About YardTally
YardTally (formerly YardCalc) is a free set of home and garden material calculators, built and maintained by one person: me, Hammad Iqbal.
Why I built it
When I planned patio, fence, and landscaping projects, I kept bouncing between manufacturer bag charts, extension articles, and half-finished online widgets that hid their formulas. I wanted one place that showed the math, cited the bag yields and depth guidance it used, and never uploaded my measurements. YardTally is that toolkit: concrete, mulch, gravel, fencing, decking, roofing, paint, and lawn estimators that run entirely in your browser.
Who I am
I build and maintain YardTally as a one-person project: free home and garden material calculators with documented formulas, manufacturer bag yields, and university extension guidance. I am not a licensed contractor or engineer—results are planning estimates you should check against local building codes and product labels.
Find me on github.com/hammadiqbal6 .
How the tools are made
Every tool lists its formula and its sources at the bottom of the page. Sources are manufacturer coverage pages (for example QUIKRETE bag yields), American Cement Association materials, ACI residential concrete guidance, and university extension pages on mulch depth and lawn fertility. Each page shows the date I last checked it against those sources. Full details: Methodology.
What this site doesn’t do
- It doesn’t give engineering, structural, or building-code advice. Results are planning estimates—confirm thickness, frost depth, and reinforcement with local codes and a licensed professional when required.
- Your inputs stay in your browser. Analytics (GA4) load only after cookie consent, with Consent Mode v2 defaults denied until then. Ads stay off until AdSense is explicitly enabled.
- It isn’t affiliated with QUIKRETE, Sakrete, Sonoco/Sonotube, or any brand named in the sources.
How the site is funded
The site may show Google AdSense ads once approved. There are no paid product placements in the calculators themselves.
Other free tool sites I maintain
Same maintainer, different niches—listed here only, not in every footer:
- FeeCalc — Payment fee calculators
- Docuklin — Business document generators
- FiberCalc — Knitting & crochet calculators
- PetCalc Tools — Pet calculators
Found a mistake?
Email hammadiqbal117@gmail.com with the page URL, the number that looks wrong, and a link to the source that shows the right one. Confirmed fixes go in the correction log.