It's time to go Vertical

[CanuckJim]

RC,

Admittedly, mine is a barrel vault design, but I went with 7" round flue tile. I liked it from the start because it's male/female lipped and goes together snugly and quite a bit on the stable side. However, it can be hard to find and should not be confused with drain tile. The chimney, as I've said elsewhere, draws like a locomotive on steroids.

Jim

[RCLake]

Originally Posted by Dino_Pizza

Thanks everyone for your great advice and I plan on taking all of it. I checked out HD website and I plan on getting a 10" wet saw. For $400 and a better job with less hastle, I can drink Two-Buck-Chuck for 1 month instead of $30 Pinot and buy the saw. It's all good with Pizza anyway, no? Off to read more Forum notes, Thanks everyone, Dino

My brother's father in-law says it went to three-buck chuck in Arizona but he is a believer. You quote the HD website, I'm assuming it is Home Depot, I as alot of members have gone to Harbor Freight an bought one. I got mine with a two year warranty for $280 with blade. I won't say it is a top quality saw, but I've had no problems at all. I believe HD also has a chinese mft. making theres.

[Acoma]

Yes, Dino should save his money that he would spend on the HD wet saw, go buy the HF wet saw, and use that difference on the Refmix

[mfiore]

Dino,
Buy the cheaper saw and drink better wine than the two buck (three buck in my state) chuck. Life is too short for bad wine (as it is for bad pizza).

[gjbingham]

Hey RC,
I was just thinking (yes, I know, a rare of often ill-fated activity).........
I think you need to rename this thread "Its time to go horizontal" Is that keystone in yet?
G.

[RCLake]

The keystone is cut and ready, I'm thinking I'll mortar that in when I'm done with the vent area. But you are right the thread is almost up. I was thinking either It's time to Cure or It's time to burn food. We'll see.

[gjbingham]

The arch only takes a day, unless you haven't yet built a form for it yet, or the vertical arch walls. The hard part is letting it sit for a week before you take the form out. I only lasted 6 days.

[RCLake]

Originally Posted by gjbingham

The arch only takes a day, unless you haven't yet built a form for it yet, or the vertical arch walls. The hard part is letting it sit for a week before you take the form out. I only lasted 6 days.

The week will work for the time to let the mortar hydrate. I'm still thinking about the vent, I think I'll go with a flue. Our kids have Monday off from work so we'll be in Dallas until then. Maybe I can find a flue that is not to big.

My guess is that the arch vent opening will be 6"x10" and I'll want a flue a little bigger. So far what I've seen are a lot bigger. Wish me luck shopping.

[dmun]

The standard refractory flue tile sizes are 8*8 and 8*12. The former is what you want for an oven, the larger is for fireplaces. They make a 12*12 flue tile, but I don't know what for, hunting lodge size fireplaces, no doubt. The sizes are exactly wrong: code calls for a half an inch of space between the outside of the flue tile, and the inside of the masonry structure, and that means lots of brick cutting to get the chimney to the right size. (Or a much bigger chimney than code calls for).

I built an elaborate funnel out of the flue tile material:



If I did it again, I think I'd just fudge one up out of firebrick, splits if I was short of space.

[sarah h]

Hi RC - great work on that oven - is it just me or does it seem to have gone up fast?! Maybe it seems that way if you're not the one working on it !
I'm way behind on your and everyone's progress but I'm glad I haven't missed the keystone. I see you have it cut tough - does that mean you've now completed all the rows? It looked from the pics I saw like you still had a row or two to go but maybe I missed something ... either way, won't be long now!

Sarah