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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:42 pm
by balooboat
please could you advise on how many bags of cement I need per ton of ballast at a ratio of 6 to 1.
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:01 pm
by worldofpaving
Chris, for your purposes a cubic metre of concrete would typically weigh about 2.3 tonnes of which c. 350 kg would be cement, 900kg each of sand and aggregate and the balance water.
A cube of concrete would cover 10 square metres at 10cm thick, 5 square metres at 20cm thick and so on...
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:15 pm
by lutonlagerlout
5 bags m8
LLL :;):
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:35 pm
by cookiewales
we in wales being simple folk and hungry work out areas as slices of cake ie 10 slices at 100mm x 1000 mm is 1 cube and so on small slice s or big it allways works something to think on where is the spell check on here cheers cookie 
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:00 pm
by lutonlagerlout
cookie i use the spell checker ,which is an add on to firefox,
i write a sentence then have to change half of it because of red lines under misspelt words
LLL
go ===> firefox ===> tools ===> add ons ====>then search for British English dictionary 1.19
click on it and install it and away you go, no more spelling mistakes
punctuation and grammar,now theres another story :;):
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:17 pm
by cookiewales
will get the wife to do that they dident call me cookie . com in my early days for nothing thats another story cheers cookie keep busy
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:46 am
by DNgroundworks
lol LLL 
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:37 am
by seanandruby
We must'nt get away from the fact that this is a paving/drainage site, Not an English grammer site. As long as your work is in compliance who gives a f*** about sleplnig msiatkes ???