Reddit reviews Country Lane Darice General Purpose Candle Making Wax-10 Lb Block

I've checked and double checked, but I can't find a problem with my numbers, yet the answers seem intuitively wrong.

Standard doorways are 6' 8" high by 28-32" wide. (203 cm x 76 cm)

It looks a little shorter and slightly less wide than a door, so we'll call it 195 cm x 70 cm.

That mound is reasonably close to a pillar in shape, so let's go with the formula for a cylinder: V = pi r^2 h

V = pi 35 cm^2 185 cm

V = 711,963.435 cm^3

V ~ 710,000 cm^3 (710 liters) (This is where it seems wrong- that's a lot. I used Google's "volume of a cylinder" calculator and this is what it gives me.)

This website gives a size of a single candle as 260 mm by 12 mm (among many others, but we'll go with this average-sounding one).

V = pi 0.6 cm^2 26 cm

V = 29.41 cm^3

V ~ 30 cm^3 (You can round differently if you want. I like whole numbers.)

The rest is easy.

710,000 cm^3 / 30 cm^3

That sculpture contains enough wax to make 24,000 candles.

This block of wax from Amazon has a size of 19'' long, 12'' wide and 1.5'' thick, which works out to 342 cm^3. in^3. It weighs 10 pounds/4.54 kg.

710,000 cm^3 / 342 cm^3 = 2076 ten pound blocks of wax. Meaning this thing weighs 20,760 pounds/9425 kg. (This also seems wrong. Ten tons would destroy the floor.)

Edit: Thanks to /u/lemmings121 for pointing out my error. 342 in^3 converts to 5604 cm^3. 710,000 cm^3 / 5604 cm^3 = 126.69 blocks. That's 1260 pounds/ 571 kg.

That seems very expensive. You should buy off of amazon for $26 for 10lbs, shipping included if you have prime.