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    In reading these differnet threads i have found many of the answers to my questions , but one thing I have not ran accross is joint finish on the inside of the oven . Are the joints struck ( smoothed out with a joint tool ) or are they just cut flush with the brick . I know towards the end you may not be able to reach some of them to finish , so maybe its really not important . Thanks.
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    Jim -
    Generally, builders angle the bricks so that there is almost no joint inside the oven. You can use a joint tool, but really you want as small a joint as possible
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    • #3
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      If possible, it will always be better to densify the joint, whatever it is. Not for shape, just to pack the mortar. A finger works fine.

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      • #4
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        If that is the case , what would happen if the bricks were dry stacked ? The cladding should hold everything in place , should'nt it ?
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        • #5
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          The joints in the top of my dome are down-right embarrassing. I have stelagtites hanging from the ceiling!!! I wish I could do all over again, but guess what, it works fine! As a matter of fact, my oven is cranking right now! Cooking some wings and baked potatoes....

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          • #6
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            Technically, you do not need the mortar at all. Realistically, you need the mortar to contain the fire.

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            • #7
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              Many kilns are built either partially or completely with mortar less joints.
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              • #8
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                I am building a barrel vault oven and want to lay the base bricks horizontally for 3 courses before starting the arch. I think I will put a small mortar joint on this "wall" just to hold them in position for the arch. Does that sound like a reasonable method?
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                • #9
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                  Another Vaulter.....
                  Have you worked out how are you going to over come the side loads on the oven walls yet?
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                  • #10
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                    Al , I am planning on a 4 inch cladding . My thinking might be all wrong here , but living where the avg. temp is 40 degrees or below for 5 months out of the year , I am thinking that the mass will be to my benefit . Thoughts?
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                    • #11
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                      4" of what sort of cladding?

                      Have you a rough sketch of what you are aiming at?
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                      • #12
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                        4" extra thermal mass is a lot. It will take many hours for the heat to soak right through to that thickness. You would probably be better to halve the cladding thickness and increase the insulation.
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                        • #13
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                          Originally posted by david s View Post
                          4" extra thermal mass is a lot. It will take many hours for the heat to soak right through to that thickness. You would probably be better to halve the cladding thickness and increase the insulation.
                          I agree with David, in Minnesota it gets even colder, and I spent more on insulation and it is no problem keeping my. Oven warm for days after one pizza evening, and bringing it from 400F on day 3 to 800 or more for another pizza night takes less than 30 minutes.

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                          • #14
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                            Al , my plan was to use regular concrete .

                            David and Chip , my plan now was to have 4 inches of cladding and 7 inches of loose perlite held between the cavity the outside wall and the cladding made . I am pouring the hearth tomorrow out of perlcrete . It is formed up at 5 1/2 inches thick .
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                            • #15
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                              Im still lost as to your term "cladding", to me it is a covering outside of the insulation in which the oven lives.
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