The side by side comparison for consistency of the mortar and the separation of an undermixed mix is the best I've seen on you tube. I'm a diyer and you have just corrected something I've been doing wrong for years. Thank you for your in depth videos. Much appreciated

Even with a bucket my mate never gets it the same colour, I've nicknamed him 50 shades of grey.

i love your videos im new to the channel and honestly love the stuff you do. my dad recently passed and i use to build with him back in the day and im looking at getting back into it again and need to relearn everything again. keep providing the good videos please guys.

This is the first time I have seen someone using a gauge. It's the right way to do it well done guys

i was literally mixing for half the needed time , cheers gents

Great video, a month or 2 before Xmas 2022 I started to help a mate who needed a labourer for 2 weeks, it’s now nearly the end of May and those 2 weeks still haven’t ended, I’m a spring chicken aged 37 and never laboured for a builder and every day is a school day haha love watching videos as helpful as this one just to make sure I keep my ‘skills’ on top form, at the end of the day it’s my job to make his job easier, love working my arse off for the first couple of hours so I can get in front of him then I can spend the rest of the day being in front and having him loaded with bricks/flags etc and taking it steady haha

Thanks guys. Great vid

First time mucking up for brickys instead of being a Hod carrier this was rlly helpful

Brilliant video buddy. Glad to see more fellow Welshmen on KZfaq!

This was very helpful advice, thanks boss 🤝

Great video mate, basic and straight to the point. helped me out heaps!

Great walk-through lads, cheers!

Excellent video lads, clear, simple and informative. Obviously youve seen many a mix in your time 👍🏻✌🏻

just what i was looking for, very helpful, always look forward to your videos. cheers

Great video!! Great work, great team!!

As a tile installer, it was much easier to stay true flat if you measured when you mixed your mortar. Thanks for the video

Great demo guys very helpful visual tips

Great explanation and time to leave I always wondered how to get it fluffy thanks

Top man just saved me alot of research

Great. Idea, thanks lads, very useful.

Thanks for posting this video, gents. Very helpful...

Thank you lads nice video really enjoyed it 👍👍❤️

Great video - thanks so much and I learnt a lot from this. Cheers

Thank you! Great advice!

Excellent info. Many thanks for that.

Great videos, very well explained, keep up d good work,🇨🇮🇨🇮

Excelente video 👍 👏 👌🏻

Really helpful, thanks lads.

Nice video. Thanks for the tipsz

Some very good tips there by the main man Brad. Also worth mentioning mixing for too long will put too much air into it. I reckon 6-8 mins is what you need 👍

Nice one, thanks Lad’s 👍

Thank you great video, I’ll definitely start wearing my mask as well 👍

Thankyou lads!

Liked and subscribed, fellow workers.

Great video

Great video. What do you do with the crap from the mixer when you clean it out at somebodies house if you haven't got a skip or waste land?

Learning to spell mortar is the first step in getting a good mix!

Cheers fellas, I'd always wondered how to get it fluffy and it's cos I've been tipping my mix out way early 🙄

Hi Justin I do love a good bit off muck mate , it’s like watching “salt bae “ with you lads sand , cement , plasticiser , belle mix , and out pops the creation ❤️ , love a bit of angel delight mix mate , pure craft , 🙏👍 patience with the mix mate especially with the belle , you can’t rush the baking mate ? Yes cement a killer with breathing mate rots the lungs but we all forget to wear one don’t we 😂😂 stay safe and hope your not too held back with this weather pal , say hello to the Welsh wilderbeast and fran , look after yourselves boys ❤️❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍and all the best 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍

Nice vid! Complete beginner here hoping to do a bit of DIY work - how much water would you expect to use for this mix? I wasn’t sure from the video.

Hiya, a really useful vid. I need to relay my patio steps as the slabs came loose, thought I'd mix by hand in a wheelbarrow and having tried that today I realised that's nuts! Lol So as it'll be the first time using a mixer, I wanted to ask if the time for mixing 10-15 minutes does that depend on how much you're mixing? I'll probably start with counting shovel loads. Thanks. 👍🏼

thanks justin

Great video. I was going to use flow point to point my patio but I’m thinking of just doing sand and cement with a mortar gun. What ratio of sand and cement would I need to make it buff coloured? Do I need white cement? Cheers

Im building my house in south west of ireland. My block layer was finishing gables on sunday. He had a different young fella with him this time and he blocked approx 100 blocks in the rain and the mortar now looks abit sandy and you can scrape it back with a nail altough it seems still fairly set. Do you think i should get him to rip to 100 blocks down and do it again, iv a feeling it wasnt mixed great anyway and aswel as that the rain washed the cement out of it. I presume there still would be no fear of it

some good tips👍 a question about sand. your sand is damp, does the quantity vary if it is dry, like powder. I ask because the bag of sand left in my garage has fully dried out, no moisture in it at all, so do I have to adjust the quantity of sand to suit? or should I add water to the sand first to dampen it before I gauge it and add to the cement for a mortar mix?

Hi, my house brick work has been repainted with a 3mm key so it’s falling out and turning to dust. What advice do you have for me, key it back 20mm and use this mix to point, or do I need to know anything else to make sure it sticks to the old mortar?

When gauging by buckets you should fill them up and flush them off with the bottom of the shovel to ensure the volume is correct each time

If I do a small hobby project in the garden can I use washing-up liquid for the plasticiser ?

We are all sick of those bloody masks aren't we lads. Good insight into knocking the compo up justin/Brad! I think it's great that Brad and fray are enthusiastic about what they do.Alot of young lads nowadays don't have any go in them and want an easy life and money for nothing! Hope you three are well👍💥

In very exposed areas could you use 1 :3 mix or would that be too strong

Nice one lads , great tip Brad we always wash as we go . Our mixer is a 2008 and still going strong 💪🏽🧱👍🏼

What would the mix be for laying a cement fillet on the inside floor of a sectional concrete garage? And what would I add to the mix? Pva?

So basically Brad took his eye off the ball when knocking up the first mix, haha. Great video guys, used to be a labourer in the 80's for my cheap-skate ol' man.

Any reason why you cannot add the plasticiser to the water and let that mix first? Likely get a quicker and more homogenous mix?

we got 110 for safety then puts a 240v extension right next to it, all's good until you accidentally miss with the hose and soak the extension, which should also be completely unwound, not left coiled, good vid by the way boys😂👍

Tidy mix lads.you can mix for me any time lol 😉 I use the same cement good stuff that 👍👍👍

So different here in West Oz..if you let it mix that long the brickie wouud be out of mud ....and we just put dishwasher liquid in the mix ...lemon ,,smells better ..on a good run we lay a 1000 a day ..to cold over there, so different,,,,p.s and lots of cold beer ..🍻🍻🍻🍻

Plasticiser is very useful if you have a slow bricklayer who only needs one mix an hour ! Water was fine when I were a lad and three brickies would slice yer ears off for keeping them waiting ! your mortar should start to fall right in the mixer the moment you hit it with the gauge pot.

Can I just add that different bricks require weaker mixes the London bricks with deep frogs have a six and one mix so if theirs any settlement in the foundations the joint would crack and not the brick

Great video! thoughts on adding pva anyone? I thinking of adding to mix for my retaining wall, does it help with strength, adhesion, water resistance?

Cheers guys Will need to watch again and take notes. I’m always worried about my concrete drying to quick. How long does it take before it sets?

Love your videos good quality work no point having a 110 mixer if you are going to run a 240 cable to the mixer 110 box should be at the power point and run 110 cable to the mixer all the best boys 👍👍

No one seems to be able to answer this question. How do you colour match your mortar to the old mortar in the case of bricking up an external doorway.

Great video , just wondered if there's a rule of thumb as to how many kgs of sand and cement to order per brick .

Could sharp sand be used instead?

How much water did you put in to start off with tho

If you didnt use plastisizer, how much lime would you put in that 4:1 mix? What 3 part ratio would that be?

There's my mistake, to dry after a couple of minutes then adding more water, then it all broke up when I was haunshing monoblocks. Thanks for the lesson.

How much water was in the mixer at the beginning for that full mix please? What's the smallest mix you can make in there? Is 1 bucket of sand not enough for some reason?

Can you use sbr in the mix ?

If you were measuring the water, how much would you add to the mixture shown? It looks like here you used the "TLAR Method" ["that looks about right"]. Alas, that works only with experience by one who knows what he's doing -- and not with a noobie like me.

In the US when I try to find plasticizer they don't have the Bostik plasticizer. They have other products that appear to be the same. Kind of frustrating because I'd like to get what you use. Makes life simpler.

OPC Why? Why not motar mix that has lime in it? Does the plasticiser have a retarder in it? I noticed your old mix had not begun to set. I could see using OPC for concrete block, but looks like normal clay bricks and why not normal motar mix? What is the temperature there, looks a bit cool with all the heavy clothes. Is the temperature affecting the set time?

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Hi guys, great topic. Is this the same ratio for concrete blocks?

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Take care lads, few days off for me as they wife give birth yesterday 👌 Marty (Derry garden services)

What does the plasterciser do? What's it function?

What is the size of your trowel? In this video? It looks like 9inch

Since when do you use a straight portland for mortar?

Is that pure cement, no lime?

You already added the water but didn't say how much water?

Why other mix mortar different color?

Suppose you have no cement mixer and you just have a board like me. How would that get fluffy 🤔

Good mix ratio for shade variation but cut the soap down to 5mil for that size of mixture

How much water?

A good thing to remember you can always add water you cant take it out. I used to take a trowel and take a trowels worth of mud and turn it upside-down and most of it should stick to the trowel

Great video . If you had to guess , how much water would you use for 4 to 1 mix ? For example, half a bucket , full bucket . Cheers boys , I hope Wales do well at the World Cup 👍

Radio is a must😅

Definitely wrong about one thing. “Radio, you don’t need that”. I’ve been on lots of building sites and I’m sure they are compulsory.

That Hanson multicem claims have plasticiser in it. Never tried without putting any in. Use the opti mix same as the bostic or sika.

you’re using Multicem not normal cement, Multicem theoretically doesn’t need plasticiser

Looks like you’ve got Liam Gallagher on the mix

What no dish soap? The UK bricky's I know use dish soap to provide workability for there mortar. I would never do that.

Good Video, hate masks but a good idea with dust!

Any jobs mate I can travel

4.1 what you building manholes in engineering bricks.....

Goggles lol 😆 😂

Plasticiser should be mixed with gauging water and a 5/1 mix is more appropriate to above ground brickwork … still gets the job done in a non professional environment.

well I am 1 minute 13 seconds in. The feb states 5ml for the mix you're using. Put that in the barrel not the water. The OPC you stated isn't OPC its multi not the same.