Construction calculators
Material calculators, job estimators and cost calculators for every kind of business on ConcreteNear. Each one works in US or metric units, adjusts prices to your state, lets you edit every price, and can be printed, emailed or shared as a link. Default prices come from public sources (checked 2026-11-10); anything without a public source is labeled as a starting estimate.
Concrete
Concrete Slab Calculator
Cubic yards, bags and trucks for slabs, patios, driveways and pads — with waste and ready-mix vs bag cost.
Concrete Footing Calculator
Continuous (strip) footings plus square pad footings in one order — yards, bags and trucks.
Concrete Column & Post Hole Calculator
Sonotube columns, piers and fence-post holes: bags per hole and total yards, with the post subtracted.
Concrete Wall Calculator
Poured foundation, stem and retaining walls: yards with openings deducted, plus form contact area.
Concrete Stairs Calculator
Solid concrete steps on grade with an optional top landing — volume, bags, total rise and run, code checks.
Concrete Bag Calculator
How many 40, 50, 60 or 80-lb bags of concrete mix you need — and when a short-load truck is cheaper.
Rebar & Wire Mesh Calculator
Bars, sticks, lap splices, weight, chairs and ties for a rebar grid — or sheets and rolls of welded wire mesh.
Concrete Block (CMU) Calculator
Blocks, mortar bags and grout for a block wall — fully or partially grouted — with mason labor.
Concrete Pump Time & Cost Calculator
Billable pump hours for your pour — checks whether the pump or the ready-mix trucks are the bottleneck.
Concrete Work & Specialty
Concrete Driveway & Slab Cost Estimator
Full job estimate for a driveway, patio or slab: concrete, base, reinforcement, finish, labor, pump and tear-out.
Flowable Fill (CDF) Calculator
Yards of flowable fill / CLSM for trench backfill around pipe, pipe abandonment and void fill.
Shotcrete & Gunite Calculator
Material to order for sprayed walls, pools and slopes — including rebound loss — and crew days.
Concrete Cutting & Core Drilling Estimator
Price saw cutting by the inch-foot and core holes by the inch-inch — plus a control-joint layout for new slabs.
Concrete Removal & Haul-Off Calculator
Tons and loose yards of broken concrete, truckloads, and the cost to break out, haul and recycle it.
Stamped, Colored & Polished Concrete Cost Calculator
Compare stamped, colored, exposed-aggregate and polished concrete for your square footage.
Aggregates, Hauling & Equipment
Gravel & Crushed Rock Calculator
Tons and yards of gravel, crushed rock, road base and decorative stone — with truckloads and delivered cost.
Sand Calculator
Tons of concrete, mason, fill or paver sand for your area and depth, plus truckloads and cost.
Fill Dirt & Topsoil Calculator
Loose yards to order for fill and topsoil, with a shrink (compaction) allowance, tons and truckloads.
Dump Truck Load & Hauling Calculator
How many dump-truck loads, trips, truck-hours and days a haul takes — and what it costs.
Equipment Hauling Cost & Permit Calculator
Loaded height, width and gross weight checks for permits and escorts, plus a mileage-based hauling estimate.
Equipment Rental Cost Calculator
Finds the cheapest mix of daily, weekly and 4-week rates for your rental — with delivery and damage waiver.
Drilling & Excavation
Water Well Drilling Cost Calculator
Drilling, casing, pump and permit cost for a water well — plus how many gallons the well stores.
Directional Boring (HDD) Cost & Planning Calculator
Reamer size, bore hole volume, drilling fluid, rig days and per-foot cost for a horizontal directional bore.
Hydro-Excavation (Vacuum Truck) Calculator
Potholes and slot trenches by hydrovac: spoil volume, debris-tank loads, billable hours and cost.
Asphalt, Testing & Traffic Control
Concrete & Soil Testing Calculator
Minimum concrete strength tests (ACI 318 frequency), cylinders, compaction tests and a testing budget.
Asphalt Tonnage Calculator
Tons of hot-mix asphalt for a driveway, lot or road patch — by compacted thickness — plus truckloads and tack.
Asphalt Paving Cost Estimator
New asphalt, overlay or mill-and-fill: asphalt tons, base, milling, mobilization and sealcoat in one estimate.
Work Zone Traffic Control & Flagging Calculator
MUTCD taper lengths, buffer space, sign spacing, cones and a flagger / traffic-control budget for your work zone.
Where the prices come from
Materials and installed prices start from public bid averages (Florida DOT 2025 item average unit costs), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 and NRMCA ready-mix data; wages from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (OEWS, May 2025); trucking cost from ATRI's 2026 operational cost update. State adjustments use BEA Regional Price Parities (2024). Each calculator lists the source for every price it uses. These are planning estimates, not quotes.