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[V-wiz]

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Ahh ok thanks guys, i think i will have my first course just sitting down/sailor

[david s]

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I agree, but two or three courses of bricks laid flat would be preferable to having long vertical joints at the base of the dome.

[Tscarborough]

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Soldier or sailor courses are fine when they are used with the construction method they were designed for. That is to say, if you are using either, then you have to have external buttressing of the sailor or soldier.

Low dome Neapolitan ovens use a soldier or sailor to flatten the roof of the dome and bring it closer to the floor while maintaining workability. They also use a monocoque external shell filled with medium density insulating material to reinforce the dome.

[david s]

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"Everywhere EXCEPT the US.
Unless you consider the US nowhere, which is a distinct possibility."
You really need to learn how add emoticons to your posts
Or someone might just take you seriously,
FU

My apologies,
Actually with the spread of American culture globally, I should have said "everywhere"

[Les]

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What do you mean by "true radius"?

A simi-circle. If you are building a 42 inch, it starts at the hearth (0) climbs to 21 inches at the apex (center) then back to 0. It's the best you can get for load distribution.

[V-wiz]

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What do you mean by "true radius"?

[Les]

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So solider courses should be avoided? just lay the first coarse down?

Many ovens have been built with them. A true radius will give you the best strength. What the solider course gives you really isn't that much at the end of the day. I got to admit that they look pretty cool.

[Gulf]

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"Everywhere EXCEPT the US.
Unless you consider the US nowhere, which is a distinct possibility."
You really need to learn how add emoticons to your posts
Or someone might just take you seriously,
FU

[Laurentius]

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Everywhere EXCEPT the US.
Unless you consider the US nowhere, which is a distinct possibility.

Brickie,

In American English: spelt =spelled! You can't cover the entire world in Vegemite or Roo poo.

[V-wiz]

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So solider courses should be avoided? just lay the first coarse down?

[david s]

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As the soldier course weakens the base of the dome and ovens are prone to vertical cracks at the base. Suggest that it be replaces by two rows of bricks laid flat if folk want the extra height at the base of the dome.

[david s]

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Thats how its spelt everywhere.....

Everywhere EXCEPT the US.
Unless you consider the US nowhere, which is a distinct possibility.

[brickie in oz]

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"One metre...(thats's how we spell it here)

Thats how its spelt everywhere.....

[RossM]

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...here in Australia....(the best country in the world)... we went metric in the seventies, blokes like me took awhile to adjust, having learned all imperial then having to change to metric took some adjusting. I was working with a bloke considerably my senior, when we had reason to measure something to do with the job, I said "You call out the figures and I'll write them down!"
"One metre...(thats's how we spell it here)...and two and a half inches! he replied.......I give up! ....

[biondoli]

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the height of the chimney should be 3-4 times the entry which means in your case 3-4 feet height. Ciao Carlo