The Trades Playbook

Paint quantity estimator.

How much paint a room really needs. Runs in your browser, with no sign up.

Your room

Measure the floor and the wall height.

Optional. Measure each one and add them up.

Printed on the paint tin or its product page. Use the figure for the paint you are buying.

You need about

Fill in the length, width, wall height, coats and the coverage on your tin. The answer shows here.

Wall area
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Total to paint
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Coverage
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How it works.

Plain maths you can check yourself.

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