Today I stripped the forms but left the under supports in place. Those will be staying in place a while until I am sure it's cured.
Me and Home Depot had a little falling out about 20 years ago over loading stuff. I needed fifty sheets of 4x8 sheet rock. I asked if they could set a stack of it behind my pickup so I could slide them in the bed. The guy said "yes, I'll be right there". I paid for the sheets and 15 minutes later no guy so I asked again about some help. That guy said "sure, we'll be right there". 20 minutes later nobody. I walked over to the second guy and asked a third time and he said "in a minute"......Dirtytires wrote: ↑May 26th, 2021, 11:50 amJust for the record, Home Depot will load your truck as well. I needed some brick, 30 bags of cement and some misc items. They put it on a pallet, wrapped it and forked it on the truck. Rented one of their little cement mixers and they forked that on too.
Agree, you can't always find and an employee and some are more helpful than others......
Eggsactly as you described it.....8 wheel barrow loads of sand to fill it. I am twelve bricks high now and finished with the brick work just a bit ago. I have a layer of wire to put down inside the top and then the last 2.5" of concrete will get poured to brick level. I used a total of 6 cubic feet of Perlite and have a great layer of insulation all around the fire box.dacolson wrote: ↑May 30th, 2021, 2:22 pmJust rereading this. Had to get my head around how you formed the domed interior roof. You made two domed end forms - like plywood squares with the top rounded like the dome? Then filled the entire oven interior with sand to make the rest of your form? Yikes!
Did you lay your interior roof bricks directly on the sand at that point and mortar them from behind with the refractory cement?
Lots of work. Impressive
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