Measuring Red Bricks For A Pathway

Have you ever thought of using red bricks for your pathways than expensive concrete pavers at your local hardware store? By using red bricks you can usually pick them up depending on quantity for around 0.20 - 0.50 cents and above. On average 0.20 cents for a recycled red brick is what you would be looking at to pay. Buying them with the mortar scraped off is going to save you a lot of hard work and time in the long run, rather than buying the red bricks with the mortar still on them.

Once you have decided on that you will use red bricks for your pathway, you will need to calculate the quantity of red bricks you will need. First you would need to measure the brick. A standard red brick size is usually 23 centimeters long by 7 centimeters wide. So if you were looking at creating a straight path measuring 10 metre long by 1 metre wide path you would need approximately 620.75 red bricks.

How I calculated that you would need approximately 620.75 red bricks was by the following:

1000 centimetres divided by 23 centimetres (the length of the red brick) which gives us 43.47

1 metre wide with = 100 cm, 100cm divided by 7cm (the width of the red brick) = 14.28

Now we know how many bricks it takes to make 1 line to 10 metres (43.47) and how many red bricks it takes across (14.28). Next calculation will be:

This gives us the quantity of the red bricks that you would need to make a 10 metre by 1 metre path.

Based on 0.20 cents a red brick, the total cost on 620.75 bricks would be $124.15.

You would always buy 5-10% more than needed in case any are damaged or chipped.