I think sometimes his plans actually have the insulating hearth floating or hanging on the block walls...there is a oven build site brickoventampa or something...his oven did not have a structural layer of concrete under the oven itself.
My oven was done in that way and I can say it rather stinks sometimes!
Dutch
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Originally Posted by dvonk  I wonder (surfing brick oven sites) why Alan Scott's following (and probably Alan by himself) pour the insulation hearth under the structural but not vice a versa?
What a thermal mass and what a firing it should be (even despite the fact they put a floor bricks in the side!)??? |