🔨 Mortar Calculator
What are you doing?
Job type
Laying concrete blocks
Laying bricks
Repointing / tuckpointing old joints
Number of units to lay
Wall area to repoint
Wall type
(sets how much of the wall is joint)
Brick wall — joints ≈ 18% of the face
Block wall — joints ≈ 7% of the face
Joint depth to fill
(raked-out depth — ¾ in is the usual repointing depth)
½ in
¾ in
1 in
Waste allowance (%)
(extra for cuts, spills and uneven ground — 10% is the usual rule)
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