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How many bricks a wall takes, and the mortar with it. This one is exact, it is geometry, not an estimate.
Bricks required
1,559
With 5% waste: 1,637 bricks
Quantities
- Total wall area
- 200 sq ft
- Masonry volume
- 150 CFT
- Mortar required
- 40.4 CFT
- Cement
- 7 bags
- Sand
- 45 CFT
Cost at your rates
- Bricks
- Rs 36,015
- Cement
- Rs 9,800
- Sand
- Rs 2,699
- Total masonry material
- Rs 48,515
How was this calculated?
- 1
A brick plus one mortar joint on each bedded face occupies 166.3 cubic inches, so a cubic foot of wall takes 10.39 bricks. That is the net geometric count.
- 2
Mortar is the wall volume the bricks do not fill, here 27% of the wall. Dry material is 1.3× the wet volume, split 1:6 by volume, with a cement bag taken as 1.226 CFT.
- 3
Waste is applied to the brick count only, never to mortar, breakage does not need bedding. The trade ordering figure of 13.5 bricks per CFT already contains about 20% waste; this starts from the net count so you are not charged for it twice.
This counts the wall you described.
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Bricks required
1,559
With 5% waste: 1,637