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Cheap Concrete Flooring
Mix and red lead, equal parts, mix thoroughly and 3 bushels coal ashes from a blacksmith's shop make into a paste with concentrated glycerine with 2 bushels gas lime, and then add suffi- to the consistency of soft putty; fill the crack cient gas tar to make a stiff mortar. If the ammoniacal liquor has been separated from the tar, its place must be supplied by adding water till the tar is thin enough for use. For stables and cattle sheds, the mortar can be laid down with a spade, and fine sharp sand or gravel sifted over it; then roll well, and you will have a good concrete floor. It will take a few days to get thoroughly hard, even in dry weather; but it will be a good piece of work, if carefully done. Autumn is the best time for laying this kind of pavement.