5 Cement Type Know Before Building Home Renovate

5 What are the cement types in construction?

1.Structural cement

Or Portland cement is used as the main ingredient of concrete to cast reinforced concrete structures such as foundation casting, pole casting, beam casting, floor pouring, which must be strong, carry the weight as calculated by the engineer, and be resistant to various environments. Concrete mixing brings structural cement according to the type of use, and mixes it with stone, sand, and water according to a specified proportion. Once each part of the structure is cast, it takes time to curing and removing it according to the standard to achieve maximum strength.

2. Cement construction, plastered, poured

Used in brickmaking, plastering, small structural casting work that does not carry much weight, such as floor-gain tape work before installation of skin-covering materials, tendon pillars, tendon beams / lintels, as well as stucco work like decorative lotus, mortar bath, tree pickup, with slippery sticky properties, adhesion to brick and wall texture well, dry enough, not stretching or shrinking much, reducing cracking on the wall surface.

Pour cement must be mixed with sand and water in a suitable ratio according to each type of application. If it is a tendon pole, tendon beam / lintel or floor pour, the quality of the raw material and the control of the proportion of the mixture will affect the quality of the work.

3. Finished cement

Also known as "mortar" is cement that mixes finely ground stone and various ingredients according to the specific type of application, whether it is general plaster, general plaster, fine plaster, light mass masonry, light mass masonry plaster, floor tape mortar, multi-purpose repair mortar, to structural plaster (dry concrete), has a manufacturing process, controls the ratio and quality from the factory, the application is more convenient than cement, plaster, pour, just bring it with a specified proportion of water and stir it together, it works immediately without mixing sand or other substances.

4. White cement

The plaster is white because it selects raw materials with iron oxide and less magnesium oxide. In conjunction with a specific manufacturing process, it can be used as well as gray cement. From the concrete formwork that uses Portland white cement as a mixture and the popular display of white plaster, as well as floor decoration, walls that need to be mixed in color to achieve the desired shade, such as terrazzo or terrazzo flooring, wash stone / wash gravel / wash sand, white plasterwork, paint plasterwork, polished plasterwork, sand skin, including tile grout.

5. Thin skin decorative plaster

It is often called Skim Coat. It has a fine texture that is much smoother than regular plaster. It can be plastered as thin as 1-3 mm. It is used to decorate the plastered wall skin that is particularly smooth before painting, and it is used to decorate tricks on the wall, such as the plastered plaster for decorating the bare wall, the plastered plaster with different colors.

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