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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 7:01 pm
by loudog
hi ive been tarmacing for a good few years now and its all been self taught, when i price jobs i measure them up and caculate how much 6mm will be needed but as i am self taught does anyone know a better way than what i am doing.
Say it is 100sqm i just devide that by 16 for a 30mm depth to give me about 6 tonn of the black gold
cheers
loudog
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:30 am
by lutonlagerlout
dunno about tarmac but thats how most blokes work out concrete etc
there is a page here with lots of other calculators on it
cheers LLL 
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:18 pm
by Dave_L
loudog wrote:hi ive been tarmacing for a good few years now and its all been self taught, when i price jobs i measure them up and caculate how much 6mm will be needed but as i am self taught does anyone know a better way than what i am doing.
Say it is 100sqm i just devide that by 16 for a 30mm depth to give me about 6 tonn of the black gold
cheers
loudog
.....as you said really.
and a bit of experience 