I’ve been working steadily since the last post. That is, until today. My back had been giving me twinges, but a couple extra Tylenol and being able to sit on a little stool had allowed me to keep going. This morning, my back told me “you better pay attention to me or I’m going to cripple [...]
Archive for September, 2008
I gotta take a break!
Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A smashed finger and giving back
Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
After a day off to work a shift at Ally’s Attic, I’m back to laying more brick. Ally’s Attic is a local (Snellville) antique / flea market where I’ve rented a display cabinet to sell some of the accumulations of this life. The Attic’s dealers are required to work one day a month besides paying booth [...]
More bricks and some early Christmas gifts
Posted in Uncategorized on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Laid 16 more bricks today. Wow, I’m zooming along. Vaughn also ordered some neat oven-related gifts for me for Christmas. One is an ash bucket. I had been looking on eBay but we found this one at Plow and Hearth. It will fit nicely under the ash slot and it has a double bottom and [...]
3 Days, 35 Bricks
Posted in Uncategorized on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Can you believe it’s taken me 3 days to lay 35 bricks? I KNOW it’s slow, but the good news is I’m getting better each time I pick up the trowel. Mortar is funny stuff. It needs to be just the right consistency and it’s sort of frustrating that a lot of it squishes out [...]
A Grey, Flat 600 Pound Gorilla
Posted in Uncategorized on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That’s how much the hearth slab weighs (and a bit more)! The forms are off the slab, and I’m disappointed that it’s not as pretty a concrete pour as the base slab. Not sure what happened, but the concrete set up much quicker.
Could be my mixing water should have been cooler, or the humidity that day could [...]
The Hearth Slab is poured
Posted in Uncategorized on September 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today’s big finale was the concrete pour for the hearth slab. Just as we did for the base slab, we got up bright and early so that we could work while it was relatively cool. With tropical storm Hannah on the coast of NC, we were hoping to have overcast skies and a breeze. Instead we got [...]
Big Steps Continued
Posted in Uncategorized on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After the paint had dried, it was time to make and install the forms for the hearth slab. This slab will support the oven chamber itself and is the surface upon which the firebricks will be be laid. The first to go in are the bridge supports that go from side to side. In this [...]
Big Steps Today
Posted in Uncategorized on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some really big steps were taken today. Again, a giant Thank You to Vaughn for helping me pour concrete!
First, though, I wanted to show how the foundation looks with some brick-colored paint inside. Vaughn thought it would look nicer if the inside of the block support were a color other than concrete block grey. I [...]
