Masonry Cement

• Ordinary cement mortar, though good when compared to lime mortar with respect to strength and setting properties, is inferior to lime mortar with respect to workability, water retentivity,shrinkage property and extensibility.
• Masonry cement is a type of cement which is particularly made with such combination of materials, which when used for making mortar, incorporates all the good properties of lime mortar and discards all the not so ideal properties of cement mortar.
• This kind of cement is mostly used, as the name indicates, for masonry construction.
• It contains certain amount of air-entraining agent and mineral admixtures to improve the plasticity and water retentivity.