Keep this bid so it is still here when the customer calls back. Every number on this form is saved together, under a name you choose, along with the figure it gave you, and restoring one puts the whole job back exactly as you priced it. Mark each one won or lost when you hear — the ones you have not heard back on stay listed as waiting, with how long they have been out. Once a few have come back, this panel says how long yours actually take, and how many are still out past that. Once enough of them have been decided, it also says whether the bids you save here have been landing differently lately than they used to.
Kept in this browser only, on this site’s own storage. Nothing is uploaded, and clearing your browser data clears it — download a backup to keep a copy or open your bids on another device. Bids are kept per tool, so these are the ones you saved here.
Type the room and its openings. You get sheets (counting cuts, not just area), screws, tape, joint compound and corner bead, from the same drywall engine as the whole-house takeoff. Nothing leaves your browser.
Do the whole house: framing, sheathing and drywall in one takeoff
For a 12 x 12 ft room with 8 ft walls, one 3 ft door and a ceiling, hung horizontally in 4 x 8 ft sheets, the calculator counts 17 sheets: 508 sq ft of faces, which is 15.9 sheets by area, plus the cuts that cannot share a sheet. Count by area alone and you buy one too few.
This calculator hangs walls horizontally in 48 in courses, the usual way on 8 ft walls: two courses and a single flat joint instead of a joint at every stud bay. Longer sheets (12 ft) mean fewer end joints. Your hanger may choose differently, and the count changes with it.
The calculator measures tape from the seams, wall-to-ceiling angles and inside corners, and estimates compound at 0.01 gal per sq ft plus 10% waste, about 450 sq ft per 4.5 gal pail. For the 12 x 12 ft room that is 1 roll of tape and 2 pails of compound.
A common rule is about 1 screw per sq ft of board, so roughly 32 screws for a 4 x 8 ft sheet. The calculator adds 10% waste and the rate is yours to change; follow your local code and the board maker's spacing.