BUILDING AGGREGATES | BUILDING SAND

Building sand is soft sand used to make mortar for bricklaying, rendering and pointing. It has small, smooth even particles which makes it easy to identify.

Building sand is also known as bricklaying sand, soft sand, and masonry sand.

It has a fine grain, usually no more than 2mm and is therefore used on building work where a smooth finish is required.

For a mortar mix you would usually used a 4:1 ratio of building sand to cement to create a mix for bricklaying mortar, meaning that for every 100kg of building sand you would one 25kg bag of cement, in alternative measure you would use 8 25kg bags of cement per bulk bag of building sand.

Size & Colour

Images are for presentation. All products that NWTT supplies are naturally occurring products and may have slight variations in colour and size. Therefore you will not be able to return this product for any variations in appearance or otherwise.

Bulk Bag Size

Our bulk bags all weigh between approx 850–900 kg. As our aggregates are natural products, the volume of material in each bag may vary slightly depending on the type of aggregate and its moisture content.

Returns & Credit 

We do not collect or credit Bulk Bags or Half Bulk Bags of aggregates after delivery.