Utilities
Estimate how many buckets of interior paint you need from room dimensions, doors/windows, coats, paint coverage, and bucket size — rounded up to whole buckets, with optional primer and waste factor.
Call this tool from your code in three languages.
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/interior-paint-coverage-estimator' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"lengthM":5,"widthM":4,"heightM":2.7,"doors":1,"windows":2,"coats":2,"coverage":12,"bucketSize":5,"wasteFactorPct":10,"paintCeiling":false,"usePrimer":false}'Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.
POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/interior-paint-coverage-estimator| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| lengthM | number | Yes | — |
| widthM | number | Yes | — |
| heightM | number | Yes | — |
| doors | number | No | — |
| windows | number | No | — |
| coats |
Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.
Add this block to your MCP client configuration:
{
"mcpServers": {
"elysiatools-interior-paint-coverage-estimator": {
"name": "interior-paint-coverage-estimator",
"description": "Estimate how many buckets of interior paint you need from room dimensions, doors/windows, coats, paint coverage, and bucket size — rounded up to whole buckets, with optional primer and waste factor.",
"baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=interior-paint-coverage-estimator",
"command": "",
"args": [],
"env": {},
"isActive": true,
"type": "sse"
}
}
}After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/list"
}Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 2,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "interior-paint-coverage-estimator",
"arguments": {
"lengthM": 5,
"widthM": 4,
"heightM": 2.7,
"doors": 1,
"windows": 2,
"coats": 2,
"coverage": 12,
"bucketSize": 5,
"wasteFactorPct": 10,
"paintCeiling": false,
"usePrimer": false
}
}
}| number |
| No |
| — |
| coverage | number | No | — |
| bucketSize | number | No | — |
| wasteFactorPct | number | No | — |
| paintCeiling | checkbox | No | — |
| usePrimer | checkbox | No | — |
HTML result
{
"result": "<div>Processed HTML content</div>",
"error": "Error message (optional)",
"message": "Notification message (optional)",
"metadata": {
"key": "value"
}
}Questions or issues? Contact [email protected]