Another Milan 750 build

[webbm00]

Jul 30, 2019 21:04:14 GMT sean said:

second work top complete



now how about this round the oven. ripped the old marble fire place out last year and its been sitting in the garage.
this is the mantelpiece and have plenty to get all the way round the outside.

I also have the base same profile as the mantel just bigger

Have a look at my build. I cast and polished some concrete to go round the dome




Also. You will need insulation under the oven if you want to do overnight slow roasts. I put 25mm Calcium Silicate board under mine and i wish I'd added another 25mm as it's the main heat sink for my milan 750

[sean]

Hi Webbm00

I followed your thread for awhile and ha set me on the polished concrete countertop

However a freind got his hands on some marble slabs and donated them to my kitchen so I am now swing towards them as I now have enough to cover the area, I will upload a picture soon

My only issue is the current slab is 100mm thick and these slabs are 25mm not sure if its all going to look to big and chunky now

I will order some calcium silicate board also seems bt of a mine field this vermiculite mix stuff as a thermal layer

cheers

[sean]

Aug 2, 2019 15:07:25 GMT webbm00 said:

Jul 30, 2019 21:04:14 GMT sean said:

Also. You will need insulation under the oven if you want to do overnight slow roasts. I put 25mm Calcium Silicate board under mine and i wish I'd added another 25mm as it's the main heat sink for my milan 750

Hi webbmoo, 

where did you get the calcium silicate board from?

Victus re waning £52 delivery on 1 board

thanks 

[webbm00]

Aug 12, 2019 23:11:50 GMT sean said:

Aug 2, 2019 15:07:25 GMT webbm00 said:

Also. You will need insulation under the oven if you want to do overnight slow roasts. I put 25mm Calcium Silicate board under mine and i wish I'd added another 25mm as it's the main heat sink for my milan 750

Hi webbmoo, 

where did you get the calcium silicate board from?

Victus re waning £52 delivery on 1 board

thanks 

eBay. £60 for 2 boards

[sean]

Aug 13, 2019 19:13:39 GMT webbm00 said:

Aug 12, 2019 23:11:50 GMT sean said:

Hi webbmoo, 

where did you get the calcium silicate board from?

Victus re waning £52 delivery on 1 board

thanks 

eBay. £60 for 2 boards

Wow that's spot on. I owe you a beer 👍👍

[sean]

So back to it at last.


I was not happy with the block base I built and after adding every thing up it was just going to sit to high for the look in the garden.





So out came all the blocks and surrounding facing bricks and back to square 1 again


so new base is

100mm Thermolite blocks

25mm Ceramic board

then into the pizza base its self

[sean]

Evening, 

Progress has been halted for a week due to weather and kids 

but cracking on now and the good weather last week allowed a quick pizza evening. 


Rear dome fitted 



Soil ready for seed



Late shift getting the fire bricks in 



Front sections added, almost taste the pizza 

[sean]

First fire



First smoke



Go to excited so had a pizza night with the good weather we had last weekend, my oldest son 3 years old loved making his own pizza and even the wife had a go at cooking a pizza so plenty more to come.



10 days later we have grass showing

[sean]

So today we i had a short break in the weather so went for fitting the mantel and doing the entrance

First was to fill in the gaps around the oven, just used the left over thermolite bricks. had to be better than a lump of mortor




Next fitted the marble mantel this was left over from the old fire place i removed, also made up the arch form.



This toke us a few hours each brick had to be cut down to size then trimmed to the shape of the joining brick. i used fire cement to join but unable to add heat to help cure the cement so he is hoping it will hold.



Keystone



Overall very happy with the look this is the first time i have attempted with an arch.

Back to work in Thursday so that will be it for now. time to cover her up and hope for no rain while i am away.

thanks

[sean]

Oh and when the kids where asleep i knocked up a holder for all the cooking tools out of some oak skirting off cuts

[devontiger]

sean, great work so far, beginning to look really nice.

Just one small tip.
When you push your fire back to whatever position, sweep your floor with a good coco brush.
It will keep out the ash from the bottom of your pizza.
I screwed my one to an old broom handle, so I don't get my hand burnt when doing it.
DT

[sean]

Thanks, great to see it all finally starting to come together now, need to start thinking about render material

HAHAH that is a good tip i did think about that but i just gave the first ash pizza to the wife

of to look at a coco brush (never heard of it)

cheers

[webbm00]

Sept 1, 2019 20:35:31 GMT sean said:

Thanks, great to see it all finally starting to come together now, need to start thinking about render material

HAHAH that is a good tip i did think about that but i just gave the first ash pizza to the wife

of to look at a coco brush (never heard of it)

cheers

Or blow the ash away with a length of 15mm copper pipe. Remember blow don't suck!

[sean]

Time for a long over due update:

Due to the bad weather every thing got put on hold for the winter apart from the odd drying fire and a few pizzas in the snow.

Now I am back to it, After watching the whole kitchen area turn green over the winter I have decided to build a wooden gazebo to keep the area dry.#

Frame up

first job several long drying fires to run all the moisture.

Dug the old screwfix fire cement out of the joints and applied some victus fire cement this time

 

Tin foil layer applied, due to lock down the wife banned me from using the tin foil in the cupboard so into the first aid kit for a space blanket  all taped in place.

Next was the insulation layer

[sean]

Vapour barrier and chicken wire next, I ended up using cable clips to hold it in place and this allowed me to twist the chicken wire to tighten.

scratch coat is 4:1 sand:cement with the sand being a 50:50 mix of sharp and plastering with plasticiser in and added cement fibres, then left to dry for several days while wrapped under a tarp.

During this time I knocked up a door with a few spare bit of Oak skirting, the back of the door has some insulation bricks to protect the wood and fire rope seal.

Just waiting for a temp gauge probe to arrive now

Roof on 68 planks 680 nails later done, fitted the high temp roof flashing for the double insulated flue.

Dropping from a double insulated flue to a single and popping a rain cap on top. The flue is lower than next doors fence, so plan is to have a spare 1m single flue pipe that can be fitted if the wind direction is blowing over there garden so keeps everyone happy.