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I think I'm almost there..got the foundation and blocks up and I'm trying to think 1 step ahead. Here my question, and I have searched the forum and read all the relavent posts I could but would still like some expert opinions... I have a source to get firebrick splits at .25 each...my question is will building 100% of the oven with these work? It seems as though you could lay the floor with a double layer, perpendicular to each other...mortaring in between layers seems to be the question. Also in building the domw it would stand to reason (and others have suggested) that using splits would obviously take more brick, and create additional mortar joints, but would reduce the size of the joints so maybe would only use a little (25-35%) more mortar...I realize the advantage of using the full size bricks with build time, etc.. but .25 each is pretty tempting...Thanks in advance!
I think I'm almost there..got the foundation and blocks up and I'm trying to think 1 step ahead. Here my question, and I have searched the forum and read all the relavent posts I could but would still like some expert opinions... I have a source to get firebrick splits at .25 each...my question is will building 100% of the oven with these work? It seems as though you could lay the floor with a double layer, perpendicular to each other...mortaring in between layers seems to be the question. Also in building the domw it would stand to reason (and others have suggested) that using splits would obviously take more brick, and create additional mortar joints, but would reduce the size of the joints so maybe would only use a little (25-35%) more mortar...I realize the advantage of using the full size bricks with build time, etc.. but .25 each is pretty tempting...Thanks in advance!
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