Sod Calculator: Rolls and Pallets of Sod

A common roll covers about 10 square feet, often sold as a 2 by 5 foot piece. Slab and roll sizes vary by grower, so check your supplier and set the 'Coverage per roll' field to match for an accurate count.

Most pallets hold enough sod to cover roughly 400 to 500 square feet, which is about 50 of the 10 square foot rolls. The tool defaults to 50 rolls per pallet and lets you change it if your yard is stacked differently.

Sod is frequently priced by the square yard, which is exactly 9 square feet. The calculator divides your square footage by nine and displays the square yards next to rolls and pallets so you can compare quotes however a grower sells it.

About 5 percent covers trimming around curves, beds and edges on a straightforward rectangle. Lawns broken up by paths, islands or tree rings need more cuts, so raise the waste percentage for an irregular shape.

It multiplies your area by one plus the waste percentage, divides by the coverage per roll, then rounds up to a whole roll since sod is not sold in fractions. Pallets are the roll count divided by rolls per pallet, also rounded up.

Waste is applied before rounding. A 1500 square foot lawn at 5 percent waste needs 1575 square feet of sod, which is 157.5 rolls at 10 square feet each, so it rounds up to 158 whole rolls.

Yes. Split a complex yard into rectangles, calculate each area, and add them into a single length by width that gives the same total. Triangles are half of length times width, so treat a triangular strip as half a rectangle.

Coverage per roll and rolls per pallet must be greater than zero, and length, width and waste cannot be negative. If an entry is invalid the tool shows a prompt to enter non-negative numbers instead of a misleading estimate.

No. The estimate is calculated in your browser as you type, so your lawn dimensions and settings stay on your device and nothing is uploaded.