I am awaiting getting my arch bricks cut but can at least get some construction happening.
So I have assembled a gazebo to protect from the weather which will unfortunately make it a bit hot during the day.
I found a box of unused ceramic tile from a bathroom upgrade so have stuck those to the hearth and drilled 12mm holes through the hearth for water drainage.
One layer of 50mm Cascil sheet for under oven insulation, I went for maximum usage of these sheets so my floor runs to the extent of the insulation beneath.
Assembled the floor in a herringbone pattern making sure I didn't have any of those small of cuts at the opening of the oven.
As I am constructing the dome header bricks directly on the oven floor, I did not worry about having a complete circular base, there are some small fillers missing that I am just going to "Mud" over with some homebrew.
I have mortored in the floor with a homebrew using the 3:1:1:1 ratio which went well but I didn't think that it went off rapidly at all. Actually even though I did wet the brick edges down slightly, I didn't think it stuck really well? I did check this morning and appears to be hard and cemented in place.
I am just going to keep building and see what happens, I do not have any plans once the dome is complete, I am hoping to attack the landing and chimney as I come to them, from my reading, a lot of people change their minds as they come to stage so it should be ok for me as well?
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