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Need a plaster mold to create your ceramic masterpiece? Do you need a simple plaster form suitable for a one-off project? Are you creating plaster slabs for drying wet clay or for a dampbox container? Plaster Calculator can help! It's easy to eye-ball the plaster/water ratio for a one-off or non-critical piece using the island method, such as for the bottom of a wetbox. However, when making multi-part molds or a series of identical molds, the proper ratio is critical to ensure consistency across molds and in the resulting ceramic piece. Plaster Calculator can help you determine the amount of plaster and water for your mix, ensuring consistent results using many of the common plaster types available, including #1 Pottery Plaster, Hydrostone, Ultracal, and several others. Key Features: Calculate the volume of your plaster need based on the dimensions of the most common forms in centimeters, inches, or feet. Forms include square/rectangle (cuboid), cylinder, sphere/half-sphere, pyramid (3 and 4 sided), and cone, as-well-as allowing you to enter an already known volume amount. Additionally, can calculate the volume of a void space within the plaster mold, such as when making a mold from an existing object, the void volume amount will be removed from the main volume. Save your mix calculation for later referral. Allows measurement of plaster and water in pounds/ounces or grams, the default can be changed in the Settings. Calculates a typical volume reduction of 30% (as recommended by some sources). This value can be changed between 0 (for no adjustment) and 45%, the default value can be changed in the Settings. Provides plaster weight variations -/+5 points from the standard consistency for the plaster. For example, the standard consistency of #1 Pottery Plaster is 70, variations are provided from 65 to 75 supplying the plaster amount needed for that consistency. Allows changing of the plaster type prior to saving mix, default plaster type can be changed in the Settings. Allows optional donation to developer - please do :) Please add a review :) Version 3.0 Changes =============== Revamped interface to use buttons for volume calculation type instead of swiping. Removed interface color options, now only system light and dark modes available. Removed animations on several UI elements. Ensure compatibility with iOS/iPad 26. The minimum iOS/iPad version is now 17.6. Various bug fixes, performance and interface improvements.

Brickwork Calculator is a complete masonry and plastering toolkit for site engineers, contractors, masons and DIY builders. Work out bricks, blocks, mortar, cement, sand and plaster in seconds, see the formula behind every figure, and keep it all in a project with its BOQ and site documents. BRICKWORK CALCULATOR (KEYPAD) A site calculator you work with keys, not forms. • Measure: L×H area, L×W×T volume, 3-4-5 diagonal check, curved walls, door and window deductions, undo, CFT and brass • Masonry: bricks, mortar, cement, sand, courses, bricks per m², water, truck loads, labour, closers and cost • Plaster: area, mortar, cement, sand, bags, water, mesh, scaffolding, grooves, labour and cost, for sand or gypsum plaster • Feet, inches and fractions to 1/16", metric units, and sums across units (10 ft + 2 m, 12 ft × 10 ft) • Help mode: tap ? then any key to see what it does ALL IN ONE CALCULATOR Enter a run of walls with their openings and corners, then choose the bond and the jointing (mortar, thin-bed adhesive, face-shell bedding or dry-laid). Get units, closers or bats at each corner, mortar, cement, sand and plaster, with whole-course warnings. The wall schedule is saved to your project and drawn in the chosen bond. QUANTITY CALCULATORS • Clay / Fly Ash Brick, AAC / CLC Block, Sand Plaster, Gypsum / POP Plaster • Bonds: Stretcher, Header, English, Flemish, Stack, English Cross (Dutch) and Garden Wall • Closers: King, Queen, Half and Quarter Bat • Shapes: By Volume, Cube, Wall, L Wall, C Wall, Rectangular Chamber, Wall With Door, Wall With Arch Door, Circular Wall, Compound Wall, Cavity Wall and Buttress Wall SPECIALTY CALCULATORS • Paving: patterns, units and bedding • Arch: voussoirs and arch geometry • Pointing: joint length and mortar for pointing and repointing • Jali: pierced brick screens • Junction Mesh: chicken mesh at RCC and masonry junctions, in running metres and rolls, with nails, labour and cost PROJECTS, BOQ AND SITE DOCUMENTS • Add any calculation to a project's BOQ and edit its lines and rates • Quality: brickwork and plaster checklists, inspection requests, method statements, non-conformance and corrective action reports, snag lists, material approvals • Materials: goods receipt, issue slips, cement register, material ledger and reconciliation, rejection and transfer notes, test certificates • Measurement and billing: measurement sheet, joint measurement, abstract, payment applications and variations • Commercial: quotation, purchase order, work order, rate analysis and payment certificate • Site: daily and weekly progress reports, labour attendance, requests for information, site instructions • Handover: as-built record, completion certificate, snag closure, warranty register and project compendium • Export to PDF and Excel MATERIAL TESTING Record site and lab tests such as compressive strength, water absorption, efflorescence, density, silt content, sand bulking, sieve analysis, setting time, slump, plumb and squareness. Keep them against a project and export to PDF, Word or Excel. MATERIAL LIBRARY AND REGIONS Keep your own bricks, blocks, cement, sand and plaster with sizes and rates, so every calculator starts from your prices. Region settings for India, USA, Canada, Australia, Europe and the Gulf set the currency and local defaults. LEARN AND LOOK UP Explainers and interactive examples, a construction glossary, quick look-up tables, articles, a quiz with a Question of the Day, and a unit converter. MORE • Share, save and export results as PDF • Search calculators, pin favourites and reopen recent ones • Light, dark or system theme Some calculators and features need Pro. We appreciate your feedback. Your suggestions help us improve. Contact us at brickcalculator@constropedia.com.