starting oven

[sumu]

new build this weekend.3-20-09 first time playing with mortar

[Modthyrth]

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wow, that's the effort of a weekend? Impressive! It took me...oh...about five months to get that far. ;-) You'll be cooking in no time!

[dmun]

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I hope there's insulation under that floor...

[sumu]

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I put one layer of brick outline and pourd in vermiculite and portland cement,then put fire brick on top. Built arounrd floor.

[sumu]

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did the arch @ vent today

[sumu]

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put the isulation on today but the arch did not hold up i think it was to cold to bond.

[sumu]

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redid arch

[sumu]

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did some more today cant wait to fire up

[sumu]

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i think im done with the chimney

[Jed]

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Sumu,

Your oven is looking great and going together very fast! Good work.

JED

[sumu]

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first fire today added a flue pipe . 5hrs later still felt some warmth in dome[ATTACH][/ATTACH]

[Neil2]

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Don't fire it up too soon. Keep all the portland cement based concrete parts damp for at least a week. Two weeks would be better. In three weeks it will reach most of its potential strength.

[sumu]

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i pourd the 11 bags of concrete in october of 08 sat for winter .

[sumu]

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redid the piller for the granite top used same stone as the grill suround. [ATTACH][ATTACH][/ATTACH][/ATTACH]

[Jed]

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This is all looking very nice Sumu,

Keep up the good work and keep the pictures coming!

JED