Tile, thinset and grout estimator
Tiles, thinset bags and grout pounds for a floor or wall from tile size and joint width.
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Example result · fictional numbers
What you get: tile order sheet
Worked out by this tool from its default inputs. Its role plan lets you run your own numbers, print the sheet and save it.
Order 18 boxes of tile, 5 bags of thinset and 1 bag of grout: $975.00 in material, $3.90 a sq ft
- Tiles
- 138
- Thinset (50 lb bags)
- 5
- Grout
- 13.5 lb → 1 x 25 lb bag(s)
Supplier order
- Tiles needed with waste
- 138 (125 net plus 10%)
- Boxes of tile
- 18 boxes of 8 (16.0 sq ft a box)
- Tiles delivered
- 144, leaving 19 over the net count for cuts and attic stock
- Thinset, 50 lb bags
- 5 at about 60 sq ft a bag with the 1/4 x 3/8 in square notch
- Grout
- 13.5 lb, 1 bag of 25 lb
Also on the sheet
- Material cost for the bid · 5 lines, starting with “Tile”
- Install sheet · 5 lines, starting with “Where”
The plain-words read of this example
For 250 sq ft of 12 x 24 in tile, order 18 boxes (144 tiles), 5 bags of thinset and 1 bag of grout. Material comes to $975.00, $3.90 a sq ft, and the crew needs about 2.1 days. In a interior dry area the mortar must reach 80% contact under the tile, so check coverage on the first tiles set.
3 cited sources
- Does lack of 80% mortar coverage mean that a tile installation will fail? (Tech Talk, February 2018) (TileLetter (National Tile Contractors Association))
- MultiSet Economical Thin-Set Mortar: coverage chart (Custom Building Products)
- 29 CFR 1926.1153, Respirable crystalline silica (construction), Table 1 (Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School (eCFR text))
Plus 5 step-by-step checks, a print layout and a link that reopens it with your numbers.