Re: 42" Pompeii in S. Louisiana
Three rows are mortared and the 4th is cut.
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Re: 42" Pompeii in S. Louisiana
I had a lot of scrap pieces I used for masonry wedges and it worked well for me. Plus I had less to throw away.
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Guess I will have to start tapering the bricks on the next course.
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Re: 42" Pompeii in S. Louisiana
Originally posted by Kurtloup View Post
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Re: 42" Pompeii in S. Louisiana
Originally posted by Kurtloup View PostThis afternoon, I started mortaring the oven bricks with home brew. After I finished for the day, I noticed cracks along some of the bricks. I dipped the bricks in water for about a minute and used a chip brush to wet the mating surfaces. Is this anything I should be concerned about?
With the mortar bricks covered in plastic to retain moisture, this allowed me to push the mortar into cracked joints. I went back and on compress mortar with trowel for a crack free joint. The longer you can retain the moister the easier it is to repair those cracks and separations.
Last edited by kbartman; 04-20-2013, 08:03 PM.
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Re: 42" Pompeii in S. Louisiana
This afternoon, I started mortaring the oven bricks with home brew. After I finished for the day, I noticed cracks along some of the bricks. I dipped the bricks in water for about a minute and used a chip brush to wet the mating surfaces. Is this anything I should be concerned about?
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I like the door reveal detail you cut into the vent brick...clean look.
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Re: 42" Pompeii in S. Louisiana
Massimilliano, I have seen some very succesful builds with clay ovens. You are just going back a few thousand years farther than the rest of us. should be a great thread.
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I read with envy your posts. Here in distant New Zealand everything is triple the price of the figures bandied around in this forum. Most of our local brickworks have closed down, making imported decorative veneer bricks almost all we can find. Fire bricks, unless you want to use crappy recycled ones, are difficult to find and cost in the region of $8.50 (about $US6) each! I guess this yet another cost of living in (a fools?) paradise
To counter this a local company is making "bricks" from refractory concrete for $2.50. So far they seem to have achieved a good rap. I am sceptical, though, and am proceeding with plans to cast a dome of home-made fireclay. I am going to use the concrete bricks to make the first stage of the vent support.
Ciao and a presto tutti
Max
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Re: 42" Pompeii in S. Louisiana
Made more progress today. I made an IT and started cutting brick for the vent. I got the first three rows cut. Once all my firebricks were cut, I started laying brick.
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Re: 42" Pompeii in S. Louisiana
This looks like an awesome build. Can't wait to see how it ends.
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