Paving slab weight

It is possible to deliver a small amount of paving slabs purchased at retail from a nearby store using your own car. A quantity exceeding a few dozen pieces will require a delivery company truck.

Since the carriers deliver at least a cubic meter of sidewalk tiles, they take into account the weight of the stacks. This will help them adjust the approximate calculation for the cost of gasoline or diesel fuel - delivery is never free. The more loaded the car, the higher the fuel costs.

Vibrocast and vibropressed paving slabs have different specific gravity. Vibration casting is a method of "shaking" a cement composition cast into molds (often with improving additives), in which air bubbles escape from the casted specimens by means of a shaking table due to shaking. Vibro-cast product is the heaviest: its thickness is up to 30 mm, length and width - 30 cm each for a standard "square".

For lighter vibropressed products, the thickness reaches 9 cm.

Varying in thickness from 3 to 9 cm, length and width up to 50 cm, paving slabs have a significant variation in the weight of one piece. The larger such an instance, the heavier it is.

Polymer additives are introduced into the paving slabs, somewhat lightening its weight. The density of the plastic is significantly lower than that of cement-containing building materials, which would initially lack any additives.

A unit (specimen) of 500x500x50 mm tiles weighs 25 kg. The weight of the elements changes as follows:

1. paving stones 200x200x60 mm - 5.3 kg per element;

2. brick 200x100x60 mm - 2.6 kg;

3. paving stones 200x100x100 mm - 5;

4. 30x30x6 cm (300x300x60 mm according to other marking) - 12 kg;

5. square 400x400x60 mm - 21 kg;

6. square 500x500x70 mm - 38 kg;

7. square 500x500x60 mm - 34 kg;

8. 8-brick assembly 400x400x40 mm - 18.3 kg;

9. curly elements in 300x300x30 mm - 4.8 kg;

10. "Bone" 225x136x60 mm - 3.3 kg;

11. wavy in 240x120x60 mm - 4;

12. "Stargorod" 1182х944х60 mm - 154 kg (more than one and a half centner, a record holder in weight categories);

13. "Lawn" 600x400x80 mm - 27 kg;

14. bar on the "curb" 500x210x70 mm -15.4 kg.

If it is required to determine the weight of a tile of not quite standard dimensions, then especially strong and heavy concrete is taken as a basis - about 2.5 ... 3 g / cm3. Let's say the tile is made of concrete with a specific gravity of 2800 kg / m3. To recalculate, use the following formula:

1. multiply the dimensions of the tiled specimen - length, width and height, get the volume;

2. multiply the specific gravity (density) of the brand concrete from which the elements of the tile (or border, building stones) are made by the volume - get the weight of a single fragment.

So, for the following varieties and shapes of tiles, the mass is as follows (let's use a calculator).

1. One piece of tiles 400x400x50 mm - 2 kg (the density of the most wear-resistant concrete from which the tiles are made is 2.5 kilograms per cubic decimeter).

2. A piece of border for a yard footpath 30x30 cm 1 meter long - 2.25 kg. The curb of the same length, but with a 40x40 element, already weighs 4 kg. Curbs 50x50 - 6.25 kg per running meter.

3. The type of facing tiles is small, medium and large tiles, often made of fired, like bricks, clay. Previously, low and multi-storey buildings were faced with such tiles, but as an element of decor (panels, mosaics), it has not lost its charm.Products, for example, 30x30x3 mm, made from clay, the highest density of which is 1900 kg / m3, weigh only slightly more than 50 g.

4. Let's go back to the tiles. Paving slabs 30x30x3 cm (300x300 mm) weigh 6.75 kg. Elements 100x200x60 mm - 3 kg, 200x100x40 - only 2 kg.

5. Large products over 600x600 mm are classified as slabs, not tiles. It is impractical to make too large elements that do not have a thickness of more than a few centimeters - if it is not porcelain stoneware or composite (rubber with plastic in different proportions, fiberglass, etc.). Thin slabs are easy to break off at the corners or break in the middle; they require careful delivery and installation. So, a plate of 1000x1000 mm and a thickness of 125 mm weighs 312.5 kg. Only a team of at least 12 people can lay such blocks; it is advisable to use a forklift or truck crane.

If for the delivery company, the weight of stacks of tiles and slabs of different sizes is of no small importance, then for a designer, builder, multi-profile master as such, the weight of a tile is sufficient to cover 1 m2 of surface. So, for the same slab 1000x1000x125 mm, the weight of this building material will be 312.5 kg / 1m2 of the covered adjoining area. For 60 m2 of such a site, respectively, the same number of meter by meter copies will be required.

In pallets (pallets), tiles, like bricks, are stacked. If a pallet with an area of ​​1 m2 fits, say, 8 pieces. slabs 100x100x12.5 cm, then the total weight of one cubic meter of such products reaches 2.5 tons. Accordingly, a euro pallet needs pieces of wood - a low-grade timber as a base that can withstand such a mass, for example, a 10x10 cm square.A sawn board is nailed to it, for example , 10x400x4 cm, divided into one-meter segments. In this case, the weight of the pallet is calculated according to a certain algorithm.

1. Three spacers of timber - 10x10x100 cm, for example, acacia. They are stacked along. Two - across, they do not allow the structure to skew during transportation. The density of the latter, taking into account the equilibrium, natural moisture content of 20%, is 770 kg / m3. The weight of this base is 38.5 kg.

2. 12 pieces of board - 100x1000x40 mm. The weight of the same edged board in this amount is 36.96 kg.

In this example, the weight of the pallet was 75.46 kg. The total weight of a stack of slabs 100x100x12.5 cm with a "cube" volume is 2575.46 kg. A truck crane - or a forklift truck - must be able to lift one such pallet with concrete slabs of a given size several meters in height.