My parents, who are in their 70s, an family friend, in her 70s, my older brother,
Z Mad Poet, his tiny wife, and myself gathered to pour concrete for the floor of the utility room and front hall on my parents house.
This tool is a heavy walled stove pipe with a bottom and a handle welded to it. It, filled to the brim, and eighteen 2lb coffee cans filled with washed sand and gravel make for a 5:1 ratio for our cement. The official ratio is 1 cement, 2 sand, 3 gravel, but our cement works just fine. Cement made this way costs $75 a cubic yard. We mixed and poured a yard and a half in 5 hours.
We made some calls about the cost of bringing it in by truck already made and just having it poured. It would cost about $85 a yard, but there is a 10 yard minimum.
My parents, who are in their 70s, an family friend, in her 70s, my older brother, Z Mad Poet, his tiny wife, and myself gathered to pour concrete for the floor of the utility room and front hall on my parents house.
This tool is a heavy walled stove pipe with a bottom and a handle welded to it. It, filled to the brim, and eighteen 2lb coffee cans filled with washed sand and gravel make for a 5:1 ratio for our cement. The official ratio is 1 cement, 2 sand, 3 gravel, but our cement works just fine. Cement made this way costs $75 a cubic yard. We mixed and poured a yard and a half in 5 hours.
We made some calls about the cost of bringing it in by truck already made and just having it poured. It would cost about $85 a yard, but there is a 10 yard minimum.
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