Free tools
Free calculators and lookups
Material calculators for the trades, plus WordPress budget, scope, and accessibility-deadline tools. Everything runs in your browser. No signup, no email.
Accessibility, compliance, and procurement
Three questions a public-sector or regulated buyer has to answer in order: what the law requires of you and by when, what closing the gap costs, and whether the contract has to go out to tender.
- Canadian web accessibility deadline lookup
Tell me your organization type and where your site stands today, and I will show you the accessibility deadline, the regulation behind it, and what is actually at stake.
- Government web procurement threshold lookup (Canada)
Find out whether a public-sector contract has to be openly tendered, which trade agreements bite at that value, and how much room is left before the next threshold.
Learning and training
What it actually takes to build training, and what the platform underneath it costs to run.
- eLearning development time and cost calculator
Estimate the development hours and budget behind one finished hour of training, using the benchmark ratios the field actually cites.
- WordPress LMS cost calculator (vs Moodle, vs Canvas, vs LearnDash)
Compare the multi-year total cost of running a course platform on WordPress with LearnDash, on Moodle, and on Canvas, from a few details off a procurement form.
WordPress budgets and costs
Answer a few questions and get a real number: what a build is likely to cost, what keeping it running costs each month, and what the licenses add up to over the years.
- WordPress project scope estimator
An honest first read on what a WordPress project is likely to cost.
- WordPress maintenance budget calculator
Answer a few questions about your site and get an honest monthly maintenance budget, split across security, performance, and editorial, then mapped to a care tier.
- WordPress plugin license cost calculator
Project what a premium plugin stack really costs once you count the renewals, the per-site multipliers, and years of quiet price increases, not just the year-one sticker.
Earthwork and site prep
Volume and tonnage for work that happens before the structure goes up: excavation, grading, fill, concrete, and paving. Everything runs in your browser.
- Excavation volume calculator
Estimate how much material to remove from a dig site, the swell factor for hauling, and the cost to excavate.
- Fill dirt calculator: loose volume, not finished grade
Work out how much fill dirt, granular, or backfill to order.
- Concrete volume calculator
Estimate concrete volume, ready-mix yards, or bag count with unit conversion and wastage controls.
- Asphalt tonnage calculator
Estimate asphalt volume, tonnage, and optional cost with unit conversions, wastage, density, and compaction controls.
Framing and structural
Material quantities for the structural shell: board-feet of lumber and sheets of drywall.
- Lumber board-foot calculator
Calculate board feet and optional cost with quantity, unit conversion, and wastage allowances.
- Drywall sheet calculator
Estimate drywall sheets and optional cost with area unit conversion and wastage controls.
Surface finishes
Coverage estimates for tile and paint.
- Tile calculator: square footage plus cuts and breakage
Enter room and tile dimensions to estimate materials, including wastage, optional non-tiled cutouts, and estimated cost.
- Paint coverage calculator
Estimate paint quantity and optional cost with area units, coats, coverage, and wastage controls.
Exterior and perimeter
- Fence material calculator
Estimate linear footage, post counts, post-hole concrete, and rails with unit and wastage controls.
More tools
- 3D print cost calculator: filament weight, length, and time
Estimate filament weight, length, cost, and print time from your model volume and print settings — for PLA, PETG, ABS, TPU, and nylon.