HOW TO: DO A SAND/CEMENT MIX
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ม.ค. 2020
- We filmed this video back in July when we did the factory repair job.
We just demonstrate how we mix our sand and cement in a belle mixer , the size that many DIYers would use . We have very heavy 40 kg bags of sand and also show the Sika concentrated plasticiser .
We do a 4 to 1 mix ......enjoy
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I like how tidy you keep everything. The shovel in the bucket, ply under the mixer, folding the empty sand bags (great as rubble sacks), materials stacked neatly
Thanks pal , yes we like to keep things tidy and always keep those bags , really handy 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Not most accurate way to gauge ya muck boss !! Why not do buckets can’t be wrong !!
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Keep those uploads coming Steve and Alex, all very useful videos, Top tips.
Spartrowel . Thanks pal , will do 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Am I mental or what🤔 I’m mixing bankers day in day out and then come home and watch others knocking bankers up,is it just me or are there others out there doing the same?😂😂😂😂😂😂
coggsy3036 . That’s how it all started for me next minute we are trying out ourselves 👌🏼so glad we did 🧱👍🏼
You’re not the only one..
D 🧱👍🏽
Nice job guys 👍⚒🇬🇧
RJM Bricklaying & Outdoors . Cheers buddy 🧱👍🏽
Top production as ever full of professional advice. Wish more people had your approach to working 👍 keep up the good work. All the best Pete
bamboo bushcraft . Nice one , very kind Pete 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
I use that idea of yours keeping the shovel in a bucket of water it's so obvious but a great tip for keeping shovels clean, I will get my young boy to watch this as he is in his first year at college doing his nvq in brickwork and when out with me struggles to keep mortar consistent but as we all know bricklaying is all about the more you do it the more experienced you get and it's one long learning curve 👍
wheaten bread . Best of luck to your lad and yes it’s one big learning curve that we are all on 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
I was taught to gauge the mix by bucket because the amount you shovel in the morning will be different as the day goes on the more tired you get the less on the shovel, still do it that way. Great vids guys keep em coming 👍
Cheers Howard 🧱👍🏽
Hiya boys, glad you're back 👍.
I always use the sika if I'm knocking up OPC, but you mustn't use it with lime mortar.
It's so easy to use unlike these 5ltr bottles where everyone just splashes some in (then a bit more for luck 😂), or even worse Fairy liquid 😱😱.
As for the PPE issue, I left site work when I was told to wear - long trousers, long sleeved hi-viz shirt, hard hat with scarf at the back to protect my neck, gloves, steel toe boots, ear plugs, safety goggles & sun tan lotion all to felt & batten a roof in high summer !!!!! That's the only time we get a good tan as we can only have holidays in the winter 😡😡.
As for mixer dust, I've got a couple of "Splash Stoppa's" - they just fit within the drum & stop all splashes, dust etc - look them up 👍👍.
Hope you have a great week & sorry for the rant 😃
Regards
Tim
Tim Margereson . Some H&S can be ok but some is just there to make things awkward 😬🧱👍🏽
Cheers boys 👍
Joun456 Same to you pal 🧱👍🏼
Phew that can't be good for the back. Good work and thanks for the tips 😊
Tony Gorham . Nothing about bricklaying is good for the back unfortunately 😳. Thanks for watching and commenting pal🧱👍🏼
@@SteveAndAlexBuild what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except ebola, that will need you up ;)
Tony Gorham 😂👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Good old full banker 👌
MrStella1976 Oh yes 😉🧱👍🏽
Nice one Steve, I see you save your bags, rubble bags a few years back we’re over a £1 down south
Always 🧱👍🏽
Sika concentrate is the daddy. Careful not to use too much tho. Had a few mushroom soup mixes when I started with it. The mix stays in forever as well. 👍
MrOitoyboy . Oh yes 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
I’ve found, across the country, depending on where the sand comes from, the viscosity of the mortar using exactly the same mix ratios will vary...I think it’s down to the volume of fines in the sand and the type of sand it is...by far the most viscous mortar (stiff using the same ratios) is that in the south east, where the sand quarried is in close proximity to chalk...!
Your right pal it’s all about the sand 👌🏼👍🏽🧱
Hey mate love your videos they are so helpful to us novices. I have a large mixer and using a 4:1 mix with the plasticiser you use in this video as recommended 👍🏾. I know I'm slow but seems the mix goes off quick when using 7n concrete blocks. Any tips bud? I'm only using small mixers
Glenford Spencer . Small mixes is ideal , try making a bit wetter that may help . Thanks for watching and commenting on our channel 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
@@SteveAndAlexBuild problem is I'm finding that to wet and the blocks squelch the mortar out to much.
Glenford Spencer . It’s a tough one that , maybe try different building sand from a different supplier ? 🧱👍🏼
That is a nice mix 👍👍👍 mist the live chat next time 👍👍👍
Mark Hep . Cheers Mark , back to weekly next week hopefully 🤞🏼🧱👍🏼
@@SteveAndAlexBuild nice carnt wait them sand bags were massive 👍👍👍
Mark Hep And heavy !! 😰🧱👍🏼
@@SteveAndAlexBuild back brakes they are 👍👍👍
Mark Hep Oh yes ! 🧱👍🏼
How many times have you heard this word shouted off the scaffold ....Compo ooooo!
Ronnie Biggs many times 😂. 🧱👍🏼
Bought a brand new Bell mixer today do they all have a little bit of a wobble in the drum when it’s spinning
That sounds very bad ! 😲🧱👍🏽
Hi does anyone know if you can use this type of rotating drum mixer for stucco? Why do stucco mixers have paddles that rotate instead of the drum rotating?
Sorry no clue what stucco is 😳🧱👍🏽
Hey Steve, Your mixing 4-1 here but on a lot of cement bags it recommends 5-1.. i guess 4-1 is better you reckon or depends on job?
OBS3RVE . I’ve always mixed 4 to 1 I suppose 😬🧱👍🏽
I like those cute little mixers , is that a typical English model , you don’t find those models around here
Brilliant little mixers been around about 40years most builders use them.
Mervyn yeah looks compact and handy
Jay Puyenbroeck . That are great for small jobs jay and easy to handle and manoeuvre. The drum unscrews to make moving it a lot easier 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Steve and Alex I will be on the lookout for one of these cuties , don’t know if it exists here though
Jay Puyenbroeck 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
Water on the spot board mate.👍🏻
craighughes craig . On a wooden one yes , but that one is polycarbonate ( conservatory roof ) 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Plastic board way forward then no need the gear last a lot longer b
Plastic board way forward then no need the gear last a lot longer
L Milne . Absolutely pal 🧱👍🏼
Witches brew that. 🥃🥃
Derek T 😂👌🏼🧱👍🏽
A stand would make things a little easier and it is nice to see you doing some sort of gaging of the aggregates. However, I do think that half the amount would mix better in such a small mixer and also I think that the ratio of the mix for normal bricks is a tad too strong at 1: 4 unless you are laying Staffordshire blue bricks. Nice tidy site though and good to see you look after your mixer by not banging and bashing the drum.
David Dore . The stand got sold at a car boot sale years ago . They are only any good if you are mixing Concrete and tipping into a barrow .
I explain in the video the sand bags are 40 kg , the cement 25 kg so 2 1/2 bags sand (100 kg ) to 1 cement (25kg) . 4 to 1 . I was taught that gauge in college and on site so have used it for over 33 years . As for the mixer my pet hate is mucky mixer .
Thanks for watching and commenting 🧱👍🏽
Bricklaying With Steve and Alex well 33 years is a good stint in the bricklaying game and I like your videos just wish I had time yo do some myself but unlike you I work on my own since my father died over 12 years ago at the age of 82 I am now in my 45 year of working as a bricklayer. The only time we did 1: 4 mix was when we used a product called Master Crete ( made by Blue circle) which had a built in plasticiser and was therefore not as strong as using OPC with Febmix. Always make the mix so when it has ascertained it full potential setting it will not exceed the strength of the brick being laid. It does look good sand though unlike some of the rubbish that is used on other building sites and lovely to see that you look after your tools and using clean water for the mortar. Keep up the good work and keep an eye on your equipment as these days it can walk as I found out to my cost this week. Regards DD.
David Dore . Thanks David and sorry to hear about your dad.
It must the time of year, both sites we work on have been robbed in the last week . Scumbags !
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Don't smack the mixer with a shovel 😂
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Now try it with Tarmac branded "Building sand" from B&Q and see if its the same result 🤣The silka has a little to do with it but mostly Your expert building merchant sand in your area and the perfect mix. (not too much water or cement). Your secret ingredient is the sand You get your hands on. Any plasticizer will do.
We are lucky with our sand 😉🧱👍🏽
Man!...I really admire your confidence..mixing muck is like sex..we all do it differently but the outcome is nearly the same...sure you'll get some criticism...al, the best to Alex & yah sen for 2020..🏚
my pencil ART. Wayne Bailey . Cheers Wayne , as you say we are all different. 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
All the best to you too pal 🥳👌🏼
what a debate you've started steve lol ive been on sites 40 year now had loads of back aches but never from lifting a bag of sand you can tell there office a- holes
mick broadbent . I even got told off for loading the board with a spade and my plywood board is a bloody trip hazard!
It’s actually steel and about 6 mm so you’d have a job tripping over it 😂😂🧱👍🏽
Do you not find the stand makes things easier?. Not a dig in any way. Love the vids.
Some people use the stand , i prefer not to . 🧱👍🏽
Old school cracking on 💪💪Never seen “ Buxton Cement “ are you over the Peak District?
Ronnie Biggs . Cheers Ronnie , it used to be called BLI . This stuff is packed in Firwood timber bags 👌🏼👍🏼🧱
Looks like Firwood give you a good ration of sand 😊A Travis Perkins bag is the same measure as a standard bucket now which is ridiculous! About 25 years ago we used to go to Cunliffes in Sale later to become Keyline and now Travis . The yard lads where that lazy they let you fill your own plastic bags and you all know what that means 💪💪Papas home! 💪👍😂😛😳🤑🤠
Ronnie Biggs . The good old days when you filled your own bags 👌🏼👍🏼🧱
That’s a strong mix what’s the ratio work down too lads
4 to 1 mate 🧱👍🏽
Sound thanks for your reply , love how clean your area is
Michael Hall cheers 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
What do you lads pay for your bags of sand? You are not kidding about them being rammed full....the ones I get up here are nowhere near as bulky as that and I am anywhere between £2.40 and £2.95 +VAT each.
Evening Jim they are way too heavy but a great price , about £2.50 plus vat 👌🏼👍🏼🧱
Surely those sand bags are 25kg Steve? Thought that was the weight limit for manual handling.
Mark Velo . So did I Mark ! Firwood never stopped selling these monster bags , don’t know how they get away with it 🧱👍🏼
@@SteveAndAlexBuild fair enougb Steve, well just look after your back mate.
Mark Velo will do cheers pal 🧱👍🏽
They look like 25kg to me.
Meadow Bridge no 40 kg 💪🏼😬🧱👍🏽
U need to add water before u put plasticer. Or it wont do much
It really doesn’t matter what goes in first as long as it’s before the sand and cement 🧱👍🏽
there is no text for non english people, too bad 😢
dadwu dendelou I’m sorry , I don’t understand how to do that 🙁🧱👍🏽