Garden walls, cavity work, piers and copings — describe the job and get the kit list, the brick and mortar count and the prep before you set out. Bricks, blocks, mortar and DPC worked out and on the shopping list.
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Ask, work it out, buy it, tick it off — each step hands to the next. No app hopping.
"Garden wall Monday, 6 by 1.8, facings — what do I need?" The Gaffer lists the kit, the pier and coping question, and what to check before you start — footing depth, line of the boundary, brick match.
Bricks per square metre, mortar by the bag, DPC by the metre. Straight into the calculator with waste allowed.
Bricks, sand, cement, ties, DPC and copings land on a shopping list with a merchant link on every line.
The wall sits on the job's checklist. Tick it course by course, send the material list to the labourer, invoice when the coping is on.
Free, no account needed. Quantities go straight onto a shopping list.
AI-generated in under 60 seconds from your job description. Every section editable, shareable, downloadable.
30 years of trade know-how in your pocket. Straight answers to on-site problems, specific to the job you describe — and it reminds you of the bits you'd only remember halfway there.
The Gaffer
Your AI site mate
"6m by 1.8m single-skin garden wall in facings — how many bricks and how much mortar?"
10.8 square metres at 60 bricks a metre is 648; with 5 percent for cuts and breakages call it 680. Mortar at roughly 30 kilos a metre is about 325 kilos — a 1:4 mix wants around 0.25 cubic metre of building sand and 3 bags of cement, with plasticiser. At 1.8 high in half-brick you want piers at no more than 3 metre centres and a proper coping, or it will not stay straight through a winter.
Always verify to current regs. On-site conditions may vary.
Yes. Pick facing, engineering, common or handmade brick, or 100 to 215mm blocks, single skin or cavity. It gives units, mortar in kilos and DPC in metres, with a waste allowance you set.
Ask the Gaffer and it will tell you when a single-skin wall wants piers and what coping suits it. It references good practice, but you remain responsible for any structural design.
Yes. On Pro you share the checklist by link or add them to a team, so the sand, cement and bricks are on site before you are.