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Post by faz on Aug 16, 2012 21:05:29 GMT
Looks very nice I like the wine bottles, especially the flower design in the centre of the bottles in picture 2.
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Post by cannyfradock on Aug 16, 2012 21:05:57 GMT
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Post by cannyfradock on Aug 16, 2012 21:07:36 GMT
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Post by cannyfradock on Aug 16, 2012 21:18:38 GMT
Ok......large pic......sussed it. As much as I love the pics of your oven.....that wall made from bottles is truly spectactular, so I chose that pic. For me to make that picture large first I have to left click on the picture.......it appears large.......> I then right click on the image and choose "image URL"......> I then return to the post and left click on the image icon (just above the frowning face)...... it appears so [/img] ......> put the cursor in between the IMG's......> right click..... then chose "paste".....> make sure the cursor is on the end of the last IMG...... then hit the space bar .........> click preview to see if it works.....or go for it and click "post reply".......don't ask for your money back if it doesn't work. There's probably an easier way than that, but I'm not so savvy with PC's. If it doesn't work then drop me a PM and I can give you my telephone number and talk you through the process. Terry
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Post by cannyfradock on Aug 16, 2012 21:37:32 GMT
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Post by pete123 on Aug 16, 2012 21:47:19 GMT
Looking good. Is that Bradstone Blue black limestone? I've got some left over from my patio for me to use around my oven. Also I think I need a cowling like yours. The rain washed a right load of soot & muck down my chimney & has made my firebricks a right mess.
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Post by bookemdanno on Aug 17, 2012 13:32:02 GMT
Thanks guys! The bottle wall was a design idea from the missus, and grand dez. I think they're usually stuck in whole, but the tired ol tile saw made a good job of cutting them down to brick width for a facing. Pete, The slabs are Kotah Black Limestone, which may well be the same material as yours just by a different name. Indian Black limestone i believe. There's a good video on You tube of a little indian fella cutting the slabs by hand with a hammer and chisel...perfectly! Amazing! I think some sort of rain cowl is needed for this country of ours and its "female" weather patterns! Sorry to see about your chopper injury. I winced imagining what you may have done! Can you only count up to nine now? Terry, cheers mate! i'll try to follow your instructions for a close up now and again. Faz...well spotted! I was a bottle short, and didn't fancy changing my design, so i just had to nip out to St.Peters Brewery for one more of their lovely Golden Ales! A lunchtime treat, then back to the wall.
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Post by turkey on Aug 17, 2012 14:21:07 GMT
for image shack use. When you upload you get the option to label thumb, this is what puts the image size onto the small images, I always say no to this so the smaller images are easier to use. When you then go and look at an image (so click on one from your post) on the image shack site, on the right there is a section called "Embed this image", expand that down and there is a bit called forum, copy all the text [/IMG][/color] [/URL][/color] Uploaded with ImageShack.us[/URL][/color] [/quote] I have added some tactical spaces so you can see the text on the forum now and it is not trying to make the image, this is really 3 parts which I have highlighted. Red is all there to make a link, green is text for a image. The"Uploaded with" is simple link back to the image host and can be deleted if you want. The code is the details to show an image encased in the details to make a link. As the link is back to the photo we are showing you will see that the two web addresses are nearly the same, one is to the actual image, the other the page that shows the actual image. You do not need to have the image as a link, you can just have it as an image, to do that from image shack you can use the "link to share this image" instead. The method terry is describing is the manual way and how you would do it when using an image or host that does not have easy copy and paste links, to explain them [/color] img96.imageshack.us/img96/708/16082012175.jpg [/IMG][/color] [/color] [/quote] the image is always separate to the text no matter where it is, so to show it you need to give its location, this is in a link. In the quote above your browser has probably made it a hyperlink you can click on as it recognizes it as a link. For the forum to know the link is to an image and that we want the image shown rather than just linked to we use the [ IMG] tag, you have one at the start then the link to the image and a closing tag of [ /IMG]. If you click the image icon when replying it just inserts that text for you and allows you to paste the image link in between the two and when we browse the thread it will do the magic to make your browser display it as an image. so below is the same but to make a link to the image, if you have ever seen on a web page a link saying click HERE, and the word HERE was the link not the normal web address you see below is how that would be done. [/URL][/color] [/quote] we have the clever [ URL] tags to say we want to make the url and we set it equal to where we want to go, and then within the tags we can write what ever we want to be made into a link, here it is HERE, above it was the image tags and image details, so the image was nested in the link. this is all probably too long winded and badly explaining the simple part, if you use image shack copy and paste their forum link into a reply and its done for you
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Post by bookemdanno on Aug 19, 2012 9:30:17 GMT
I'M OVER THE 1000 MARK...WAY-HEY!!!!!!!!! Friday i had a bigger fire...well...too big, it got out of control really and i really thought i'd wrecked everything! Bigger and more cracks, and one part was a weeping steam geiser, with bubbling water emerging! (you can add a "do's and don'ts section, Terry, and feel free to use my oven as a "don't fire up too quickly" lesson! Well, after Friday i was really worried about smoke and the neighbours too. To the point that with this added on top of feeling like i'd wrecked my oven, was contemplating not going ahead with the pizza oven for Josephs Birthday. Feeling a massive failure at this point. So nipped round next doors for a chat...they hadn't noticed anything! With renewed vigour, i looked inside the oven, and there is no degradation or cracks that follow the outer ones. Well, no real cracking at all internally. So i just went for it again! I'm also thinking that many do not fire up without an insulation shell of some sort either, so maybe this "settling in" is normal? I've just added "gouge out and fill outer cracks, before blanky" to my snag list. I'm not sure that "Expamet" will work too well with my Hydraulic Lime tho Terry, due to it being more corrosive to metal than Cement based products. So i think i'll just damp down and fill the opened up cracks. This thought process has made me think much better of the situation, when added to the knowledge of how the structure supports itself. Back to Saturday... So i loaded up with plenty of logs pushed to the rear of the oven, and a hearth of three logs towards the front, with a criss cross of kindling held within. Blowtorch to start her up, and hardly no smoke. Just walked away and within about 45 minutes, the roof of the oven was turning white! I thought this would be a good 90 minutes! So had to keep feeding wood, for a further 45minutes til Pizza time. i think my old brick oven performs a little better and faster than i anticipated. Maybe its a feature of these old bricks, as opposed to Firebricks? I want to just thank everybody on here for your help in making that afternoon one of the most fun times! Without all your help and the added incentive that baring your build to all brings, it wouldn't have happened, i'm sure! I haven't met anyone who doesn't comment positively on the oven, or when knowing of what i've built. I've had three offers of "can you help me, or build one, in my garden". Hmmm, tempting propositions... My poor old oven, this morning... This is the engine bay though, that is usually covered in insulation, and behind an entrance arch. So i think overall, i've built a succesfull little oven! Sorry, but no shots of the first misshapen pizzas. All disappeared to quickly! They tasted much better than they looked! Sorry guys, i couldn't figure out the "big piccy thingy"! Once again, i can't thank you all enough! Even you lurkers, who look but don't post! I was one, once, so i know you're there!
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Post by cannyfradock on Aug 19, 2012 15:57:20 GMT
Danno
When you mentioned "crack"....I envisaged a "crevice"...that's why I mentioned exmet. This stuff is galvanised steel so not sure how it performs with lime?
After seeing the pics, they are......just cracks and after your comment..."and one part was a weeping steam geiser, with bubbling water emerging!"....it probably just needs a bit of external repair work and it's good to go.
Your oven will better perform the more you use it, and if you use the low residual heat from a firing to dry your seasoned hard wood for the next firing, you will have no more smoke than a domestic BBQ when firing up, plus it will only smell of sweet hard wood.......not parafin.
Great to hear that the party went well........even though the build is not quite completed it still sounds as if it's a great success....
Terry
p.s....if you read over my reply on posting large pics.......and especially Turkey's post......and have a little patience in trial and error.....I'm sure you'll get there, in the end.
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Post by bookemdanno on Sept 11, 2012 12:45:07 GMT
I've been repairing my garage doors since the last post, but at the weekend i managed to get more oven stuff done...yay!!! I'd knocked up the former for the entrance arch a while ago, along with what i wanted to do for the vent. Turned the garden veg patch orange after a spot of brick cutting!! I need a good downpour before i can harvest more beans!!! I've left a 8-10mm gap between the oven and the arch, into which i'll push a compressed length of Stove Rope. From the outside i'll then cover the gap with Vermiculite mixed with NHL 2 Lime. Thus hoping to create a Thermal break. After a look last night, i wished that i'd continued the brick and a half curve further round a couple more courses with a simple hole for the chimney, as what i'm planning now seems to be "over egging the pudding". I'm thinking of running diagonally upwards to the flue, to create a sort of manifold effect, maybe speeding up the exhaust gas, aiding draw. Who knows! The form is created, just a few more brick cuts!
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Post by faz on Sept 11, 2012 15:04:41 GMT
As long as the arch is solid like that I wouldn't worry about it. The extra width wil help ensure you capture the maximum amount of smoke. My flue is much narrower and there are times, especially when it is windy, that smoke sneaks past the flue and out of the front.
As you say, you can slim your actual chimney down as you go up, to ensure you get a good draw. If you've got the kit to cut the bricks to the shape you want, go for it!
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Post by bookemdanno on Sept 14, 2012 12:13:17 GMT
Been thinking and cutting, thinking and cutting over the last few evenings....my god haven't they drawn in quickly now! I've come up with this chimney solution, i think it'll work ok, its as simple as i could make it. Hope to mortar in place this weekend and set the chimnney. looks good for the weather!
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Post by faz on Sept 14, 2012 15:24:34 GMT
Where you're filling the gap in at the ends with half bricks, would you be able to lift these a couple of inches so that there is an indentation in the top of the arch, which leads to the chimney. In theory, this will encourage gases up the stack and discourage them fron spilling round. As you already have the slot in the arch it should be easy (maybe!!) to fit it. In fact, looking at your picture again, one brick laid at an angle lengthways in the slot might be the easiest way of achieving this. What do you reckon
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Post by bookemdanno on Sept 14, 2012 20:02:56 GMT
I've just got in from doing some brickwork tonight! Faz, i've sorta gone with an idea that you'd written. I have a triangular form under the arch which runs up under the pipe. I've just cut the top off the bricks to keep the outer curve. I have an internal straight sided section which runs up under the pipe. I mixed up some Horticultural Vermiculite with some Lime for a pointing mix against the Oven Arch. Horticultural Verm is really fine 2-5mm grains, so it's like oatmeal when mixed. I wanted something to hold the bricks, and seal externally, but attempt to keep a Thermal break. The inner section will have stove rope, as a sort of door seal too.
Whilst using the "Vermi-mortar" i wondered if this might help the workability of Vermicrete layers? Maybe, by mixing in a quantity of this fine Vermiculite it'd increase the available surface area for the bits to bond together, thereby making it stick together slightly better. Imaginee making concrete from just 3/4 Stone as Vermicrete, and "All-in Ballast" as with Vermicrete "Fines" added. I've no previous of Vermicrete, so someone whos done it before might prove a worthy Guinea Pig?
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