Very small quantity of sand and cement needed

[GB]

Is there a problem with salt? Would you have to rinse that out very carefully?

[Chris Hogg]

Garden centres also have small amounts of sand, for potting mixes.

[Huge]

Ask the builders of Eilean Donan Castle.

(The answer's "yes", BTW. It was built using beach sand.)

[GB]

I'd never heard of that, but I was thinking of the mundic problem.

[Huge]

Ooh, a new word! Thank you!!

[Robin]

Should have used Roman concrete.

Can't think why it's not bagged and on sale in Wickes by now ;)

[GB]

The Pantheon is still going strong after nearly a couple of thousand years!

[Bill Wright]

Buy a big bag of sand from Wickes or somewhere (£1.60). What you don't use either save or spread on the garden or put in the dustbin.

Why faff about?

Bill

[The Natural Philosopher]

ITYM the Parthenon....

[Brian Gaff]

I don't recall seeing many bags of cement at the beach. Can you not still get those little bags of ready missed from the sheds any more? Brian

[Bob Eager]

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I don't think so. The Parthenon is in Greece. We were talking about Romans. The Pantheon is in Rome.

[soup]

I thought you couldn't build with 'beach sand'? Mind you I suppose for VERY small quantities it won't really matter.

With sand being so cheap would buying a wee bag[1] from Screwfix or Toolstation or even B&Q (other consumer/semi pro outlets are available) not be an option.

[Andrew]

Pinch it from the jumbo bags that TP and Wickes tend to have at their entrance.

Or the sandbags that workmen use to stop their 'men at work' signs blowing away in the wind.

PS Has anyone noticed all those coffee-cup shaped adverts for Costa and other coffee-machines that are appearing outside most tescos and other retail outlets ?.

Inside are 16 house bricks, the ones with holes through them (not frogs) slid over metal tubes to weight it down.

Just in case anyone is desperate for some facing bricks and everywhere is shut.

[Andrew]

An unfortunate typo, Brian

[Steve Walker]

I knew the old reference to fool's gold, but didn't know it had a modern meaning.

SteveW

[newshound]

One of my kids spent a year there, from his photos the countryside was fairly sandy.