Re: Todd's Oven
Hey Todd- I was looking at your pics from the photo gallery. Your bricks for the opening arch side are cut almost exactly like mine were. That shape worked really well, but if I had to do it over again, I'd make them so that I had full and half sized bricks alternating, so that the landing bricks lock with the arch sides. I had to buttress my arch landing sides because they were separate from the oven itself and wanted to tip over when too much weight pushed on them. If they were locked in with the oven, that would have not been as much of a problem.
You may be looking to make a complete thermal break, but I don't think that's even necessarily desirable in this case- the flue needs to get hot to draw the smoke up properly, I believe. When my oven is red-hot (well, white-hot) the front bricks have been quite hot to the touch, but they haven't been so hot I couldn't touch them.
Just my two cents.
Hey Todd- I was looking at your pics from the photo gallery. Your bricks for the opening arch side are cut almost exactly like mine were. That shape worked really well, but if I had to do it over again, I'd make them so that I had full and half sized bricks alternating, so that the landing bricks lock with the arch sides. I had to buttress my arch landing sides because they were separate from the oven itself and wanted to tip over when too much weight pushed on them. If they were locked in with the oven, that would have not been as much of a problem.
You may be looking to make a complete thermal break, but I don't think that's even necessarily desirable in this case- the flue needs to get hot to draw the smoke up properly, I believe. When my oven is red-hot (well, white-hot) the front bricks have been quite hot to the touch, but they haven't been so hot I couldn't touch them.
Just my two cents.
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