3 Home Flooring Apps You Can’t Miss

If you’re planning on replacing your worn carpet or flooring, it can be difficult to find a contractor, estimate your needs or even know what’s available on the market. There’s a lot of work that goes into the process, but apps can help.

You’ll find a lot of apps geared toward flooring installation that can help with just about any need you have.

The top apps for flooring going into 2018 include:

1. Flooring Calculator

If you plan on installing your own flooring, and a lot of people are thanks to YouTube and the rise of DIY projects, then you’ll need a little help in one department: measuring. A lot of people run into a problem where they buy too little flooring.

And if you’re buying tile, which may no longer be available, you’ll need to buy the amount you need before the style is discontinued.

Flooring Calculator isn’t the world’s best-looking app (it sure looks simplistic), but it works great when calculating how much flooring you need. It’s the perfect app to use when you need to know how much flooring to put in your bathroom – or other space.

There’s also a neat manual that makes it intuitive to start measuring your flooring needs.

2. Handyman Calculator

The Handyman Calculator is a must-have for when you want to hire a contractor or do the work yourself. The app is designed to do a few things:

• Save money
• Save time
• Reduce waste

And it’s an app that claims to have been used by a million contractors. There are tens of thousands of reviews, and that’s enough to give this app a try. When it comes to your flooring, the app can help in a few ways:

• Time tracking
• To-do lists
• Square footage calculator
• Cutlist calculator
• Carpet calculator

There are dozens of calculators and material “helpers” included in the app. It’s the perfect solution for anyone who is either a contractor that needs an app for their flooring needs or a homeowner willing to get their hands dirty.

3. Flooring Job Bid Calculator

So, how do professionals know how much to bid for a job? Well, this is where things get a little tricky. Contractors make their own rates, and it’s up to the customer to accept or decline. If you have no knowledge in flooring, it can be very difficult to figure out if you’re getting a fair price or not.

Well, the Flooring Job Bid calculator can help

You can plug in all of your information, and then it spits out the total cost. Remember, this is geared toward contractors, so it’s a little more complex than what the normal person may be used to when considering flooring.

But you might be a contractor, so we added it to the list to help you estimate jobs faster and more efficiently.

Apps are a great place to start with your flooring needs, but there are also many hardware stores online that have calculators for tile, carpet, hardwood and virtually any flooring type you could ever want.

Using apps is just one of many options you have available to you to meet your flooring needs.