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Ponding is always going to be an issue unless there are decent falls as the path is trapped in on both sides. It wall always be damp down there at best. The wall being wet would ordinarily not be a problem. It looks as though the rendering breaches the DPC and travels all the way to the ground.

Hi Builder just finished side access with concrete - using cement mixer. As you can see - lots of ponding and it’s going up the wall. He said an external floor levelling compound would do the trick. I’m a bit worried about it and would be grateful for a view.

...to patio. at The above pic shows progress. The base is now dug out right to the patio and awaits some more MOT Type 1. Hiring a cement mixer I'm planning to slope the pad away from the house about 1% (1/8" per foot) so 1.5cm I'm planning on fixing a couple of 4x2 battens to the wall...

This being - presumably - a family-oriented forum, modesty prevents one from saying what additives some builders have been known to put in the cement mixer.

Hi Curium, For the floor I would use 18mm external grade ply. However your shed will need to totally cover this eventually otherwise it will swell and deform. Unless you put a serious waterproofing treatment on it. For the floor timbers I would use 2 x 5's on 16 inch centres. Which you double...

I’ve stopped being lazy. Ordered 2 tonne of ballast and load of cement. Mixer is on hire next week, I’ll left the slabs and pour a 4inch slab, higher than floor level to stop water running in.

Hi All, I would like to install a shed in my garden. I have quite a few bikes plus tools plus garden equipment so I'm considering a reasonably large shed of 12ft x 6ft (3.7M x 1.8M). The issue I have is that the location where I would like to place the shed is sloping away from the house...

I know it’s a bodge but might just seal it up and pour a few mm of self leveller on it them lay the 600x600 foam tiles that Halfords sell. Really can’t be bothered with having to rent a cement mixer and lifting all the slabs seams they’re solid.

Hi I'm putting in some concrete fence posts. Some of the holes remaining from removing the existing posts are quite large but unfortunately need to be reused. IMG_3029 by curium posted 22 Jun 2021 at 12:40 AM I'm not sure bags of postcrete will be adequate so I'm considering hand mixing some...

Liquid screed is more dense, than trowelled screeds, And it’s not cement based... this is useful when laying a thinner amount especially for ufh. Volumetric mixing is a lorry that mixes the sand, water and cement together as they fill your barrow. You pay by the amount you use, so you can...

I have a concrete slab outside my house that previously had concrete slabs laid on a dry sand and cement mixer. Both of those have now been removed and I'd like to re-screed before laying foam underlay and artificial grass. My reason for this is the slab is very rough and it also pools water...

Bit weak. OK for wood posts and you expect to be recovering / replacing them in the future. Better mix is 1 cement, 2 sharp sand, 3 stone (20mm). After 40 odd years of mixing a couple of times a year I always use a measure nowadays to ensure consistency in the mix. Make the mix dryer than...

I would've said a bulk bag of ballast is about £45 and 5 bags of dust £25 = £70 Postcrete £4.85 x 30 £145 All wickes prices. If the soil is good and easy to dig neat holes I'd go postcrete, if it's stoney ground or needs existing posts digging out I would use a bulk bag as you get more material

Thanks, given the time and effort and the difference in cost I'll go with postcrete Is it worth adding ballast to the postcrete for added strength?

Yeah sorry I meant stone. Post corrected. So 1 cement to 6 ballast. 5 bags cement to a bulk bag of ballast. Say 30 bags Postcrete at £4 is £120. A bulk bag and 5 cement £90. Personally I couldn't be arsed mixing all that by hand to save £30. Maybe different if you have a mixer and value...

I asked this morning three merchants (TP, Jewson and IQBuilders) and a delivery driver, they all concurred that the average bulk bag of sand is 825-850kg with Jewsons and TP insisting to more like 850kg. This website has it at 800kg https://source4me.co.uk/calculate_brick_block_mortar.php It...

OK, yesterday I mixed 4 cups of sand and 1 cup of cement inside a little tub, because this is what they use for the blockwork, and now I have let it to dry to see what happens. It is grey-greenish in colour. In contrast the builder's mix is yellow almost. The sand is kind of orange. Edit...

i have a small cement mixer but went on concrete calculator and it says 7 bags cement 12 sharp sand 24 aggregate .thought it would be easier ready mixed dependant on price.

0.5m3 isn't a lot, not worth readymix. Hire a cement mixer?

I’d put 2 bags of ballast in a decent size wheelbarrow, 1/2 bag of cement, give that a mix, then add as much water as you want to get the consistency you want. Actually I wouldn’t, I’d hire a mixer.