Estimate materials for a whole house
estimate_houseRead-onlyIdempotent
How much material for a whole house? The House Estimator: a rectangular one- or two-storey house from a few figures (footprint, walls, roof, windows, doors), and every quantity of its footing, slab, walls, openings and roof, with what to order, assumptions, plans and labour hours. It counts; it does not design a structure. No prices.
Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| pitch | No | Roof pitch, rise in 12. | |
| detail | No | full (the default): the whole answer. summary: the result lines, the citation line and the page only — fewer tokens to read. | full |
| family | No | ||
| system | No | The unit system inputs left out open in, and the one the page link opens in. The answer comes in both. | metric |
| values | No | The form's figures, each length with its unit: length, width, storeyHeight, eaveOverhang, rakeOverhang, slabThickness, footingWidth, footingDepth, trenchDepth, windowWidth, windowHeight, doorWidth, doorHeight ("12 m", "40 ft"); and the counts partitions, windows, outsideDoors, interiorDoors, iceDamEaves. Any left out opens where the page opens it. | |
| example | No | Start from one of the site's example houses (its slug) in place of the estimator's opening house. | |
| storeys | No | ||
| selection | No | The exterior wall's build-up choices. | |
| inputUnits | No | Send "base" to pass bare numbers on dimensioned inputs in base units (m, m², L, kg …), as the published test vectors are written. Without it a length, area or volume must carry its unit. | |
| roofFamily | No | ||
| roofSelection | No |
Output Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
No arguments | |||