big enough.

Paint Calculator

Work out how many litres of paint a room needs, and how many cans to buy, before you go shopping.

Tile Calculator

Calculate how many tiles and boxes a floor or wall needs, including wastage for cuts.

Flooring Calculator

Work out how many boxes of flooring a room needs and what it will cost, wastage included.

Cement Calculator

Work out how many cement bags a concrete pour or a plastering job needs, with sand and aggregate.

Brick Calculator

Calculate how many bricks a wall needs, plus the cement and sand for the mortar.

Concrete Calculator

Work out concrete volume and the cement, sand and aggregate a slab or footing needs.

Room Area Calculator

Calculate floor, wall and ceiling area for a room, with doors and windows deducted.

Land Area Calculator

Convert land area between square feet, gaj, acre, hectare, bigha, guntha, cent and more.

Water Tank Calculator

Work out how many litres a tank holds and how long that lasts your household.

AC Tonnage Calculator

Find the right air conditioner size for a room, and what it will cost to run each month.

Inverter / UPS Calculator

Size a home inverter and battery for the load you want to run and the backup hours you need.

TMT Steel Weight Calculator

Convert a bar schedule to kilograms and tonnes using the d²/162 rule, across every TMT size.

Plaster Calculator

Cement, sand and water for plastering, with openings deducted and the right thickness for the surface.

AAC Block Calculator

Blocks, thin-bed adhesive and wall weight for AAC masonry, compared against the same wall in brick.

Mortar Calculator

Cement, sand and water for any volume of mortar, with the mixes compared side by side.

Roofing Sheet Calculator

Sheets, screws and ridge for a pitched roof, allowing for the slope and the side lap.

Excavation Calculator

Dig volume, spoil after swell and truck loads, including working space and battered sides.

Backfill Calculator

Fill needed around a finished structure, allowing for compaction shrinkage and reusing the excavated soil.

Foundation Material Calculator

Concrete, steel and shuttering for isolated footings — blinding, footing and pedestal together.

Rebar Calculator

Bars, lengths and weight for a slab mat, from the spacing on the drawing.

Bar Bending Schedule Calculator

Cutting lengths, laps and weights for every bar mark, with the working shown and CSV export.

Electrical Load Calculator

Size a house connection — connected load, maximum demand, phase and main breaker.

Wire Size Calculator

Cable size from current and run length, checked against both the ampacity and the voltage drop.

Water Pump Calculator

Pump HP from flow and total head, with friction worked out by Hazen-Williams.

Septic Tank Calculator

Septic tank size for a household, following IS 2470 — detention volume plus sludge.

Rainwater Harvesting Calculator

How much rain a roof can collect, after runoff losses and first flush, with storage sizing.

House Construction Cost Calculator

What a house costs to build, by quality and city, broken down across the trades.

Construction Material Estimator

Cement, steel, sand, aggregate and bricks for a whole building, from per-square-foot rates.

BOQ Calculator

Price a bill of quantities line by line, with overheads, profit and GST shown separately.

Material Takeoff Calculator

Concrete, steel, bricks and mortar summed across every element of a structure.

Contractor Quote Comparison

Compare builder quotes on scope, not just price, and see which is genuinely best value.

Interior Design Cost Calculator

Estimate what interior work will cost, broken down by kitchen, wardrobes, flooring, ceiling and the rest.

How these tools work

Every one of these 35 tools runs entirely in your browser. There is no account to create, no file to upload and no daily limit, because the work happens on your own device rather than on a server — which also means there is nothing for us to log, cache or leak. Most of them keep working with the network off once the page has loaded.

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