Outdoor & Yard Calculators.
Bulk material and what you build with it — 5 tools, all free.
Everything that arrives by the yard, the ton or the truckload — mulch, topsoil, gravel and concrete — plus the framing counts for the two projects most often built over them: a fence run and a deck surface. Bulk material is bought in supplier increments, so these round the way the yard rounds.
Mulch & Soil
Cubic yards and bag counts
Answer in yardsGravel
Yards and tons delivered right
Answer in tonsConcrete
Bags, yards, slabs and footings
Answer in bagsFence
Posts, rails, and picket runs
Answer in postsDeck Boards
Boards, screws, linear feet
Answer in boardsThe reasoning behind them
Guides that cover the judgement calls these tools can't make for you — what to measure, which assumption to change, and where the money goes when an estimate is wrong.
The rest of the wall
Interior Calculators, Electrical Calculators, Heating & Cooling Calculators — or all 18 in one list.