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Free Brick Calculator

Number of bricks needed for a wall.

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Bricks needed

1,073

Rows (courses)37
Estimated cost$643.80

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Short answer

Number of bricks needed for a wall.

What is the Brick Calculator?

Number of bricks needed for a wall.

How does the Brick Calculator work?

Enter the inputs above and read the result.

Formula

Bricks = ⌈Length ÷ (Brick + Joint)⌉ × ⌈Height ÷ (Brick + Joint)⌉

Variables

  • JointMortar joint thickness

Explanation

Add 5–10% extra for cuts and breakage on top of the base count.

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            Related concepts

            The Brick Calculator sits inside the Construction Calculators hub, in the concrete & masonry cluster. Slabs, footings and aggregate volumes. Understanding the terms below makes the output easier to interpret and easier to compare against neighbouring measures.

            cubic yardsubgradecure timecompressive strength

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            Understanding Brick

            Number of bricks needed for a wall. Within construction calculators, brick belongs to the concrete & masonry cluster, where it shares terminology and assumptions with closely related tools.

            Learning how brick is calculated

            Add 5–10% extra for cuts and breakage on top of the base count. Working through the variables one at a time — Joint — makes the result reproducible by hand and easier to sanity-check.

            Using brick to make a decision

            Because outputs depend on the assumptions you enter, run more than one scenario before committing to a figure.

            How brick compares with related measures

            cubic yard, subgrade, cure time, compressive strength all describe adjacent aspects of concrete & masonry. Comparing this calculator's output against those measures — using the related tools listed on this page — prevents a single metric from being read in isolation.

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