home brew in the hot sun

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  • jimkramer
    Apprentice
    • Jun 2009
    • 143
    #1

    home brew in the hot sun

    I did a first test with my home brew, and it seems when I soaked the bricks, they didn't stick together (after a day) as well as when the bricks were dry. Should I still soak the bricks? I did the test when it was cooler, and it's been really hot here this week, so it seems the extra moisture would help it cure slower.

    Also, can I dry premix a bucket of all the ingredients so I don't have to mix a batch every time? Or do I run the risk of getting moisture into the portland? (I had the clay and sand in my garage for a year, but they seem dry.)
    Here's mine:
    http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f8/j...man-15992.html
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    • david s
      Il Pizzaiolo
      • Mar 2007
      • 9208
      #2
      Re: home brew in the hot sun

      You.can dry mix all the ingredients except the Portland, which is best added fresh. That's what I do and it works well, but you have to calculate exactly how much to add for a given volume of premixed.i keep it in plastic bags in batch quantities.
      Kindled with zeal and fired with passion.

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        • Tscarborough
          Il Pizzaiolo
          • Oct 2009
          • 3341
          #3
          Re: home brew in the hot sun

          You should not soak the bricks, ever. Under very dry and windy conditions, you should wet the brick, but at a maximum they need to be saturated surface dry, i.e. not so wet that the water forms a film on the surface.

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            • broschb
              Serf
              • May 2013
              • 10
              #4
              Re: home brew in the hot sun

              I have just been mixing the hombrew as i need it, i just have a cup i use to quickly measure. I mix enough at a time to do 4-5 bricks. Has worked well so far. I have found that having the brick moist helps, but have laid some in the earlier courses dry. When they are dry they really pull the moisture out of the bricks. I usually just throw them in a wheelbarrow of water while i mix the brew, then pull them out and lay them, has worked well so far and all my bricks bond, and resist gravity

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                • Tscarborough
                  Il Pizzaiolo
                  • Oct 2009
                  • 3341
                  #5
                  Re: home brew in the hot sun

                  They are supposed to pull moisture out of the mortar, if they do not, it is an issue.

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                    • GIANLUCA
                      Apprentice
                      • May 2012
                      • 136
                      #6
                      Re: home brew in the hot sun

                      I just completed my build and for the whole project I mixed it each time with a coffee can as my cup also I kept all the ingredients in my cool dry basement no issues at all and it was a 100 degree at least every day of the build.

                      I dipped each brick in water for a second b4 I applied cement all my bricks stuck perfect even up to the last chain. My father taught me a mason's trick when you mix of your mortar and it sticks to the trowel that's a good consistancy

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