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Making Your Own Concrete

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Date: 09/16/2009 Topics: Home Improvement > Building Materials | Readers Request > Make Your Own  
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Would anyone have the ingredients to make homemade builders mix, aka, concrete? Thanks Thrifty Fun for this fabulous site. Cheers.

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By skinnyjinny (82) Profile Contact
Got this from a UK DIY TV Show:-))
Concrete Mixtures

For Bedding Bricks
4 sharp sand
2 soft sand
1 cement
2 caps of mortar plasticyser gives longer before setting

Grouting Mixture
2 sharp sand
2 soft sand
1 cement

For a concrete Base
4 coarse gravel
2 sand
1 cement

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