Re: cooking floor design and dimensions
Hi Ian, Have you already laid your hearth or are you still looking for feedback on this?
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Re: cooking floor design and dimensions
You probably already have completed your herringbone pattern. If not I have one suggestion for getting the layout. You can snap chalk lines centered and at 90 degrees to one another. I laid this out in my tile program and you have lots of cutting regardless of where you set the pattern start. Luckily firebrick is easy to work with.
I saw a picture of an oven with a granite landing. You can get granite counter tiles that are 3/8 x 12 x 12 for about 12 bucks each. Don't know if it would hold up though.
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cooking floor design and dimensions
Weather so bad here that I've looked ahead at what I'm going to do with the cooking floor. I've done a layout (see attached pic) and was looking for some comment.
I'm going with an igloo finish and a 36inch internal oven, probably with a high dome just to make sure my wife can fit her moroccan tagines in.
- I've centred the 36in internal oven on the hearth. Is that the best option or should I move it back half the width of the landing so the whole structure is centred on the hearth?
- Is one straight course out from the circular dome enough for the landing or should I add another full or half-brick course and push the floor back on the hearth to accommodate for the deeper landing?
- In either case, should the landing extend to the edge of the hearth or is that just a matter of how I want to finish off the oven?
- I was going to use fire brick for the landing, but would it matter if I used clay brick or some other kind of decorative brick as long as it will take the heat?
- I know I'll have to cut brick to shape the circumfrence, is there a better way than I've laid out to minimise cutting (he asks hopefully)? I want to keep the herringbone pattern because of its look
Cheers
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