Cloita's 42" Pompeii in Plainfield, IL

[cloita]

Re: Cloita's 42" Pompeii in Plainfield, IL

Thanks Tracy, you've pretty much reaffirmed my plans so I'll run with it on the anchor plate. Time to pick up a boatload of blanket and chicken wire.

TO THE REFRACTORY STORE!!! =)

[texman]

Re: Cloita's 42" Pompeii in Plainfield, IL

cloita
I used tapcons and a refractory caulk called either Kaowool or Inswool for the seal around the plate. Be careful drilling the holes for the tapcons or you could knock a brick loose. You could also use your mortar to seal as well. It will get hot there, but nothing like the dome. Most of hot gas is heading out your chimney. Several builders have added another course of brick on top of the base. See Russell's build, he did a good job on that. I wouldn't clad the vent. If you want to control some heat loss there, use some of the insulating blanket. If you are going with an igloo, you will probably have another layer of stucco/brick/flagstone to cover that for appearance. If you enclose it, it will be covered.
you have done a good job on your build and seems really fast as long as it has taken me. Cure it slow.
Tracy

[cloita]

Re: Cloita's 42" Pompeii in Plainfield, IL

Also, should I bother cladding the entryway? i'll have to pick up another bucket of mud to do it, but figure it needs it just as much as the dome.

[cloita]

Re: Cloita's 42" Pompeii in Plainfield, IL

any recommendations on securing the anchor plate? was planning on tapcons but wasn't sure what type of high heat caulk or mortar should be under that metal.

[cloita]

Re: Cloita's 42" Pompeii in Plainfield, IL

Made it! Rushed home from work tonight, threw some leftover pork butt in the slow cooker to heat up, and cranked out the last two bricks and cladding for the dome!!! I can't believe my next step is curing, seems like forever ago i was just pouring the structural hearth...

[cloita]

Re: Cloita's 42" Pompeii in Plainfield, IL

After a weekend that threatened to rain the entire time, I was able to get the vent transition almost complete but ran out of daylight again tonight!






Two more bricks to mortar tomorrow if it doesn't rain, then cladding to work on, and finally some tapcons, high heat caulk, and the anchor plate before moving on to curing.

[cloita]

Re: Cloita's 42" Pompeii in Plainfield, IL

got cracks in the slab on the cuts where they should be, watching them very closely. would be just great if that portion of the slab cracked off and floated away!

anchor plate is in the box in my garage still, i'm still eye balling my chimney transition and i hope to knock it out this weekend but i hear there's a crapload of rain headed my way until monday. BOOOO

[UtahBeehiver]

Re: Cloita's 42" Pompeii in Plainfield, IL

Hey Cloita,

Wish I had a helper that size to help me clean out the inside. How's the anchor plate coming. Mine is sitting in the gargage while I do the final touches on the chimney cap.

[Neil2]

Re: Cloita's 42" Pompeii in Plainfield, IL

Any cracks in your patio slab ?

[Les]

Re: Cloita's 42" Pompeii in Plainfield, IL

Your son seems to fit inside pretty easy - make him do the work. No way would I get in there. Looking at the pic makes a very strong argument for not using mortar

[deejayoh]

Re: Cloita's 42" Pompeii in Plainfield, IL

OMG. I am claustrophobic just looking at the picture of you inside the oven. But if I was there, I might have drank your beer.

[cloita]

Re: Cloita's 42" Pompeii in Plainfield, IL

Cleaned out the inside this past weekend since i'm at a standstill waiting on my Duravent.



My son got inside too


Duravent anchorplate will be waiting for me when I get home Thursday. Hopefully Sunday I'll be posting pictures of the first curing fire!

[Bookemdanno]

Re: Cloita's 42" Pompeii in Plainfield, IL

Aren't they just beautiful?!!!? Like you say, magical.

Very well done sire!

I love the sound of a fire in mine, the echos and the pops, and when it gets roaring...

[cloita]

Re: Cloita's 42" Pompeii in Plainfield, IL

Thanks Amac

[Amac]

Re: Cloita's 42" Pompeii in Plainfield, IL

There is a hypnotic fascination with the dome ceiling which is hard to describe. This is the magic of the dome and at least partly why we go to so much trouble to build the dome rather than the vault.
Nicely done cloita