Home Pour

Calculators for people who make things by pouring them.

Home Pour builds free tools for home candle makers. Every number comes from a published supplier chart, every recommendation shows the reasoning behind it, and nothing is guessed.

Wick Calculator

What wick does this candle need?

Diameter, wax, fragrance load and dye in — a shortlist of wick candidates out, across every major series, with the adjustments explained step by step.

Wax & Fragrance

How much wax and oil for the batch?

Batch weights that account for fragrance taking up volume, plus cost per candle when you enter what you actually pay for supplies.

Reference

The wick series, side by side

Full published size ladders for CD, ECO, LX, HTP and zinc, what each series is built from, and how to read a burn test.

Why another candle calculator

Most wick charts online are a table with no source and no explanation. You cannot tell whether a number was measured, copied, or invented — and wick sizing is a fire safety matter, so that gap matters.

Three things are different here:

  • Every number is cited. Diameter ranges are transcribed from published supplier charts and linked. Where our sources do not publish a size, we say so instead of interpolating.
  • The reasoning is shown. You see why the result moved up or down from the chart position — the wax, the fragrance load, the dye — as separate, labelled steps.
  • We give you a shortlist, not an answer. Published guidance is a range, so the output is a range. The burn test picks the winner, and we walk you through it.

Start from your vessel

43 wax and container combinations, each with its own wick candidates, batch weights and things to watch for.

Where these numbers come from

CD, LX, HTP and zinc ranges are published against a paraffin baseline; ECO is published against soy. The engine converts between the two using the documented one-to-three-step soy offset, and both source datasets agree at the overlap.