Boards, studs, tracks, fixings and jointing for the partitions you measured.
Painting, tiling and finishes. 5 questions answered below, each with the arithmetic behind it and the limits of what the tool decides. Open the Drywall and Stud Partitioning tool.
A drywall takeoff is a wall measured twice: once as a face area for board, once as a length for framing. The two numbers look similar and behave nothing alike. Board follows the area less the openings; studs, track and noggings follow the length and the spacing, which is why a wall with a wide doorway loses board and keeps nearly all its framing. The takeoff returns boards, studs, track, screws, jointing compound and tape, each on its own line and each from its own rule. It does not design the partition: fire rating, acoustic performance, deflection and head details are specification decisions, and they change the board and the studs without changing the arithmetic this tool performs.
A partition of nine metres by two point seven, single layer each side, at sheets of one point two by two point four, gives forty eight point six square metres of board across both faces, less a doorway of two square metres on each face, so forty four point six. At two point eight eight square metres per sheet that is sixteen sheets with waste. Studs at six hundred centres over nine metres give sixteen, plus top and bottom track in eighteen metres, plus noggings for the rows specified. The doorway removed four square metres of board and no framing at all, which is the distinction the takeoff exists to keep.
Board on every face, framing by length, and the sundries that follow from both. It measures the partition, deducts the openings, converts the area into sheets at the size you buy, and separately counts studs at your spacing, track in top and bottom runs and the noggings for the rows you specify. Screws, jointing compound and tape then follow from the sheet size, because a smaller sheet means more joints and more compound.
Yes, on the faces they interrupt. A doorway removes board from both sides of a single partition, and the takeoff deducts it from each face rather than from the total once. Window and door heights matter as well as widths, because a deduction is an area. What an opening does not remove is framing: the studs either side of it, the head and the sill detail stay, which is why the board figure falls and the stud count barely moves.
By length, at the spacing you set. Studs are counted along the wall, plus one at each end, plus the studs either side of every opening, which the takeoff adds rather than leaving to site. Track is counted in top and bottom runs at the wall length, and noggings follow the rows you specify. Spacing is your input because it follows from the board thickness, the height and the performance required, and it changes the stud count directly.
Both are included. Screws follow the board count and the fixing pattern, and jointing compound and tape follow the joints that the sheet size creates, so a partition with many joints gets the compound it needs. What is not included is the labour to tape and finish, and the finishing level itself, which is a specification decision about how flat the wall has to be for the decoration going on it.
No. It measures materials for a partition whose specification has already been decided. Fire resistance, acoustic separation, height and deflection all change the board type, the layer count and the stud section, and those are design decisions with a code behind them. The takeoff converts the decided design into boards, studs and sundries, and it will not choose a stud for a three metre partition that needs a deflection head.