Glenn's WFO

[Johnny the oven man]

Coming along very nicely Glenn.

[g8rjoe]

Great job, mate. The brick floor arrangement is quite interesting and compelling. I do like the way your transition on the arch turned out. It's one of my worries. I'll be starting with the brick floor here in about a week after giving the slab a bit of a holiday to cure.

Keep up the good job.

Joe

[carloswlkr]

Looks great! Can't wait to see more of your opening arch. Cheers!

[glennb]

Hopefully i'll get some more work done this weekend if it cools down a bit, but this week has just been way too hot to even think about going outdoors. Even at 9pm at night, it's still sitting on 40deg C.

[glennb]

Well, despite the entire state turning into a blast furnace yesterday with top temperatures of 48 deg C in parts of Melbourne, I actually managed to get some more work done over the last week and today.

Working with the angled arch entry was kinda difficult and time consuming to get the bricks cut and set on the correct angles. I didn't use a form for the outer arch either, and kinda just made it up as I went. It turned out pretty good though, and it's still standing.

I'm playing with ideas for the finishing touches at the moment, and planning to use the red clay pavers to put a nice decorative layer on the arch face. I'll use the cream pavers to finish off the top of the slab and bring the Vermicrete and final render down onto them. Should look good and provide a decent weather seal.

Also, once my last bricks have set and i've bolted the chimney plate down, i'm ready for my first fire!! yay.

The weather has too been crazy though, with either extremely high heat (and total fire bans yesterday), to the odd shower today, so it's hard to get my oven fired and dry.

I want to fire it before i put the insulating blanket on though, so that if I get any major cracks i can patch them up again.

[glennb]

A few photos of how I created my throat for the chimney.
Hopefully it draws nicely, as you can see that my outer arch is higher than the throat entry, so I might be at risk of getting smoke coming out the front.

Only a fire will tell me for sure.

[carloswlkr]

Looks good. I'm at a similar spot in my build right now, so it's good to see yours as it goes up.

[carloswlkr]

How are the curing fires coming? How's the oven taking it?

[dbhansen]

Very nice craftsmanship, Glenn! I wish I would have thought of that type of entry design....

[Bob C]

I agree with DB...Really great work. Anyone building an over now truly has a wealth of info and ideas to build a great WFO. IT kind of want to makes me want to build another.