Dannos Limey Build (Suffolk UK)

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Storage Heater bricks have been used in the base layer, for their designed reason of heat retention and slow release. Again...free of charge!

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Over winter, i didn't get much done apart from building up a stock of Victorian Red bricks from a demolished Barn just up the road. And lots more research and pining to be out building my oven.
Oven building got replaced by Bathroom refurbishnent, and started again this month.

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Built up a reclaimed concrete block base last year, based loosely upon FBs great downloadable plans.
This is to be faced with Old red bricks eventually as part of a BBQ and Garden Oven area. I used Concrete Lintels to span the walls and topped them with 2'x3'x2" paving slabs, which the local councils use over here. They are beasts and very strong!

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Been lurking about on here, and have found this as a valuable resource for my build. Thank you guys!
My story began watching a tv show over here called "River Cottage" where they hastily knocked up a pile of Concrete Blocks, moulded a sand form and made a Cob oven in an afternoon for a Pizza party that evening. Clay was a bit hard to find in my particular Area of the UK, so i stumbled upon this website, and their fantastic free plans (thank you) which steered me in a new direction.
My budget wouldn't allow a full Firebrick version, (the ovens on here can be works of art!) so my investigations followed a more Traditional/recycled approach. I've rounded up some full clay bricks (Thanks Rado, for your website and its valuable information also), and matched the brick to a Hydraulic Lime mortar.
My Photoblog will be uploaded shortly.