K79 Oven Build

[Tscarborough]

Re: K79 Oven Build

Why are you waiting? I built a fire in mine within minutes of finishing it, and had it fully cured over a week.

[K79]

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Nice job K79.........I like the smooth transition........How long do you plan to wait before the curing fires start?.........No curing any time soon for me.......progress slow.......... Will try to close the dome this weekend

I'm waiting 28 days. My first fire will be June 29. Don't rush your dome. You'll get it done when it's done. I know easier said than done. Your's is looking good !

[K79]

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i like the shape, but is anything stopping those bricks from dropping? They don't appear to be supported or tied in.

I've seen others that have done it this way and asked prior and nobody mentioned it was an issue. I read some threads and was unable to find anyone say it would fall apart. Each brick is one solid piece. Those tapers are cut into one brick. The front 3.5" of the arch is all connected and in compression holding them in place. All of my bricks are tapered really tight. Unless the front of my arch blows out and my tapers crack at their joints there's no way it's coming down. That, the buttress, and the mortar I think I'm all set. Not to mention before I even had the keystone in place the arch was holding itself up. No reason it should fall.

[kbartman]

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Nice job K79.........I like the smooth transition........How long do you plan to wait before the curing fires start?.........No curing any time soon for me.......progress slow.......... Will try to close the dome this weekend

[david s]

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i like the shape, but is anything stopping those bricks from dropping? They don't appear to be supported or tied in.

[brickie in oz]

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My outer arch is complete! Pretty happy with the outcome.

Nice gather for the flue..

[Greenman]

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Very nice. Neat and clean. Plenty of work left but you will be smelling the pizza soon!

[chirobuggy]

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Wow, really looks great. I hope I can do as well. Cutting first course and starting mortar tomorrow. I'll be using your build for lots of info for sure...not that I haven't been following it for some time now

[jbruning]

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Congrats, K79!
There will be pizza very soon.
Nice job!

[mrchipster]

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My outer arch is complete! Pretty happy with the outcome.

You should be happy it looks great.

Chip

[K79]

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My outer arch is complete! Pretty happy with the outcome.

[K79]

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Ok, so the plan is to put on 3" ceramic fiber, then do my curing fires (hoping it will extract the moisture evenly with the blanket on), and I'm going to burry it in vermiculite. I noticed a lot of people doing a vermicrete mix... is that because they stucco the dome and not use an enclosure?

From the FB Plans:

As a rule of thumb, FB Blanket provides roughly double the
insulating value of loose vermiculate (and more than double
vermiculite concrete, which is less efficient). Here are three
roughly equivalent insulating schedules.


I noticed that boerwarrior bolted his anchor plate to his arch for his chimney. I was planning on just using some high heat mortar to hold it in place? Would that work... what to do??

[jbruning]

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Looks great. You are very close!

[K79]

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Thanks guys. I was able to get 4 bricks on the left of my arch done and 3 on the right before I ran out of mortar. I'm taking off Thursday from work to finish it up !!

[fabby]

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That is some serious fancy cuts.

Reminds me of a joke, a guy is cutting bricks for his pompeii pizza dome, and suddenly he has cut off all his ten fingers. He rushes to the emergency room, and the doctor says, "no problem' I can sew them back on and you will be good as new. Give me your fingers"

(wait for it)........The guy says," I didn't bring my fingers, doc"

The doc asks why not?

The guy says, " I couldn't pick them up!"