Baseboard calculator
Enter a room's wall perimeter and how much of it is doorway. This works out the linear footage of trim you need, with a waste allowance for miters and mistakes, and how many pieces of stock that comes to.
ft
Total length of wall the trim runs along
ft
Openings the trim doesn't cross
%
ft
How long one piece comes in
Buy
412' pieces
Net run
34 ft
With waste
37 ft 4 13/16 in
Where to buy this
- 4 × 12' piecesHome DepotLowe's
Buy the whole room in one trip: profiles vary between mills, and two that nearly match never do at a joint.
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The shopping list
- Pieces
- 4 × 12 ft
- Total bought
- 48 ft
- Leftover after cutting
- 14 ft
About buying baseboard
- How much baseboard do I need for a room?
- Total wall length, minus the width of any doorway the trim doesn't cross, plus a waste allowance for miters and mistakes — typically 10%. A 40' room with two 36" doors and 10% waste needs about 449" of trim, which rounds up to four 12' boards.
- Why buy more than the exact length?
- Every outside and inside corner eats a bit of length to the miter, and the first cut on a board is rarely perfect. Ten percent covers ordinary mistakes on a room with a normal number of corners; add more for a room with a lot of jogs and closets.
- Do I need to subtract windows too?
- No — baseboard runs under a window the same as under a blank wall, since it sits below the sill. Only openings the trim doesn't cross at all, mainly doorways, come out of the total.