Online concrete calculators?? - Gnaaarrrggh!

[Andy Champ]

I've never actually seen anyone use that phrase before.

Can't you just wait until the weather improves - it'll give you something to put in "what I did on my summer vacation" :)

Andy

[David WE Roberts]

Some of my best friends are Moties ;-)

I currently have a load of stuff in paid storage so I would like to get it out as soon as possible. It was in 'free' storage but we had to move it to paid a short while back. I also don't have any space to set up tools, and the bikes are living outside in the cold and wet.

I just wasn't expecting such a harsh winter - any of the other 17 years would have been fine but I get building during the coldest in 18 years. :-(

[JimK]

buy it in plastics and don't worry yourself...

JimK

[David WE Roberts]

Update - I've decided to mix it myself this weekend and ordered all the stuff.

Checked my price for ballast with another supplier and he said 'very roughly, 1.5 tons to the cubic metre' which gives 5.25 tons for 3.5 cubic metres.

So, as the original supplier said 'just over 5 tons' they are both singing from the same songsheet.

I've ordered 6 tons to be on the safe side (and mindful of the advice from this group), recognising that if I am short I can order a bag to finish off.

[Ordered a mixer at the weekend rate and it is arriving at about 08:00 tomorrow (of course I won't use it until Saturday morning even though the ballast is arriving between 9 and 11 Friday and hopefully the cement will arrive Friday a.m. as well).]

I will update photobucket with progress picture.

Hopefully now all I will be adding is 'Easy, easy, easy' :-)

[tony sayer]

In article , David WE Roberts scribeth thus

And the weather forecast is;-?....

[David WE Roberts]

After heavy rain Friday morning, warm (compared to recently) and dry.

[David WE Roberts]

well I will have laid the concrete just in time.

If the snow is anything like the last lot I will probably end up with an igloo with the most impressive foundations in Suffolk ;-)

I was, of course, planning to start building block walls...........