Being 38C today gives me an opportunity to sit in aircon comfort and crunch a few numbers.<\/p>\n
Blocks poured to date – 467.42
\nBags of cement used – 213.5
\nBlocks per bag – 2.19
\nCement cost per block – $3.84
\nSand cost per block – $1.55
\nBlocks per square metre – 5.55
\nWall cost per square metre – $29.91<\/p>\n
Cubic metres poured – 23.69
\nGuesstimated cubic metres wasted mix – 3
\nWe are getting better at managing the wasted mix but it is not completely avoidable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Being 38C today gives me an opportunity to sit in aircon comfort and crunch a few numbers. Blocks poured to date – 467.42 Bags of cement used – 213.5 Blocks per bag – 2.19 Cement cost per block – $3.84 Sand cost per block – $1.55 Blocks per square metre – 5.55 Wall cost per […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,8,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}