Product Calculators

Product Calculators

We have provided some helpful links for easy-to-use product calculators to make life easy! Click on the links below and follow the simple instructions to make calculating the quantity of the product you need to do the job.

We will be expanding the range of product calculators we can offer over the next few months, we hope you find the helpful.

Dulux Paint Calculator

How much paint? Use this handy calculator from the Dulux website to find out just how many litres you will need. Opens in a new window.

• Paint Calculator

IBSTOCK Brick Calculator

This tool will help you calculate the amount of bricks required for a given area. Opens in a new window.

• Brick Calculator

Stonemarket Patio Designer

The quick and easy online calculator to plan your patio design. Opens in a new window.

• Patio Designer
  

Planit Design Online

Design Online is a simple, intuitive facility which allows you to create your own kitchen or bathroom designs via the internet.

• Kitchen Designer
• Bathroom Design
  

Heavy Building Materials 'Rule of thumb Guides''

A range of heavy duty hints & tips from Covers

To maintain the strength of readymixed concrete delivered to site, never add water to the prescribed mix.

Because shingle is a natural product never assume that it will be a particular colour.

For external rendering washed sand should be used.

When using more than one pack of paving bricks or tiles, always use from different packs at random to avoid shade variations.

Concrete mixes for paths & oversite slabs

• 1 Volume Cement
• 5 Volumes Ballast
• 12 Bags Cement
• 1m³ Ballast - makes 0.85m³ of concrete

For Flooring or Paving

• Use Blended or Washed sand
• 1 Volume Cement
• 3 Volumes Sand
• 18 Bags of Cement
• 1m³ Sand - makes 0.9m³ of concrete

For Walls

• Plaster Coverage per 25kg Bag
• Thistle multi Finish - 10m² at 2mm
• Thistle Bonding - 2.75m² at 11mm
• Thistle Hardwall - 3m² at 11mm
• Thistle Tough Coat - 3.5m² at 11mm
• Thistle Universal Coat - 2.25m² at 13mm

Plasterboards (maximum spacing and fixing nails)

• Board size: 2400 x 1200 x 9.5
• 400mm c/s = 51 nails per sheet
• Board size: 2400 x 1200 x 12.5
• 450mm c/s = 41 nails per sheet

For Small Jobs

• Brick size: 65 x 215 x 100
  Approximate quantities for single brickwork of 60 bricks per m² allow 0.8m³ sand per 1000 bricks
• Block size: 215 x 450 x 100
  Approximate quantities for single blockwork of 10 Blocks per m² allow 0.8m³ of sand per 40m² of blockwork
   

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