Bricks Calculator
Pick what you're building — a room, a boundary wall, a whole house or one wall — and see the bricks, cement and sand it takes, priced on today's rates. Send the list to your supplier on WhatsApp.
What are you building?
The room
Wall thickness
Bricks for: 14' × 12' room
5,135
13 bags of cement · 93 cft sand · 5% extra for breakage included
- Bricks
- Rs 1.03 Lakh
- Cement
- Rs 21.06 Thousand
- Total
- Rs 1.31 Lakh
What to buy
Lahore rates- Bricks (first class / awwal)Rs 20,000 per 1,0005,135Rs 102,700
- Cement (50 kg)for 1:6 mortar13 bagsRs 21,060
- Sandclean sand for mortar93 cftRs 6,986
Material totalRs 130,746
Bricks are usually sold per 1,000 — order 5,500. Labour, water and transport are extra.
How it's worked out
Good to know
- Soak bricks in water before laying — dry bricks suck the water out of the mortar and the joints stay weak.
- First-class (awwal) bricks are evenly red, ring when struck and have sharp edges; use them for outer walls left exposed.
- 9" outer walls usually take 1:6 mortar; thin 4.5" walls 1:4.
- Today's rates: bricks, cement, sand.
- Building the whole house? The construction cost calculator adds steel, concrete, labour and finishing; the cement calculator does slabs and plaster.
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How it works
How bricks are counted
A Pakistani brick is 9" × 4.5" × 3". With the mortar joints, 100 cubic feet of brickwork takes 1,350 bricks and 30 cft of dry mortar — the basis engineers and the PWD analysis of rates use.
Bricks = wall length × height × thickness (in feet) × 13.5, plus 5% for breakage. A 9-inch wall takes about 10.1 bricks per sq ft, a 4.5-inch wall about 5.1.
Mortar: 30 cft dry per 100 cft of brickwork, split by the mix — in 1:6, one part cement and six parts sand. A 50 kg bag of cement is 1.25 cft.
Questions people ask
How many bricks are in 1 sq ft of wall?
About 10.1 bricks in a 9-inch wall and 5.1 in a 4.5-inch wall, counting the mortar joints — then add 5% for breakage.
How many bricks are in 100 cubic feet of brickwork?
1,350 standard Pakistani bricks (9" × 4.5" × 3"), the figure used in the PWD analysis of rates — 13.5 bricks per cubic foot, with 30 cft of dry mortar.
How many bricks does one room need?
A 12 ft × 10 ft room with 9-inch walls 10 ft high, less a door and a window, takes about 4,300 bricks, 11 bags of cement and 78 cft of sand. Rooms built side by side share a wall, so each extra room takes fewer.
How many bricks for the boundary wall of a 5 marla plot?
A 5 marla plot (25' × 45') walled on all four sides, 7 ft high and 9 inches thick with a 10 ft gate, takes about 13,800 bricks including a 2 ft foundation. If the neighbours' walls are already up, you only build the front — far fewer.
How many bricks does a 5 marla house need?
A double-storey 5 marla house (about 2,026 sq ft covered) takes roughly 54,700 bricks — about 27 per sq ft of covered area, including foundations and the boundary wall.
How much cement and sand does brickwork need?
For 1,000 sq ft of 9-inch wall in 1:6 mortar: about 27 bags of cement and 193 cft of sand. 1:4 mortar (stronger, for 4.5" walls) takes more cement.
What is the brick rate today?
First-class (awwal) bricks are about Rs 20,000 per thousand in Lahore today, second-class (doum) about Rs 15,000.
Which wall thickness should I use?
9-inch (one brick) for outer and load-bearing walls, 4.5-inch (half brick) for partitions inside, 13.5-inch for boundary walls and heavy loads.