A tip-up mixer on a stand, petrol driven so it needs no supply on site. It handles mortar for brickwork and pointing, muck for bedding slabs, and small concrete pours such as post bases, shed bases and footings you are doing by hand.
Petrol matters more than people expect. Half the jobs this goes out on have no power anywhere near them, and a 240V mixer on the end of an extension lead run from the house is a bad afternoon waiting to happen.
Is a mixer the right call?
For anything up to a couple of cubic metres spread over a day, yes. Mixing by hand in a barrow is fine for a bag or two and miserable beyond that, and the mix quality drops off as you get tired.
Past roughly two cubic metres in a single pour, ready-mix delivered is usually the better answer. The mixer is for jobs too small for a wagon and too big to do in a barrow, which is most domestic work.
The numbers
Cement Mixer specification
Drum0L
Mix0L
PowerPetrol or electric
Against a side gate
610mmSide gate 900mm
290mm to spare through a standard timber side gate.
Measure the tightest point of the whole route in, not just the gate. The cement mixer is one of the machines it fits past.
The rest of the sheet
Hire type
Dry hire
Getting it there
Collect or delivered
Ring the yard if a figure matters to your job and we will check it against the machine before you travel.
What comes with it
It goes out on its stand, ready to run
Fuelled and ready to work when you take it
Delivery to site, or collect it from the Etruria yard
Off hire from the day you ring, not the day it comes back
What you will need
Flat, firm ground to stand it on while it turns
Water on site, and something to carry it in
Boots, gloves and eye protection. Cement burns
Dry hireCollect or deliveredServiced between hiresSame day when we have it
What people hire it for
The jobs it actually gets used on
Six of the jobs the cement mixer goes out on most. Keep scrolling and they stack.
01/ 06
Bricklaying and blockwork
Mortar for garden walls, extensions and repointing, mixed consistently all day rather than by hand.
02/ 06
Bedding slabs and paving
Muck for patios and paths, mixed at the pace you can actually lay it.
03/ 06
Post and fence bases
A run of postcrete is fine by hand, but a proper concrete mix for gate posts and heavier work wants a mixer.
04/ 06
Shed and garage bases
Small slabs poured in one go. Keep the mix consistent between loads or you get a weak line through it.
05/ 06
Footings by hand
Filling a trench where a wagon cannot get to and a pump would be overkill.
06/ 06
Screed and levelling
Mixing sand and cement screed for floors and thresholds.
How it works
Hiring the cement mixer start to finish
01
Ring, message or send the details
Tell us the job and the dates. We will say whether it is in, when it is back if it is out, and whether it is the right machine for what you are doing.
02
Collect it, or we run it out
Pick it up from the yard on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, or we will deliver it to site. If you ring early enough and it is free, it can often go out the same day.
03
Ring when you are done
We off hire it from the day you ring rather than the day it happens to come back, and collect it from site if we delivered it.
Before you book
What you need to know
Cement Mixer, in the yard on Brick Kiln Lane, Etruria.
01
Petrol, not electric
It runs off its own engine, so no supply needed and no extension lead trailing across a wet site. It comes to you fuelled and tested.
02
Set it up level
On its stand, on firm level ground, with room to get a barrow under the drum. Setting up on soft ground is how mixers end up on their side halfway through a pour.
03
Clean it as you go
Rinse the drum between mixes and properly at the end of the day. Set mortar in a drum is a genuine job to chip out and it is the most common reason a mixer comes back in a state.
04
Work out your volumes first
A 90 litre mix is a useful load. Knowing how many mixes a pour needs tells you whether this is the right machine or whether you want ready-mix.
05
It is dry hire
You get the mixer. We do not supply materials, an operator or a labourer.
06
Need it today
Usually straight out if you ring early enough and it is not already out with someone.
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The yard is on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, a couple of minutes off the A500, so most of Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme is a short run either way. Collect it yourself if you have something that can carry or tow it, or we will deliver it to site and collect it when you are finished.
Ours is a 130 litre drum with a 90 litre mix capacity. That suits mortar for brickwork, bedding for paving, and small pours such as post and shed bases.
Petrol. It runs off its own engine so it needs no supply on site, which matters on gardens and plots where there is no power anywhere near the work.
Comfortably enough for domestic work such as bases, footings and paving. Past roughly two cubic metres in a single pour, ready-mix delivered is usually the easier answer than mixing it all yourself.
Rinse the drum out, yes. Set mortar is a serious job to remove once it has gone off, so a hose at the end of the day saves everyone the trouble.
Get it booked
Tell us the job. We will tell you the machine.
Ring the yard and you get a straight answer on whether the cement mixer is available, when it is back if it is out on hire, and whether it is the right thing for what you are doing. If it is not, we will say so.
