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Home improvement cost calculators

Know what it costs before you call anyone.

Free home improvement cost calculators with transparent formulas, regional pricing, and no lead forms. Enter your project dimensions and get an itemized estimate instantly, materials, labor, permits and waste broken out line by line, priced for your state.

  • No email required
  • No phone number
  • No contractor calls
  • No signup

Five calculators, 50 states

Each one applies your state's construction labor rate, local frost depth and permitting rules to an itemized breakdown.

Why this is different

Most cost calculators are lead-generation funnels wearing a calculator costume, or they show you a national average that applies to nobody. Neither helps you plan a project.

No lead forms, ever

No email, no phone number, no zip code gate, no signup. Enter your dimensions and the estimate appears. Your details are never sold to contractors because we never collect them.

Itemized, not a single number

Every estimate breaks out materials, posts, concrete, hardware, waste, labor and permits as separate lines, each with the assumption behind it stated. You can check our arithmetic.

Real government data, fetched not typed

Labor comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' published construction wage for your state, refreshed on every deploy. Material trends come from the Federal Reserve's Producer Price Index. We show you the source and the date.

Ranges, not false precision

Every estimate is a range, because a single figure for a project nobody has surveyed would be dishonest. The low end assumes easy access; the high end assumes obstacles.

Where the numbers come from

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Regional construction trade wage data, converted into the labor multiplier applied to every estimate.

US Department of Energy

Climate zone assignments and recommended R-values by zone and building assembly.

Manufacturer specifications

Published bag yields from QUIKRETE and Sakrete, material R-values, and warranty lifespans.

Every calculator page includes a "How we calculated this" section showing the formula and the assumptions. Read more about our methodology.