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Having a good time here with the build so far. Got a few questions though.
Not wanting to angle cut all my bricks so mortor joints would be less than a quarter of an inch I shopped for special mortor made for thick joints. It is called molditX hear in Cananda. It is also rebaged into smaller quantities and renamed as devils putty. The devils putty is marked up 400percent so I would sugest to stay away from the small quantity purchase. I found this out from the guy at the warehouse who rebags it. My question is this.
My mortor is quite course so I am finding it dificult to have the close fit on the horizontal joints. I have to scape back the mortor half and inch away from the brick to brick joint because of the coursness of this mortor. However I feel this is the right mortor to accomodate the big thickness of mortor joint needed at the back edge of brick making the wedge to lift up the brick to the needed angle. Anyone else had similar frustrations? Maybee I should leave a 1/8th inch gap at the inside horizontal joint insteat of going for the brick to brick fit? If I dont scrape back the mortor from the edge a half and inch or so the agragate in the mortor it is so course (1/16" or so) that the bricks would have a minimum of about 1/16" gap and I am trying to get the bricks to touch but maybee its not worth doing. If I have this type of mortor and some big spaces at the outside edges perhaps I should just go with an eigth of an inch or so on the joints that will show on the inside of the oven?.....wayne bergman
Not wanting to angle cut all my bricks so mortor joints would be less than a quarter of an inch I shopped for special mortor made for thick joints. It is called molditX hear in Cananda. It is also rebaged into smaller quantities and renamed as devils putty. The devils putty is marked up 400percent so I would sugest to stay away from the small quantity purchase. I found this out from the guy at the warehouse who rebags it. My question is this.
My mortor is quite course so I am finding it dificult to have the close fit on the horizontal joints. I have to scape back the mortor half and inch away from the brick to brick joint because of the coursness of this mortor. However I feel this is the right mortor to accomodate the big thickness of mortor joint needed at the back edge of brick making the wedge to lift up the brick to the needed angle. Anyone else had similar frustrations? Maybee I should leave a 1/8th inch gap at the inside horizontal joint insteat of going for the brick to brick fit? If I dont scrape back the mortor from the edge a half and inch or so the agragate in the mortor it is so course (1/16" or so) that the bricks would have a minimum of about 1/16" gap and I am trying to get the bricks to touch but maybee its not worth doing. If I have this type of mortor and some big spaces at the outside edges perhaps I should just go with an eigth of an inch or so on the joints that will show on the inside of the oven?.....wayne bergman
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