In this article, I will tell you how I bought four bags of dust, instead of two cement bags and two sand bags for cement mortar.
In the apartment after the developer there were holes in the walls, these are slots between the plates and the mortgage parts for installation and loop for cranes.
I decided that this nasty is necessary to cry with cement mortar, since in my opinion the strength of it was higher than that of other dry mixtures, for example plaster. Having gone to the well-known store, I bought two cement bags and two sandbag. It seemed to me that a solution that would succeed in these ingredients would be quite strong. Sand ordinary - construction and portland cement 500.
He came home and gladly began to knead the solution. I usually do "on the eye", that is, the measuring glasses do not measure how much the cement-sand-water is necessary. So throwing a couple of holes / holes, having developed the whole mixed solution I decided to see how hard it would be.
Usually the solution will dry for a long time, but since the layer was a small I decided that two days would be enough. I began to test it using the tapping method, for the beginning I was picking it with a screwdriver then with my finger, and in that and in another case he crumble, as if it was a slide with gray sand. Maybe in the proportions of Nakosyachil thought I also made a snack with a small amount of sand and large - in order to smell another couple of cracks. What was my surprise when and with them the same situation happened! The solution that hardened could open the finger.
I consulted with experts - they said that perhaps not only the cement is bad, and the small fraction of sand similar to dust also affects the quality of the solution. The sand really looked like dust (fine-grained).
Outcome? - All open bags I threw out, one closed remained.
I would like to hear the opinion of the experts and understand really this cement of disgusting quality? Write in the comments.
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