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Hey all, In the hot weather last weekend I was having a real battle with my mortar mix, and getting it to a nice consistency for laying bricks. My mix was 4:1 with plasticiser, also liquid mortar tone. I was measuring ratios with 2 buckets of sand to half a bucket of cement. 40ml of...

I have a belle maxi, which has the same drum as a 150 but I wouldn't mix that quantity unless it's virtually liquid. It will take ages to mix properly. If you use a smaller amount it will mix far quicker - it will probably be ready before you've refilled your gauging buckets ready for the next...

I’m about to buy a new mixer. I need to mix 1 bag of cement, 2 gravel and 3 sand at a time. Does anyone have an idea of what size mixer I need? Does 140 litre sound about right? TIA

What would work best for tidying up new mortar? I've made a bit of a dogs breakfast cementing some granite rocks together to make steps on a garden terrace and want to smooth the mortar up a bit and remove some bits of excess and generally make it look a bit less like i've had a fight with a mixer!

Thanks for the replies. I do use it off the stand. The mix is strong as it's mixed dry and to the ratio needed. It's just when I add water it slumps out the mixer and kind of drip feeds the slab. I used 7 bags of cement in the 2.4m by 2.4m slab and just a little over 1 bulk bag of 850kg ballast...

...rock up onsite unannounced, try and finish what he hasn't done, and demand the £1500 that we kept back. He has also left an old belle cement mixer we could make use of, does he have any right to that. Guess I should write him a letter of my intentions. It is gong to cost more than the...

Screed The Floor Hi everybody, i'm back with some updates! Got a little bit more time on my hands at the minute with this lockdown so thought i'd post some more progress pics. So i was at the point of laying the floor screed and it's done (done in Nov or Dec) and boy was that hard :LOL:! The...

Agricultural vehicles. (Tractors, Diggers, Combine harvesters) Military vehicles.

Just as a change of pace from Covid-19 With the upcoming change to red diesel (here) and the constant march of Electric vehicles (electric digger, electric cement lorry), and the inevitable rise of more pollution controls when do people think that Diesel plant will start to be an exception...

...building a concrete base that will have 75-100mm concrete depth The area is 9 square metres Is this too much of an area to mix using a cement mixer rather than getting ready mixed delivered? How long will concrete last in terms of being able to manipulate it so that i can tamp it down...

I didn’t really want to do it, I was rough yesterday and today I thought I’d best get on with it while the weather was good. I got my son to shovel the ballast and bring the cement and I chucked it in the mixer then in the hole. I just e-mailed Celotex about using it outside but I think I’ve...

Im looking advice from other builders with vast experience. Ive been working in the building trade over 20 years working for all different trades and have experience on building garages, renovations on day work, pricing small jobs for myself. Ive built garages on my own along with a labourer...

Afternoon ladies and gents. I’m going to be building a workshop in the next month or so as my 30th birthday present and will create a build thread in due course on the ‘your project’ part of the site. I have a question regarding the base. How thick do I need to go??? The workshop is going to...

Sorry chaps ,just getting the hang of the image editor. I need to know how to wire this . It's a potential replacement candidate for a cement mixer. I just want to see if it works before investing time and money in it. The box has four terminals, diagonally numbered U1and U2 then 3 and four...

apparently concrete/belle type mixers aren’t great for mixing s&c screeds anyway. I’ve always used em tho, too much to mix by hand, not tried the fancy mixers you can get. I’d consider getting it delivered off a truck tho

Thanks 23vc, I'm a screeding virgin! The area is approx 2.5m x 3m bonded running into 2.5m x 1.8m floating. What ratio is the cement slurry mix? I'll do that. Mixer came from a mate but I think I can mix it in situ. Good call re the knee protection - visit to screwfix in the morning! What...

Have you ever screeded before? What size area are you screeding? It’s at the “pretty hard” end of the DIY building work scale. I’d brush a slurry coat of cement and water over the existing slab first. Re. Mixing it, last time I did it I think I did 8 shovels sharp sand, 4 (1 bag) cement, another...

Hi, I'm looking for some guidance with a screeding task I have to do in the next couple of days. I'm self-building a corner extension to the side of my kitchen and rear of my garage and also converting the rear 2m of the garage to a utility room. The existing kitchen floor level is around...

...set in and finally get above ground. My wife was out with my eldest for a few hours so I thought who's gonna know....... I bought a cement mixer from ebay its only a 63ltr one but for under £100 delivered so I thought it'll be great for what I need down the road, here's the rub.... You...

That's what I did, except I haven't sold it as I keep starting new projects. Easily paid for itself. Worked out great. In fact I've bought a few tools which have proved very useful. Didn't hire much at all. Mine was under 30m2 so didn't need building regs. No plumbing. Just the electrics which...