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The following concrete mixes are based on personal experience and years of practice. There are in fact potentially limitless methods and recipes for how to mix concrete but you can use these concrete mixes as a general guideline.
Finishing large expanses of concrete with a hand trowel is a skill that takes years and thousands of hours to perfect. Learning to mix reliable concrete for various usefull applications around the home and business can be learned in a very short period of time.
Practicing concrete mixes in small batches in your backyard is probably the single best way the gain a working understanding of concrete mixes. Once you have experimented with a few small projects and different mixes you will have a much better understanding as to the limitations (or lack thereof) of concrete.
There are many methods to mixing concrete but by adding the water first, cement powder second, admixtures third and aggregates last it will be much easier to mix the cement as well as adjust measurements on the fly such as water content. When adding the aggregates do so slowly to avoid causing the concrete to be too difficult to mix. Add the aggregates slowly to ensure that you can add more water if need be during the mixing process.
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