Bob Schmidt: Hi, I’m Bob Schmidt. Welcome to Home Remodel Workshop. You know, I think I’m going to go ahead and put that concrete in around that post today.
Hey honey, where’s the wheelbarrow?
Wife: Don’t you remember the wheels fell of and it rusted in half?
Bob Schmidt: Oh, okay. How about that shovel that I leant to my brother, Joe?
Wife: You mean before he moved to Wisconsin.
Bob Schmidt: Oh, it could be a problem but we’ll show you how to take care of that.
Concrete Mixing
How to mix concrete without any tools? That could be an issue but I’m going to show you how to do it with just an empty bucket, a piece of heavy metal plastic and somebody to help you out.
All you need to do is you need to cut your plastic to about eight by ten or 10 by 10, either one will do. And then all you need to smooth concrete surface like we have here to put it on or you can even do this on the grass as long as the grass is root free or rock free, go ahead and canvass your area. Make sure that there’s nothing sharp that’s going to cut the plastic.
Here, we have an 80-pound bag of concrete mix. We’re going to dump the concrete mix into the center of the plastic. Making it just looks like a little pile. After your concrete mix is setting in the pile in the center of the plastic, push a little hole in the center of the concrete mix. Here, I have a bucket that I pre-measured by what the instruction said for mixing. It's got a gallon and a half of water for this 80-pound of mix.
Now, taking all four corners of the plastic and rolling them up in your hand tightly like this, so that it's just about below your waste, you’re ready to start adding the water and mix in. First, dump about half the contents of the water or of the bucket into the mix. At this point, you and your friend should alternate from side to side, mixing it back and forth from corner to corner. After the first half of the bucket is thoroughly mixed and it starts blowing up dust, go ahead and add the balance of your water to your mix.
At this point, continue alternating from side to side or from corner to corner and keep mixing until your mix looks like it's thoroughly mixed. As you can see, in just about a minute’s time, we have concrete. This is ready to go in the hole.
You and a friend can lift this concrete gently and set it down. Let’s say my postal was right here, all you need to do, lower this side of the plastic down, gently lift up on this side and roll the concrete right into the hole and there you go.
The nice part about this concrete mixing is a clean-up. No wheelbarrows or shovels to clean, pretty much just roll up the plastic and throw it away. If you do get a hole on your plastic, get enough plastic so that you can do it a couple of times in case you get a small hole and need to do it again.
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