Step covers for house entrance

Hello first of all,

Hopefully, I am in the right place here.
I made a step with my father in front of the front door.
We used frost protection material that we took from around the house, since the base needed to be resealed and that was left over.

The color of the finished step is now not gray but brown to reddish. I have to say that I am a total layman when it comes to construction, so I relied on my father who once worked in construction and is a trained stonemason, but has not worked in the profession for several years.

Now I suspect that the material is very unsuitable for the step. What happens if there was a certain clay content in the material?
Or will it properly harden? There are 5 bags of 40 kg cement mixed in.

Best regards, Markus

Hi

200 kg of cement were used for an unspecified amount of [Irgendetwas]. No one will surely be able to answer your question whether sufficient strength is achieved. However, it is quite possible that it works. It would certainly have been better to obtain the apparently rather small amount in sufficient quality.

Olli

There should be about 1 ton of frost protection (0-32mm) included.

What was more important for me was to find out which fine components could be contained in the frost protection?
And what the consequence could be if, for example, too much clay content was included.

It is now painfully clear to me that a screed sand would have been better.
I just hope that it will still become sufficiently firm.

How long do you let such a step cure if everything goes according to the standard before covering it?

Best regards, M. Daniel

Don't worry, the mixing ratio 4:1 fits and if the substructure is reasonably stable and you didn't just dump it into loose dirt, then it's fine.

Possibly loosened rust from the (insufficiently covered) reinforcement?

From my experience, "Frostschutz" is colloquially used for everything, from recycled material to sieved quarry material to "swept together from the construction yard," it can be anything.

Clay has no place in FS material.. it will hold anyway.