Second Large WFO in India

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the last of the picture of the work done today.

[1 strover]

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If you don't mind documenting your bread oven build, I'd like to see it. Given that bread is typically baked at temps easily reached by conventional gas or electric ovens, what benefit do you see for a wood fired brick oven for baking bread?

i am planning to document the bread oven build too, am trying to
1) save money on gas (lpg)
2) use less fossil fuel
3) going green

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so if u go through some of the earlier images you will see there is a metal sheet on surrounding the table you may be wondering what that was for , here is the answer.
it is supposed to be a last for the castable refractory concrete.which got patched up today and filled in. we also had some left over castable which i decided to use as stecco on the outside (may be i get some more thermal mass)





so all done with the castable stecco, now all thats left is using a planer to plain the horizontals in the corners.

[Sparky005s]

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If you don't mind documenting your bread oven build, I'd like to see it. Given that bread is typically baked at temps easily reached by conventional gas or electric ovens, what benefit do you see for a wood fired brick oven for baking bread?

[1 strover]

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have a few more pictures of all the work done today.

made a small fire, and i was expecting some sweating which i got,also started working on the front facia



adding the mounting skirt to the chimney



a view through the chimney and the skirt before being welded up



the chimney is on, the lower bricks under the door are in place and the fire is burning.

[1 strover]

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That is one fine looking oven.

its been fun building this , much easier than my first build.

[1 strover]

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Nice.....

thanks a ton , but there is loads of work yet to be done, i have to build another one for bread now

[mrchipster]

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That is one fine looking oven.

[brickie in oz]

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Nice.....

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burning the midnight oil
7th and 8th layer done last layer left and keystone, decided to do something different.
stacked up some bricks inside and put a trough with sand on it to rest the last layer of bricks.
i had to go out for a couple of days. post this picture



once i was back this was the finished dome and the smoke hood



a few views from the inside

[1 strover]

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the third layer



hole drilled between bricks at the bottom, the temp probe wil sit 1 inch below the floor and will extend 8 inches inside (practically inside a brick)



the fourth layer done all the way around



the 5th,6th and 7th layer the foor arch partially complete.



more to follow

[david s]

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Your insulation should extend outwards so that the base of the dome is also insulated from the supporting slab. You present configuration will work ok, but heat will leak into the supporting slab and reduce efficiency.

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Impressive build. What flue size did you decide on? I still see a 6 inch listed in your first post. I would recommend a 10 inch ID flue for that size oven.

well thats been upgraded to a 6.25 inch ID SS pipe going 26 feet straight up, i have been assured that the height will create enough of draft and compensate for the narrow pipe.
and if this fails i have made provisions for a 10 inch pipe.
i already have the 6.25 inch pipe form a previous build. so want to try that out first.

It also looks like you decided to exceed the 18 inch inside height.

that has gone up too its now at 24 inches,
it was not all that practical to do the 18 inch dome (looked too unstable to me )

Are you going to lay your dome Bricks vertical? I think that may lead to excessive mortar exposure between the sides of the bricks. I would reconsider and lay them flat.

do you mean on the inside of the dome? or on the outside as i am confused,
ii side the dome there is very little to none mortar being seen at the seems but on the outside is a whole different story.
there are big wedges where i need mortar to be filled and larger crevices.

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so here goes of what happened yesterday

did one layer for the dome , also added a 12 mm steel plate for the floor at the door as there is tons of wear and tear and wanted this oven to last me long.



a mock up of the door arch , all the plate steel used was bought by my grand father off a old ship that was being cut apart in the late 60's so i guess the steel is real old.



a wider view of the work site. by this time we have completed 2 layers.



more to come in a few hours

[mrchipster]

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Impressive build. What flue size did you decide on? I still see a 6 inch listed in your first post. I would recommend a 10 inch ID flue for that size oven. It also looks like you decided to exceed the 18 inch inside height.

Are you going to lay your dome Bricks vertical? I think that may lead to excessive mortar exposure between the sides of the bricks. I would reconsider and lay them flat.