The hearth questions and progress pictures

[stewpot]

Thanks George
I've been doing some more research and think I found a supplier of refractory materials at Sheffield who has what I need High alumina brick, insulfrax etc( no prices yet though). If it's good enough for blast furnaces etc I reckon it should be OK for WFOs.
like you I keep covered up between woking on it but am amazed at the speed you guys progress.
Cheers
Stuart

[George T]

We made more progress this weekend. I have the dome completed. My finished height was right at 20" and the final brick seemed to lay in ok. We also worked on the stone and the front. More stone tomorrow and I have several firebrick that I need to attach under the arch.

I hope to get the stone finished tomorrow and start working on the chimney plan so I can insulate and get the roof put on the structure.

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[mfiore]

Boy that went up fast! Looks stunning!

[George T]

Thanks Mike. My neighbors think I have lost it. All I have done for the last month is work on this every chance I get.

Today we got the front completed. Just a few more Pictures.

[dvonk]

Your oven is so deep, how you are going to make the fire management? It won't be easy to move logs inside the oven (I'm afraid).

[George T]

going to have to use long tools. it is about 12 inches longer than typical. hopefully it will work out......I did not account for the finished fashia in my planning. Maybe correct it on the next one. Anyone else have a longer tunnel that can comment?

[dvonk]

That is what I've meant - reach the center of the dome is not easy, and long tools makes easy only from one point of view - the longer the tool the more difficult to handle the log

[George T]

Another Day complete. Got the flue run up today. I knew with the angle we had to move up and the fact that we had to keep the weight off the oven dome we were going to have quite a site inside the chamber taking up the chimney. We used Angle iron's to keep the weight off the dome.

Tomorrow hope to have it done so the roof can go on next week and then over the weekend we can finish up the stone. Thanks again everyone for the help. We are getting close.

[George T]

Well. We completed the chimney's and chimney cap today....final tuckpointing etc; we had our third fire in the oven and I hope to get my insulation on tomorrow.

I have hired a carpenter to put on the roof. Hopefully that will be done next week. The most expensive part of the project. We are really getting close. My son keeps telling me he is ready for the Pizza already! He loaded the wood underneath so we were ready to go.

Here are the pictures from the end of the day.

[n2iko]

What is the third flue used for?

--mr.jim