Bagged concrete

Dry-concrete bags and water. Calculate in your browser. Results are rounded up to whole packs, the way you buy them.

Bagged concrete

Dry-concrete bags and water.

How we calculate it

What you enter

  • Volume (m³)

Formula

bags = ⌈ Volume × 1000 ÷ 12.5 ⌉
water ≈ bags × 2 l

Example

The default values from the form, run through the same engine:

To buy
40 bags
Water80 l

What to watch out for

The conversion assumes a 25 kg bag of dry mix yielding about 12.5 l of concrete. Check the yield on the bag — it differs between manufacturers.

The Materio app for Android uses the same formula. The site's engine is a 1:1 port of the app's code.

The same formula in the app Materio for Android uses the same engine offline — with the material catalogue and results saved into a project. Download