About CubicYardCalcs

CubicYardCalcs.com is a small site about one unit: the cubic yard. Soil, mulch, gravel, sand, and concrete are sold by it, yet almost every project starts with a tape measure in feet and inches. Our job is to close that gap with tools that show their working.

Most calculators give one confident number, such as a single weight for a yard of gravel, with no source attached. In practice, a yard of the same material can weigh noticeably more on a wet day, and suppliers round orders in their own steps. We built CubicYardCalcs to give you the volume, a sourced range where materials vary, and the questions worth asking before you order.

• Cubic yard calculator: volume from length, width, and depth for rectangles, circles, and triangles, with waste allowance, bags, and cost.
• Converters: cubic feet to cubic yards, cubic yards to tons, and more as they are published.
• Weight and size guides: how much a yard of common materials weighs and what a cubic yard looks like.

Unit definitions come from NIST Handbook 44. Material weights come from published sources such as the US EPA and ACI, and depth advice comes from university extension services. Every source is listed on our methodology page, and calculators are tested against hand-worked examples before they go live.

Waseem Abbas built and runs CubicYardCalcs.com. He is a web developer who designs and builds online calculators and tools, and he started this site after noticing that most cubic yard calculators give a single number with no source and no explanation of where it comes from.

He is not a contractor or an engineer, so instead of relying on personal opinion, every formula and weight range here is taken from published sources such as NIST, the US EPA and university extension services, and each tool is tested against hand-worked examples before it goes live.

Spotted an error, or want a calculator we do not have yet? Write to [email protected] or use the contact page.