Sold by weight, used by volume, and it shrinks in between
Sold by weight, used by volume, and short by the time it is compacted. What to order by area and depth, how deep the base goes for what stands on it, where bags stop being worth it, why you cannot top up a concrete pour, and the short-load fee that is not in the price per yard. Then the page nobody writes: getting it from the pile to the hole. A barrow full of wet sand weighs 720 lb, so you move about a quarter of what it holds — and a 4-yard delivery becomes 65 loads and three hours of wheeling before any of it is spread. 11 pages, printable, with a fill-in order sheet.
What’s inside
Why a finished volume is not an order, and the factor that converts one to the other
Loose density and order factor for six materials, matched to this site's own calculators
What to order by area and depth: base at 4in and 6in, bedding sand at 1in
Base depth by what stands on it — walkway, patio on clay, shed, driveway, heavy driveway
Tonnage per 100 sq ft with the compaction allowance already included
Why an 8in base has to go down as two lifts, and what happens when it does not
The bags-versus-bulk crossover, with both costs shown rather than a verdict
What a bag of concrete actually yields, and bags per cubic yard for three sizes
Slab volumes for seven common sizes, with the over-order allowance applied
The thickened-edge correction — why perimeter times width overstates the beam
The short-load fee, what it costs at each order size, and when to order MORE because of it
A parking pad worked end to end, from area to what to say down the phone
What a barrow really carries — the load is set by weight, not by its rated volume
Your delivery in barrow loads and hours, on your own and with a crew
What double handling costs when the truck cannot tip where the material is going
What to settle before the delivery, and a fill-in sheet for your own job
Plus a second PDF, worked out for you
Run one of the free calculators first and buy from that page, and this sheet is computed from your own figures. Buy from here and the pack still arrives complete — the sheet simply has no numbers of yours to work from yet.
14-day refund, no questions asked. If the pack is not what you needed, email support@graburl.com and we refund you in full — you do not have to justify it or delete the file. Full policy.
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