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   roucru | Jul 18, 2002 05:44am | #1

   What is your recipe for your concrete mix. Please give info. on spreading and finishing (troweling) times. Waterbase exterior deck sealer might be best.

   Thanks for the info.

   Lars

   Tamara

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   sweetwater | Jul 18, 2002 07:23am | #2

   Trial mix was 3:1 sand/cement and .5 parts lime, all by volume. Since doing that I ran across a recipe for terrazo which seems to use a higher ratio of cement by volume, something like 1:1 but that seems too high to me. We'll see in the morning...

   I placed it with a mag float and trowelled like a slab, waiting for bleed water to flatten out before final trowelling. Today it took awhile because of humidity; imagine covering in plastic would help on the cure, too.

   Thanks for suggestion on sealer -

   Don

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   Mooney | Jul 18, 2002 06:09pm | #3

   Don , go to jlconline.com and run this by them. They have a tile section forum.

   Tim Mooney

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   Scooter1 | Jul 19, 2002 03:15am | #4

   For heavens sake use a 2 part clamping drain, a waterproof membrane, and then add water concrete mix you want.

   You'll be sorry if you just think concrete will do it.

   Aquamix 500 for the sealer.

   Regards,

   Boris

   "Sir, I may be drunk, but you're crazy, and I'll be sober tomorrow" -- WC Fields, "Its a Gift" 1927

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   sweetwater | Jul 19, 2002 06:39am | #5

   The shower pan is terrazo, if that is your concern. The wall prep is felt over waterboard, wonderboard over that, then tile decos in pattern, filled in with a concrete type mix. The question has been and still is the shower surround, which I'd like to do in something other than plastic or prefab or tile.

   Thanks for your interest

   Don

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   DonStephan | Jul 24, 2002 04:41am | #6

   This sounds like a great alternative to hundreds of tile joints to clean all the time. Very interested in hearing how your experiment turns out. Trying to interest the wife in the idea.