Documented geometry and product yield
Baseplate Grout Volume & Package Estimator
Calculate a rectangular average-gap volume,subtract documented exclusions,add pockets or formed volumes,and apply a user-documented contingency and product yield.
Documented volume estimate
Implemented general geometry
Vnet=Vgross−Vexcluded+Vadditional
Vorder=Vnet(1+c/100)
N=ceil(Vorder/Y)
L,W and h use the selected common length unit and are converted exactly to metres.1m³=1000L;1in=0.0254m exactly. Excluded/additional volumes and product yield are entered in litres. These are general geometry and procurement arithmetic,not a grout-design standard.
Product-specific requirements
Official manufacturer data demonstrate why fixed values are unsafe. The SikaGrout-295 US May2025 data sheet,for example, states23L yield per25kg bag,a10–50mm layer range and product/ambient/substrate temperature requirements. Those values describe that product and are not defaults for another cementitious or epoxy grout. MAPEI likewise directs users to its current product information library for current TDS/SDS documents.
Why the former defaults were removed
The former page assumed a full rectangular prism,hard-coded25L per bag,pre-filled15% waste and gave universal25–75mm,10–20% and5–35°C advice. Its own FAQ said yields commonly differed. It also accepted negative contingency through parseFloat and had no adjustment for pockets or solid displacement. These conflicts were removed.
Not a placement approval: package count is the ceiling of nominal entered yield. It does not compensate for incorrect water/component ratio,discarded batches,pot life,aggregate extension,spillage,leakage or inaccessible voids unless the approved contingency explicitly covers them.
Nikolai Shelkovenko
Nikolai Shelkovenko is a vibration analysis engineer and the founder and CEO of Vibromera. For more than 15 years he has balanced rotating equipment in the field rather than on a test bench: mulchers, industrial fans, crushers, centrifuges, shafts and spindles. That work is what the Balanset instruments grew out of — they were designed as a tool a specialist can carry to the machine and use alone, on site, not as laboratory equipment. Vibromera was founded in 2017 and has been based in Porto, Portugal, since 2023. Development, assembly and support of the Balanset line all happen here. The flagship instrument is the Balanset-1A, a portable analyser for single- and two-plane balancing and for vibration diagnostics. Nikolai is personally involved in customer support, in working through difficult balancing cases and in the development of the software. He works with customers worldwide, in any language.
