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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.

I’m a mixing newbie and doing a shed base (10x8) all by myself. I’m a fit and strong guy, but still know I’m in for some body aches after. I had some quick fire questions it would be good if someone could answer pls: · For mixing order. I understand best solution is to add ½ water, ½...

Doing a shed base myself, using patio slabs. Intent is for a 10x8 shed, which will house bike, some weight equipment, approx. 150kg worth of stuff plus me when I train in there. Was going for 150mm deep, filled 100mm sub base Then mix builders sand and cement (with a paddle mixer and builders...

...the sides covered with shingle. Probably last the longest? Would probably need concrete delivery as its a lot to mix up even with my cement mixer. Concerned weeds will eventually appear around the edges. - Dig out the shed footprint, put down hardcore and sub-base, lay slabs as a base...

...That's an awful pic, its a lovely shiny stainless steel. Wifey didn't want plastic. Anyway - useless. Whatever setting the fan is on makes it clink loudly as the flaps open and close. Sounds like loose change in a cement mixer. Can anyone suggest/ recommend a stainless steel one that is...

...Minor Bonnet!!...Make a bogy out of old pram wheels...Walk around derelict houses upstairs with only joists left...Not even any stairs...Awaiting demolition...7..Jeez.Climbing trees to make a swing...bloody hell..Getting in a cement mixer and my uncle turning it..I must have been quite small!!.

You can do it in stages if you wish? My foundations are in 3 sections due to drains... Pop half a bag of cement in a bucket, guage this to a shovel load of ballast. I think mine was 10 shovel loads to a full bag of cement? Splitting the bags in half makes it so much easier to handle and tip...

...vehicles, playing on the phones and brewing up. Obviously more than just a simple blocked drain, because wheel barrows, shovels and cement mixer involved, however..... This morning, just the crew cab truck and one van. They are mixing cement in a mixer, which they had to beat lumps out of...

Time can be saved mixing concrete by having a dustbin full of water on hand to bucket it out of and after a mix or you should no how much water for a mix . After the mixers empty add one bucket of balast 3/4 of the water which cleans the drum then all the cement. when an even slurry, start...

You'll have to see about the water. Some damp sand wont need any. Once half the sand is in the mixer you can see if it's too dry or OK, then if water is needed add it so the sand looks too wet, as the cement and rest of the sand will then dry it up. Once you have done a mix, you will know how...