October 04, 2007

The Quikpoint Mortar Gun for Pointing Brick

Now here is a great way to save time, money and headache!  The Quikpoint motor gun hooks up to your drill and allows you to pump of fill void spaces between bricks, stone work and much more.  The quickpoint mortar gun uses your drill motor to power a small auger to force the grout material out.  Click below to see more about them.

Quikpoint Mortar Gun

March 16, 2006

Concrete Curing Blankets

Concrete curing blankets are an important parts of the concrete curing process.  They allow the concretes curing tempature to be trapped and allow the cement to set up faster and harder.  Concrete blankets are made of several different types of materials.  Click the link below to see more.

Concrete Curing Blankets

January 06, 2005

Mortar Mixer or Cement Mixer?

Well we get asked this one at least once a day and for good reason.  The terms concrete mixer and mortar mixer get " mixed" together so frequently.  So in short a concrete mixer has a rotating drum that spins used for materials that contain aggrigate from 1/4" to 1/2" in diameter.

A mortar mixer is more like a big blender.  It uses mixing paddles with a stationary drum to mix powders like mortar, sand, plaster and grout.  Keep in mind that you NEVER want to attempt to mix concrete inside of a mortar mixer.  In the event that one of the 1/4" or 1/2" stones get caught between the wall of the mortar mixer and one of the paddles it would rip the gearbox right out of the machine and probably damage the mixing paddles heavily.

To see the different look of the mixers click below:

For concrete mixers

For Mortar Mixers