Brick Expansion Rate and Volume of 40 Meters of Brick Wall? All manner of questions and solutions to problems and issues surrounding the subject of brickwork, blockwork and stonework

[mrdwy]

I am going to demolish my garden wall, approx. 40 square metres .
My question is this,
How much volume will 40 metres of brick walling create once its been demolished. What size of skip will be needed ?

[welsh brickie]

size of block needed...to calculate

[mrdwy]

size of block needed...to calculate

It's a single brick wall

[welsh brickie]

4.5 tonnes

[mrdwy]

So a 4 metre skip will be enough ? , I ask as tonage is not the same by volume as sand or ballast

[philipam]

When you say 40m of brickwall do you mean 40m2??

If so you are looking at 2400 bricks these alone will weigh somewhere in the region of 6 tonnes + the mortar used to lay them in the region of an other 2 tonnes.

Now if you lay them in the skip with no voids you might get them all in a 8 yrd skip.