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my first experience working with concrete. i was making a concrete planter yesterday and i forgot to use a release agent on my mold. i had a bottle of oil ready to go and in the excitement of it all i just started filling the mold!
i got halfway through when i realised, so i had to dismantle the mold, clean it off, rebuild the mold and apply the oil, then refill it again!
i will never make this error again!
it was a disastrous first attempt all around really, i'm not sure how this one will go haha. i also had a weird looking mix, which i posted about here, in case anybody can help:
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i got halfway through when i realised, so i had to dismantle the mold, clean it off, rebuild the mold and apply the oil, then refill it again!
i will never make this error again!
it was a disastrous first attempt all around really, i'm not sure how this one will go haha. i also had a weird looking mix, which i posted about here, in case anybody can help:
why was my concrete "rocky"?
i have never worked with concrete before yesterday, but i wanted to make my own planters, so made a mold and i mixed my own concrete. i used wickes ballast and blue circle cement and mixed it in a bulk bag using a shovel. i mixed a ratio of 6 parts ballast to 1 part cement, as recommended on the...
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live and learn. it will be better next time
