How Much Decorative Landscape Stone Do I Need

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Rectangular Calculations

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How Much Cloth Practice Y'all Need?

For estimating quantity needed for irregular areas break the area up into smaller workable shapes. Measure out each of them and assign them a letter. Calculate foursquare feet for each and add the square footage together to figure total needed.

Rectangle

Measure Length and Width (in anxiety)
Length x Width = square feet
Determine desired depth of fabric (see recommended depths and chart below)
Square feet divided by sq. ft. per one thousand (from chart) = cubic yards needed
Example: A rectangular expanse 16 anxiety long by 10 feet wide and you desire 4 inches deep of stone.
Calculations:
16 10 10 = 160 square feet
160 divided past 81 = 2 cubic yards (81 comes from the chart, 81 is how many square feet 1 cubic yard covers at a 4 inch depth)

Triangle

Measure length and width of 2 sides
Length x Width x 0.5 = foursquare feet
Foursquare anxiety divided by sq. ft. per thou (from chart) = cubic yards needed
Example: Given a triangle are where one side is 40 feet long, i side is 10 feet long and you want 4 inches deep of mulch or stone
Calculations:
40 10 10 x 0.5 = 200 square feet
200 divided by 81 = 2.five cubic yards (81 comes from the chart)

Circle

Determine radius (one/2 distance of bore or distance beyond)
Formula: Radius x Radius x 3.14 = foursquare feet
Square feet divided past sq. ft. per yard (from nautical chart) = cubic yards needed
Instance: Given a circumvolve 30 anxiety beyond (15 ft radius) and you desire iii inches deep
Calculations:
xv x 15 x iii.14 = 706.5 square anxiety
706.5 divided by 108 = 6.five cubic yards

Conversion Nautical chart – Square Feet to Cubic Yards

Converts square feet to cubic yards 1 cubic yard volition cover the following amount of square feet at the given depth.

one/four" deep 1296 square feet
i" deep 324 square feet
2" deep 162 square feet
3" deep 108 square feet
4" deep 81 square feet
6" deep 54 square anxiety
12" deep 27 square feet

Recommended Depth of Materials

Bawl Mulches 3"
Stone less than 1" bore iii"
1-ane 1/2" Riverstone 4"
Soil for Lush Lawns iv+"
Garden Soil in Flower Beds half-dozen-12"
Lawn topdressing 1/4"
Pathways 4"

Volume Fun Facts

There are 54 50lb numberless of stone or sand per cubic yard.
27 cubic feet equal ane cubic one thousand (3'L x three'W ten three'H).
Soil weighs near 2,200 lbs per cubic yard.
Rock weighs about 2,700 lbs per cubic thou.
Mulch weighs 250-750 lbs per cubic yard.
Full size selection-up with 8' box a heaping load is 3 cubic yards.
Small size pick-up heaping load is 1 ½ cubic yards.
Typically a full size truck can take ½ - i cubic m rock or soil.
Typically a small pickup truck can take ⅓ - ½ cubic yard rock or soil.
7 to 12 bicycle barrow loads in 1 cubic yard.
When topdressing previously mulched beds you only need to add together enough mulch to existing bed to get a full of three".
Installing less than the recommended amounts of rock can result in OK short term advent but later a few years the stones somehow disappear and the ground reappears.

Bags or Bulk

Try to make an educated gauge of quantity needed using the formulas. If you are notwithstanding unsure how much bagged or bulk material to get provide the measurements to the KLS staff and they tin help you estimate.
There are 54 bags of stone or soil per i cubic yard.
There are 27 1 cubic foot bags or xviii 1.5 cubic foot numberless of mulch per yard.
Consider a ½ cubic foot bag of stone or soil weighs about 50 lbs and will cover 2 square feet at three" deep. A purse of hardwood or cedar bawl contains about i cubic foot of material, plenty to encompass about 4 square feet at 3" deep. If you have large areas you probably need bulk.
A less expensive culling to buying in bags is to bring in and fill up your own containers with bulk materials.
If you are dressing upwardly a minor area maybe bags are best if you do not have a way to haul majority fabric.
Mulch purchased by the bag is most 2 or 3 times more plush than bulk.
Stone purchased past the bag is virtually 3 or iv times more plush than bulk.
Soil purchased by the bag is almost iv or five times more costly than bulk.

Tips for moving bulk material

When shoveling heavy materials, using more small shovelfuls is easier on your body than using fewer only larger shovelfuls.
Think nearly where y'all are hanging onto your shovel, the closer your hand is to the weight the easier the less effort it takes.
Make sure to maintain expert posture, minimize heavy work with bent over back, maximize use of your legs.
Work at a skilful pace, practice not dwell on how much you still demand to motion. Endeavor to focus on how much material yous already moved, how skillful it is going to await after your done and how much money you are saving past doing it yourself.
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What Does a Cubic Yard Look Like?

Below are some pile samples to give you an idea of how large piles are for a given quantity of fabric. The volume of a pile of soil, stone or mulch will be the same. Even so, a pile of Riverstone may look different from the pile of cedar mulch because information technology will likely be a lower, wider and longer pile because the round stones spread out farther when dumped.

The sample piles testify Tim who is 6' tall and is holding a yardstick.