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About Urbarama

Urbarama is a calculator hub for one question: what does this remodeling project actually require, and what will it cost? Not a guess dressed up as a number — a takeoff you can hand to a store associate.

Our standard

Google is right to be suspicious of scaled tool pages, so each calculator here has to earn its place:

• The formula is printed on the page. If you can't check the math, you shouldn't trust the answer.
• Rates come from published sources — manufacturer yields and coverage figures, trade estimating standards — and the source is named.
• Waste factors are real and editable. Pros order extra for cuts, breakage and learning curves; so should you.
• Results are shopping lists, not just raw totals: whole bags, boxes, sheets and gallons, with prices you can change to match your store.

What this site is not

Estimates here are planning numbers, not bids, structural design, or code advice. Local prices move, products differ, and some jobs (structural, electrical, gas) belong to licensed pros. When a calculator's answer depends on an assumption, the assumption is on the page where you can see it.

The name

Urbarama spent 2008–2023 as an architecture atlas, collecting links from publications and universities around the world. We kept the name and pointed it at a new job: the practical math of the built home.

About the author

Harrison Alley is a web publisher and data enthusiast based in Dallas, Texas. He built Urbarama’s remodeling calculators and maintains them.

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