Terms of Use

By using TallyTakeoff, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the site. There is no account to close — stopping is enough.

These terms sit alongside our privacy policy, which explains what the site stores, and our methodology, which explains where the formulas and price ranges come from.

Every result on this site is a planning estimate. It is not a quote, a purchase order, a specification, or professional advice. Formulas, waste factors, and default prices are general-purpose assumptions published for transparency. They are not a substitute for a contractor's on-site measurement, an engineer's structural calculation, a building-control or permit review, or a supplier's actual quotation on the day you buy.

Estimates diverge from reality for ordinary, well-understood reasons:

• Prices move and vary by region. Defaults are national averages carrying a review date; your local yard on the day of purchase is the only authority on price.
• Real sites are not rectangles. Slopes, obstructions, uneven subgrade, and out-of-square rooms all change quantities.
• Waste factors are typical, not guaranteed. Cut-heavy layouts, patterned installs, and inexperienced labour consume more.
• Products differ. Coverage rates, bag yields, and panel sizes vary between manufacturers and between production runs.

You are solely responsible for verifying quantities, prices, and suitability before purchasing materials or starting work. TallyTakeoff is not liable for cost overruns, material shortages or surplus, delays, or project outcomes arising from reliance on any calculator output.

The calculators are free and open to everyone, which only works if they are not abused. You agree not to:

• Interfere with the site's operation, including automated request volumes that degrade it for others, or attempts to probe, scan, or breach it.
• Use the share-link feature to store material unrelated to a building estimate.
• Systematically scrape the site's content to reproduce it elsewhere — see intellectual property below.
• Misrepresent an estimate from this site as a quotation issued by anyone.

We may restrict access where use of the site threatens its availability for others.

The site is provided free of charge and without any uptime commitment. Calculators, defaults, formulas, and pages may be corrected, changed, or withdrawn at any time — in fact, correcting them is the point: prices are reviewed on a quarterly cadence and errors are fixed when found.

A consequence of that: an estimate produced today may not reproduce identically later, because a default price or a published coverage rate has been updated in between. This is intended behaviour, not a fault.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, TallyTakeoff and its operator are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages, or for any loss of profit, revenue, data, or opportunity, arising from your use of or inability to use this site — including any loss arising from over- or under-ordering materials.

Because the site is supplied free of charge, our total aggregate liability to you for all claims connected with it is limited to the greater of the amount you paid to use it (which is nil) or the minimum sum permitted by applicable law.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited — including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. If you use the site as a consumer, you keep any statutory rights that cannot be waived, and those rights take precedence over anything in this section.

The text, calculator logic, data tables, diagrams, and design of TallyTakeoff belong to its operator unless otherwise noted. Third-party names — manufacturers, product brands, standards bodies — remain the property of their owners and are used only to identify what a figure refers to.

You may link to any page freely, quote a short passage with attribution and a link, and use the numbers a calculator produces for your own project or your client's, commercially or otherwise.

Please do not republish pages wholesale, reproduce the data tables as your own, or use the content to train or populate a competing calculator without asking first. To ask, or to request a licence, write to hello@tallytakeoff.com — the answer is often yes.

If you believe something here infringes your copyright, contact us with enough detail to identify the material and we will investigate promptly.

These terms may be updated as the site changes. The "last reviewed" date above reflects the most recent update, and continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the revised terms.

TallyTakeoff is a free informational site operated by an individual, not a registered company. It sells nothing, takes no payment, and holds no account for you. For that reason these terms do not attempt to impose a governing law or a court venue on you — naming one we could not stand behind would tell you less than saying nothing.

Instead: whatever consumer protections apply where you live, apply. Nothing in these terms takes away a right your local law gives you and does not let you waive, and where any provision here conflicts with that law, your law wins and the rest of these terms carry on unaffected.

Questions about these terms: hello@tallytakeoff.com. See also our privacy policy.