Online brick planning tools?

Stinky · 23 Apr 2021 at 12:32

Hi!

Im trying to plan for a brick built outdoor kitchen. Ive come up with the following plans myself, but have no idea how to transfer it into a number of bricks, or to check if my measurement even make it possible with the standard size of a brick. I want to make it as straight forward as possible but want a good finish

Im still to do a front view of the return to the L but its basically the same as the other version just not as wide for the usable space.

A bricklayer has asked me to work out how many bricks it will be and he will price from there. But ive no idea where to start with doing that.

Really I want someone to make my picture become reality before the summer. But that doesn't seem to be to easy!

Any help would be great. Ideally id like to come up with a plan and hand it over and say please build me this.

Jon

200sols · 23 Apr 2021 at 12:48

https://www.jewson.co.uk/material-calculators/brick

I would advise finding a person who has built this sort of thing before, they will have more of an idea what to do rather than some local bricky who only ever builds a straight wall.

Stinky · 23 Apr 2021 at 13:00

200sols said:
https://www.jewson.co.uk/material-calculators/brick

I would advise finding a person who has built this sort of thing before, they will have more of an idea what to do rather than some local bricky who only ever builds a straight wall.

that’s what I was hoping to find, but I’ve not found them yet unfortunately

Jon

Delvis · 23 Apr 2021 at 16:33

Stinky said:
that’s what I was hoping to find, but I’ve not found them yet unfortunately

Jon

Facebook may help here, otherwise an exceedingly good handy man or other landscape gardener of sorts.

bainbridge · 23 Apr 2021 at 20:17

60 bricks will build 1m2 of walling half a brick thick. Add 3% for wastage and you've got your total required.

For blocks it's 10 blocks per m2.

bainbridge · 23 Apr 2021 at 20:26

Scrap my last post, I didn't read the 1st post properly and wrongly assumed it was a kitchen extension.

You just need to drill down into more detail. A bedded brick with a joint on the end is 225mm long and 75mm high. I'd draw the thing out on graph paper, both a front elevation and both the 1st and 2nd courses. You can then work out how many bricks are needed (remember to add for wastage) and also spot any straight joints and rearrange the bond.

Any good brickie could do this for you, if they were inclined to help.

j.col · 24 Apr 2021 at 07:57

I would also adjust your plan a little to suite the size of a brick.
Eg. in the bottom pic, between the doors you have a gap of 182mm, a full brick is 215mm.
This would make it a lot easier to build. A lot of brickies wouldn't touch this as it would be so fiddly.
Same with the overall lengths of the walls, work it out to suit a brick if possible, as above a brick with a joint is 225mm.
Obviously the interior spacing for the doors themselves will have to be stuck too

2004typer · 24 Apr 2021 at 10:09

j.col said:
I would also adjust your plan a little to suite the size of a brick.
Eg. in the bottom pic, between the doors you have a gap of 182mm, a full brick is 215mm.
This would make it a lot easier to build. A lot of brickies wouldn't touch this as it would be so fiddly.
Same with the overall lengths of the walls, work it out to suit a brick if possible, as above a brick with a joint is 225mm.
Obviously the interior spacing for the doors themselves will have to be stuck too

This is good advice, the less cutting you have to do the much easier the build will be, and will also look a lot better as well.

I've done a fair few plans for building work in my early career (when I was a trainee Building Surveyor), and the starting point was always to try and keep to coordinated brickwork dims where possible, and if you couldn't, to design it so any cuts were minimised.