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Possibly a Dijon limestone.
forgive me the minds going!
That's what he came back with so now I'am thinking do they want it fixed by a landscape gardener or a tiler - so I may have to get my wellies on and get a rake or instead go and do a few nice little victorian jobs.
That's when bags of cement weighed 1 cwt/ 50kilos. So l recon that's a mix ratio of about 1 to 6. Once worked on a site, where Toffolo Jackson, where fixing terrazzo wall and floor tiles, aye the apprentices, had to graft. Probability back in about 1970 ish.
Was working for a builder. On burnt field road in those days, where Toffolo Jackson also operated from. ( oh, the old days).
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Blunt Tool
I did one last year in the summer, same size. Is it Mandarin stone? Did it like @JulianSidney said in stretches. What have they recommended for grout?
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Time's Ran Out
Best part of this one - don't know !
Possibly a Dijon limestone.
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Blunt Tool
It was Mandarin Stone I laid, hammered finish limestone, 5mm joints laid into 24:1 sharp sand and cement, semi dry with SBR slurry done in stretches. The grout was hand made soft washed sand, snowcrete and yellow colouring. I sprinkled water into the joints then soft brushed the dry mix into joints, then compacted with trowel. The mix pulls the water up then after a time pointed and brushed away excess.
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Blunt Tool
Forgot to say regards the hardcore, I got the contractors to roll it tight, then put in a 1 inch bed of sharp sand raked and rolled tight then dampened and used building paper!
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J Sid
I would do a much stronger mix for the sand and cement 10 or 8 : 1
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Blunt Tool
Be too strong for semi dry too much cement and will make it brittle, and more likely to ball
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Served half my time with pile of sharp sand, bags of cement, mixing board, barrel of water and a shovel for Toffolo Jackson. Don't know how many tons per day me and another apprentice mixed and carried. But tradesmen were scary guys back in that days and if they said 24 shovels to 1 bag cement guess what we mixed? Stuck with me all my life and never mess with it and never let me down
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Sorry should have pointed out that was the old big bag of cement ratio which would be equivalent to 2 bags nowadays
forgive me the minds going!
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Time's Ran Out
Because I wasn't happy with the way the contractor expected the job to be done so he asked the stone supplier how they recommended it be done!
That's what he came back with so now I'am thinking do they want it fixed by a landscape gardener or a tiler - so I may have to get my wellies on and get a rake or instead go and do a few nice little victorian jobs.
Served half my time with pile of sharp sand, bags of cement, mixing board, barrel of water and a shovel for Toffolo Jackson. Don't know how many tons per day me and another apprentice mixed and carried. But tradesmen were scary guys back in that days and if they said 24 shovels to 1 bag cement guess what we mixed? Stuck with me all my life and never mess with it and never let me down
That's when bags of cement weighed 1 cwt/ 50kilos. So l recon that's a mix ratio of about 1 to 6. Once worked on a site, where Toffolo Jackson, where fixing terrazzo wall and floor tiles, aye the apprentices, had to graft. Probability back in about 1970 ish.
Was working for a builder. On burnt field road in those days, where Toffolo Jackson also operated from. ( oh, the old days).
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