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Your Basic Board Foot Calculator Here
is a bare-bones board foot calculator for tallying up lumber requirements.
Just enter your desired thickness, width, length, and quantity and
it will compute board feet and total board feet. |
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Notes:
1.
Hardwood lumber is typically sold by the board foot, a unit of volume
equivalent to a board that is one inch thick, one foot wide and
one foot long, or 144 cubic inches. Lumber thickness is expressed
in quarters of an inch, beginning with 1 inch, so that 1 inch lumber
is designated as 4/4, 1-1/2 inch lumber is 6/4, 2 inch lumber is
8/4, and so on. These units refer to nominal or roughsawn dimensions,
not surfaced dimensions.
2.
This program rounds lumber thickness up to the
next 1/4" and lumber less than 4/4 is rounded up to 4/4.
Thus, a specified thickness of 3/4" will be treated as 4/4" material.
3.
You can enter fractional wood dimensions as decimals (12.75), or
as conventional fractions (12 3/4). If you use fractions, just make
sure you leave a space between any leading whole number and the
fraction.
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