How much will my material cover?
solve_backwardsRead-onlyIdempotent
How much will it cover? From what the reader already has (20 drywall sheets, 24 gal of paint, 500 bricks, bags of concrete, a yard of gravel) to the area and the room, deck, wall or slab it covers, as the site's Solve Backwards page works it, waste taken off. It does not size structure: slab thickness and reinforcement are an engineer's.
Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| have | Yes | How much the reader has: a count for counted things (20, "20 sheets"); a measure with its unit for paint, concrete, soil ("24 gal", "2 m3", {"value": 90, "unit": "L"}). | |
| page | No | A Solve Backwards page's slug, such as wall-paint, drywall-sheets, bricks, concrete-bags, ready-mix-concrete. | |
| query | No | Or what the reader has, in words ("sheets of drywall", "bags of concrete"), when the slug is not known. | |
| detail | No | full (the default): the whole answer. summary: the result lines, the citation line and the page only — fewer tokens to read. | full |
| system | No | The page's system; it sets the market's product (a 4 × 8 ft sheet in imperial). Left out: the unit's system, else metric. | |
| settings | No | Optional: another calculator input, with its unit (a slab's thickness "4 in", coats 3). The inputs the page grows cannot be set. |
Output Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
No arguments | |||