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Material cost calculator
Estimate quantities, delivery, tax and a project material total.
A clear answer. Here’s how.
Adds the allowance, rounds up to whole packs and applies your supplied tax rate to materials plus delivery. Uses a single currency throughout. Tax treatment varies; this is an arithmetic estimate using your assumptions.
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Worked example
A fixed demonstration, separate from the values you enter above.
- Net quantity required
- 20
- Extra allowance (%)
- 10
- Quantity per pack
- 2
- Price per pack
- 25
- Delivery cost
- 15
- Tax rate (%)
- 0
Example result
- Whole packs
- 11
- Purchased quantity
- 22
- Materials cost
- 275
- Delivery
- 15
- Tax
- 0
- Total
- 290