[CanuckJim]

All,

As luck would have it, I'm also installing an outdoor oven near a town called Port Hope, which is way to the east of the Toronto job. Fortunately, this one is a Casa 110 from Forno Bravo. The homeowner has specified a large fireplace on the left of the pad shown in the pic. The entire facade will be of red "old time" brick. The steel stand was fabricated by Lloyd Johnston, who's actually a blacksmith/gunsmith. As he put it, "She won't fall down anytime soon." If you look closely, you'll see that Lloyd had drilled holes into the angle iron to hold the rebar in place. That will make tying the mesh to it and pouring quite a bit more precise.

The actual installation begins next Tuesday, once the reinforced concrete within the stand tray has firmed up. I'll be using 2 inches of SuperIsol below the floor, coating the dome with RefMix, insulating it with two batts of Insulfrax, plus three inches of Matrilite 18, the castable insulator I've mentioned elsewhere.

Jim