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Finally cracked my brick oven after 3 failed attempts
Been building a wood-fired oven in my backyard for the past 6 weeks. The dome kept collapsing on me - lost 80 bricks the first time. Third try I switched to a different mortar mix with more sand and let it cure for an extra 4 days. Anyone else deal with dome failures on builds like this?
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mason7981mo ago
100% changed my mind after watching a video on roman arch designs.
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david_henderson61mo ago
Totally get that @mason798, one good video and suddenly you're second-guessing everything you thought you knew about arches lol. Guess the fourth attempt was just commitment to the bit.
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ellis.victor1mo ago
Oh man, that's brutal. What made you stick with the same basic dome design instead of trying a different shape for the fourth attempt?
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