7 years in the waiting i get to start my 42" pompeii

[NCMan]

Re: 7 years in the waiting i get to start my 42" pompeii

Slow and steady on your fires, Lee. Although yours has had ample time to dry out, at least some. I think what you're doing is good. You can't really go too slow w/the fires, but you can go too fast. Glad you got the WFO bug again.

[DavidApp]

Re: 7 years in the waiting i get to start my 42" pompeii

These ovens seem to draw very well so it is easy for the fire to get bigger than intended and you end up with flames curling around the dome in no time.

David

[leetheldc]

Re: 7 years in the waiting i get to start my 42" pompeii

well what a nasty couple of weeks of weather here in hull so i had to give up on the fires and put up temporary roof no. 3 and i was up every morning for a week re stapling at 5.30 after the nights wind did its damage it was no fun at all. a little calmer today so im going to forget the fires and get my roof done so i need to get both my oven chimney and bbq/firplace chimney up and out of roof hight so back to the brick work. im going for a bonded arch sort of vault stlye to finish the vent area with a full brick front and 2 piece bond (if thats the right term) with just half brick at the back as you can see in the pic i have to forms of different hight to take this i also got some blanket in there hopefuly give something for the vault to roll over. im cuting all the bricks so proberly a days cutting and drying tomorrow this is just one of 3 stye cuts il have to do il be using the sthil saw so it will take a while and start the noisy neighbour ball rolling again for another half a year or so! i made a jig to mark them all from a bit of chipboard

[DavidApp]

Re: 7 years in the waiting i get to start my 42" pompeii

Bribe the neighbor with the promise of Pizza when the oven is done.

David

[leetheldc]

Re: 7 years in the waiting i get to start my 42" pompeii

Already done that one David think they sick off waiting!! Getting through the cuts had enough dine for a dry lay not workin out as should so bit of head scratching to be done I may have to make a custom keystone if I can't re jig them

[NCMan]

Re: 7 years in the waiting i get to start my 42" pompeii

Looking good, Lee. At this point, you can either consider adjusting your joint spacing, make or buy a custom keystone, cutting a new arch template, or start over. It'd be a shame to start over, after doing all that cutting. If it were me, I'd at least look into adjusting your joints and/or making a new template. That's the cheapest and easiest way to go. If you can't live w/that, then consider making or buying a keystone. A different type/color/style of keystone can, at times, make a nice complimentary feature to an oven, if that is an option for you. Best of luck.

[leetheldc]

Re: 7 years in the waiting i get to start my 42" pompeii

There was no way I was losing all them cuts Carl I had another try at dry laying it and it seemed to work so a few more cuts this morning and I've now earned my stella long bloody day it has been but worth the effort I think ended up pointing in the dark so hope it's ok

[leetheldc]

Re: 7 years in the waiting i get to start my 42" pompeii

Another shot from the front flash didn't bloody work though

[leetheldc]

Re: 7 years in the waiting i get to start my 42" pompeii

3 cans of stella later and I couldn't stop thinking about the mortar joints under the arch form so I went for it dropped out a treat and there was enough mortar in the entry way for me to point it all up keeping the mortar as one and not putting new on top of old tomorrow

[leetheldc]

Re: 7 years in the waiting i get to start my 42" pompeii

Still no joy of the iphone uploading 2 pics at once

[leetheldc]

Re: 7 years in the waiting i get to start my 42" pompeii

just a quick progress update finished early on friday so managed to get the back of the dome arch finished all squared up ready for a chimney same process 2 cans of stella and take the form out leaving a nice gap for insulation



then i got a couple of hours on saturday to see where i was going with the fireplace/bbq had a full day today against the rain at times and made some good progresswith the bicks. got the back wall up and cut to recieve the arch just the front to do then get the sides rolled over also cobbled out some bricks on the ouside so i could get a good sized counter shelf on the side.

[NCMan]

Re: 7 years in the waiting i get to start my 42" pompeii

Lee......great progress and some great looking work!! You're getting there!

[leetheldc]

Re: 7 years in the waiting i get to start my 42" pompeii

Lee......great progress and some great looking work!! You're getting there!

yes carl slowly but i can see the light.
not had chance to post for a week or so but made some more slow progress. weathers been a nightmere rain all day yesterday killed play time. but sun was out today and finaly managed to get the bbq closed in last weekend i got the forms all made and a few course to help the front low arch go over over the next coupe of days with a short day at work i got the front cut done. I used a bit of string from the centre of the radius with some tape stuck around it at the right point for the cut you can just see it in the 1st pic im hoping to create some form of smoke shelf at the start of the hoodon the sides you can see the forms sit on a course of brick that will hopefully do this and keep the smoke up ther for the cimney to suck it up the forms will be a nightmere to get out though but il sort it

[leetheldc]

Re: 7 years in the waiting i get to start my 42" pompeii

here are todays pics of closing the bbq/fireplace was a bit of a milestone day as no more bloody arches no more tapper cuts this is arch no 7 of my effort and im done with em our lass got a pic of my happiness as a layed the final keystone the hair shows the bloody sturggle it was to get there!










the hole for the chimney is about 260mm by 250mm but with it having a hood im hoping it draws ok just ready for a couple of chimneys now then its roof time

[NCMan]

Re: 7 years in the waiting i get to start my 42" pompeii

Looking great, Lee!! I can see why you're a bit tired of arches.....