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Homemade decorative stone "Byzantine brick"


Hello dear readers andthe inhabitants of our site!
Maybe you want to make a relief wall, maybe decorate a personal bar - in fact, there are a lot of areas where you can apply block masonry. But it costs a lot of money.

In this article, the author of the YouTube channel “DIY Creators” offers you a method of self-production of stone blocks.

Materials
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- Cement, sand.

Instruments, used by the author.
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- nozzle mixer
- Spatula, trowel
- Respirator, gloves.

Manufacturing process.
Everything is very simple: you need a bag of cement, several molds, a respiratory mask and a pair of mittens.
The cement mixture pours out into a large plastic bucket.

To speed up the whole process a little, the author starts a special powder (hardener) in a separate glass container that accelerates the hardening of cement. Within an hour, the solution should solidify.

After getting into the water, the mixture quickly begins to solidify, so it should be continuously and actively mixed. Then the liquid is poured in a uniform stream into the cement powder and thoroughly mixed. Since the entire packet of cement will be kneaded, at least 5 liters of water will be required.

Next, you need a powerful drill with a special nozzle for mixing. The solution is thoroughly mixed








The author makes the first test casting to feel how the solution will behave.
The back surface of the form should be tried to level as much as possible.



There is another way to improve the shape - this is a little shake it to allow air bubbles to pop up to the surface.

While the forms are standing, the author continues to work on the second part of the batch. He adds a black colorizer to the mixing tank. For these purposes, you can use regular mascara, or black gouache.


The following three forms are filled with a raster of a darker shade. By the time the author puts the final batch of kneading into the mold, the activity of the setting controller is already reduced and the solution is slowly starting to solidify.




Usually, under the influence of a chemical reaction, during curing, the mass begins to warm up. Therefore, it is desirable to moisten the surface for at least 30-40 minutes.


Despite the relief of the form, and the tight fit of the cement mass, hardened cement quite easily lags behind the form.




And look at the result - they are great!







Thanks to the author for a simple but very interesting idea!
All good mood, good luck, and interesting ideas!
Author video can be found here.
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Valery, this is all clear. I remembered something else, since you wrote briefly about MTS. I started with this operator. Then he paid a lot of money to him. About five years was in his subscribers. And now, a letter comes from MTS to me. (Plain, in the mail envelope). Printed out. 2 sheets of A4 format, quality paper. The text is typed on a computer, addressed specifically to me (not a standard form for many subscribers). The director of the MTS branch writes. Dear, such and such, such and such! You have been cooperating with us for five years ... And 2 sheets of praise. I read all this and a sweet sensation begins to appear in me. Well, I think now a new mobile phone will be presented to GSM, or to the extreme, a lot of free minutes ... And at the end of the letter - we hope for further cooperation. All. Director's signature and seal. Moreover, the signature pen, not a photocopy. Such an unpleasant residue remained. Why send such letters? Then I got a second smartphone. TELE2 operator. After some time, MTS began to demand that I come to them for a free SIM card replacement, they say the existing one is out of date. I was in no hurry and they blocked Simka. And I'm just glad. I went and bought a second TELE2. Honestly, I still can’t understand which operator is the most honest and not expensive. In my opinion, they are all crooks. Some calls within Russia are more expensive than calls from Russia to the other side of the globe.
And you are close to the Truth, Valery. I wrote here about the cartoon "The Adventures of Captain Vrungel." Unfortunately, it did not include an episode from the same story by Nekrasov, on which this cartoon was shot. On the yacht of Vrungel, the radio refused. The resourceful captain Vrungel decided to listen to the broadcast. But as ? He took the antenna wire and stuck in the hollow of his carious tooth. And at this time, a ship was in distress nearby. The sailors sent an SOS signal and their coordinates. Captain Vrungel describes his feelings in this way. The point is felt like a prick with a pin, but a dash, it’s like a screw is being screwed into a tooth. Somehow, I read this book in elementary school many times, then they stole it from me. In short, he understood the Morse code, the coordinates of the ship asking for help and with his helpers saved the crew. And now the fact described in the Soviet popular science literature. An American worker involved in the processing of various materials began to hear radio broadcasts in his head. Well, the doctors wanted to identify him in a psychiatric hospital. But someone, somehow compared the facts that a man lives next to the tower of a broadcasting transmitter and his work is connected with semiconductor materials. And they found out that in his tooth, in a carious cavity, a semiconductor coating was formed, a real p-n junction that detects a powerful signal from a radio station. According to the nerve system (if you studied medicine, you should know about the Trigeminal nerve), the man heard the radio. Bullshit? I do not know. I have been engaged in medical equipment for a long time and I know for sure about many amazing things. For example, about the biofield, various biopotentials of the body. Last year, I had to go through a closed-type tomography study and then discuss the results with friends I knew and argue about the "complete harmlessness" of this procedure. And the fact that there are 3 armored doors are in the office, in the X-ray room, and even this is not there. And installation with superconducting electromagnets cooled by liquid Helium. I would not mind discussing this topic.
And in urgency, I put a headphone with a diode under a hat, took the end of the wire into my mouth, and listened to the radio at the post.))))
I bought my first mobile phone, having immediately forgiven that the future is for ZhMS. Others then, in most cases, had SDMA and AMPS.

When there were SDMA, we just had no fuel! This explains the fact that most sat on SDMA. At least in our country, SDMA has been since 1991, and fuel and lubricants appeared only in the 99th. Before that I had a GSM mobile phone, but I couldn’t leave Brest - it was the Polish operator Era.)))) Then many Brest residents used it - the local SDMA (BelCel) holder had no competition, and because, not only was the conversation expensive, but the pipe itself was compared with the machine at a cost ...))). And when their own operator appeared in the 99th, everyone massively switched to fuels and lubricants ... BelCel agonized for some more time ... Introduced the SDMA-2000 standard, lowered prices, made it intranet free .... but , in the mid-2000s, he died ...
And how do you, in a joking manner or in a serious way, answer? The best SDMA, farm - cowboy standard. He should have had a great future, but it did not come and will not come. ZhSM strangled. From memory, if you make a mistake, climb into your beloved Vicki and correct me. At me, the language on the computer stopped switching. I'll fix it by tomorrow. So, SDMA has 256 channels at one frequency at a time, and ZhSM only 12. The farmer has less harmful radiation power and is much more difficult to listen to. And further. When they closed the SDMA shop, they rented equipment from the FSM operators, in particular, from TELE - 2. Keeping the old numbers of subscribers. I now have 2 numbers, both TELE-2. There was an MTS number. I bought my first mobile phone, having immediately forgiven that the future is for ZhMS. Others then, in most cases, had SDMA and AMPS.
Not. The best phones, as in my homemade "Prefix for the 433 MHz band." Headphones TA-4 or TON - 2 of the Octave plant, USSR. You all carefully read this article of mine. Take 2 of these headphones, connect with a two-wire line and speak and listen without any power sources. I declare quite seriously. Weakly, but it will be heard))).
What is TAI-43? )))) So I know ... It’s easier, ... Yes, and "tsebeshny" ....)))
Valery
But do not say which phones are better - MTS, or GSM?
Better TA-57! boss
And I'm on tile glue. It dries for a long time, of course ... But you won’t get out later.))) And what a long time - so I’m not on these matters .... I’m for myself))))
AND cement and concreteYou know, there are different brands.

Oho-hoyushki ....
But do not say which phones are better - MTS, or GSM? boss
Once I tried to make gypsum. In purchased forms. And painted, by the way, with iron ...
You are right - I refused the idea because, no matter how hard you try, gypsum is very weak material. Such a tile can be used, perhaps, above the "core". Where there is no likelihood that it will be hooked with something solid ...
I want to add here (but this is not about plaster or cement). But maybe someone will come in handy. How to achieve epoxy curing in less than a minute, versus the standard 24 hours. In an induced mixture of resin with a hardener, drop a few drops of acetone and mix quickly. An exothermic reaction occurs, the mixture heats up and hardens very quickly. I have not tested on all types of epoxy. Today I bought an epoxy that I had never met before. Epoxy glue is called Super glue equal component (this is mixed in the same volume of two tubes). If acetone remains, I will try to check what I wrote about. I know that it definitely works on the usual Soviet, Russian EDF glue. The reaction rate depends on the amount of acetone added. You must first try on a small amount of induced resin.
I understood. I missed this moment to answer. Vibrostol is not a problem. There is a complete set. Only collect.
As for the setting speed, I think that you should not rush. Empirically calculate how many forms of filling will be just right. I do not have to look for a sales market, but I myself do not need huge areas.
Additives will be needed. In the process of mixing a lot of air is present. It is also expelled with additives in a batch. There are several different ones for different effects.
I did not focus on the strength of gypsum, but on the speed of its "setting", as a result of which you can not have time to shake out air bubbles and get a surface with shells, and this is already a marriage. Of course, you can add retarders (one of them is regular sugar), and increase the operating time, but without a vibrating table it will be too dreary, without it you can’t make a lot of tiles in one batch. In general, as my mother said, patience and work will grind everything, so good luck in the plan. And there are sayings - "Moscow was not built right away" and, as S. Shnurov said, you can quickly get only pe ... lei, everything else takes time.
I'm planting a plaster on a simple plaster. And faster and cheaper than Rothbant. It is possible on cement with liquid glass or a primer, but this must be done very quickly. Hardens in a couple of minutes.
Once, the owners "screwed up" me on the coven too, they had a major overhaul and they asked me to move the switches and sockets. Usually I freeze the installation boxes with gypsum plaster (ideally Rothband, but he, the infection, is expensive), it does not set so quickly. I wanted to buy a five-kilogram package, but the owners pointed to some kind of bag, and said that the builders "used this." “This one” was dry for a whole day, I installed sockets and switches only the next day, although I expected to turn around in a couple of hours.
And I need to finish indoors. Dry and heatable. And gypsum is warmer than cement.
Strength to give it elementary. Just cover the shape with corrugated glass. Blocking the air. So it gains strength and water-repellent properties are manifested. I have been practicing this for a long time. Cement also shows itself. (He pierced the formwork with a cellophane and covered it from above as well) If it is hot in the street, then on this foundation in a week you can start construction. This is already suggested by civil engineers.
The fact that the pattern will be repeated - I absolutely do not care. This is visible only to me. And for a ratsuha with parchment - thanks. I will try. You don’t have to pay almost 4K for forms.
Yes, I forgot ... Corrugated glass also makes the texture on the back. Also not superfluous.
Khatul Madan. Along the way, I remembered a "funny" story. In his youth, he hung a new, heavy chandelier at home. I see a hook in the ceiling frail, can not stand it. They made a resemblance of metal to a friend, as they are now selling, with opening petals. And then there was no such thing. We decided to additionally fix it. I went to the store to buy alabaster. The saleswoman pops the bag. And I look, something is not like. No labels. And the saleswoman says. Take it, take it, don’t hesitate, I’ve been working in the store for ten years. Well, I believed, bought it. He began to suggest, but he does not freeze, he waited half a day. And then builders came to do repairs in the room. I told them, they looked and talk. She sold you a whitewash !!!
Khatul Madan. I was not directly involved in the construction, but I have some experience. I agree that gypsum is not particularly durable in the environment. If only with additives. And cement and concrete, you know, come from different brands. Their price, respectively, is also different.
Yes, it’s faster from gypsum but, firstly, the speed of setting gypsum limits the time of its use, and secondly, for high-quality casting, in order not to get "nostril" products, we also need a vibrating table (to blow air bubbles out of solution with melee with such work volumes is not "ice"), well, third, of the three types of tiles, you can get only six combinations, but in nature there are no repetitions.Plaster can be used only in dry and heated rooms, it is very fragile and crumbles over time. Of course, it can be strengthened with iron sulfate, but again this is a waste of time and materials.
At one time, when I was going to start making tiles, for the uniqueness of the picture I wanted to use crumpled parchment paper for baking as a form. Maybe someone will come in handy my idea, the relief of the tile will not be exactly repeated here.
I was counting for myself. (I am going to finish at home with such a stone). It turns out an order of magnitude cheaper than buying a finished one. I wanted to make the mold myself from silicone, but to buy a ready-made kit is cheaper and without the risk of marriage. So far, the repair is in full swing, but later I will buy a set of three slates. By the way, molds have a service life by the number of castings. So, you don’t have to bother what to do next.
The forms shown here are cheap, fragile and not "long", unlike silicone ones.
And yet ... I prefer casting from plaster, with the application of dye directly into the mold. I'll try, we'll see.
In the beginning I thought that the molds are made independently, but after reading the article I was disappointed - nothing new, the usual description of the technology of casting from a solution with the addition of dyes. And now we’ll count and estimate what all this venture with decoration can result in. Three types of forms, at least two shades, even taking into account that only one can be cast at a time, it will stretch out over time, or acquire a larger number of forms, but then where to put them later, if only for yourself, (as expected)? It remains only to open production, or sell forms at a low price. I already went through this when finishing the arch in the garden house (maybe I’ll also post it here). At first, I also wanted to mold, found on the Internet how to make them, but having estimated the time and materials, I refused this undertaking and simply fashioned “stones” right on the spot. Here are the steps in between:
That this is mine is visible in the second picture (a piece of a spiral staircase from my first publication)
It reminded the kids in the sandbox, with molds for sand, apparently the author communicated the idea with his kids! smile

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