How to Calculate Board Feet on My ProjectCalc Tutorial

A ProjectCalc is a calculator that makes conversions for ordering building materials for lumber, rock, concrete, drywall and gardening supplies. Some lumber yards sell their products in board feet. Instead of ordering the amount of boards you need by their size you need to know the total board feet needed for your project. The board feet of a board is the volume of cubic inches or the thickness times the width times the length. Inputting the information correctly into a ProjectCalc will supply you with the board feet figure you need to order your materials.

ProjectCalc calculator
Lumber size for project

Instructions

- 1
  Press the “On/C” button to turn the project calculator on. The display will show zero.
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  Input the size of lumber for your project with the thickness, width and length of boards. For example, if you are using 2-foot-by-4-foot boards that are 12 feet long, you input the dimensions in this manner: "2 Inch x 4 Inch x 12 Feet =." The figure displayed is the cubic inches of one board in this size.
- 3
  Press “Conv 7 (Board Feet)” to obtain the board feet of one board. The display will show the board feet of one board in a decimal form.
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  Press “x 20” if you know you need 20 boards in this size for your project. The project calculator will multiply each board times its board feet and round off the total to the nearest foot for the total board feet to order for your project.
- 5
  Multiply the total board feet times the price at the lumber yard for your total price of the materials.

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