Paint calculator: litres, US gallons and whole cans of paint and primer for a room, from wall area minus doors and windows, coats and coverage.
업데이트 검증한 예제: 5
36.9 m² (397 ft²) to paint × 2 coats needs 7.38 L (1.95 US gal), so buy 2 × 5 L cans.
Rounded up to whole 5 L cans.
Paint needed is the area to cover times the number of coats, divided by the coverage printed on the can. Wall area is the room's perimeter times the wall height, 2(length + width) × height, plus the ceiling if you include it, minus each door and window. The result is rounded up to whole cans of the size you pick.
The default 4.5 × 3.5 m room with 2.6 m walls, one door and two windows leaves 36.9 m² to paint. Two coats at 10 m² per litre need 7.38 L, which is two 5 L cans. For US paint, switch coverage to ft² per gallon; Sherwin-Williams puts a gallon at about 350–400 ft² per coat.
Label coverage assumes a smooth, sealed surface. Bare plaster, rough texture and strong colour changes use more paint, so treat the answer as the minimum to buy.
검증 출처: Python decimal: 2(4.5 + 3.5) × 2.6 − 1.9 − 2 × 1.4 = 36.9 m²; × 2 ÷ 10 = 7.38 L; 7.38 ÷ 5 → 2 cans
검증 출처: Hand calculation: 4 × 12 × 8 = 384 ft² − 20 − 30 = 334 ft²; 668 ÷ 350 = 1.9086 gal → 2 one-gallon cans
검증 출처: Python decimal: 45 m² walls + 20 m² ceiling; 130 ÷ 10 = 13 L → 5.2 → 6 cans; primer 6.5 L → 2.6 → 3 cans
검증 출처: Python decimal: 334 ft² ÷ 250 ft²/gal = 1.336 gal × 3.785411784 L = 5.0573 L → 2 one-gallon cans
About 2 US gallons for two coats on the walls. A 12 × 12 ft room with 8 ft walls has 384 ft² of wall; less one 20 ft² door and two 15 ft² windows, 334 ft² remains. Two coats is 668 ft², which at 350 ft² per gallon is 1.91 gallons. Painting the 144 ft² ceiling as well raises the total to 2.73 gallons.
About 350–400 ft² per coat, according to Sherwin-Williams, and a quart covers about 100 ft². In metric, 350–400 ft² per US gallon is 8.6–9.8 m² per litre. Use the figure printed on your own can, because coverage changes with the product, the colour and the surface.
Two for most walls. Dulux's guide gives one coat for its Simply Refresh one-coat range and two for EasyCare Washable & Tough. Every coat adds the full area again: the default 36.9 m² room needs 3.69 L per coat at 10 m² per litre, so a third coat adds another 3.69 L.
Yes. Dulux's method measures each wall as height × width and deducts doors and windows measured the same way. This calculator uses 1.9 m² (20 ft²) per door and 1.4 m² (15 ft²) per window unless you enter your own sizes under More options. In the default room the three openings remove 4.7 m², 11% of the 41.6 m² of wall.
One coat over the whole area, at the primer's own coverage rate. Sherwin-Williams gives about 200–300 ft² per gallon for primer against 350–400 ft² for paint, so 334 ft² of wall takes 1.1–1.7 gallons of primer. Enter the primer label's figure as Primer coverage under More options; left blank, the paint's coverage is used.
정확도는 입력값과 계산 방법의 가정에 따라 달라집니다. 십진 연산은 유효숫자 50자리를 사용하지만, 추정값·수치해석 방법·원본 데이터의 정밀도는 더 낮을 수 있습니다. 표시값을 반올림해도 이러한 한계는 사라지지 않습니다. 독립적인 출처의 풀이와 대조한 계산 예시: 5. 예를 들어 “4.5 × 3.5 m room, 1 door, 2 windows, 2 coats”은 Python decimal: 2(4.5 + 3.5) × 2.6 − 1.9 − 2 × 1.4 = 36.9 m²; × 2 ÷ 10 = 7.38 L; 7.38 ÷ 5 → 2 cans와 대조해 확인합니다.
Dulux UK — how much paint do I need (area ÷ coverage × coats); Sherwin-Williams — paint calculator (paint 350–400 ft² per gallon per coat, primer 200–300 ft²).
이 계산기에는 독립적인 출처에서 답을 얻은 계산 예제가 5개 있습니다. 테스트 모음에서 실행되며 여기에서도 실행할 수 있습니다.
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