I'm guessing Tim may answer this !!
Mixing the dryish mix in a normal cement mixer, I tried to mix the
cement and sand basically dry first.
You have to do this to gauge the liquid correctly, since it suddenly
gets "too wet" and putting the water in first
would not work for such a dry mix - it would just totally clag up at
the back of the mixer.
I put the sand in first, then the cement, but still found the cement
tends to get stuck at the back.
This means various manual interventions to get the stuff mixed
properly.
But when you are mixing a laying on your own, you really need to mixer
to do all the mixing !
Any ideas / experience ?
Cheers,
Simon.