Landscaping estimate software
- Price to quote
- $771
- Area to cover, sq ft
- 540
- Cubic yards to order, to the nearest yard
- 5
Every figure on this page is computed from the inputs you enter, by the method stated below it. HardscapeDesk publishes no market rates and no material densities: the tons per yard is your supplier's figure, and the defaults are a worked example to replace with your own.
Landscaping estimate software earns its keep on the materials line, because that is where a landscaping estimate goes wrong. Rock, gravel, mulch and soil are bought by the cubic yard or the ton, priced per yard or per ton, and spread by the hour, and a bed's quantity comes from its area and depth, not from a guess at the tailgate. Software that asks for a materials figure in dollars has skipped the part that decides the margin. This guide is about what the software has to do with a bed, and the free landscape rock calculator on this site does it with no account.
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Area times depth into cubic yards, every time
Length times width in feet, times depth in inches over twelve, over twenty-seven, is the cubic yards of anything you spread. It is the same arithmetic for rock, mulch, soil and gravel, and it is the arithmetic estimate software should do from the dimensions rather than ask you to bring. The rock calculator on this site derives it and rounds the order to the nearest yard for the truck.
Yards into tons at the supplier's figure, not a table
Rock is sold by the ton and laid by the yard, and the conversion depends on the stone and the size, so the honest figure is the one on your supplier's ticket for the product you are laying. The tool asks for it rather than asserting one; a density table on a website is a guess about a yard you have never seen.
Price the material at your cost and markup, and the spreading by the yard
The material line is tons times your delivered cost, marked up to cover the yard you order over and the delivery that arrives late; the spreading is labor priced per yard laid, because that is how long it takes. Showing both as lines is what lets a customer who wants a deeper bed see exactly what the extra inch costs.
Landscaping estimate software: common questions
What should landscaping estimate software do with materials?
Derive the cubic yards from the dimensions, convert to tons at your supplier's figure for the product, price the material at your cost with a markup, and price the spreading labor by the yard, then carry the result into the estimate as lines the customer can check. A materials figure typed in dollars has skipped all of that.
Is there a free landscape rock calculator?
Yes, on this site: enter the bed's length, width and depth, your supplier's tons per yard, your cost per ton, your markup and your spreading labor per yard, and it prices the rock with the yards and tons to order. Print it as it stands. HardscapeDesk Pro adds your company name and logo and saving it against the customer.
How many tons is a cubic yard of landscape rock?
It depends on the stone and the size, which is why the tool asks for your supplier's figure rather than stating one; the worked example uses 1.4 as an example to replace. Read it off the ticket for the product you are laying and the tons to order will match what the truck delivers.
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On the worked example, a 45 by 12 foot bed at 3 inches deep is 540 square feet and 5 cubic yards, 7 tons at the supplier's 1.4 tons per yard, $546 of rock at $65 a ton with a 20% markup, $225 of spreading labor at $45 a yard, and a price to quote of $771.
Landscape rock calculator (Price to quote): $771, HardscapeDesk, worked example.
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