Got about 25.posts to put in and have a jumbo of ballast left. Does it work out cheaper to use rapid setting cement mixed with my ballast or bags of postcrete?
Ill work it out if i know the ratio what is is 4:1 for this stuff?
if your not paying for labour then mixing yourself will be much cheaper.
Be very careful of rapid set cement it is incredibly rapid, so much so that it will be unworkable in probably 10 mins. If your ballast was dry you could mix it up dry to from your own postcrete and water it in the same way you would post crete.
Your best option might be to put it a bag of postcrete into each to hold the posts firm and then top them up with your homemade gear.
If your going to mix the lot yourself don't use rapid set cement unless you mix the batch for each post seperately and keep the mixer ruthlessly clean and wet to stop the remenants setting as you plumb posts aned prepare the next.
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