Curing with Insulation or Without?

[oasiscdm]

Re: Curing with Insulation or Without?

yes I get what you say. However the oven dries out with the insulation on.

Now let me paint a different picture of most ovens built on this site.

As per your comments

You dry the oven [no insulation]
put insulation on a dry oven. all ok.

then

a 4" vermiculate layer loaded with WATER over the blanket.
What happens the blanket gets WET and needs to be dried.

Unless of course you are building a dog house then you just poor in dry vermiculate.

The blanket being on simply equalises the temperature throughout the oven I believe preventing cracking. Flame is not consistent and you get hot spots possibly creating movement therefore cracking. Yes taking longer to rid the dome of moisture but it does dry out.

anyway just my 2 bobs [20cents] worth, each to their own. Your way works, and any other method will work it is just about what it is we feel precious about with me it was cracks.

When I did mine [thermocouples in place] I had absolute consistent temperature [10deg difference internal and external brick temps around my dome.

[NCMan]

Re: Curing with Insulation or Without?

I am a relative newbie to all of this, but I have plenty of masonry and construction experience and believe that moisture would be better driven out w/drying fires with no insulation on the outside. Why would you want to drive all that water/steam right into your insulation, which is designed (I believe) to not get wet? Where does one think the moisture is going to go? I may not be qualified enough to say either way is right or wrong, but I for one, will be sure my oven, when done, will be dried out w/out any insulation. When I feel it's thoroughly dried out, I'll add my insulation. I wouldn't even consider doing it any other way. But, that's just me.

[oasiscdm]

Re: Curing with Insulation or Without?

Ditto with Russell. But personal preference is with, equalises temperature so oven moves as one therefore minimising potential of cracks.

[UtahBeehiver]

Re: Curing with Insulation or Without?

I've seen it both ways, so do what ever works for you. Key is a slow and patient cure.

[durk96]

Hi,

I'm just finishing up the high temp mortar on my Professionale 110 trailer. Should the curing be done before or after the insulation has been installed. It seems like this should be a simple answer but I'm confused as to which comes first.

Thanks,

Sean

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