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Deck Material Calculator

Enter deck length and width, board width (for example 5.5 in for a 6 in nominal), board length, and gap. Waste defaults to 10%. Optional joist spacing estimates joist count.

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Boards needed

Boards with waste

Area

Joist count

Boards use effective width (board + gap) and round up. Waste rounds up again. Joists ≈ floor(length / spacing) + 1.

How it works

Is any data uploaded?
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