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Foundation is to cement as skeleton is to bones
Building foundation is made of cement
Any kind of cement mixer will work for laying a foundation. What's more important is the kind of cement you choose to use.
The foundation is built out of cement blocks instead of poured concrete.
The acceptable standard is 4:1 (That is 4 wheelbarrows of sand to TWO bags cement) as the volume of a wheelbarrow is roughly double that of a 50kg bag of cement. Lots of builders get "confused" by this.
The cement is grey due to the presence of iron oxide.The cement is white due to the absence of iron oxide.Generally white cement has more strength than grey cement and it is more expensive.
Sometimes cement in poured directly from a cement-truck into a mould at the location of the house and allowed to dry, while other houses are made by stacking 8"x8"x16" cement blocks that are cemented together using a Mortar cement in order to build the shape of the foundation. There are also several other methods available on the market for making a foundation that are less traditional, such as using styrofoam-like blocks.
The foundation or all the exterior wall are built of cement block.
A stepped foundation is a type of foundation made from "cement", it is used when building on a hillside so that the building can be built up level off the foundations
The proportion of the bed mortar should be 4:1 for the sand : cement.
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