Just North of Nashville 42" Build

[SteelandStone]

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Thank you Gulf,
The wine is just something I play around with, no vineyard yet. This batch makes my 6th batch and I have three more going. We drink a bottle a night between the wife and I so this is a good way to get some decent wine cheap. The main problem is letting it age, it sure is harder than it sounds. One thing I do not do with the wine is add any sulfites so you can only let it age for so long.

[UtahBeehiver]

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Very nice completion of the dome.

[GianniFocaccia]

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Sweet build. I love your attention to detail and the beautiful grout lines that come with precision-cutting smaller bricks. Takes hand-made to another level.

John

[SteelandStone]

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Thanks everyone for the kind words.

I can officially say I now below to C.D.A.
Cracked Domes Anonymous

Hi, My name is Phil and my dome cracked. (I can hear the crowd now)

Did the first of the curing fires and sure enough I got a few cracks. One that goes right down the front into the arch and another one that runs horizontal for about 8". Nothing out of the norm and not real concerned about it.

Now if the weather would just shape up I can get the two vent arches mortared in and away we go.

[Novaslo]

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Well, here is how it goes. After you get it nearly done, you will undoubtedly cook in it. Then you will stop ALL progress and cooking will take over.

You will grill, you will bake, you will tortilla everything in your fridge and cook away. You will do fish and Pizza till your spouse says, NO MORE PIZZA....and then and only then will you finish it the rest of the way.

That's what I think.

[Steellearning]

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Well, here is how it goes. After you get it nearly done, you will undoubtedly cook in it. Then you will stop ALL progress and cooking will take over.

You will grill, you will bake, you will tortilla everything in your fridge and cook away. You will do fish and Pizza till your spouse says, NO MORE PIZZA....and then and only then will you finish it the rest of the way.

That's what I think.

Thats pretty much where I'm at...

[SteelandStone]

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Well, here is how it goes. After you get it nearly done, you will undoubtedly cook in it. Then you will stop ALL progress and cooking will take over.

You will grill, you will bake, you will tortilla everything in your fridge and cook away. You will do fish and Pizza till your spouse says, NO MORE PIZZA....and then and only then will you finish it the rest of the way.

That's what I think.

I all ready fear this and realize it will happen. I have made a "deadline" for at least having it enclosed and ready for Thanksgiving. But only time will tell

[SteelandStone]

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Well I got some more work done this past weekend despite an all day concert on Saturday. I got the two outer arches up, started the vent box/transition, and even had time on Friday which I took off to go get all the supplies for the enclosure and the brick that will cover it. I went with a rather large vent area so as to try to prevent any smoke from getting out the front and all over the decorative arch. If all goes well I will have the duravent sittin on top Sunday.

[UtahBeehiver]

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Nice brick work, on a roll. You will like this being from TN, This is how Jack Daniels start their fires (really to make charcoal) but they use Jack to start the fire...........

[SteelandStone]

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Nice brick work, on a roll. You will like this being from TN, This is how Jack Daniels start their fires (really to make charcoal) but they use Jack to start the fire...........

I tried to click on the picture/link but for some reason it is not working. I don't know if I could bring myself to toss some Jack in the oven as fuel, but I sure do like their smoking chips they sell that are made from the old barrels. I use them all the time.

[UtahBeehiver]

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I copied it from one of my previous post so it does not display, but you get the drift. Their Jack is much cheaper than our Jack..............I was there earlier this year and 30 years ago. Being a dry county you could not even sample Jack back then but my last visit they not only can sell special edition bottles they have a tasting tour but at 9:00 AM in the morning, when I went, was a little too earlier to be sampling your TN brew.

[Novaslo]

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I wish that I would have seen your build before I did my vent. The mistake I made was to small of a transition to the 8in Duravent. I thought the pipe was large enough to draw everything to it. I was wrong. I get smoke out the front, it is ok, but not the way I would do number 2 if I ever build one or help someone do one.

In your case, you will likely not get any smoke out the front. Nice job. Great quality build and you will be totally thrilled with your results.

[SteelandStone]

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I wish that I would have seen your build before I did my vent. The mistake I made was to small of a transition to the 8in Duravent. I thought the pipe was large enough to draw everything to it. I was wrong. I get smoke out the front, it is ok, but not the way I would do number 2 if I ever build one or help someone do one.

In your case, you will likely not get any smoke out the front. Nice job. Great quality build and you will be totally thrilled with your results.

Hey Darin,

It does draw really well and should draw even better when I take the canopy off the top of the pergola tomorrow as the top of the vent pipe is pretty close to it. I am real happy I spent the extra time to build the transition that way.
Got her up to 650 today, pizza on sunday.

[SteelandStone]

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Well I did the last of the curing fires got the dome up to 850-900 and all went well. I only have one spot where some heat is bleeding through to the outside and it is where my "Expansion Joint" is. It happens to be almost top dead center of the arch, other than that it is awesome. I may peel back the insulation in that section and put a little more kaowool moldable just in that area and pour some perlite to fill in any voids in that immediate area but that's it. I hope to finish the framing this weekend and at least get the roof sheathing on. Oh and make some pizza on sunday.

[windage]

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nice job..good vibes too