Hi all,
This is my first submission to the forum. I am planning my Pompeii oven for a firing in the spring. There is a lot of great information on the construction of domes on this site thank you. While I was planning my project I started making a model of the brick dome in Sketchup, Which I use for my woodworking projects.
In looking through the threads I became very interested in tapering the bricks to affect an internal dome with minimal grout gaps. Very nice. There are some wonderful threads including:
http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f28/...idea-2573.html (Hendo's dome gauge -- nice idea)
http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f28/...tilt-2802.html (Twist and Tilt)
While working my model on the computer with the idea of tapering bricks it struck me that I could try two things.
1) Make the tapers large enough so that only on the front (internal dome) of the block is cut. I am removing only enough material to eliminate the small triangle created by two adjacent rectangular bricks (see image). Keeping the blocks as large as possible.
2)Only taper every other block in the course.One rectangular block one partial tapered block (see image). Seems like half the work to me.
The resulting dome is presented in the third attachment. You can notice the alternating rectangles and trapezoids but little grout seam.
I do have a question to those with experience building a dome. Is there any obvious problem with this approach especially in terms of structural problems?
Cheers
This is my first submission to the forum. I am planning my Pompeii oven for a firing in the spring. There is a lot of great information on the construction of domes on this site thank you. While I was planning my project I started making a model of the brick dome in Sketchup, Which I use for my woodworking projects.
In looking through the threads I became very interested in tapering the bricks to affect an internal dome with minimal grout gaps. Very nice. There are some wonderful threads including:
http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f28/...idea-2573.html (Hendo's dome gauge -- nice idea)
http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f28/...tilt-2802.html (Twist and Tilt)
While working my model on the computer with the idea of tapering bricks it struck me that I could try two things.
1) Make the tapers large enough so that only on the front (internal dome) of the block is cut. I am removing only enough material to eliminate the small triangle created by two adjacent rectangular bricks (see image). Keeping the blocks as large as possible.
2)Only taper every other block in the course.One rectangular block one partial tapered block (see image). Seems like half the work to me.
The resulting dome is presented in the third attachment. You can notice the alternating rectangles and trapezoids but little grout seam.
I do have a question to those with experience building a dome. Is there any obvious problem with this approach especially in terms of structural problems?
Cheers
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