Every seven weeks I sit in my barber’ s chair and say to Mikayla:“ Take no prisoners. Cut each and every one of them.” She ...

Mix up the secret ingredient: cement paint. Cement paint is made by mixing pure Portland cement with clear, cold water. (Add enough water to make a mix that has the consistency of warm gravy.) If the ...

I purchased a few bags of dry sand and a bag of pure Portland cement. I was going to mix three parts sand to one part cement and place it under the sunken pavers. My plan was to start at one ...

Mix one part Type 1 Portland cement and one part fine sand by volume. Add water until the mixture is the consistency of thick ...

A ratio refers to the proportions of sand, cement, gravel, and water in your concrete mix. Getting the ratios correct is key to having batches of concrete that set appropriately. Mixing concrete ...

typically a mixture of Portland cement and aggregate materials. Portland cement, the world’s most commonly used cement, is a hydraulic material that consists of calcium silicates and a clinker.

This was not your typical retirement party: A bunch of construction industry types gathered at Sublime Systems in Somerville ...

I’d just have to cover 25 square feet with a 1/8 inch deep mixture of fine sand and Portland cement to achieve a professional repair. Fine sand can be compared to grains of table salt.