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...old bed irons for the corner posts, scaffold board bed and shutter ply sides. Hillman imp wheels, Moggie Minor leaf springs, an old cement mixer motor cover from a hedge bottom split to form mudmusic guards, electric cable a lump of temporary traffic light cable that a sweeper truck butcherd...

Nice! Yeah a paddle mixer is more than enough for the bricklaying I need doing, wouldn't dream of using cement mixer, it would end up all going off! I'm assuming the "Brickie" is that laying kit you're using? Saw a review on a YouTube video, however can't justify the spend on it for a garden...

So maybe my mix wasn't the issue for the lower course as had a lot of trouble "beating" it down. Due to lack of experience and as there was basically a lip/wall on one side of the brick guess the excess mortar would compact there preventing/making it harder to get down to level if too much...

...trowel then point every hour or so (weather dependent). Do them in the same order, so the freshest gets pointed last. I find with the cement mixer that what starts off as wet crumble will transform into creamy smooth mortar just with mixing time. The apparent wetness is mostly fine air...

You need to beat it for longer. :censored:

Sand in the bag wasn't that wet if at all as has been out in the "sun", based in London. An actual dedicated paddle mixer (attached photo). Yeah I bought the sand from Wickes over a week ago. Will take a photo of the bag tomorrow. It's definitely building sand as I have 2 tonne bags of sharp...

So today I done pointing on a garden brick wall before I lay some additional bricks on it. I wasn't too happy with the consistency of the mortar and wondering whether I'm doing something wrong/maybe made it too dry or could the issue be using a paddler mixer as opposed to mixing by hand? I used...

4 to 1. Sharp sand and cement with a splash of add mix.. That's what I'm mixing for patio and edging with a paddle mixer and tub. Half bucket of cement to two buckets of sand. You can use concrete for a stiffer mix which will build up a bit if required. Sand and cement is very soft when wet...

Clueless. Lol. It will take a day to get raw materials, bring and set up the trestle scaffolding, mixer, barrows tools etc, set up, remove the window, fix wall starters etc to the inside, tooth out the bricks (fingers crossed no collateral damage), lay the inner leaf with tie wires etc and...

Over my bath I have wall-mounted mixer taps with shower-hose attachment. Nothing unusual in that but the taps are 160mm apart rather than the normal nowadays of 150mm. The elbows are tiled and cemented in so I'd rather not have to change those. I can't find any so does anyone know if...

I do not know what you mean by a fluff sound. But I was putting 10 shovels of bales in the barrow and two shovels sprinkeled over the top. Then I would turn over with the shovel till mixed. Then I would make a well in the middle and add about a pint and a half, then drag the outers into the...

Your teacher was a fool or incompetant. "Correct" for what? Concrete comes in myriad forms for myriad applications. We can vary the strength, how quickly it gains that strength. how easy it is to place, its density. We vary the mix to suit the size of the element we're casting. A mass...

I was taught that the correct mix is 1 cement, 2 sand, 3 (20mm) stone. If you use ready mixed ballast then for best you need to mix large quantities. If wish a weaker mix (i.e. a little cement then an extra 1/2 measure of both sand and stone but NO weaker) As for the right amount of water I go...

Rent a cement mixer, you won't regret it. It's not expensive and fits in any car with back seats down, so you can pick it up.

if youve got a powerful cordless drill or small kango you can use a mixing paddle for the mortar anything down to freezing is fine -even a bit below freezing at night is ok if well covered with hessian etc

...in London with on/off unpredictable showers. The week ahead seems to be good weather (no rain). As I am doing the work alone without a cement mixer for a garden of about 5.5 x 4.5m and have maybe 4 hours to spare daily. Is the current weather a good time to be laying slabs given it can get...

We've had some building work done and it's been very tricky to get the contractor back to do the final bits of snagging/clean up. One such job was the removal of some cement staining on the drive where the mixer had been positioned. Never mind, a job well within my DIY competence (or so I...

Yeah I contemplated on hiring a cement mixer would be around £70 a week where I am. However now its been raining half the week so wouldn't be able to get full use, not to mention I wouldn't be able to fully utilise it anyway as I am taking my time complete beginner. Fair enough, I'm not too...

I'm doing the same. I hired a cement mixer for £40 a week but took it back. I now use a Aldi £30 paddle mixer in a yellow Wickes tub. 4 buckets of sharp sand and and just under one cement. Just easier than a cement mixer which was 6 buckets of sand and cement. Slashed everywhere. Hard work...

I own a Erbauer paddle mixer and have previously used it to mix loads of soil cement buckets with small chunks of hardcore and it mixes very well. It has a variable speed setting. I am going to need to mix mortar for a full cement bed for laying my slabs about 25m2 will be doing this across...