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Now let me show you how to calculate the number of bricks, blocks or pavers using
your Material Estimator.
It'll give you quick estimates for how many bricks, blocks or pavers for any surface
area that you need.
Now the default block size built in is an 8 x 8 x 16 common concrete block.
The face area of that is 8 x 16. That's 128 square inches. You
can check the block area that's stored by hitting [Rcl]
[Blocks]
Block area - 128 square inches. So you know you've got a common
8 x 16 block.
If you have a single course of blocks and you just want to figure out how many you need,
say for a hundred feet [1][0][0] [Feet]
[Conv] [Blocks]. There's going to be 75 blocks in that row, whether it's for a footing for
a fence or a property line or something else. If you have a square foot area,
for example, a hundred foot long wall [1][0][0] [Feet].
by six feet tall
600 square feet
[Conv][Blocks] There's going to be 675 blocks needed for
that.
You can also add a percentage for waste if you like.
Now if you have blocks that are non 8 x 16, you can
set the block size to any other size you like. Say there's a 4 x 8
inch face brick that you want to use for a hundred square foot patio. So we go [4]
[Inch]
[x] [8][Inch]
There's our 32 square inch block size. We hit [Stor] and above
[Block] it says
Block Size. So we've now stored it as 32 square inches. So now when we have a
hundred square foot patio [1][0][0]
[Feet][Feet]. Second press makes it square feet.
Hit [Conv][Blocks]
We need 450 of those 4 x 8 inch bricks for that.
If you have pavers for a driveway or something, 6 by 6 pavers, same thing.
[6][Inch] [x] [6][Inch]
is 36 square inches each. Store that as my block size
and maybe the
driveway is 1500 square feet.
Convert to blocks.
We need 6000 of those pavers for that driveway.
Add maybe five percent for waste [+] [5][%]
6300 blocks and they're
63 cents each.
[Conv] to cost over the [0].
Tells us we've got about $3900 worth of pavers for that
driveway.
So that's a quick overview on the block function. For more details you can download
our user's guide at www.calculated.com/support.