Is the Volume of Gravel in a Pile Discrete or Continuous

Let's deal with a real-life situation. Imagine that you have just built your beautiful house. You want to cover it with a roof of warm red tiles. Our roofing and roof pitch calculators will help you with that. It would be a shame to buy too much, or, even worse - not enough materials and have to go back to the home improvement store.

Now, back to the yard. You want to surround your home with a grass yard and a pavement made of tiles. To calculate the number of tiles you need to buy before getting to work we recommend you to visit our tile calculator. In the middle of grass yard, you want to dig a pool and surround it with a path made of landscape gravel to dry your feet with after a bath. We want to calculate the total quantity and cost of pea gravel required. As you can see, we cannot just type the width and length of our path into our gravel estimator as there is the pool in the middle of it. How to deal with this problem?

1. First, we need to divide the pea gravel path into four rectangles: 1, 2, 3, and 4.
2. Now, we have to measure the width and width of each sector:

• Sector 1 has the length of 10 yd and the width of 0.5 yd;
• Sector 2 has the length of 4 yd and the width of 0.5 yd;
• Sector 3 has the length of 4 yd and the width of 2.5 yd;
• Sector 4 has the length of 10 yd and the width of 0.6 yd;

3. Let's calculate the area of each rectangle:

• Sector 1: the area is equal to 10 yd multiplied by 0.5 yd, which gives 5 yd².
• Sector 2: the area is equal to 4 yd multiplied by 0.5 yd, which gives 2 yd².
• Sector 3: the area is equal to 4 yd multiplied by 2.5 yd, which gives 10 yd².
• Sector 4: the area is equal to 10 yd multiplied by 0.6 yd, which gives 6 yd².

4. We have to sum up these four different areas to get the area of the whole yard.

   5 yd² + 2 yd² + 10 yd² + 6 yd² = 23 yd²

   From now on you can use our gravel calculator (see the instructions in How much gravel do I need? paragraph).

5. It is time to choose the desired thickness (depth) of the gravel level. Let's make it 0.1 yd. We need to make sure that the gravel path will be thick enough to cover the earth beneath it. Furthermore, the thicker gravel layer will be, the longer it will last and the more resilient to wind, heavy raining or your children and pets 😉 it will be. Keep in mind that it may be a good idea to lay multiple layers of different types of gravel, as we have mentioned in the previous paragraph.

6. You can calculate the required volume of gravel by multiplying the gravel path area by the desired thickness:

   23 yd² * 0.1 yd = 2.3 yd³

7. The last things to assess are the estimated weight of the required gravel and its cost. Knowledge about the weight of the cargo may come in handy when it comes to transportation. It would be nice to know that your truck or trailer will endure the burden of your purchase. As we have already mentioned, we have set a default density of gravel for you but feel free to change it according to your needs. Change of density is available in Advanced mode. You just need to multiply it by the volume of your gravel layer.

8. And last but not least – money. Can you afford such an expense? Maybe you could save some money by reducing the thickness? To know that you need to calculate the total cost. With our gravel calculator, you can do it by multiplying the volume of purchased gravel or its weight by the price of one cubic yard or the price of one ton (other units of weight or volume are also available). You can use our gravel estimator to deal with these calculations. Go back to the How much is a yard of gravel? paragraph for more instructions.

Oh, and if you were wondering whether we can help you with filling your pool with water, yes, we can – we've got a calculator for that too! There is nothing left to do apart from to relax in cool water and to invite your friends over for a barbecue!

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Source: https://www.omnicalculator.com/construction/gravel

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