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Any tips for how to deal with it?
]]> Other Oven Types spoton https://community.fornobravo.com/forum/pizza-oven-design-and-installation/other-oven-types/473368-exposed-ss-needles https://community.fornobravo.com/forum/pizza-oven-design-and-installation/other-oven-types/473268-cast-dome-with-ks-4v-plus-with-ss-needles-problems-and-solutions Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:52:19 GMT
but there is a kinda ticking time bomb... the ss needles seem to be causing pieces of the cement to chip off... i'm not too worried about the pieces of cement, but I definitely don't want ss needles popping off into our pizza or shawarma or whatever we're cooking.... I have a couple options that i'd like opinions on:

1. aggressively brush the inside of the dome with a wire brush hoping to get the exposed needles to fall... do this periodically to keep loose ones out of the food.
2. build a ss sheet metal dome inside the oven and glue it to the dome inside with high temp mortar or hold it in place by cold riveting the panels together
3. tear the thing down and start over without ss needles...

I am not sure on #1.. #2 seems like it would mess up the transfer of heat to the thermal mass and mess up both my heat up times and my residual heat cooking the next day... #3 would just totally suck cause the outside is decorated with a stucco pattern that we'd never be able to replicate so it would likely look like crap afterwards... plus we'd have to totally re-think our weekly meal plan...

I would like #3 if I could re-build it with bricks instead, but the way we use it, I don't think I could deal with the 2 to 3 hour heat up times. if there were a way to use bricks but have a 2" to 2.5" wall, I would be interested in hearing about that.

thoughts?

thanks,

john]]> Other Oven Types johnedm https://community.fornobravo.com/forum/pizza-oven-design-and-installation/other-oven-types/473268-cast-dome-with-ks-4v-plus-with-ss-needles-problems-and-solutions https://community.fornobravo.com/forum/pizza-oven-design-and-installation/pompeii-oven-construction/473144-interior-decorative-glaze-questions Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:55:36 GMT Whitacre-Greer medium duty firebrick. To match firing temperature, I was thinking an earthenware/low fire glaze would be good as the brick is fired at 2000F and those glazes fire in a similar range. They are still a higher CTE than the brick, which makes me think they will craze crack upon cool-down and then risk seasoning my pizza with fragments of glass containing pigments of unknown toxicity. Has anyone done this successfully or can point me to anyone who has? ]]> Pompeii Oven Construction Zimmy https://community.fornobravo.com/forum/pizza-oven-design-and-installation/pompeii-oven-construction/473144-interior-decorative-glaze-questions https://community.fornobravo.com/forum/pizza-oven-design-and-installation/pompeii-oven-construction/473142-water-leaching-into-oven-from-landing Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:36:24 GMT This summer we have had some significantly worse storms than in past years and I have noticed, for the first time, that water is leaching in from the firebrick in the oven landing, to the oven interior. I am guessing this has gone on for some time. The combination of the severity of the storm and...
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Jim]]> Pompeii Oven Construction jcg31 https://community.fornobravo.com/forum/pizza-oven-design-and-installation/pompeii-oven-construction/473142-water-leaching-into-oven-from-landing https://community.fornobravo.com/forum/good-background-information/introductions/473054-second-oven Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:39:30 GMT Hi I built a pompei oven ~ 10 years ago and sold that house. So now I get to build another! I have not used this forum, but I am curious to explore. I look forward to more learning! Thanks Peter
I built a pompei oven ~ 10 years ago and sold that house. So now I get to build another! I have not used this forum, but I am curious to explore. I look forward to more learning!

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