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Driveways & Paving

how many tonnes of ballast would i need to do 25 square meters at 4 inches think

Anonymous user 2 April 2012 - 4.13 PM

sorry and how many bags of cement roughly? would be help

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Matthews Plumbing & Maintenance
Rating: 5 out of 55575 reviews
Haywards Heath

You would need 2.7tonne of ballast - get three ton Cemnet 20 x 25kg bags approx Hope this helps

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Anonymous user

Hi if you google 'concrete calculator' it will tell you Lmao, so many different answers, some of you may end up with too much or not enough!

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East Sussex Builders
Rating: 5 out of 5555 reviews
Uckfield

You would need around 2.5CubicMetres of ballast. Depending on the use if drive or base for a heavy shed would say 25 25kg bags would be plenty. To convert into tonnes u get 0.6CubicMetres in a tonne bag So would say around 4.2Tonnes. Hope that helps :)

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Anonymous user

You would need 6 ton of ballast and i would allow 8 bags of cement per ton of ballast.Hope this is a help

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Hawkins Restoration
Rating: 5 out of 55568 reviews
Sheerness

Hi, 4 tonnes should be just enough, and 32 x 25 kg of cement, good luck

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Anonymous user

10 bag of cement to each ton and estimate 3to 3.5 ton so 30 to s5 bags of cement

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st georges homes (uk) ltd
Rating: 4.9 out of 54.9553 reviews
Bristol

You will need roughly 4 tonnes of ballast and 15 bags of cement

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