Alex’s Pizza Kitchen (APK) build, Central Coast, NSW Australia

[Bert]

I plan on using black grout which hopefully will give a decking appearance. Any thoughts about the gap around the oven? Should use high temp silicone? Personally I'm not very good at the old silicone and fear I will make a an absolute mess. The only real area of high temp will be directly out the front of the oven. The rest of the oven remains fairly cool.

[Sharkey]

Good to see you are making progress, even if it is slow. I know how you feel.

The timber look tiles look pretty good. My tip for not making a mess with the silicon would be to mask off each joint using that blue painters tape. Then if any mess does get on the tiles you can lightly cut using a straight edge and a stanley knife and then just peel the tape off. You will end up with perfectly straight joints and no mess.

[cobblerdave]

I plan on using black grout which hopefully will give a decking appearance. Any thoughts about the gap around the oven? Should use high temp silicone? Personally I'm not very good at the old silicone and fear I will make a an absolute mess. The only real area of high temp will be directly out the front of the oven. The rest of the oven remains fairly cool.

G'day Bert
Sicaflex is better than silastic to fill the gapes it's made for boat decking.
Tape the edges. Fill the gapes, them smooth with with a rag soaked in mineral turps. The turps is a bit greasy and silastic and sicaflex doesn't tend to stick. Still have heaps of rags and use heaps so there's no chance of getting anything on the bare wood. Remove the tape straight away before it skins. Did a BBQ bench years ago this way and it turned out pretty special.

Regards dave