Carpet calculator
Carpet and pad by the square yard, with tack strip, seams, transitions and the stairs, from the floor area.
An estimate of the materials a job takes, worked out in your browser: check it against the job, and against your local code where it matters. Nothing you type leaves this page.
Put in the job's numbers and choices, and the list below follows them.
What it takes
Worked out for Floor area 500 sq ft, Room perimeter 100 ft, Stair treads 0 each, Transitions 2 each, Take up the old carpet: No.
Carpet and pad
- Carpet 62 sq yd Square yards 55.56 sq yd: 55.56 sq yd; plus 10% waste: 61.12; rounded up to whole sq yd: 62. Waste for the seams of 12 ft rolls.
- Carpet pad 62 sq yd Square yards 55.56 sq yd: 55.56 sq yd; plus 10% waste: 61.12; rounded up to whole sq yd: 62.
- Tack strip, 4 ft 28 each Room perimeter 100 ft at 4 a piece: 25 each; plus 10% waste: 27.5; rounded up to whole each: 28.
- Carpet seam tape, 60 ft roll 1 roll A fixed 1: 1 roll.
- Carpet transition strip 2 each Transitions 2 each: 2 each.
Labor
- Carpet installation 56 sq yd Square yards 55.56 sq yd: 55.56 sq yd; rounded up to whole sq yd: 56.
Left out: Old carpet removal (only when Take up the old carpet is Yes).
What it leaves out
- Moving furniture
- Subfloor repair
The same calculator in SMG Tools
In SMG Tools this calculator fills its numbers from the client's site measurements, prices every line from your own Price Book, checks the margin against your target, and carries the lines onto the proposal, the job's plan and the purchase order. It is one of the ready-made calculators SMG Tools sets up for flooring, and calculators are on every plan.