Hi everyone,
We have laid the insulated hearth, but we lined the oven area with firebrick, to hold in heat longer for bread baking and stuff.
The problem is that when "we" laid the firebrick, it was not exactly even. I thought it could be resolved by using the fireclay as a leveler before adding the oven floor.
Can we just put another form around the hearth, with it about an inch higher than the hearth and pour the portland cement/vermiculite mixture over it and level it, over the firebrick?
Also, I tried to get high heat mortar today, which is what is called for for the making of the dome. Is that the same thing as the fireclay?
Are there brand names? They don't carry, but can get in, stuff in bags that you mix yourself. Otherwise the mortar they sell, which is for fireplace...it's in buckets of different sizes. But the lady helping me didn't really know, and I was sort of in a rush so I didn't think to ask for someone knowledgeable in the field (this is Capitol Concrete in Topeka, KS) - They do sell oven kits - I didn't think to ask for a brochure, either.
I'm the one with the 17year old boy doing this - he doesn't like to admit mistakes. But he does know that he made some and he tries to resolve them after pretending he wasn't wrong! heh heh heh.
Thanks for your help,
Cecelia
We have laid the insulated hearth, but we lined the oven area with firebrick, to hold in heat longer for bread baking and stuff.
The problem is that when "we" laid the firebrick, it was not exactly even. I thought it could be resolved by using the fireclay as a leveler before adding the oven floor.
Can we just put another form around the hearth, with it about an inch higher than the hearth and pour the portland cement/vermiculite mixture over it and level it, over the firebrick?
Also, I tried to get high heat mortar today, which is what is called for for the making of the dome. Is that the same thing as the fireclay?
Are there brand names? They don't carry, but can get in, stuff in bags that you mix yourself. Otherwise the mortar they sell, which is for fireplace...it's in buckets of different sizes. But the lady helping me didn't really know, and I was sort of in a rush so I didn't think to ask for someone knowledgeable in the field (this is Capitol Concrete in Topeka, KS) - They do sell oven kits - I didn't think to ask for a brochure, either.
I'm the one with the 17year old boy doing this - he doesn't like to admit mistakes. But he does know that he made some and he tries to resolve them after pretending he wasn't wrong! heh heh heh.
Thanks for your help,
Cecelia
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