You Can Do It - Instant Concrete

Al Carrell: You know, we live in a society that's really in a hurry. Everybody wants everything done instantly. And that's why we have instant coffee, instant tea, instant massed potatoes, all you do is add water and it's instantly done. Well, for the do-it-yourselfer, there's instant concrete. All you have to do is add water and you've got concrete. Now buying it in little bags like this is not going to work out for doing a whole foundation of your house or a driveway, but it's great for little jobs like setting a fence post or putting up a flag pole. One thing you want to do though, it sounds easy, one thing you want to do is be sure you mix it properly. And that means not adding too much water. And it also means it so that every piece of gravel in here is covered with this paste that's going to be sort of gray. And you just start, you can do all your mixing in a wheelbarrow or out on the actual driveway surface if you want to. Start by trying to work that water in there. As you get all of the water absorbed, pour a little bit more in. And you keep doing this until you do get it to that point where it is all gray all over. Well, it's almost instant concrete.

You do want to remember two things. Don't put too much water in there, because the stiffer the mix, the better the concrete, and the other thing is, mix it up real good.

Episode 014 1995 - 96 Season

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