Hardwood calculator
Hardwood nailed, glued or floating, prefinished or sanded and finished on site, with its underlayment, fasteners and trim.
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 400 sq ft, Room perimeter 80 ft, Transitions 2 each, Installed: Nailed to a wood subfloor, Finish: Prefinished.
Flooring
- Hardwood flooring 440 sq ft Floor area 400 sq ft: 400 sq ft; plus 10% waste: 440.
- Flooring underlayment paper, 500 sq ft roll 1 roll Floor area 400 sq ft at 500 a roll: 0.8 roll; rounded up to whole roll: 1.
- Flooring cleats, 1,000 ct 4 box Floor area 400 sq ft, one per 100: 4 box.
Left out: Wood flooring adhesive, 4 gal (only when Installed is Glued to concrete); Floating floor underlayment, 100 sq ft roll (only when Installed is Floating).
Finish
Left out: Floor finish, polyurethane (only when Finish is Sanded and finished on site); Sanding belts, discs and screens (only when Finish is Sanded and finished on site).
Trim
- Quarter round, 8 ft 11 each Room perimeter 80 ft at 8 a piece: 10 each; plus 10% waste: 11.
- T-molding transition strip 2 each Transitions 2 each: 2 each.
Labor
- Hardwood flooring installation 400 sq ft Floor area 400 sq ft: 400 sq ft.
Left out: Floor sanding and finishing (only when Finish is Sanded and finished on site).
What it leaves out
- Removing the old floor
- Subfloor repair
- Stair treads
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.