Trade supply

Cement

You can buy cement from us by the bag, by the pallet or by the bulk tanker without hiring us to build anything. It is the same cement we load onto our own sites, sold at trade terms to homeowners, contractors and consulting engineers alike, and delivered to New Cairo, Sheikh Zayed, Alexandria and the North Coast compounds. What it costs is quoted on the day against the quantity you actually want, because the cement market moves and any number printed on a website would be wrong within the fortnight.

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Ordinary Portland — CEM I
The structural workhorse, supplied in 42.5 N and 42.5 R and in 52.5 where a designer has called for it. N is the normal early-strength grade and covers most frames, slabs and footings. R gains strength faster in the first days, which buys you an earlier strike of formwork in winter and costs you more heat in a summer pour.
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Blended cements — CEM II
Portland blended with limestone, slag or a pozzolan. Lower heat of hydration, better workability, easier to finish and generally kinder to a large or thick pour that would otherwise cook itself from the inside. The usual choice for mass concrete, mortar, render and screed.
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Sulphate-resisting cement
Low tricalcium aluminate cement for anything sitting in aggressive ground — foundations, ground beams, raft slabs, buried tanks and pool shells. It matters most on the North Coast, where the ground carries salt, and anywhere the water table comes up to meet the concrete. Ordinary Portland in that situation will expand and spall, and by the time it shows there is nothing to be done but dig it out.
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White & masonry cement
White cement for terrazzo, precast, decorative render, pointing and tile grout bases, where iron staining from a grey cement would ruin the colour. Masonry cement for block laying and rendering, where the added plasticiser gives a mortar that stays workable on the board instead of stiffening on you.
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Delivery, bags or bulk
Bagged and palletised for a villa or a single floor, or bulk by tanker into a silo for a site running a batching plant. We deliver to site anywhere we work, with a delivery note that states the type, the grade and the count so you can check it against what you ordered before the lorry leaves.

Specification

The numbers, before you ask.

Cement — technical specification
Bag & bulk	50 kg sacks, palletised, banded and sheeted; bulk by tanker to silo
Strength classes	32.5, 42.5 and 52.5, in N normal or R rapid early strength
Types supplied	CEM I, CEM II blends, sulphate-resisting, white and masonry
Shelf life	About three months bagged under proper cover; noticeably weaker after
Storage	Off the slab on timber, clear of walls, sheeted, stacked ten bags at most
Yield guide	Roughly 6 to 7 bags per cubic metre of ordinary structural concrete

Shuttering set out on bare earth for a footing pour

Selection

Cement grades we supply

CEM I 42.5 NGeneral structural
The default for columns, beams, slabs and foundations on a normal programme. Predictable set, widely specified, and the grade most Egyptian structural drawings assume unless they say otherwise.
CEM I 42.5 RRapid early strength
Same final strength, faster to get there. Worth the premium when formwork has to be struck early or when a winter pour is losing days to low temperatures. Avoid it in a large summer pour, where the extra heat works against you.
CEM II blendsMass pours, mortar & render
Blended with limestone, slag or pozzolan. Runs cooler, finishes more easily and is the sensible choice for rafts, retaining walls, block mortar, render and floor screed.
Sulphate-resistingFoundations & below water table
For salty ground, buried structure and anything permanently damp. Standard specification for North Coast footings, buried tanks and pool shells, and cheap insurance against a defect that cannot be repaired later.
White cementDecorative & precast
Low iron, so it stays white. Used for terrazzo, precast panels, decorative render, tile grout, pointing and any mortar that sits next to pale marble and must not stain it.
Masonry cementBlock laying & rendering
Pre-plasticised for mortar work. Holds its workability on the board, boards up cleanly and gives the blockwork gangs a consistent mix without hand-dosing additives on site.

Gallery

Cement in place.

Every photograph on this page was taken on one of our sites during the work. Nothing here is a stock image or a render.

Concrete interlock pavers going down on a screeded sand bed

Blockwork and render in a shell room, pipe stubs left proud

Brick wall under a ribbed concrete soffit we poured

Where it goes

Foundations & raft slabs
Columns, beams & suspended slabs
Block laying mortar
Render & internal plaster
Floor screeds & levelling
Precast, terrazzo & pointing
Pool shells & retaining walls
Kerbs, paths & hardstanding

Questions we get asked

Cement — questions we get asked

Can I buy cement from you without hiring you to build?

Yes, and a good share of what leaves the yard goes to people we are doing no other work for. Supply only, no contract, no minimum job. A homeowner rendering one wall can take a few bags, a contractor pouring a raft can take a full lorry, and both get the same trade terms and the same material we put on our own sites. Tell us the type, the grade and the quantity and we quote it on the day.

Which cement do I need for foundations on the North Coast?

Sulphate-resisting, in almost every case. Sahel ground carries salt, and much of the coastal strip has a water table close enough to keep footings permanently damp. Sulphates in that water attack the tricalcium aluminate in ordinary Portland cement, the concrete expands from within, and it cracks and spalls. Sulphate-resisting cement is formulated with that compound kept low. The extra cost across a villa footprint is small, and the alternative is a defect that surfaces years later and cannot be patched.

How many bags will my job take?

For ordinary structural concrete, work on roughly 6 to 7 bags of 50 kg per cubic metre, so a 20 cubic metre slab pour is somewhere near 130 bags before wastage. For block laying, a cubic metre of mortar is nearer 8 to 9 bags at a normal mix. For render, a rough starting point is one bag per 10 to 12 square metres at 2 cm thickness. These are ordering figures, not a mix design — if you have a structural specification, follow it, and if you do not, send us the drawing and we will do the take-off with you.

How long does cement keep once I have it on site?

Cement is hygroscopic, meaning it pulls moisture straight out of the air, and it does not need rain to be ruined. Bagged and properly stored, treat three months as the working life. A pallet left on a damp slab for a month is worth nothing — the bottom bags go hard, and the ones above lose strength you cannot see until the cubes come back low. Store it off the ground on timber, away from external walls, sheeted, no more than ten bags high, and use the oldest pallet first.

Can you deliver bulk, and is there a minimum order?

Bulk by tanker if you are running a silo, palletised bags for everything else, and no minimum. Delivery goes to site across Greater Cairo, the Fifth Settlement and New Cairo, Sheikh Zayed and Sixth of October, Alexandria and the North Coast compounds. On coastal deliveries tell us the gate and the compound at the point of ordering, because access windows for heavy vehicles are tighter there than most people expect.

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Cement

What we actually do.

Ordinary Portland — CEM I

Blended cements — CEM II

Sulphate-resisting cement

White & masonry cement

Delivery, bags or bulk

The numbers, before you ask.

Cement grades we supply

CEM I 42.5 NGeneral structural

CEM I 42.5 RRapid early strength

CEM II blendsMass pours, mortar & render

Sulphate-resistingFoundations & below water table

White cementDecorative & precast

Masonry cementBlock laying & rendering

Cement in place.

Where it goes

Cement — questions we get asked

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