Hello in this article I want to share my little experience in the manufacture of wood concrete do it yourself.
For a long time I was looking for a way to create my own brick or block, a lot of hasty mistakes were made, at first there was nothing wrong, I threw everything, then I returned.
And thanks to his natural tenacity, he found such a simple way in the manufacture of wood concrete.
My principle of making arbolit is very simple and accessible to everyone who wants to make their own building blocks with their own hands. The first thing is that with this method you do not need electricity, you do not need machines and other mechanical devices, only your work and simple ingredients for mixing the solution. My proportions for the preparation of the solution are as follows: one part of cement, 2 parts of sand, 4 parts of sawdust, water. It is necessary not to overfill with water, the solution should be semi-dry, so that when pressing and subsequent lifting of the mold, our brick does not part, and retains its shape. And so all the components must be mixed to obtain, as I described a semi-dry solution. I knead this solution without the help of electrical devices, and a shovel on an iron sheet. At our dachas, such a benefit to mankind as electricity is absent. As for the solution, I kind of described it, now I will describe how I made the mold for the manufacture of blocks.
To make the mold, I took old boards from the old Soviet kitchen table or cabinet, in general, good polished boards. Polishing is very good at lifting the mold, the whole process goes smoothly, then everything is perfectly visible on the video. And so it means sawed in size 200 * 400 * 200, and twisted the screws into a rectangle. And for the convenience of lifting, I fastened the whetstones to the sides of the form, and the ends turned out handles. That's the whole simple design, without investing any of your means.
And so now let's take a closer look at what I needed to make the arbolite and how I did it.
Materials for the manufacture of molds: old polished board, screws, whetstone.
Instruments: hacksaw, screwdriver, ruler.
Materials for the manufacture of the solution: cement, sand, sawdust, water.
Instruments: shovel, roofing iron sheet, container for ingredients.
The first thing I do is start to assemble the form, sawed a board in size 200 * 400 * 200.
Then I begin to twist the resulting boards together.
Next, I sawed and twisted the bars for shape pens with screws.
He put it on top of the form and screwed it with screws as well.
The result is such a rectangular shape with handles
So with the form I hope everything is clear, nowhere is easier. Now let's move on to the process of preparing the solution. I took cement, sand, sawdust, water.
Then he prepared a place where I will make the solution, and simply put a sheet of roofing iron on the ground.
Then he poured out the components, as I described above, one part of cement, 4 parts of sawdust, 2 parts of sand and water, I add gradually until the result I need is visible, that is, a semi-dry solution.
Then I mix everything with a shovel on a sheet of iron.
With the solution, I think everything is clear too.
Now I come to the final stage, this is the manufacture of our unit.
Here, too, everything is quite simple, we pour the resulting solution into the mold, press tapping with a shovel from above.
After the steps I begin to understand the head start.
Well, he raised his form, the block remained on the ground, and the matrix is rearranged in a new place.
And now the arbolite is ready.
And I want to add the main thing, how much will this production cost in home conditions. Components can be obtained without money, except for cement. So with a bag of cement we’ll succeed, somewhere around 40 blocks, the price for this product on the construction market is 30 rubles, we multiply 30 by 40 we get 1200, we subtract 200 rubles for cement, we get 1000 rubles for saving your budget, but it’s not it’s not enough if you planned to build, for example, a bathhouse or garage. For example, I had to build a small bathhouse, it took only 3 thousand rubles for cement, this included pouring the foundation, and manufacturing blocks, even the mortar for the construction was left. So the savings are great, only the large costs of physical labor. Labor is good for the family budget.