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Hello. I hail from Durham NC, a city that embraces local food and reuse. So in that spirit I want to make a brick oven from primarily found or reclaimed materials. The reasons are threefold:
1) The challenge of it. Shopping at Home Depot is cool. I do it often. But I much prefer reuse warehouses, junkyards, etc. It then seems like a creative exercise rather than buying groceries from a list.
2) To save money. Invariably there will be false starts and I'll buy stuff that won't be right. DIY can wind up more expensive if you aren't careful. But I'm confident I can save some coin and have fun in the process.
3) Environmental benefit: keeping a ton of stuff out of the landfill seems alright to me.
So to that end I've gathered some things:
1) a stack of cedar 1x6 boards about 6 feet long from my dad's land
2) 400+ pounds of assorted floor tiles, mostly showroom samples of high-end stuff. These range from 36" x 36" down to 1"x1".
3) 100 pounds of marble, slate, and granite tiles
4) 60 firebricks (Empire D.P)
5) 80 bricks that I cannot identify. They came from a hospital and have an antimicrobial ceramic glazed surface. Otherwise they look like firebricks with long holes throughout. They are 11.5" x 5" x 2" and 6.5 pounds apiece. Help?
6) a double-wall stainless steel fire-suppressing wastebin that I may use as the chimney. It is about 20" in diameter and three feet high.
7) lots of pool filter sand for the foundation.
I have roughly $160 sunk into materials right now. Well, thanks for reading and I hope to share lots of stories/pics with you soon.
1) The challenge of it. Shopping at Home Depot is cool. I do it often. But I much prefer reuse warehouses, junkyards, etc. It then seems like a creative exercise rather than buying groceries from a list.
2) To save money. Invariably there will be false starts and I'll buy stuff that won't be right. DIY can wind up more expensive if you aren't careful. But I'm confident I can save some coin and have fun in the process.
3) Environmental benefit: keeping a ton of stuff out of the landfill seems alright to me.
So to that end I've gathered some things:
1) a stack of cedar 1x6 boards about 6 feet long from my dad's land
2) 400+ pounds of assorted floor tiles, mostly showroom samples of high-end stuff. These range from 36" x 36" down to 1"x1".
3) 100 pounds of marble, slate, and granite tiles
4) 60 firebricks (Empire D.P)
5) 80 bricks that I cannot identify. They came from a hospital and have an antimicrobial ceramic glazed surface. Otherwise they look like firebricks with long holes throughout. They are 11.5" x 5" x 2" and 6.5 pounds apiece. Help?
6) a double-wall stainless steel fire-suppressing wastebin that I may use as the chimney. It is about 20" in diameter and three feet high.
7) lots of pool filter sand for the foundation.
I have roughly $160 sunk into materials right now. Well, thanks for reading and I hope to share lots of stories/pics with you soon.
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