Many for the summer planned a lot of affairs, for example, put the paving slabs at the cottage or at home. If only not these biting prices for tile from manufacturers! How can you save ... but a little snarling and patience, and we can admire the new path in one month without extra costs. How? - Our article about it. Learning to independently make paving slabs.
We will immediately make a reservation that the home tile is better not to cover the vehicles under the vehicle and heavy facilities, the ideal option is the pedestrian paths. On their construction can be saved very well. But the cement is better not to save and use the brand M 500.
Plasticizers will also help the tile to make tiles even more durable and resistant to drops. Save both on forms using well-made materials - plastic containers for food products of different shapes and sizes. You can make form from wooden plates.
Preparation of solution
In the container we smear one part of the cement and three parts of the sand. If a concrete mixer is used, first put sand, then we fall asleep cement in a rotating container. Water is added gradually, with constant mixing of the solution. It should be neat - excess water reduce the strength of the finished concrete.
Pouring into forms
Before pouring the forms, lubricate them with any oil (and the spent machine) is suitable, so frozen tile will easily be removed from the form.
Council
You can increase the strength of the tile so: fill the form by half a solution, then put a metal mesh (reinforcement) and pour with a solution to the top.
In the form pour a solution and sealing it with a trowel.
To compact the cement mass and removal from it, the air is needed to vibration. This is done with the help of vibrationtol. Of course, it is not, so we are for creating a vibration several times knocking any object on the table on which our forms are worth.
DRYING
Forms with concrete, covering the film, leave to dry in the shade of 2-3 days. To maintain a sufficient level.
ADVICE
• By consistency, the solution should resemble the dough: be a bit liquid, but not crawling from a trowel.
• Using various inorganic pigments, the tile can be painted in different colors.
Moisture and avoid cracking from time to time wet the shape with water using any sprayer for this.
After the specified time, the tile is released from the forms, for this it is enough to push the facet of the shape and shake slightly. You dry tiles in a tank for 3-4 weeks.
During this time it will become strong enough and suitable for laying.
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