Price per 1m cube next year.

[18 stoner]

That's as clear as mud then as my vented bags are 0.73m3 but I suppose they're still a builders bag as they aren't a full cube?

[delabodge]

lifes too short,,,,,,,

[18 stoner]

Too right! Lol!

[Mark Bolam]

Those builders bags are a tonne though, right?

[Johny Walker]

Those builders bags are a tonne though, right?

 

not any more there now a metric tonne & it weighs a whopping 850k work that 1, out ,

[Mark Bolam]

You're wrong Johny.

It's called a 'ton bag', it must have a ton in it.

 

I think a metric tonne is the same as an old ton as well.

 

It's just a term used by younger people.

 

Anyway, lets move on to price.

 

It's fifty quid a load, always has been, always will be.

[peatff]

You're wrong Johny.

It's called a 'ton bag', it must have a ton in it.

 

Builders materials are sold by volume not weight because of the varying moisture content from day to day conditions, isn't wood sold on the same basis ?

[Mark Bolam]

I'm just having a laugh mate, but the amount of customers who believe a bulk bag is a ton is worrying.

 

Nearly as worrying as some suppliers telling them that....

[difflock]

Tsk tsk gentlemen.

(i) Sand and aggregate is sold by the tonne ex builders merchants, the moisture content makes very little difference due to the free draining nature of these products.

(ii) About 1.5 to 2.0 tonne per m3, hence the "odd" volume of a builders tonne bag.

(iii) mass concrete being 2.4 t/m3

An imperial ton is 2240lbs being 20cwt by 8 stone by 14lbs in a stone

A tonne is 1000kg by near nuff 2.2lbs = 2200lbs i.e. 20lbs "light"

Or was sometimes referred to as a "short" ton.

The intersnot will provide more exact comparisons and bulk densities.

cheers

marcus

[Johny Walker]

Tsk tsk gentlemen.

(i) Sand and aggregate is sold by the tonne ex builders merchants, the moisture content makes very little difference due to the free draining nature of these products.

(ii) About 1.5 to 2.0 tonne per m3, hence the "odd" volume of a builders tonne bag.

(iii) mass concrete being 2.4 t/m3

An imperial ton is 2240lbs being 20cwt by 8 stone by 14lbs in a stone

A tonne is 1000kg by near nuff 2.2lbs = 2200lbs i.e. 20lbs "light"

Or was sometimes referred to as a "short" ton.

The intersnot will provide more exact comparisons and bulk densities.

cheers

marcus

 

god you must be bored or single