CLEANING A MIXER

[sudbrooke]

CLEANING A MIXER Any suggestions as to how to best clean out a cement mixer, without using lots of water? I do not want to have loads of messy water all over the lawn.

CORBELS And a query about stone corbels - existing ones seem to be 2 bricks long and 3 brick high, like a breeze block, but they look like they are solid one brick thick. Does this mean that you are bridging the cavity at the house corner? Surely not? Perhaps they are cut away at the back and not really thick all the way through?

 

[seasickstevie]

I use the pressure washer. Doesn't use as much water as you may think, but it does splash back!

Wouldn't want to wash a mixer out on the lawn though. Can't you drag it onto the path?

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

Bucketful of water and couple of shovels of clean gravel. Tip washout carefully into barrow and dump it elsewhere. (NOT down a drain though....)

 

[ColJack]

let it set and whack it with a shovel?

scrubbing brush, bucket of soapy water and some elbow grease?

shovel full of large stones and half enders with a bucket of water?

 

[Nige F]

Half enders / brick bats - as Col. says Blimey that`s took me back to when I was apprenticed - Didn`t wear a watch cuz they get broken using cold chisel+ hammer etc. - Used to know it was home time when you heard the bats rattling round in the mixer

 

[Thermo]

scrape out the worst at the end of the last mix. gravel or brick bats and a bucket of water. WHen its finished drain back into teh bucket. Leave it for 20 minutes and teh crap will have settled to the bottom, leaving clear water at the top that can be tipped away. Crap in teh bottom in the skip or a bag

 

[roughcaster]

Half enders / brick bats Used to know it was home time when you heard the bats rattling round in the mixer

I remember that too Nige'.

 

[seasickstevie]

...Crap in teh bottom in the skip or a bag

Always seems a shame to skip the residue. I always chuck it to one side and use to back-fill trench or similar.

 

[Norcon]

I don't do a lot of mixing but when I do I spray my mixer with mould oil.

 

[karlosmaximos]

- Used to know it was home time when you heard the bats rattling round in the mixer

is that about 12 on a friday?

 

[ColJack]

what's a brick bat?
is that a brick split longways rather than widthways?

 

[Thermo]

down here its a brick split in half widthways

 

[ColJack]

we call them 'alfenders up here..

so is it a slip when it's lengthways?

 

[noseall]

Are we talking about acklings or clodgers?

 

[Thermo]

sorry forgot to mention the easiest way to get your mixer clean