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How much matrix and aggregate a pour needs, and how many mixer batches that is

Your system's data sheet gives you the ratio. What it does not give you is how much matrix and how much aggregate this bay needs at that ratio, or how many of your own mixer's batches that comes to. This page keeps the other half: the pour record, with the quantities worked out beside it. It keeps four things apart on purpose: the finished volume, and the volume with the waste allowance you choose; the matrix, and the aggregate, split at the two part figures you type; the full batches, and the one part-full batch at the end of them; and what this record works out, against what you wrote down off the floor afterwards. The ratio is yours: this page supplies none, suggests none, and judges none. Nothing you type leaves your browser.

This page is arithmetic on quantities: an area, a finished thickness, a waste allowance you choose, the volume one batch of your own mixer holds, and the two part figures you copy off your own system's data sheet. It supplies no ratio and no product figure of any kind, and it gives no guidance on how a floor is placed, mixed, finished or protected. It is not a submittal and it is not a statement that anything meets anybody's specification: the record a commercial job has to keep is the form the general contractor and the architect ask for, and this is not that form.

The walkthrough is on. Each part says what its figures mean and where they come from. Turn it off at the top once you know your way around. The figures in the blanks are a worked example so the page shows a real result before you touch it; replace them with yours. The two part figures of the ratio ship empty on purpose, because they are the one thing only your own data sheet knows.

No ratio is typed yet, so this record withholds the matrix and the aggregate on every pour it has a volume for: 2 of the 2 pour rows in this record.

The ratio is the one figure this page never supplies: copy the matrix parts and the aggregate parts off your own system's data sheet into the job fields at the top. The volumes, the waste and the batch counts need no ratio and are printed as they stand.

Pour cards with a volume still holding a figure this page shipped: 2 of the 2 pour rows in this record. The area, the finished thickness or the waste allowance in them is still the figure this page shipped there, so every figure worked out from them is marked wherever it prints.

The usable mixer volume is still the figure this page shipped with, so the batch count and the ledger rest on a figure this page cannot tell apart from one you typed.

Type your own figures over the cards and the mixer volume, or clear the cards, and the marking goes with them. This page cannot know whether a figure sitting in a box was shipped by it or typed by you, so it says what the boxes read as and nothing about whose figures they are. A card you filled in yourself can read as holding a figure this page shipped, because a figure it ships in a box can be the figure you would have typed into that box; the page marks such a card instead of guessing about it.

Volume with your waste allowance, the pours with a volume190.3 gal (rests on a figure this page shipped)
Matrix at the ratio from your data sheetwaiting on both part figures of your ratio to be usable
Aggregate at the ratio from your data sheetwaiting on both part figures of your ratio to be usable
Full mixer batches, the newest pour with a volume6 batches (rests on a figure this page shipped) (still the mixer volume this page shipped)
The part-full batch on that pour0.9 gal (rests on a figure this page shipped) (still the mixer volume this page shipped)
A

The job, once

Three things that hold for the whole job: the volume one batch of your mixer actually holds, the system name exactly as the data sheet writes it, and the ratio off that data sheet as two part figures. Every pour in part B is worked out from this row, which is why it is typed once and not six times.

Usable mixer volume
What one batch in your own mixer holds in US gallons, off its plate or its fill line. Not the drum's rated capacity if you never fill it that far: the figure you batch to.
System, as written
Copied off the data sheet, character for character. Nothing is computed from it and nothing on this page reads it: it is here so the printed sheet says which system the figures were worked for.
Matrix parts and aggregate parts
The two figures your own data sheet or your own job's section gives, in the order it gives them. This page has no ratio of its own, prints no example and corrects nothing you type. Until both boxes have a figure the matrix and the aggregate are left blank, and the volumes, the waste and the batch counts are printed as they stand.
Pour rows in this record
Usable mixer volume, one batch US gallons
System, as the data sheet writes it copied, not interpreted
Matrix parts from your data sheet
Aggregate parts from your data sheet
B

The pours, from your own measure

One card per pour or bay, in the order you place them. A card gives a volume once it has both an area and a finished thickness; without both it prints nothing and counts nowhere. The waste allowance is your own figure from your own past pours.

Poured it already and kept one total for the mix, with no split between matrix and aggregate? Leave both of the recorded boxes empty. They are the two figures you measured off the floor, and a blank there is a pour you have not recorded, not a pour you poured dry; the quantities, the batches and the split are worked out without them.

Area
The area of that bay in square feet, off your own measure. Whole square feet.
Finished thickness
The thickness you are placing to, in inches, on the sixteenth. It is the thickness of the finished floor, not of anything beneath it.
Waste allowance
Your own percentage, from your own pours on this crew: what you add for the pail, the mixer, the trowel and the bit you lose. This page has no view on what it should be and prints no default; leave it empty and the volume with waste is the finished volume.
Matrix and aggregate recorded
What you actually drew for that pour, in US gallons, written down afterwards. Both boxes or neither: with both the record prints what it worked out beside what you measured, and with one of them it prints neither.

C

Each pour, as a volume

What each card comes to. A dash is not a figure of nothing: on the first four columns it means the card has no area or no finished thickness yet, and on the last two, full batches and the part-full batch, a dash can also mean this job has no usable mixer volume yet, whatever the card itself holds. Where a dashed card also carries both of the figures you drew off the floor, the note beside the table says so, because those two figures are added nowhere until that card has an area and a thickness. The working for every line is in the list that follows this table, one line per division.

PourArea, sq ftThickness, inWith waste, galFull batchesPart-full, gal
Pour 1, Lobby bay 14800.375123.4112.4
Pour 2, Lobby bay 22600.37566.960.9
D

The matrix and the aggregate, at the parts you typed

The volume with waste, split in two at the parts from your own data sheet. The matrix is that volume times the matrix parts divided by the two parts added; the aggregate is what is left of the pour once the matrix is taken out, so the two always add back to the pour and the tenth of a gallon that rounding leaves falls on the aggregate.

PourWith waste, galMatrix, galMatrix, cu ftAggregate, galAggregate, cu ft
Pour 1, Lobby bay 1123.4————
Pour 2, Lobby bay 266.9————
E

The batch ledger, for the newest pour with a volume

One numbered row per batch your mixer takes for that pour, each split into matrix and aggregate at the parts you typed. Where that pour does not divide into whole batches the last row is a part-full batch printed at its own fill; where it divides exactly the ledger ends on a whole batch and prints no part-full row at all, and the glance says so in words where its figure would go. The footing carries three readings of that one pour and rounds none of them into another: what the batches add to with each charge rounded to a tenth of a gallon, what that pour's own split works out in part D, and the waste allowance you added, carried as its own named row because the batches carry it too.

Pour 2, Lobby bay 2, 260 sq ft at 0.375 in, in batches of 11.0 gal.

BatchIn it, galMatrix, galAggregate, galFill of one batch
Batch 111.0——full
Batch 211.0——full
Batch 311.0——full
Batch 411.0——full
Batch 511.0——full
Batch 611.0——full
Batch 7, part-full0.9——8.2% of one batch
Every batch added as printed66.9——each charge rounded to a tenth
That pour's own split66.9——the pour divided once, as printed in part D
Of that, the waste allowance you added6.1——your own allowance, carried in the batches
F

The job so far, worked out and recorded

The pours with a volume, added. The recorded columns are the figures you wrote down off the floor, and they are added over the pours where you filled both of them, which is said in the row when that is not every pour. The working, including the difference and what the recorded figures come to as a share, is in the list that follows this table.

PourMatrix worked out, galAggregate worked out, galMatrix recorded, galAggregate recorded, gal
Pour 1, Lobby bay 1————
Pour 2, Lobby bay 2————
The pours with a volume————

This arithmetic again, written out for anything that reads this page instead of looking at it: api.json beside this page carries every input, every output, the formula line by line, this worked example, and a list of what the record deliberately leaves out.

The printed face of this record. A signature here says that these are the areas, the thicknesses and the parts that were typed, and the quantities this page worked out from them. It says nothing about how the floor was placed or how it turned out, and it is not anybody's approval of anything.

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G

Words that come up

Matrix
The part of the mix you batch by the pail: on this page a volume in US gallons and nothing else. Which system it is, what it costs and how it behaves are all outside this record.
Aggregate
The part you batch by the bag or the tote, as a volume in US gallons. This page takes it as what is left of the pour once the matrix is out, which is why the two figures always add back to the pour.
Parts
The two figures you copy off your own data sheet or your own job's section. They are an input here and never an output: nothing on this page supplies them, suggests them, prints an example of them or judges them against any system, any specification or any figure of its own. The one thing the boxes do is the thing every box on this page does: a figure typed outside the range the box offers is brought inside it and the record prints what you typed and what it used.
Waste allowance
Your own percentage for what does not reach the floor. It is added to the finished volume, and every figure after it on this page is worked from the volume with it in.
Full batch
The usable volume you typed for one batch of your own mixer. Every full batch on a pour carries an identical charge of matrix and aggregate, which is why the ledger can stand for a hundred of them in one row.
Part-full batch
What is left of the pour after the full batches, printed as its own row with its own fill. It is a row of the ledger and not a rounding: a pour that does not divide into whole batches ends in one of these.
A pour with a volume
A pour card with both an area and a finished thickness typed in. That is what this record needs before it can work anything out for a pour, so every total this record works out is added over the pours with a volume, and the figures you recorded are added over the pours where you filled both of them, which the footing's own label says when those are not the same pours. A card missing either the area or the finished thickness is dashed in the tables and added nowhere.
Worked out
A figure this page computed from what you typed. Every one of them has its own line of working, and the line shows the figures it was computed from.
Recorded
A figure you measured off the floor and typed in afterwards. The page never replaces a worked-out figure with it, never substitutes a figure of its own for it, and never judges it: it prints the two beside each other and the difference, and says nothing about what the difference means. One thing it does do, and the note on the row says so whenever it happens: a figure typed outside the range that box offers is brought inside that range, and the record prints what you typed and what it used.
The figures print with it, and so does the signature line. Nothing is sent anywhere and nothing is saved except whether the walkthrough is on.

The record this page cannot keep for you

This page holds one job and forgets it when you close the tab. What it cannot tell you on the next job is what your own waste allowance has actually been across a season of bays, or which pour ran away from what you worked out for it, because that answer is a year of your own pours and a single page holds none of them.

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A mix ratio typed in loose is a pour nobody can put right once it has gone off. This page works one batch. If the log you keep on site holds the pours, the chips and the bags against a yard figure this page has no column for, write out what you track and what you need totalled, and a workbook is built to the log you keep on site. Free to ask.