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Paint and drywall

Paint volume and drywall sheets for rooms and walls.

Interior work is mostly arithmetic about surfaces, and the surfaces are smaller than they look. A room's four walls come to a large number until you take out the door and the windows, which on a small room can be a fifth of the total, or a whole extra tin of paint. Both calculators here subtract openings by default. Coverage is the figure worth checking rather than accepting. Paint spread rates on a tin assume a smooth, primed surface; bare plaster, filler and anything textured can use half as much again on the first coat. The advanced options let you type the number off your own tin. Neither calculator estimates screws, tape or joint compound. There is no figure for those that survives different stud spacings and techniques, and inventing one would be worse than leaving it out.