Mortar for wet verge - help please.

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Mortar for wet verge - help please.

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Hi all.

I’m redoing a wet verge on my garage roof. I’m all sorted and set, but I can’t work out what mix I need for the mortar for the wet verge. I find conflicting opinions online. I’ve finally narrowed down the mix I think in need - a combination of cement, building sand and shape sand and a plasticiser. I go to wickes today to the material and I see the options of blue circle general purpose cement and blue Circle mastercrete, so I’m stumped all over again.

Does anyone have any advice on what I should be using for my mortar mix for the wet verge? Should I use general purpose concrete or mastercrete?

I’ve been tempted to just use ready mix mortar to take away these decisions but I’ve used it before and feel like it would dry with a rough texture - wet verges I usually see look smooth.

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:welcomeuhm: Ready mixed is fine, be aware that you'll need to moisten (wet) any existing mortar first, to get rid of any roughness wet a trowel and run it over the new mortar to smooth it.
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