/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>hes still fucking around with westbuilds

Get on the good stuff mate

>>1813202
A dingo ate my rebar!

>>1813197
Ask the clerk to weigh them up for you while you’re watching.

>>1813197
>asking this australian of a question on an international (mostly american) image board
just get the sakrete from home depot

>worstbuild

>>1813197
here in the states a 90 lb bag of readymix 4000 psi concrete is $3.50

>>1813342
USA: 4 cents/pound
AUS: 17 cents/pound

>>1813342
Bunnings isnt the cheapest supplier, our money is worth about 60% of yours and our purchasing power is shit.

I think we get fucked because we are remote but got turned into an import/service economy by globalism

>>1813564
Australia is a giant rock how can you guys not make your own concrete

>>1813587
We do make our own

>>1813345
ARG: 110 pounds= 7.5dollars

>>1813197
I’m in the US so I could be completely off base here but are the components the same such as added fortifiers or plasticizers? Is the aggregate the same size between the two?
>>1813202
Is this an actual pic with the dog head (yes I know it’s a dingo) and everything? That’s hilarious.

My friend works at an AAC plant in aus and he says the Japanese samples of AAC he tests are consistently twice as strong and half the weight of the aussie product
Australians are pants on head retarded and cant engineer a god damn thing to save their lives.

>>1813650
>>1813587
Yeah they just don't have Mexicans to work for 50centa an hour to do it

>>1813780
>Twice as strong
It should have have the rated psi right on the bag. There is no special thing Japan knows how to do that white men didn't teach them. They were still building wooden metro areas in ww2 which burned really nice.
>>1813786
They have abos though
>>1813197
The Portland cement is the ingredient that makes it 3,000psi or 5,000psi or w/e and drives the price, the less they put the weaker and they make it weigh more with aggregate and sand.

I looked up the specifications for the GP, they keep a strict QA testing program with slump and compression testing and it will reliably give 26mpa/3750psi. Pretty strong and suitable for most any project. From what I could see the hanypack didn't have a QA program and no specifications were given, so it's apparently the shit swept off the floor with sand added.

>>1813892
Abos get gibs for existing, so no.

>>1813892
>It should have have the rated psi right on the bag.
>AAC
>bag
Like I said, aussies are pants on head retarded.

AAC like insulated bricks AAC? that not the same shit, they have a compressive strength at like 500 psi. Its a totally different thing all together.

>>1814050
We have higher yield concrete in aus fuckwit. This is the cheap shit.

>>1814112
It's not the same, way more engineering involved, hence why the aussies cant figure it out lmfao

>>1813786
That Dingo concrete is made in Vietnam..hopeless!!

>>1814423
Probably better than if it were made in aus kek, i'd take vietcrete over aussie poof dust

>>1814430
>the hapa strikes again

Just kys already

>>1814050
No one is talking about bricks or blocks you stupid disgusting tripfag.

And no one in aus gives a fuck about thermalite

>>1814452
>And no one in aus gives a fuck about thermalite
Are you retarded?
Buildings are made entirely of AAC, it's not a layer you add on or put in the walls or some shit.
Why are aussies so fucking DUMB?

>>1814462

>>1814423
>>1814430
Viet Congcrete
>>1814450
hapas are superior to whites though

>>1814482
Hapas have little ricedicks, weird skull shapes and no identity.

>>1814462
What the fuck are you on about?

We're discussing drymix bags of concrete you autist

>>1814462
You're the only one talking about aerated concrete dipshit everyone else is talking about dry mix bagged concrete.

>>1814521
yeah, and i'm sure it's just as shit as the AAC lmao
Aus engineers are trash compared to every other country

>>1814531
Its a bag of drymix gook. Doesn't take einstein to mix crete

>>1815067
Gook? I'm white.
And yes, Aussies are dumb enough to screw up concrete lol