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26 CEMEX+ME 1st Half of 2004 /MANILA, PHILIPPINES 1 1 3 2 4
Lessons on cement mixing + plastering We asked Mang Rolly to give us a few tips on the proper way of mixing cement and plastering walls, and he gamely showed us how. 1 Masonry cement is different from other kinds of cement. To achieve the right consistency required in plastering cement walls, Mang Rolly recommends mixing one sack of masonry cement (he highly recommends CEMEX Palitada King for his projects) with three sacks of sand and file aggregates. 2 This mixture should be properly and evenly mixed with five drums of water. The resulting cement mixture should be enough to plaster a 5-sq.m. wall. 3 Because masonry cement dries easily, masons should be patient enough to frequently wet the surface being plastered. Otherwise, they’ll have a hard time plastering the wall properly. 4 Masons have a particular way of flicking their wrists when plastering walls with cement. Mang Rolly advises masons to use whatever style they’re comfortable with, as long as the cement sticks nicely and evenly to the wall. Some of his workers, for instance, use a trowel (kutsara in Filipino, or palita in Mang Rolly’s native Bisaya) in scooping, slapping, and flattening the cement onto the wall, but Mang Rolly uses a wooden “tray” that is commonly used for catching “cement droppings”. Mang Rolly recommends CEMEX Palitada King for plastering because of its consistency and “stickiness.” According to him, “hindi madaling matuklap ang (CEMEX) Palitada King”, unlike other cement brands. With CEMEX Palitada King, dried cement doesn’t ordinarily crack, so walls are sturdier and look much better.
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