Guides, page 3

Two coats is the usual answer, but not always. When one coat is enough, when you need three, and how primer changes the count.

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Compare laminate and luxury vinyl plank on price, water resistance and lifespan, and run both through a side-by-side cost calculator for your room.

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Convert markup to margin and back, and set a job price from your cost and target profit. Includes a conversion table and worked contractor examples.

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Enter your garden beds and depth to get cubic yards or bags of mulch, and see whether bags or bulk delivery costs less for your yard.

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Enter your room size and get gallons or liters of paint for the walls and ceiling, with doors, windows and coats already taken off.

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Price an interior paint job from labor hours, paint, supplies, overhead and your target margin, so every quote covers costs and leaves a profit.

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Count the pavers for a patio or walkway, plus tons of base gravel and cubic yards of bedding sand, with cut waste and a materials total.

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Find how many bags of concrete each fence or deck post needs, based on hole size, depth, gravel and post size, for 40 to 80 lb or 20 to 25 kg bags.

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Find out how many gallons or liters of primer to buy, plus when primer is worth it: new drywall, stains, bare wood and big color changes.

Oct 20, 20264 min read