I'm guessing Tim may answer this !! Mixing the dryish mix in a normal cement mixer, I tried to mix the cement and sand basically dry first. You have to do this to gauge the liquid correctly, since it suddenly gets "too wet" and putting the water in first would not work for such a dry mix - it would just totally clag up at the back of the mixer. I put the sand in first, then the cement, but still found the cement tends to get stuck at the back. This means various manual interventions to get the stuff mixed properly. But when you are mixing a laying on your own, you really need to mixer to do all the mixing ! Any ideas / experience ? Cheers, Simon.
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13 years ago