how can you find the measurement for how many bricks you will need for a brick patio on sand.?

Answer 1

There is a tool at teh Lowes Home Improvement website

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=howTo&p=HTindex/indes_calc_index.html

Answer 2

Length times width will provide you with the square footage of the area. add a 3/8" to 1/2" mortar joint into the measurement for every brick that can be added to a row and subtract the excess bricks. This will leave you with an approximate amount. Always buy more bricks than you need. Color is hard to match on natural products.

Answer 3

Figure the square footage of the patio. The formula for that is width x length.
Then figure the size bricks you are using. wherever you bought the brick or are going to buy them, they can tell you how many brick you need by giving them the square footage of the patio.

Answer 4

mesure the section then mesure what share bricks it is going to talk for the dimensions and width and which will inform you.additionally acaulate in wether you're turning out to be spacingot nor between them and thats usualy 3/8 to a million/2 any element over a million/2 is a few distance too vast. and constantly determine you get approximately an 8th extra bricks which you actualy meed and in the adventure that your puting them on the floor then their pavers no longer bricks. familiar wriks wont final as long as paver being walked on all the time.

Answer 5

a brick is 3"x4.5"x9".One square feet of brick layer has approximately four layers of brick,and each layer ahas about 1and half bricks. thats about six brick per one sq ft of brick wall with a thickness of 4.5" or single brick wall. double that for two brick wall. the quantity may vary a little depending on the kind of bond such as Eglish bond, or Flemish bond. the rest is simple arithmatics man!

Answer 6

figure the sq footage, L x W.......then figure the sq ft of ur brick and x them togther.