How to mix mortar, perfect creamy mix for bricklaying

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Жыл бұрын

How to make the perfect mortar mix for bricklaying, patios etc using a cement mixer. This is a step by step guide on how to mix sand and cement to create a good, workable mix and how patience is needed when mixing and letting the mixer do the work.

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@michaelrobert6386 5 ай бұрын

This video is so good. I’m a welder by trade but it’s very satisfying watching proper matter mixing.

@SamDaviesBuilder 5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Welding is a good skill to have

@thegolfnut812 24 күн бұрын

What's the plasticizer product name? Can't read the curled up sticker on the bottle.

@SamDaviesBuilder 23 күн бұрын

There’s a few different brands but this is one of them: buildingplasticsdirect.co.uk/products/everbuild-opti-mix-super-concentrate-mortar-plasticiser-1ltr?variant=44349117923641&currency=GBP&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIu8Dx_Yb2hQMVqJZQBh0QKA-LEAQYFSABEgLQG_D_BwE

@wemcal Жыл бұрын

Great Video

@SamDaviesBuilder Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@jezza2773 11 ай бұрын

Very good video thank you!

@SamDaviesBuilder 11 ай бұрын

Thanks. Glad you liked it!

@Bp98 Жыл бұрын

Браво.То је суштина и одлично је објашњена. Хвала.

@SamDaviesBuilder Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😃

@StanOwden 8 ай бұрын

Charlie would approve!

@SamDaviesBuilder 8 ай бұрын

I hope he would 😃😃

@MarcusT86 10 ай бұрын

That is one giant mixer buddy. Even with 16 shovelfuls of material it was like a little ball of mortar in that giant chasm of a mixer! I was thinking of buying an electric mixer for DIY use. Are they fine if used in smaller batch mixing and taking my time?

@SamDaviesBuilder 10 ай бұрын

Yea in this mixer I can fit 40 shovels of sand so you can batch some huge mixes up. Also when you mix a large batch you can get a lovely mix. If you had an electric mixer it would be no issue for you to make a small mix, I’ll do small ones if I don’t need much mix

@wildmanofborneo 2 ай бұрын

Hi does anyone know if you can use this type of rotating drum mixer for stucco? Why do stucco mixers have paddles that rotate instead of the drum rotating?

@SamDaviesBuilder 2 ай бұрын

Sorry I’m not sure on that one!

@hieeptranthanh1283 Жыл бұрын

👍👍

@SamDaviesBuilder Жыл бұрын

😃😃

@joeykirk9367 2 күн бұрын

Ive found soap does just as well!

@SamDaviesBuilder 2 күн бұрын

Should always use a proper plasticiser not fairy liquid

@joeykirk9367 2 күн бұрын

@SamDaviesBuilder tell me what's wrong if it works it works?

@joeykirk9367 2 күн бұрын

@SamDaviesBuilder any chemicals mixed together is from their fairy crap. It's all sorcery. It's just chemistry

@SamDaviesBuilder 2 күн бұрын

@@joeykirk9367 for a start fairy liquid isn’t tested to a British standard for construction. Fairy liquid would get you out of a problem if you had no proper plasticiser but I wouldn’t buy it specifically for building with

@joeykirk9367 2 күн бұрын

@@SamDaviesBuilder I've seen they've sold you on their fairy dust plasticer!

@user-pt1oy3nl3c Ай бұрын

I've tried to mix by hand to fill cracks in my ourdoor wall (not bricks), and it always seems too sloppy/ sandy / not creamy, so it slips off the trowel. Maybe i undermixed or overmixed it?

@SamDaviesBuilder Ай бұрын

Sounds to me like it’s undermined. Do you use a plasticiser?

@SamDaviesBuilder Ай бұрын

I do have a how to mix by hand video on my channel too

@amiedarby1872 Жыл бұрын

After shovels of cement in would of added bit of water to let plasticizer mix through before adding sand after so u don’t get dumplings rolling around then be patient

@SamDaviesBuilder Жыл бұрын

If it’s too dry you would of added water after the cement went in but this had just the right amount of water in it. If I’d have added water too soon it wouldn’t have mixed up as nice. I see where you’re coming from though as once you get the balls it’s hard to get rid of them!

@riptiz 5 күн бұрын

How long did you mix it for?

@SamDaviesBuilder 5 күн бұрын

It’s probably around 10 mins from when you put the first shovel in

@RedwolfDogrocket Жыл бұрын

The febmix bit i was hoping to learn from but from your very useful comments and replies from your other videos regarding sand wetness, dry blocks, clamp or class b bricks, its a judgement call. Ive done well so far by just reading the instructions on the tub! Ive only done hand or liger board mixes but a mixer for half an hour is way more than i thought BUT when we did the Concrete block destruction tests the longer dryer mixes (then cured in water) were like iron! Ive done a few single skin practice walls now using salvaged bricks where the mortar course is mirror smooth and stronger than the bricks! Practice practice. The current crop of 'builders' in the north could do with your videos because i can drag my van vault key down their mortar and it goes 2-5mm deep! They are builders. Not brickies! (B.S artists more like!) Do you have a video on pointing? Repointing is an ARSE job! Is rhere an efficient fast way and just to see the skill involved would be very useful. Cheers!

@SamDaviesBuilder Жыл бұрын

Honestly some of the mixes people use are terrible and it makes the job so much harder. People put too much feb in most of the time that's why the mortar is so soft so you can dray a key through it. I will try and do a video showing how little feb I try and put in a mix, I always put as little as I can get away with without it being a poor mix. As there is so many different types of feb (plasticiser) out there it is always difficult to have a rule of thumb as to how much to put in as they do seem to be different strengths depending on the brand

@SamDaviesBuilder Жыл бұрын

Will do a video on repointing as soon as I get a repointing job :)

@RedwolfDogrocket Жыл бұрын

The loudest braggard builders always have, if you look around at the sites around here (wrap around lean-against extensions) a bottle of Magnum by the mixer 😃 It used to be Fairy Liquid but times are tight! If you could do a layered comparisson say 3 courses thick. too much. just right. not enough or zero. washing up liquid. And how you make it mirror smooth pointed and then scratch it with a tool showing resiliance or lack of.

@SamDaviesBuilder Жыл бұрын

@@RedwolfDogrocket that is a good suggestion! I may give that a go at some point and do a video. One thing to note too is that how to do a proper mix is lost on some people as if they’ve been an apprentice on a building site with a silo (ready mixed just add water) then they will never learn how to mix up from scratch properly

@karltague Жыл бұрын

Meant to gauge it with buckets be all colours

@SamDaviesBuilder Жыл бұрын

Yes good point I would gauge it for face brickwork.

@alexdehnel 4 ай бұрын

Did you really mix it for 40mins or was that 40 seconds?

@SamDaviesBuilder 4 ай бұрын

40 seconds but that was just to show how quick it can turn from not looking great to starting to come together without any more water

@xXEYSPENXx Жыл бұрын

It mixed for about 45mins?

@SamDaviesBuilder Жыл бұрын

No, in a diesel mixer like this it would be 10-15 minutes of mixing from start to finish. You can over mix it which would put too much air in the mix

@liamtaylor5122 Жыл бұрын

how to mix mortar with matt hancock

@SamDaviesBuilder Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure wether to take this one as a compliment or not but if Mr Hancock wants to give me a mention on I'm A Celebrity then he's more than welcome to

@SamDaviesBuilder Жыл бұрын

Also, you’ve worried my girlfriend that I may look like Matt Hancock now 🤣🤣🤣

@liamtaylor5122 Жыл бұрын

@@SamDaviesBuilder hahahaah ye i see a little resemblance. take it however you want pal. good video anyway

@SamDaviesBuilder Жыл бұрын

@@liamtaylor5122 thankyou! Good mortar is the key to a good job! I’m onto a lookalike agency now…

@GODWillBEDone Жыл бұрын

Lol

@miles-thesleeper-monroe8466 Жыл бұрын

Sorry for daft question but I take it this is not sharp sand it's building sand?

@SamDaviesBuilder Жыл бұрын

Not a stupid question. It’s building sand. The best we can get round here in West Wales but we don’t get much choice. If this sand was in England you’d probably call it sharp sand as their building sand is much better quality!

@miles-thesleeper-monroe8466 Жыл бұрын

@Sam Davies nice one. Amazing channel btw 👌

@SamDaviesBuilder Жыл бұрын

@@miles-thesleeper-monroe8466 thankyou, appreciate the comment

@jonwebster5781 9 ай бұрын

20 shovels and got a half barrow 😂😂

@SamDaviesBuilder 9 ай бұрын

Best way to teach people is even shovels of sand and cement. When you are more experienced you can heap the shovels and then make the cement match. Everyone is different though 😃

@alexmorgan3435 Жыл бұрын

I hope your mix is better than the camera work! Most of the footage is focussed on you. You don't actually say how much plasticizer to use nor show the consistency of the mix as you pour the water into the mixer. Some of those spades of sand going into the mixer looked well under weight. Sorry but gave up on this one.

@SamDaviesBuilder Жыл бұрын

Hi Alex, this is just a general video to show doing a mix. I didn’t focus on how much plasticiser as it varies so much between different brand as to how much you use and can also depend on the quality of your sand as to how much plasticiser you need. I don’t heap my sand too much as you’ll never match the cement shovel fulls otherwise. This is my method and I know other people will have a far different way to mine - but as long as it makes a good mix that is the key!

@paulohlstein2236 7 ай бұрын

@@SamDaviesBuilder Assuming that you made the video for amateurs (like me) that need instruction on how to make mortar you should tell us precisely how much sand in gallons or liters, how much Portland cement how much water and how much plasticizer and the brand of the plasticizer. Watching you shovel sand and mortar is not helping me.

@SamDaviesBuilder 7 ай бұрын

@@paulohlstein2236 this is how I was taught. If you listen to the video I say the amount of water depends on how wet or dry the sand is so it’s not the same every time. Also how much water would depend on how stiff or sloppy you want the mix. Amount of cement is just a ratio so it’s 1 part cement for every 4 parts of sand - if you can’t learn off me doing it from a shovel you can use buckets, so 1 bucket of cement to 4 buckets of sand. Plasticiser will differ as to where you are in the county and what you can get hold of.

@midge486 6 ай бұрын

@@SamDaviesBuilderI thought it was a decent tutorial on how to knock a general mix up👍🏻 you’ll always get a couple of clowns like these, I mean you might as well nip round and knock the mix up for them with what they expect from you🤡

@SamDaviesBuilder 6 ай бұрын

@@midge486 thanks and I suppose putting these videos out there always put me in the firing line for good or bad comments

@edskapin7171 Жыл бұрын

Mix a little sandy for me!

@SamDaviesBuilder Жыл бұрын

It was 4:1 so definitely not sandy. Blue circle cement is very light in colour so does make a very light colour mix

@brandonl9440 4 ай бұрын

20 shovels to 1 bag! Simple math no way you can over mix it but you can definitely make it to wet

@SamDaviesBuilder 4 ай бұрын

It’s teaching people the right size shovels for a bag mix 🤣. You can over mix it as it turns too fluffy, I did it with render once and it just went to dust

@wontbelongnow5567 2 ай бұрын

You should always gauge your mix with bucket so you always get right amount of cement and sand..for perfect mix then its same amount every time your not to old to learn young man also its same strength and colour every time, I've seen people big shovel of sand and not the same when putting cement in , so your getting different mix every time.

@SamDaviesBuilder 2 ай бұрын

I only gauge my mixes on brickwork. My shovels are always even. I do get what you mean about people putting huge shovel fulls of sand in and then a tiny shovelful of cement but I never do big shovel fulls of sand. A beginner can’t go wrong if they gauge it.