hey so i've been building a couple fences lately and have been premixing with a concrete mixer i bought which was a couple hundred.
my question is can you mix the standard quikrete that comes in an 80lb yellow bag $4.50 the same way you would do the fast setting quikrete that come only in the red 50 lb bag for $5.25?
im jaded by the price difference as well as the quantity difference.
do you recommend quikrete first then water or water then quikrete?
Best Answer
If the setting time is not an issue, you can certainly use normal quickcrete - or save even more money by purchasing cement and aggregate (sand/gravel/rock) and really making use of the mixer.
Standard concrete mixing practice is to mix the dry materials and then add water. Common error is to add too much water and make the resulting concrete weak, though fence post setting is not exactly a high stress job, normally.