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Materialcalc

Work out what your renovation will cost before you start — materials, tools and labour, room by room.

Materialcalc

Materialcalc Reviews and Details

This page is designed to help you find out whether Materialcalc is good and if it is the right choice for you.

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Features & Specs

  1. 2D & 3D home planner

    Draw a floor plan to scale in 2D and walk through it in 3D. Room dimensions and build choice feed straight into the calculators.

  2. Material calculators

    21 trade calculators — tiles, paint, decking, concrete, insulation, drywall, roofing, paving, stairs, fencing and more. Quantities include waste, so you don't overbuy

  3. Project workspace

    Rooms, calculations, budget and actual spend in one place.

  4. Shopping list

    An itemised list of what to actually buy, kept separate from the estimate, so it can go to the merchant as it is.

  5. PDF export & sharing

    Export plans and material lists to PDF, or share a read-only link to a plan, a project or a build.

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Questions & Answers

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  1. Which are the primary technologies used for building Materialcalc?

    Next.js and React

  2. What makes Materialcalc unique?

    Most material calculators answer one question and forget it. MaterialCalc keeps the answers: draw your room in 2D and walk it in 3D, or design a shed or deck piece by piece, and the quantities total room by room into a project with a budget, a tool list, a schedule and a shopping list you can take to the merchant.

  3. Why should a person choose Materialcalc over its competitors?

    It works from your measurements and your local prices rather than a national average, and the numbers accumulate into a project instead of vanishing when you close the tab. One toggle switches the whole site between metric and imperial and renames the timber — 48×98 mm becomes 2×4 — without changing a single quantity. Free to try, no sign-up.

  4. How would you describe the primary audience of Materialcalc?

    Homeowners planning or running their own renovation, and small builders pricing a job. It assumes you know the trade words but not the arithmetic, so first-time DIY builders get the most out of it.

  5. What's the story behind Materialcalc?

    My own renovation ran over — on cost and on time — and not because of one big mistake. Estimating a job is dozens of small calculations: quantities per trade, waste and offcuts, the tools you don't own yet, and the way one change moves the whole total. Miss any of them and you're back at the merchant on a Saturday, or standing over material you didn't need.

    So I built what I'd wanted myself: work it out once, with your own prices, and keep it. The whole job totals room by room, so you can see what it will actually cost before you commit — not after.

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