The Price Of Bricks Is To Much!

[Matthew Hall]

I've been out and about getting quotes on some of the materials I will need to build the insulating floor and the over dome. HOLY CRAP! That's a lot of money. Just for the firebricks alone will set me back nere on £500 just for 190 blocks. So can anyone help me to find cheeper firebricks or sagest an alternative type of brick that I could use for the dome?

[Ken524]

Hi Matthew!

Ouch. Those bricks are really high (~$5.25USD/brick)! Have you checked around for other refractory suppliers?

We have a few guys in the UK building ovens. Hopefully they can give you some advice on a supplier.

It's been said that if you can't get firebrick, then using common house brick to build the oven is better than having no oven at all.

Good luck!

[dmun]

You might try contacting the used brick dealers that sell on ebay.co.uk and see if they have any firebricks.

[CajunKnight]

Also check with the supplier and see if they have seconds or commons in the firebrick. The price I was quoted for new bricks was 1.75 USD per brick and the seconds are 0.39 USD per brick. The ones I inspected had very minor imperfections and would be usable for floor and dome.

[Matthew Hall]

You know what I had a look round! But with on luke and I even gooled it, for local suppliers and still nothing. But I will still keep looking because after a bit of reserech I think I could make a busnisse out of it because there's hardly no one doing round here.

[dmun]

I think I could make a busnisse out of it because there's hardly no one doing round here.

Absolutely! UK refractory prices are ridiculous! Whenever there is such a huge price spread between two places that are seven days apart by boat there is a profitable business opportunity. And the things you can't get at all? Fireclay? Dry mortar mix? I can see a "refractories-r-us.co.uk" in your future!

[Matthew Hall]

Dose anyone recon that If I just built the dome out of what ever brick and then plaster the inside of it with fire mortar would that work???? Ha Ha Ha!!! I'm such a cheapskate lol! and I got no money DAM IT!

[dmun]

You could build your oven from common brick, the only danger is a chip or crack, and a slight decrease in performance. Plastering the inside of the dome is a really bad idea, I tried to smooth heat-stop mortar over some joints that didn't quite line up, and all those pieces fell right out.

[berryst]

The topic of using regular brick seems to come up a lot. I used it and its working so far perfectly ..no spalling and I made my own mortar too. If you can't afford a Cadillac buy a volkswagen
berryst

[SimonWoodfield]

Matthew
I posted this a while ago on anther thread, but this is where I got my bricks from.


Yorkshire refractory products YRPL Homepage Supplied fireclay and firebricks to me. Bricks at £1.05 each and clay at 0.38 per kilo. Sadly they charge about £50 to deliver, I guess if there were a group of people located fairly close, a big order might be cost effective. I have just finished my dome and used most of 1 bag.

Simon