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Post by cobblerdave on Oct 3, 2015 22:51:16 GMT
G'day If you follow the link at the bottom of my post you'll find my build with the buttress wall taken through to the same as the entrance. You might like the look, you might not. But you don't have to tuck it under the insulation if you don't want to Regards dave
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Post by neilos83 on Oct 4, 2015 18:44:23 GMT
Cheers Dave, and I see what you mean. Love the look of your oven. I didn't have chance to get out to the oven today, so I think I will sleep on the buttress design so I don't do something in a rush and have to change it in the future. Went to a food festival today, and there was a woos fired oven serving pizza. It smelled awesome, and I was surprised how little smoke it produced. I was a little concerned about that, even though I have brilliant neighbours who seem really keen on my oven. I still don't want to create problems. I'm going to make a chimney cowl this week. Made these pizza peels last week out of some old aluminium signs my mate had in the shed and some stainless tube from pipeline centre, capped with some old ball bearings. All stainless weld and pop riverts caulked off to make smart. Neil.
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Post by neilos83 on Oct 7, 2015 19:08:00 GMT
I decided on the hidden buttresses. Put them up last night, and put my chimney base on this evening. I couldn't resist putting the chimney pot on loose to see how it would look. I will prob take the chimney base up another brick before fitting the flue and chimney proper. Neil
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Post by neilos83 on Oct 18, 2015 20:17:43 GMT
Found a bit of 6" pipe to use as my flue. Drilled some holes in the top to fit my cowl that I made this week, no pics yet though. And fitted some 6mm bolts through the outside of the tube to bite into the mortar and stop the flue moving. Fitted my flue into my smoke box Put the chimney pot on to see how it looked Looking down the chimney. I am going to fill this gap with loose vermiculite. Should I mortar the chimney pot on with homebrew? I've heard of some people using vermiculite.
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Post by neilos83 on Oct 24, 2015 19:02:24 GMT
I fitted some rope seal between my dome and arch, and I had a few bricks in my hearth loose, so I've re mortared them. Decided it was time for some drying out fires! I intended to start with paper and light some of my kindling for my multfuel stove, however I decided to keep it small on paper, after it had been going for around half hour, I threw in some cardboard that I had laying around, this seemed to burn well too without the fire going to mad. I had a small leak of smoke from the top of the dome that I will point up tomorrow. Probably burned for about an hour, the dome was warm to touch and there was a nice heat inside, not too much though. I think I will fire up again tomorrow with the cardboard, and maybe some sticks, I may have a go at baking some rolls with the fire or maybe some fish. Any recommendations? I feel like my build has made some real progress today!
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Post by neilos83 on Nov 1, 2015 19:46:41 GMT
I've decided today to wrap the oven up until the spring.
Every time I have done a drying out fire, it has rained the following day, and the icing on the cake came this week when my tarpaulin blew off the back of the oven at the beginning of the week and I didn't notice until this morning, its soaked through. I think I will be best waiting until the spring. With any luck will have gathered all my vermiculite and fire blanket by then so I can crack on without any hold ups.
I'm planning on making some oven accessories over the winter in the dry, such as a Tuscan grill, insulated oven door and maybe an ash box. Any other ideas of things I can make to keep me busy?
Will report back on progress.
NEIL
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Post by paul on Nov 2, 2015 5:09:46 GMT
I've decided today to wrap the oven up until the spring. Every time I have done a drying out fire, it has rained the following day, and the icing on the cake came this week when my tarpaulin blew off the back of the oven at the beginning of the week and I didn't notice until this morning, its soaked through. I think I will be best waiting until the spring. With any luck will have gathered all my vermiculite and fire blanket by then so I can crack on without any hold ups. I'm planning on making some oven accessories over the winter in the dry, such as a Tuscan grill, insulated oven door and maybe an ash box. Any other ideas of things I can make to keep me busy? Will report back on progress. NEIL How about a cap for the chimney....
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Post by neilos83 on Nov 18, 2015 20:35:55 GMT
I've started work on my tuscan grill from stainless steel tube.
As I've not used my oven yet, I was wondering what is best to use for removing ash? I imagine I will want to rake out hot ash when I'm using it as an oven. I've seen some people with a built in Ash dump, but alas I didn't factor this in when I built mine. I was thinking of fabricating some kind of steel box with a handle and a lip to fit in to thr oven mouth. What do you guys use? I've got a rake already.
I've also started work on a long handled brush and mop to clean the oven floor before cooking pizza.
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Post by neilos83 on Dec 20, 2015 18:58:56 GMT
Here is the door I have made for my oven Its made from 2 layers of lightweight fireproof insulation board. One layer fits inside my arch and the other just outside it. This is backed by a layer of aluminium plate (painted blue) and supporting and holding together is 40mm steel flat (painted black). On the back of the flat is welded some m8 bolts that fix through the first later of insulation and hold everything together. The handles are stainless bar that I have welded on to the frame. I've drilled a hole to take the thermometer that I bought from klas ohlsen.
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Post by neilos83 on Mar 20, 2016 17:42:15 GMT
Unwrapped the oven with this glorious weather we have been having. It's got me in the mood for getting on with the oven again. Had a small curing fire night before last.
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Post by neilos83 on Mar 20, 2016 17:45:16 GMT
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Post by diggerjones on Mar 20, 2016 20:00:09 GMT
Look Good. Where did you find the best place for fire blankets
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Post by neilos83 on Mar 20, 2016 20:26:33 GMT
I got the blanket from castreekilns in narbeth, West Wales. It's fairly local for me. I've had it a while.
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Post by diggerjones on Mar 20, 2016 22:13:20 GMT
I got the blanket from castreekilns in narbeth, West Wales. It's fairly local for me. I've had it a while. Thanks
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Post by neilos83 on May 25, 2016 20:23:01 GMT
The weather looks good for the next few days so I've started some proper curing fires. Had it in for about 2 hrs this evening. Dome got up to about 200 degrees and the hearth about 112 degrees. Something quite nice about siting out the garden watching a wood fired lickers around the dome.
Not so much moisture coming out of the dome, but a surprising am mound of steam coming from under the hearth bricks.
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