36" Pompeii oven in North Carolina

[stephen*z]

Re: 36" Pompeii oven in North Carolina

if you see brick houses in your area there are brick sellers. you may need to ask at a hardware store. My phone book list them in the yellow pages under "brick" and "Building Materials" have you looked in the supplies section of Forno Bravo? try posting there and you should get some info.

[JakeRhee]

Re: 36" Pompeii oven in North Carolina

I live in NJ, Bergen County
I'm having the worst experience for building my oven. I cannot find any brick sellers

[stephen*z]

Re: 36" Pompeii oven in North Carolina

the bricks were not hard to find. they are a standard brick used in fireplaces. are you having a hard time finding them in your area? I think shipping them would be very expensive.

[JakeRhee]

Re: 36" Pompeii oven in North Carolina

oh...
Can your friend ship them

[stephen*z]

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I have used about 185 bricks purchased for $1.10 each because I had a bricklayer friend give me his price. they were from a standard brickyard.

[JakeRhee]

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HEY STEPHEN
Hi xDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
uhh, just wondering, how many firebricks did you buy/use in total? What was the price per? or, where did you buy em. THANKS

(Probably better to PM me than post)

[chidding]

Re: 36" Pompeii oven in North Carolina

Wow thats a big first fire! dont get too keen to get it roaring yet!.. after all the effort in the build.. you dont want to rush and get cracks.

looking good though!

[stephen*z]

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the first fire was started in the oven yesterday!!!!
yes it got to about 200 degrees and looked good.

I will be back at it tonight getting it hot again.

[stephen*z]

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Here are the antique slate roofing tiles I will be using to cover the dome when I get done with the insulation. It should look very old school.

[stephen*z]

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The day finally arrived and the oven went back into production. I worked about 3 days ( a total of about 8 hours) and have compleated the dome! here are some photos you can read more about it on my blog.

[stephen*z]

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The weather got warm! it's warm outside! This was the only winter that seemed to stay too cold for brick work. SO I AM BACK! picking up the morter Monday and moving forward with the dome!

Can you tell I am happy?

[brickie in oz]

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or is it an obcession?

Youll get used to being obsessed with fire and pizza, resistance is futile.

[stephen*z]

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I have another crazy check I need to make....

while I am not able to get out and do work on the oven due to the weather...I am able to work on other things.

I made a stainless steel turning peel and 16 inch pizza peel. I was at the steel yard and found some stainless sheets in the drop pile. I brought it home and after a little computer drawing time we were at the CNC plasma cutting them out. they turned out nice and clean looking. will probably add Oak handles to them sometime this week.

Someone please tell me I am not crazy for making the tools before I can even use them! this is getting to be a habit....or is it an obcession?

[stephen*z]

Re: 36" Pompeii oven in North Carolina

tscarborough,
It looks like your arch continues all the way to the ground thus transfering the force to the base, insted ot to the sides. That seems to look like it would work more as one curve than as an arch on a stand.
SZ

[Tscarborough]

Re: 36" Pompeii oven in North Carolina

Segmental arches have to be buttressed, and it takes more than you think to do so. That is one of the things I notice on about 70% of the ovens on this site.

Your fix is a good one.