Anyone have contacts for firebricks?

**Winston001** · 21st April 2009, 10:32

Just a thought - the bricks inside night-store heaters are very heavy and should be fireproof. Night-stores are being dumped in favour of heatpumps - you could offer to take away old ones and keep the bricks.

**Devil** · 21st April 2009, 11:37

Originally Posted by Hinny

If you had turned up to the ATNR a bit more often and you would have got at least a couple of invites from me.

You bastard.

Unfortunately the ATNR conflicts with other interests!

**Hinny** · 22nd April 2009, 20:46

Originally Posted by Winston001

Just a thought - the bricks inside night-store heaters are very heavy and should be fireproof. Night-stores are being dumped in favour of heatpumps - you could offer to take away old ones and keep the bricks.

They are good.
Used to be expensive.

**Hinny** · 22nd April 2009, 21:13

Originally Posted by Tank

Not keen on making a castable one - want to do it properly and have one that will retain the heat for baking of bread / roast etc.

What design did you go with the round or the rectangle base?

40 seconds - fuck! how hot are you cooking - I was thinking that 90 seconds was 'optimal'

Was going to be rectangular. Daughters boyfriend who was a brickie reckoned he could build a round one so we went with laying the base blocks for a round one. Then he departed the scene and when i tried to lay the bricks for a round one it became impossibly difficult. Had too many cuts to make and the bricks I had were second hand from a furnace and impossible to cut with a normal diamond blade. Consequently I abandoned that idea and made a tunnel one but with a dome exterior to suit the base.

I overfired the oven recently using a new wood - Willow.
Was burning the pizzas in about 10 secs.
It took five hours to get cool enought to cook them without burning!