My Pompeii in hull

[leetheldc]

Dave did you mean putting bar in between the hearth brick and arch brick ?

[cobblerdave]

G'day
More like a strip straight across the front of the oven as height as the insulation and brick hearth to isolate the entrance from the oven proper
Regards dave

[leetheldc]

Hi dave is this the sort of thing you are talking about ? www.ebay.co.uk/itm/380341737192?redirect=mobile so this would be fitted to the face of the oven floor brick after my fibre tape ?

[cobblerdave]

G'day
Yep that's it, you could buy thinner though I don't think thickness is really required as a moisture barrier just its resistance to moisture and heat. Plastic could not resist the heat but would resist moisture. Alunimium would corrode in the moisture. That why I recon stainless steel.
Regards dave

[leetheldc]

Ok dave sound a good idea I have briefly studied these and can't seem to get height I need so il just get the 75mm and cut down to 65mm to match my brick height thanks for the advice dave.

[cobblerdave]

G'day
Get 2 pieces of old angle iron, line up the last 10 mm in a vise and bend it at right angles. In not a great metal worker and I find Stainless hard to cut and worse to drill
Regards dave

[marco]

Jul 18, 2014 19:10:51 GMT leetheldc said:

Hi guys I finaly plugged the oven! cut a new 3 piece keystone which worked better for my hole size another course just would of been to small a pieces I'm happy with how this one turned out 
Thanks for you kind words Marco I've really enjoyed this project so far and you will also the 3 weeks you have off will be great I only took a week and wasn't enough you must of eaten from these oven before if you from Italy then have you? Il look forward to following your tread once started good luck !

Thanks Lee,

yep, I know rather lots about this as I have been involved with both restaurants (summer jobs) and have several ovens on my own and this build is the first one after a very long time. First brick build in South wales, the other one I build was a pre fabricated one which I just assembled together with an old friend who was a builder.

Am looking forward to getting on with it so to enjoy again the old recipes

Starting next week me thinks

Ciao

Marco

[leetheldc]

 
i removed the form about 20 mins after the last brick was laid you can see in the pic not to much to clean up the last pic is the heat break il fill that tomorrow with the fire rope well since my last post today is the only chance ive had to do anything at all to the oven, spent the whole day completing the outer arch, made a form 2 inch bigger than my inner arch form for the reveal my opening ended up 11 1/2 inch by 8 inch i hope this is big enougth  
i removed the form about 20 mins after the last brick was laid you can see in the pic not to much to clean up the last pic is the heat break il fill that tomorrow with the fire rope

[leetheldc]

Hi guys had a bad time trying to get the face bricks I wanted but managed to get my hands on some yesterday! Had an hour in the trowel yesterday and few more today got all the footprint done so can see the size it's going to be now it's a monster! To the left of the oven is a prep area with under arch and to the right is a fireplace / bbq

[leetheldc]

     I can't really go no further with the oven until I get the face work up to the start of arch level as I have nothing to build on 

[leetheldc]

Got a little more brick work done tapered all the arch bricks with the sthill saw for a more even joint. Only getting one day a week on the oven is really slow progress but it's all I get nowadays   

[cobblerdave]

G'day Lee
Coming along real nice. Well done . Your really getting the hang of the brick laying now.
One point you might want to consider is the entrance is built of fire brick which are not water resistant at all . Chuck a firebrick and a house brick in water and you'll see the difference. The brick will just shit there where the firebrick will bubble as the moisture displaces the air. You might want to include some seal on that entrance in your final plans
As Gulf would say" just saying"
Regards dave

[leetheldc]

Thanks dave yes I know what you mean about the firebrick in a bucket of water it sounds like a soda machine! Hissing away with all the bubbles I'm taking the face bricks up with another arch around the firebrick leaving a 2 inch reveal for a weather door so they will be mostly covered the whole area will be roofed over also . But I need to get both my chimneys out the roof line first and can't do that until I get the face work up

[leetheldc]

Hi guys a little update on the oven made a little more progress got up to height on the prep area and working up to the fire place then I can get my outer arch done on the oven

[leetheldc]

Hmm forum is playing up for me can't seem to add an an attachment