Aluminium Plate Weight Calculator | Alloy Plate Mass

Aluminium Plate Weight Calculator | Alloy Plate Mass

When you’re a machinist standing in front of a rack of stock looking at a slab of metal that will take both hands to pick … Read more

Post And Beam Span Chart

Post And Beam Span Chart

The dream begins with a sketch of the ideal deck. What will it look like? How about the view? The evening breeze? Then you open … Read more

Concrete and Rebar Calculator | Yards, Bars & Chairs

Concrete and Rebar Calculator | Yards, Bars & Chairs

Concreting is commonly thought of as pouring wet sand into place and letting it set. This perspective fail to account for structural needs of the … Read more

Engineered Beam Span Chart

Engineered Beam Span Chart

At some point during a remodel, you arrive at the math. It’s when you’re standing on an area that used to have a wall there. … Read more

Load Bearing Beam Sizing Chart

Load Bearing Beam Sizing Chart

Maybe you’ve been in a house where you walk across floor and feel a slight but disturbing bounce. It is not a structural problem; the … Read more

How Much Pea Gravel Do I Need Calculator

How Much Pea Gravel Do I Need Calculator

If you go shopping for smooth stones at your local landscape yard, chances are you envision yourself creating a tidy path through your garden, but … Read more

2x6 Floor Joist Span Chart

2×6 Floor Joist Span Chart

A two-by-six, in your imagination, is typically thought off as a real two-by-six-inch board of lumber. Actualy it’s one-and-a-half by five-and-a-half inches. And that difference … Read more

Brad Nail Gauges Chart

Brad Nail Gauges Chart

Ever try holding a piece of trim against a wall and finding that the nail you chose doesn’t quite hold the wood? Or worse, splits … Read more

Concrete Slab Slope Calculator | Fall & Drainage

Concrete Slab Slope Calculator | Fall & Drainage

You can’t always see small changes in slope; a new patio might look flat against foundation even though it will actualy hold water. If there’s … Read more

Nail Length And Shape Chart

Nail Length And Shape Chart

How many times have you been confused at hardware store by the name of the nails you want? Well, with the penny system you can … Read more

Drywall Compound Calculator | Mud, Tape & Coats

Drywall Compound Calculator | Mud, Tape & Coats

A large five gallon bucket rests in your hand as you find yourself standing in the hardware store’s aisles. Will those additional twenty dollars really … Read more

Screw Head Types Chart

Screw Head Types Chart

Staring at a wall of screws can make you go a little crazy. A piece of wood? Grab some wood screws. Drywall anchors? Get a … Read more

Weight Calculator for Steel Beams | W-Beam Tool

Weight Calculator for Steel Beams | W-Beam Tool

Ever pick up a steel beam? Yeah, they weighs more than you think they should. In the workshop. They is on the job site. All … Read more

2x6 Floor Joist Span Calculator

2×6 Floor Joist Span Calculator

Two by sixes are normal looking but they vibrates when you walk across them on a basement floor. They’re carrying more weight then they should, … Read more