Bacterium's 2nd build

[Wayne73]

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Great stuff Damon, get out the marsh mallows.

[UtahBeehiver]

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On the home stretch, nothing like a fire to know you are almost there.

[Bacterium]

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2nd fire tonight.....pic is of fire last night

[Bacterium]

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Fought the rain and got my flue in last night..it was getting late but I went for broke and did a small paper and cardboard fire to celebrate..........wife was laughing.......but I was stoked!!!!!!

Ugghh smartphone won't let me load the pic...

[Wayne73]

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Looking good Damon, Im not to far behind you

[oasiscdm]

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Here here for the red.. I had too pull the few bricks up that I layed today. Need to rethink the mortar, the bricks suck the shit out of it. Might go back to soaking them more.

[Bacterium]

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Definitely feel like its coming together now.

......nearly had the flue in but got sick of putting the corrugated iron sheet back on 4 times between showers.
was almost going to put my rope/harness on but was way too hard.....a glass of red got the better of me

[oasiscdm]

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Hi Damon

Looking good. You must be chuffed.

[Bacterium]

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Found some perlite from last build, to fill my thermal break.

Went to see my mum (mother day)... dad and me got stuck into cutting up a pile of wood I've had drying out.

Tried getting flue through roof tonight but too much rain, hopefully tomorrow night

.......so itching to start curing fires. Just on this. Dome is noticeably dry as I've had it rugged up during rain and tarp off when warm weather and wind about. Probably been that way for at least 2 weeks. Wonder if I need to do much curing at all. Basically it won't have its blankie on yet but maybe curing fires during the week and pizza on Saturday night.

Over the next few weeks I'll work on blanket and render....so would obviously cure then to some degree.

[Bacterium]

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Got my shoulder back to the plough....well the brick saw

pulled my forms out....outer arch is bigger than I expected

[Bacterium]

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Russell I think your pictures are great. I'm thinking of cutting the arch bricks to transition the hole throught but also doing some square bricks on top of the arch to take the plate..

My situation is this is about 500mm from the eave ceiling..... Rather than just go from the single wall up to the ceiling box ( ceiling box is to protrude 300mm below eave lining for safety) ...... I might as well bring the ceiling box all the way down to the top of this plate.

If I've confused every1, I might post pics of my dry run on that.

[Bacterium]

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Thanks guys. Brickie using the scrap bricks was a big help in dry run.

Wife was out for a couple hours and got home on Saturday expecting arch to be standing......what's going on. She finds me in a puzzled state with cardboard on the floor nowhere near the oven.
..you been on pizza p0rno again....!!!! She asks..!!

Meanwhile I discovered some foam renderpanel in nearby skip as rubbish. Perfect as a base to my form . So once built add petrol (no flame) and the foam will reduce.....form lowers and just pull out in one piece. Any local Adelaide fellas want a template just ask me.
All of this come about by others:......first my son discovered the panels piece as he wanted to play with them.....and second the petrol was suggested by a work colleague

Colin my outer arch is driven by 2 things for me.
First one..... last oven was only 1.5 bricks deep and I wanted a slightly deeper arch so the smoke doesn't come out the front this time.
Second...... Where the flue has to go up throught the eave.....to far back and the flue dektite would end up in the gutter. Too far forward and whole oven would have to sit onto the alfresco footing.
Obviously taking into account reach and other stuff as well.

[brickie in oz]

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Nice front arch. its built like you meant it and not just two arches butted together as an after thought.

[oasiscdm]

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Hi Damon

Looking good not far now to PIZZAAAAAAAAAA.

One question why such a deep outer arch looks like 2 bricks deep. Have i got that right.

Keep photos coming am interested in how you complete this part of the build

[Cookie Monster]

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Hey Damon,

Looks pretty good mate!! I am about at the same point as you. Trying to figure out how to mount the chimney base plate.

Cheers,

Matt