Brick Calculator

Created by Mateusz Mucha and Kenneth Alambra

Reviewed by Bogna Szyk and Jack Bowater

Last updated: Feb 02, 2023

If you are going to start construction work and you want to optimize your costs, this brick calculator is your new best friend. This brick wall calculator will help you estimate how many bricks you need to cover a particular wall surface. Together with this tool is the brick mortar calculator, which will also enable you to order the other materials you will need, like cement and sand for your mortar.

If you are wondering how many bricks you do need, it's always better to calculate it than to guess it. Otherwise, in all probability, you'll either run out of them, or you'll have too many left.

The first step you can do to determine the number of bricks you will use is to consider the surface you want to cover with them. To do it by yourself, you have to calculate:

The area that a single brick covers;

The size of the mortar joint; and

The area of the wall.

You can work out how many bricks you need using this simple equation:

bricks needed = (L * H) / ((l + t) * (h + t)),

where:

L - Length of the wall;

H - Height of the wall;

l - Length of a brick;

t - Thickness of mortar joint; and

h - Height of a brick.

Using the brick calculator is very easy. All you have to do is key in the values needed, and the brick wall calculator will display the results right away. For in-depth information go here https://www.omnicalculator.com/construction/brick