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Hello from Western Washington State, USA! New to joining this forum after lurking a bit... I’m all in for building a 36” Pompeii style wood oven in our back yard kitchen. I have the deck and dining pavilion built plus I poured a 8” concrete pad with rebar and wire mesh, used concrete block (vertical and horizontal rebar, filled) to built the oven support/base and have the 3.5” sub base poured with rebar and wire mesh. Seemed like overkill the entire time but it may double as an earthquake shelter ;-) I’m gathering insulated base and oven build materials now. So far I’ve acquired fire brick and refractory mortar, Perlite and mortar from Home Depot, Ceramic blanket insulation and fire clay from Amazon. I have photos to share and will continue to document my build as I’m a aging tradesman/contractor and some habits die hard. Not a computer expert so I’ll need to figure out how to reduce photo size to upload
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Welcome, Although an engineer, I am an old pencil and paper guy. Most of all my build was done on graph paper. That said, there have been some great Excel spreadsheets done by members to help builders, ie one to help determine the taper and bevel of the dome bricks, another to help with designing the inner arc bricks. etc. If you are using a phone to take pics, just reduce the pixel size in on the phone. The current limit is abt 1.25 meg and 5 or so pics per post. Nothing wrong with build a stout base, these ovens get really heavy fast.Russell
Google Photo Album [https://photos.google.com/share/AF1Q...JneXVXc3hVNHd3/] -
Welcome, Andrew. Keep us all posted w/your build. You're in good company here!!My Build:
http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f8/s...ina-20363.html
"Believe that you can and you're halfway there".Comment
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Welcome! I'm just a little North East of you up in the Lynnwood area. Looking forward to watching your progress. Lots of help here on the forum if you need it.My build thread
https://community.fornobravo.com/for...h-corner-buildComment
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Wow. I just read your build thread and can see I have a learning curve ahead of me. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to the challenge!Originally posted by JRPizza View Post
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Amazing build. I really appreciate the photos that show how you did what you’ve done. Thanks!Originally posted by UtahBeehiver View PostComment
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Hi Andrew, would you mind telling me where you picked up your building materials? Especially if you have a source for medium duty firebrick and and the insulating board and blankets!
Looking good on the build!
Russ
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Oh my! I’m so sorry I didn’t reply sooner Russ.
Materials for 36” WFO
Home Depot - Poulsbo WA
Mutual Materials Fire brick, medium $1.58 each - 200 bricks $316.00
Heat Stop 50 refractory cement $122.79 50# bag dry - 4 bags $491.16
Portland cement 94# bag $11.65 each - 2 bags $23.30
Perlite, course $16.97 bag - 6 bags $101.82
Amazon-
Mutual Industries fire clay 50# bag $50.95
UniTherm Ceramic Fiber Insulation 2300 F rated 1”x24”x25’ $98.99 each - 2 rolls $197.98
I’m back on my project now! And I have my 19 yo genius nephew Alex working with me this summer. Now to remember how to reduce photos so I can update my slow but steady progress picsComment
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Low duty work perfectly well if you want to go that route.Originally posted by rjerickson View PostMy Build:
http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f8/s...ina-20363.html
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