Eriwan2
2020-06-14 15:06:55
- #1
Hello, I am quite clueless when it comes to construction and am very worried about the following problem:
I want to build a 3x5x1.5 swimming pool in my garden using Styrofoam formwork blocks that will be poured with concrete.
Over the weekend, a friend who is a construction expert helped me pour the base slab (20cm), and for various reasons, we had to mix the concrete ourselves from cement and gravel.
I read online that the ideal mixing ratio is 1 part by weight cement to 4 parts by weight gravel, and that is exactly what the friend told me beforehand.
He mixed the concrete and I poured it.
Now that the slab is finished, I checked the delivery notes.
If I recalculate everything, we used exactly 8 tons of gravel and 1.250 tons of cement.
At a ratio of 1:4, it should have been 2 tons of cement.
He says that is no problem and comes up with arguments that I don’t fully understand.
(for example, there was still water in the gravel, so we actually used less gravel than was delivered.
So it was indeed moist, but as a layman, I am still very worried whether it will really hold.
Does anyone know about this and can please tell me something?
I want to build a 3x5x1.5 swimming pool in my garden using Styrofoam formwork blocks that will be poured with concrete.
Over the weekend, a friend who is a construction expert helped me pour the base slab (20cm), and for various reasons, we had to mix the concrete ourselves from cement and gravel.
I read online that the ideal mixing ratio is 1 part by weight cement to 4 parts by weight gravel, and that is exactly what the friend told me beforehand.
He mixed the concrete and I poured it.
Now that the slab is finished, I checked the delivery notes.
If I recalculate everything, we used exactly 8 tons of gravel and 1.250 tons of cement.
At a ratio of 1:4, it should have been 2 tons of cement.
He says that is no problem and comes up with arguments that I don’t fully understand.
(for example, there was still water in the gravel, so we actually used less gravel than was delivered.
So it was indeed moist, but as a layman, I am still very worried whether it will really hold.
Does anyone know about this and can please tell me something?