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This paver calculator counts pavers and estimates the gravel base and the sand bed. It can support a paver patio cost calculator or a patio cost calculator only for the quantities. You still need prices for pavers, base, and sand.
Pavers to order
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Planning estimate from the numbers you enter. Coverage, density, waste and price are assumptions, not a supplier quote or an engineering specification.
How it works
Paver count is the patio area divided by one paver's face, plus waste, rounded up. The same area times the base depth becomes cubic yards of gravel. The sand bed is a second, thinner volume, which is the paver sand calculator. Defaults are 4 inches of base and 1 inch of bedding sand, planning depths you can change. The polymeric sand calculator line is area times the pounds per square foot you enter. One pound per square foot is the filled-in example, not a bag's coverage. Replace it with the joint coverage on the product. Edge restraint and labor are not priced.
Formula
Paver square feet = length inches × width inches ÷ 144. Base yards and sand yards use area × depth in feet ÷ 27. Waste applies to the paver count, not automatically to the base.
Example
The patio is 200 square feet. Each paver is 0.375 square feet, so the order is 587 pavers. The 4 inch base is 2.47 cubic yards. The 1 inch sand bed is 0.62 cubic yards.
Tips
Ten percent covers a simple rectangle better than a fan layout. If the product is sold by the square foot instead of the piece, use the area and the waste and ignore the piece count. Confirm the base depth the paver maker wants for the use.
Equipment
Placing and compacting base is skid steer work on anything larger than a small pad. Dengaro finances business equipment from $15,000 to $2 million. The paver count is not the amount on the application.
Important questions
Take the paver count, the base yards, and the sand yards, and multiply each by the price you were quoted. Add edge restraint and labor yourself. This page stops at quantities so it does not invent those prices.
A cost needs prices. The quantities here are the part that comes from the measurements. A poured patio is a different page: use the concrete calculator.
Not in this result. The base and sand are the neat volumes. Add waste on the gravel calculator if the edges or the compaction need it.
Divide the piece count by the pieces per layer or per square on the pallet tag. The calculator counts pieces from the face size you enter.
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