A little help with materials please?

[skyfire108]

Hi everyone,

I wondered if anyone on here could help me with a few material choices I need to make please?

I am looking to buy some fire clay but am not sure of the type I need. It will be to fill in cracks etc on my Bernito Oven.

Also, I'm looking to lay some thin refractory tiles on the base similar to rualidal's, but wondered where best to get these?

Thanks everyone, hope you are all enjoying you bank holiday weekends

Sam

[tonyb]

Depending how big the cracks are you probably would be better off with ready mixed fire cement, particularly on small cracks, which you can buy from the big diy chains.

[slowfood]

Fire cement is available in all hardware stores, normally under £4 a pot and it goes a long way,
Tiles would be sold by any refractory manufacturers or no doubt on ebay, But I wouldn't think anything under 60mm thick would do the job personally,
These Bernito Ovens have been mentioned a lot here, It sounds like they are fairly troublesome. How do you find yours?

[skyfire108]

Hi slowfood.

Unfortunately my experiences of Bernito ovens has been bad. I am the original author of the Bernito experience post! (now deleted).

I do however have a pretty goodknowledge of the technicalities behind these light weight ovens and so will be doing mine up to a standard i'm happy with!

[slowfood]

Good luck my friend. How are the Bernito ovens made? What materials etc?

[webbaldo]

I just use the cheap fire cement (everbuild?) on ebay, I use the biege colour one, even though itll end up black anyway! Has worked so far.