Sand and cement to brick/block ratio?
Question:ok. so how much sand and cement (in 1 ton bags and 25 kilo bags respectively) do i need per 1000 bricks and per 250 breeze blocks? (the mortar ratio is 4 sand to 1 cement and im using standard metric bricks and blocks) thanks in advance peeps
Answers:
7 bags of masonry cement per 1000 bricks
(minimum 6 maximum 8, but usually 7 is a good amount)
Nota Bene: the ration is not 4 to 1, that would be disasterously week
The ratio is 3 sand to 1 cement, or slightly less than 3 parts sand to each 1 part of cement.
1 ton of sand per 1000 bricks
Now for the blocks, you'll need about 8 bags of masonry or type S cement plus one more ton of sand.
this site will leave you a little calulating but it should help.
http://www.kuhlman-corp.com/mortarcalc.h...
first of all you dont want bags of cement you want bags of mortar. if you use cement you will have to add lime to it. mortar comes in 76 lb. bags in the us. to this you add 18 shovels of sand. there are approx 125 shovels of sand in a ton. you figure it out...
Personally I would avoid the 1 ton bags of sand, they are much too heavy to carry and manipulate. Buy smaller bags of sand.
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