Huck Buld

[Jon in Albany]

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Beautiful oven. I enjoyed following the build. Thanks for posting it. Happy Cooking!

[Dino_Pizza]

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Cheers Huck to a job well done! What a beautiful pizza oven. The color is nice (great backdrop for a glass of Red Wine too ) I like how the dome wraps around the clay pipe vent.

You make oven building look easy and to think you've never laid brick before. Nice bread too. Enjoy your oven and your work. Oh, keep posting those bread pictures, fall and winter are coming up and I need motivation to start baking .

Take care, Dino

[tfasz]

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Congrats on finishing things - the stucco coat turned out great. What stucco materials and coloring did you use to finish it?

[morrishuckeba]

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I used the standard stucco mixture from Home Depot with fiberglass added. The final coat was STO powerflex & the color was adobe brown on the bottom and amarilla on the top. You can google STO on the Internet.

[leckig]

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looks great! How much time did you need to apply and finish the stucco over the insulation? I am still debating on the way I finish my oven.

[dsgreco]

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Any issues with the heat of the chiminey flue and the stucco directly against it? I want to do the same thing but was concerned about the temp of the clay flue liner and direct contact with the stucco. Oven looks great!

[morrishuckeba]

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so far no problem with it, only had 1 fire.

[morrishuckeba]

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After the 2nd coat of stucco I fired it up to full temp, and had no heat on top of oven. Then I waited about a week to put the final coat on, and then fired it up one more time.

[leckig]

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sorry for not wording my question correctly - how much time does it take to apply the stucco? I have never done that, I dont have a clue how difficult/easy/time consuming the process is.

[Tscarborough]

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Stucco=smearing mud. It goes quickly.

[fxpose]

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Stucco=smearing mud. It goes quickly.

...and even quicker by hand, especially over spherical and irregular surfaces. At least that's been my experience so far....

George

[morrishuckeba]

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Dont mix it to thick take you time you will be fine. You can alwals get a pro to do it

[Tscarborough]

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In Mexico, they use what is called a "Go-Devil", basically a board that they scoop up some mud and throw against the wall. It is not an accepted method of stucco application per the OPCMIA, nor is hand application, but both work just fine.