Board feet calculator app

Find the board footage of lumber by entering your boards’ length, width, and thickness. Add the price per board foot to estimate the cost.

When it’s time to purchase lumber for a project, you may find that the material isn’t sold by the square foot or the linear foot, but by the board foot instead.

This method of measuring wood is more accurate for sales and determining costs, even though it may not be a measurement that most lay people will use.

The calculator above will easily calculate the board footage and convert dimensions automatically.

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It will also help calculate the price of the board or the total lumber price for multiple boards.

This board foot calculator uses inches in decimal format or in quarters (e.g., 4/4). You can convert decimal measurements to fractions if you need the decimal equivalent for your dimensions.

A board foot, abbreviated bd ft, is a unit of measurement for the volume of a piece of wood in feet. While square feet refers to the area of a material on two dimensions and linear feet refers to the le

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