How many 4 x 8 sheets of plywood do i need.
Coverting square feet of plywood to sheets in excel.
It will help us change units in excel with a formula.
All mbf calculations are based upon the nominal size of the lumber and not the actual size.
By definition one board foot of lumber is one square foot that is one inch thick.
Use the drop downs below to select a length in feet.
Excel questions calculate square footage.
For example if the area to be covered in plywood is 800 ft 2 then 25 sheets of plywood will be needed to cover it.
Square feet of 1 2 inch plywood was equivalent to 2 000 square feet on the 3 8 basis.
So far no luck with writing or recording a macro.
For example convert will help us in converting pounds to kilograms feet to centimeters or fahrenheit to celsius.
Here are a few tips on how to calculate or convert units of measure for lumber and panel products.
For example you can use convert to convert feet into meters pounds into kilograms fahrenheit to celsius gallons into liters and for many other unit conversions.
The function is new to excel 2007 so is not available in earlier versions of excel.
The syntax of the function is.
800 32 25 sheets.
Substituting this into the above formula results in an equivalent of 62 5 cubic feet of plywood.
For more complicated shapes see the instructions below.
Unlike square footage the board footage is a measurement of volume.
Divide by the total square footage by the square footage of a sheet of plywood to find the number of sheets required to cover the space.
If the formula in section 1 which converts surface measure of any thickness to the 3 8 basis is substituted for sf3 8 the following general relationship is found.
Hope someone has run into this before.
Calculating thousand board feet mbf for lumber products.
Aug 6 2009 1 morning.
The excel convert function converts a number in one measurement system to another.
Then do the same thing for the width.
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This calculator does not simply divide the total square footage by 32.
The excel convert function is useful in converting units from one measurement system to another measurement system.
It figures how many pieces long then how many wide.
I have a column of data with dimensions entered as y x z and need to convert them in the next column to square footage.
If you would like to convert regular volume units into board feet use the following relation.
Yards to another unit type e g.