My Pompeii in hull

[cobblerdave]

G'day lee
You have built you oven entrance from firebrick and they are pretty prorus, in fact they are not really resistant to water at all.
Could I suggest that you add a cap of the house brick to the oven entrance to protect you oven from the elements a bit more.
From what I can see from the pics it would bring you oven entrance in line with the other arches in the build and keep the same brick type on the face as well.
I'm just saying off course your the builder
Regards dave

[leetheldc]

Sorry dave I haven't explained in my thread what I propose to do with the outside here is a pic that I forgot to post. These bricks will continue to arch around the entrance to support a brick chimney from the same brick to go out my roof with a twin wall 8inch stainless steel inside of the brickwork capped off with a clay pot I've seen. the dome will also be finished in this brick to tie in with the entrance il proberly use brick slips for this a little similar to your oven!

[leetheldc]

well what a nasty couple of weeks of weather here in hull so i had to give up on the fires and put up temporary roof no. 3 and i was up every morning for a week re stapling at 5.30 after the nights wind did its damage it was no fun at all. a little calmer today so im going to forget the fires and get my roof done so i need to get both my oven chimney and bbq/firplace chimney up and out of roof hight so back to the brick work. im going for a bonded arch sort of vault stlye to finish the vent area with a full brick front and 2 piece bond (if thats the right term) with just half brick at the back as you can see in the pic i have to forms of different hight to take this i also got some blanket in there hopefuly give something for the vault to roll over. im cuting all the bricks so proberly a days cutting and drying tomorrow this is just one of 3 stye cuts il have to do il be using the sthil saw so it will take a while and start the noisy neighbour ball rolling again for another half a year or so! i made a jig to mark them all from a bit of chipboard
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[leetheldc]

Getting through the cuts had enough dine for a dry lay not workin out as should so bit of head scratching to be done I may have to make a custom keystone if I can't re jig them 

[leetheldc]

I had another try at dry laying it and it seemed to work so a few more cuts this morning and I've now earned my stella long bloody day it has been but worth the effort I think ended up pointing in the dark so hope it's ok

[leetheldc]

3 cans of stella later and I couldn't stop thinking about the mortar joints under the arch form so I went for it dropped out a treat and there was enough mortar in the entry way for me to point it all up keeping the mortar as one and not putting new on top of old tomorrow

[chas]

Wow! that's a l'Arc de Triomphe...

Chas

[oblertone]

Very very nice build; that arch is not going anywhere, but you're going to need planning permission if the dome is getting the same treatment 

[leetheldc]

Thanks chas and oblertone I'm well happy with. Oblertone the oven is getting a similar treatment same brick but cut into slips and stuck on to the render layer I'm not aware I would need planning for this could you put me wide? Thanks lee 

[leetheldc]

Hi oblertone you got me worried so I call my local council they said I don't need any permission as long as I'm not selling pizzas to my neighbours! Few worry over

[oblertone]

Lee, my apologies for any confusion, it's just that I've seen plenty of houses not built as substantially as your oven, hence the tongue in cheek comment. Can't wait to see it finished.

[leetheldc]

Apr 7, 2015 11:24:10 GMT oblertone said:

Lee, my apologies for any confusion, it's just that I've seen plenty of houses not built as substantially as your oven, hence the tongue in cheek comment. Can't wait to see it finished.

Ha ha I thought after I called the council was you just joking! Thanks for the kind words 
lee

[rokdok]

Hi Lee, looks fantastic- you're going to be finishing your oven at the right time- it'll be a fantastic sumer for you

Cheers Paul

[leetheldc]

thanks paul! great to see you back on the forum how has your oven been treating you?

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just a quick progress update finished early on friday so managed to get the back of the dome arch finished all squared up ready for a chimney same process 2 cans of stella and take the form out leaving a nice gap for insulation




then i got a couple of hours on saturday to see where i was going with the fireplace/bbq had a full day today against the rain at times and made some good progresswith the bicks. got the back wall up and cut to recieve the arch just the front to do then get the sides rolled over also cobbled out some bricks on the ouside so i could get a good sized counter shelf on the side.

[leetheldc]

Last post missed this pic off