Concrete Bag Calculator

Estimate concrete volume and bag quantities for slabs, trenches, post holes, and round piers. Enter the bag size you plan to buy or the manufacturer’s stated yield per bag, and the calculator estimates the bag count.

Concrete Inputs

Use the same unit as the hole diameter. Leave blank to use the full hole volume.
Use the manufacturer’s stated yield per bag where available (L, m³, or ft³); kg/lb uses the disclosed planning conversion.
Price field
Use the price for one bag of the selected size.
Slab and trench modes use length x width x depth. Post-hole and round-pier modes use diameter x depth x count. Bag counts use your entered volume yield, or the disclosed planning conversion for kg/lb bag sizes, then round up to whole bags.

Concrete volume is sensitive to thickness

Concrete quantity comes from a three-dimensional measurement. For a slab or trench, length × width × depth becomes volume. For holes and piers, diameter, depth, and number of holes determine the volume. The result then uses the bag yield you enter and rounds up to whole bags.

Concrete calculation

slab volume = length × width × depthbags = allowance-adjusted volume ÷ bag yield, rounded up

A small thickness change is not small in volume

A 100 mm slab made 125 mm thick needs 25% more concrete across the same area. Measure excavation depth in several places and enter the manufacturer’s stated yield where it is available.

What the breakdown separates

For post holes, the result identifies raw hole volume, optional post displacement, net volume, allowance, bag yield, and final whole-bag rounding. That makes the purchase figure easier to audit rather than treating every bag as interchangeable.

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