Got caught in a downpour on a job in Tacoma last fall with no cover for the mortar tub.

The whole batch turned to soup before we could even lay ten bricks. My foreman told me to always keep a tarp and some scrap plywood in the truck from now on. What's your go-to method for keeping your mix right when the weather turns bad?

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jenkins.alice23d ago

Tarp it and keep mixing small batches.

ruby54122d ago

Exactly, a tarp is key for keeping the rain out while you work. Mixing small batches is smart because it stops the whole load from setting up before you can use it. If you have a helper, one person can mix while the other spreads. It turns a frustrating job into something you can actually manage in bad weather.

avery_fox938d ago

Yeah, about the tarp keeping the rain out... that only works if it's not windy. If the wind picks up, that tarp is just a big sail and rain blows right under it. You really need walls, not just a roof. A simple pop-up canopy with side walls is the only thing that actually works in real bad weather. Otherwise you're just getting wet and fighting a flapping tarp the whole time.