Complete guide to mixing lime mortar

hyeri where you know and we're going to do a typical run to our natural hydraulic line mix it's generally water natural hydraulic line and sand and it's a sound is that the proportion of two and a half to one so have a look here how you got our clean water it's important we've our one bucket of Round Tower 3.5 and we have our sand here at two and a half powered portion sand to one portion lime and that's the proportion that we tend to use typically for most jobs we cover things like pointing external rendering internal plastering and also if you were doing walling work and building with us this makes me cover all those so that's that's quite a quite a useful guide for people now at the minute it's nice and dry and clean this mixer is just an ordinary Bell mixer it's no it's nothing special they're all over the place other people and we at times we use paddle mixers we'll use roller pan mixers but typically this is the best you're gonna find in 99% of sites so and it works perfectly well we start off with no just be careful you don't want to be breathing this and it tends to dust a bit so be just just be just be careful and we turn on the mixer know what job did a little bit of a puff coming out of this notice our school good so now we're going to add [Music] we mix the ingredients right now actually at the water the thing about adding the water is you add it slowly little by little it's very easy to drown the mix if you're not careful so you add a little stand back that it makes and add a little more when you're mixing in nature natural hydraulic line it's nice to let it mix for as long as possible if it said 15 minutes before you're going to use then turn off the mixer get yourself prepared ready come back mix it for another minute or two and it gives it a nice fatty consist easier to work with particularly to pastoring or entry [Music] while your point if you're using a 4.8 take out what you mean double elixir leave the rest the way dude you're pointing come back give it a mix again and it just keeps it keeps it fresh or if you put it all over the ground or in a wheelbarrow it's drying out straightaway leave it in the mixer now we just start the mixer because I the material tends to stick to the back so there's still some dry material back here so you just scrape it to the front and then if the mortar is to left really stopping and when you apply to either rendering or all that moisture has to evaporate out of it and it strains quite a lot I think that's getting there no fur appointing links maybe but for that much scent and like I added about three three and a half meters of water as the sound is very dry at the minute SanDisk white back to running of the okay I'm gonna need this for about ten minutes mixing here now and then we come back to us after not okay so this is Ben I love her I think over ten minutes so the let's have a quick look at the marker nice and workable yeah that's fine we can use that now for pointing so thing is there is a temptation to add a lot of water to get it to mix more quickly but what I find is you add a little water by little it gets to a point where you say it's it's still too dry leave it makes four five ten minutes and you'll find that it gets fattier and you don't need to add that extra water so that works quite well for it rather than putting in too much water in the beginning just add it little by little and it will work much much nicer for you and that's it I think we're ready now do a little bit of pointing with this so I'm that's it I think

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Published: Wed Aug 08 2018