36" Pompeii Dome Chicago

[Chach]

I noticed when other builders are building their enclosure they are puttong cement board up to their flue made out of brick and then they stick the stone or whatever they're using to the cement board and to the actual brick itself
Being that the stone stuck to the brick of the flu will be expanding a little wouldn't that cause cracking because that area is expanding? Would it be better to put the cement board across the whole area and not attach anything to The Brick? I am running into an issue where I have a refractory castable as my flu galley and I insulated the sides of it but I will not be able to insulate the front of it because of the clearances of my cement board to the actual flu. Does anybody think this would be an issue? I only have like a quarter inch or 1/8 of an inch in some spots that I would be able to insulate does that matter? I attached a sketch of what I've seen done studs to the flu galley and then cemenr board up to it but I was thinking of doing something similar but cement board over the whole entire front and not touch the flu galley this way if my metal expands expands as a whole or if the flu expands it doesn't move any of my brick veneer. Wish i would have pushed my oven back 4".

[Chach]

I was a busy bee yesterday I fabricated 3 barrell roof trusses. First I started off with my shape and size of what I wanted. I used a 1/4" x 3" lattice strip 8' long and 2'x8' piece of OSB so I could screw some pieces of 2x4 down and create my profile. Once my shape was set I used a router with a flush cutting bit and routered around the lattice so I had my first shape. I then made the truss pieces and glued and screwed them to the OSB. When I finished the truss i used the router to cut out the joist notches. After I made the first one I used that as a template and screwed that to another board and used the router again around it so I can have an exact replica of the shape and joist notches and did this 6 times so I could make 3 trusses. I also thought of the flue pipe so I kept the joists put of the way to allow the pipe to go straight up.

[Chach]

Today I installed the trusses and installed the joists and roof sheathing. I am very happy with the shape and the way it looks. I didnt want to go with the traditional "dog house shape" so this is what I came up with.

[Chach]

The little things in life...finally installed my grill light. what a difference...if you have a grill next to your enclosure i recommend this for sure.

Ricky

[Gulf]

Nice touch!

[Chach]

why have some of my posts disappeared?

[Chach]

nevermind i just scrolled down on new posts and it seems others have had the same thing happen...sucks there were some good things going on.

[RandyJ]

I like what you are doing with the roof. What are you going to do to weather proof it? I always love doing arches and such. Makes for a very unique look that most won't bother with putting the effort in to.

[Chach]

I like what you are doing with the roof. What are you going to do to weather proof it? I always love doing arches and such. Makes for a very unique look that most won't bother with putting the effort in to.

Randy Randy Randy! First off how the heck are you? Hope everything is going good with the new place. Well as far as the roof goes I plan on using steel roofing from Menards which I ordered it the other day. The hardest part is finding a roofing company that can make radius flashing and fascia. I did get a few people to give some quotes to make the pieces. Im waiting for a local place to stop by and look at it. I purchased a coil 18" x 50' same color as my steel roof so they can make any of the radius pieces I may need. If its astronomical I can buy a radius flange bender for like $350 which I may do if the labor price for them to make it gets out of hand. I was thinking of shingling it too which would be very easy but I didnt want the asphalt particles washing down on my kitchen top. Ill update you what I find out from this local company. There are a few companies in other states that will make it for you and ship it to you but they're kind of pricey. I also plan on enclosing the stainless steel flu and stoning that as well.

Ricky

[RandyJ]

Hey Ricky, things are finally starting to come together. We now have siding, sheetrock is up and i am mudding and tapping everything. This project has almost killed me it was way more than i anticipated. I will be pulling it in at close to budget, but that just means i had to do more than i ever planned for. On the bright side it is turning out very well and everything looks like it makes sense and is not just slapped together as some additions do. I am excited to see how the roof turns out. That will be very cool.

[Chach]

Is there any benefit to adding loose perlite to my enclosure even though I have three inches of ceramic blanket over my oven.

[RandyJ]

i did that in my last oven. I am sure it adds to the overall heat retention ability of the oven. As to how necessary is up for debate. I just figured it was going to be very hard to add later if i wanted. I guess it depends on how far over budget you are already.

[Chach]

i did that in my last oven. I am sure it adds to the overall heat retention ability of the oven. As to how necessary is up for debate. I just figured it was going to be very hard to add later if i wanted. I guess it depends on how far over budget you are already.

Randy thanks for replying. I was debating if I should or not. Was curious if it got wet for some reason how long would it take to dry out not that I'm planning on it getting wet but was a concern of mine. Budget ha! I made it this far. Budget is no concern at this point hahah. now is the time for me to add it if i want to.

[Chach]

RandyJ do you remember how much perlite you used?

[Chach]

should I use this perlite http://www.hometownperlite.com/Krum_details.html or this perlite http://www.hometownperlite.com/Mason...l_details.html. I found a supplier near me for a reasonable price. one is a masonry perlite used to insulate masonry walls and the other is for garden use.