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[Andy in Germany]

Can some kind person do sums/conversion for me please?

I need to put a 2 inches deep layer on sand on an area one yard wide by two yards across. Doing a sum in my head (in feet) that is 3 times 6 times one sixth, giving three cubic feet of sand. However sand is ordered by weight. How many kilos of sand do I need. It does not matter if there is slightly too much,

I am guessing that bag of sand would be about a cubic foot, and so would need possibly four bags. I think the Builder's merchants not far from here might want a more accurate figure. It is to make stable (and level) a base for a garden cupboard. The sand would be underneath paving slabs.

The garden slopes at an angle of the depth of brick over the two yards. I have a small quantity of "hard core" to fill in the lower part.

I'm already awash in a sea of measurement units. My favourite is "a depth of Brick".

 

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[Ming the Merciless]

Can some kind person do sums/conversion for me please?

I need to put a 2 inches deep layer on sand on an area one yard wide by two yards across. Doing a sum in my head (in feet) that is 3 times 6 times one sixth, giving three cubic feet of sand. However sand is ordered by weight. How many kilos of sand do I need. It does not matter if there is slightly too much,

I am guessing that bag of sand would be about a cubic foot, and so would need possibly four bags. I think the Builder's merchants not far from here might want a more accurate figure. It is to make stable (and level) a base for a garden cupboard. The sand would be underneath paving slabs.

The garden slopes at an angle of the depth of brick over the two yards. I have a small quantity of "hard core" to fill in the lower part.

You need 130kg of sand. The actual weight required is 129.32kg.

 

[Speicher]

I'm already awash in a sea of measurement units. My favourite is "a depth of Brick".

I thought you would be okay with measurements. The depth of a brick refers to a building brick in the adjacent wall. By and large, I cannot see a correlation between the inclination of the ground and the cost of the sand.

May I rephrase my question? How much does three cubic feet of sand weigh?

 

[Speicher]

You need 20kg of sand. The actual weight required is 19.36 kg but assume it’ll come in 20kg qtys.

Thank you. How did you calculate that, or did you just know?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You need 130kg of sand. The actual weight required is 129.32kg.

@Speicher See correction above. I missed out one of the digits when doing the calculation on my calculator.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Thank you. How did you calculate that, or did you just know?

1 yard = 36 inches

So you need 72 x 36 x 2 = 5284 cubic inches of sand

A cubic inch of sand weighs 0.055lb, so the weight you need is 5284 x 0.055. = 285.12 lbs. There are 2.20462 lbs in a kg. So you need 285.12 / 2.20462 = 129.33 kg. So order 130kg.

I tend to do the calculations in metric or imperial then convert at the end. Don’t try and convert or mix units mid calculation.

 

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[DCLane]

@Speicher - I had a go and, given

1 yard = 36 inches

So you need 72 x 36 x 2 = 5284 cubic inches of sand

A cubic inch of sand weighs 0.055lb, so the weight you need is 5284 x 0.055. = 285.12 lbs. There are 2.20462 lbs in a kg. So you need 285.12 / 2.20462 = 129.33 kg. So order 130kg.

I tend to do the calculations in metric or imperial then convert at the end. Don’t try and convert or mix units mid calculation.

I had a go but gave up at half a beach-full

 

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[Speicher]

@Speicher See correction above. I missed out one of the digits when doing the calculation on my calculator.

This part of west Worcestershire is known as being still in last century, but we usually still have our decimal points in the same place as the rest of country.

So in metric, one metre by two metres by 5cm equals 0.1 cubic metre.

A large bag of sand is 0.6 cu metres from the local builder's merchant. That is the equivalent of 40 bags of 25kg each. So I need seven 25kg bags.

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