How to make concrete without the assistance of experts? We will in details consider technologies of preparation of concrete. Materials, proportions, appointment. In concrete article the preparation of concrete for sidewalk paths will be investigated.
It is required to you
- Sand, cement, water, crushed stone, or mountain dust, buckets, concrete mixer, trough or sheet of plywood and also shovel.
Instruction
1. How to make concrete for construction of a sidewalk path? Actually similar operation is performed rather simply. Everything that is required to you for solution preparation – availability of binding mix, crushed stone and sand. As an alternative to crushed stone mountain dust can also act. Let's note that production of concrete can be carried out as manually, and by means of the concrete mixer. Undoubtedly, use of the concrete mixer in many respects simplifies work, however at many it just is absent, and is inexpedient to buy the device for single application. For handwork you need existence of a shovel and a volume trough (in lack of a trough it is possible to use the large sheet of plywood).
2. At manual preparation of concrete for simpler work initially it is necessary to mix sand, cement and crushed stone. If to speak about proportions, then solution where on one bucket of cement three buckets of sand and three buckets of crushed stone were used is considered optimum concrete. After you mixed all ingredients in a dry state, it is possible to add water. Please note that the amount of water is determined by a condition of mix – it should not be rather liquid and at the same time too dense, try to catch neutral situation. Mix concrete parallel to water inflow – so you will be tired less. It is necessary to disturb until solution does not turn into homogeneous mass. Cement has property to remain below therefore careful hashing at manual production of concrete is a major factor in determination of quality of solution.
3. In a case with use of the concrete mixer of business are far more simply. However unlike manual production, in use of the concrete mixer water is initially added then crushed stone, cement and sand. You will also be able to determine readiness of solution by its state. If you for time prepared a big consignment of concrete, do not switch off the mixer until so far all solution will not be produced. Proportions remain the same 1:3. Generally it is possible to tell that the amount of sand and crushed stone on a bucket of cement can change depending on prescribing of concrete.