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I use 4 of these sand and 1 cement, it's about 7.5 litres, does about 25 bricks and at my snails pace the bit that's left either goes in the next mix or has firmed up enough for jointing after a tea break. I mix it with a paddle mixer in a flexi tub, far better than a mixer for small amounts.

put brick out on dry run and there's one gap on the first course,and just for good measure I ran a dry run on course onto of that, and that's giving me 2 gaps! would I be wrong to assume next course will revert back to one gap? sorry for all the questions!

here's one for you,I laid a line on the longer length of the build it's touching the bricks on one end actually first 23 bricks and touching the end brick but, is away from the other bricks in that line! However, I borrowed a folding 4 foot square and all the bricks are to the edge of the...

Forgot to ask you can one bed up the brick by much, part of foundation is off level by 8mm?

Actually looks like one gap about 2 inches, which is even better!

Already have them out dry, but there will be gaps to fill, and I think I'd be better with as I say 2 inch pieces of brick instead of 1 4 inch!

No a DIYer Not daft as builder might be using a hose to provide the water, and so cannot pre-add plasticiser to water. So into big cement mixer he adds 1 bag of cement and (say) 3 bags of sand, and then 85ml of your plasticiser. And only then adds water using hose. Put bricks on dry (no...

Hi all, I’m keen to have another go at float & set, but in the current climate where gypsum products are as rare as rocking horse doo doo, should I got for a sand and cement render rather than hardwall (which I’ve been using and since ran out of)? The walls are back to brick but with no cavity...

Short answer no. If you're doing tiny mixes (1 shovel of cement) you can mix it ok with a bucket trowel or pointing trowel in a builders bucket. More than that, do it in a barrow or on the floor or in a mixer

Thanks for your response the flashing that I need to replace is a little less than 3mtrs Can u clarify what would be the best mix. I am only going to go through and buy the materials in Wicks so need to know best cement and you talked about Plastering sand and what other sand ? Fairy liquid is...

Just a suggestion for DIYers to consider readymix for small pours like shed bases. I'm doing a small pour on the driveway next week: 0.5m³ of ST2. I priced up Readymix and was rather surprised: Readymix: £180 or 1 bulk bag ballast delivered = £40 7 bags cement delivered = £35 Mixer hire...

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...

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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...