🌲 Linear Board Foot Calculator
Convert board feet to linear feet, then add waste, trim, and stock length for cleaner lumber ordering.
📍Preset lumber jobs
🔧Conversion inputs
📊Results
🌳Species and stock grid
📈Linear-board-foot reference
| Stock | BF / LF | LF / BF | Note |
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📈Nominal to actual guide
| Nominal | Actual | Use | Note |
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📈Waste and trim guide
| Project | Waste | Trim | Note |
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📈Stock length guide
| Stock | Linear feet | Best fit | Note |
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💡Tips and safety
A board foot measures the volume of wood. Many folks buy it for cabinet grade of lumber. Well know, that it matches a cubic foot.
You can simply estimate it as one square foot of board with one inch of thickness. Or consider a piece of wood: 12 inches wide, 12 inches long and 1 inch thick.
What Is a Board Foot and How to Measure It
For count board feet, you takes the nominal thickness. That is the thickness before you do cuts. For instance, hardwood board that after cut has 3/4 inch of thickness, then has nominal thickness of 1 inch.
Thickness always shows by means of quarters of inch, so 4/4 lumber matches to 1-inch thickness.
Kelke of ways exist for the math of board feet. One from them: multiply width in inches, length in feet and thickness in inches, later share the result by means of 12. At precise or even amounts of feet, multiply width in inches, length in feet and thickness in inches, then share by means of 12 to receive the board feet.
Other way: width in feet, length in feet and thickness in inches. For instance, 2x4x8 stud only 5.33 board feet.
Linear footage differ, because it estimates only straight lines. It measures one dimension: length. Linear foot is line long in 12 inches, so 1 foot.
It describes simply the length of the lumber. Occasionally you calls it lineal footage. In United States and Canada you commonly uses linear measures for dressed lumber.
For instance, board wide in 8 inches match 8 board feet and 12 linear feet. Board wide in 24 inches yet have 24 board feet.
If the dimensions are in inches, you converts them to feet sharing by means of 12, because foot has 12 inches. Count linear footage are easily, because it is only counting, no real math. You can use board foot in calculator for linear feet.
That tool finds factor from the proportion between the cross-sectional area of the board and the standard cross-sectional area of board foot.
