Vermiculite Pizza Oven Floor

Vermiculite is a heat proof insulation material typically used in chimney backfills and is cheap and easy to find in your local builders yard.

Vermiculite pizza oven floor.

When the new perlite oven is in location we will do some h. By vermiculite for my pizza oven job. For this part i used 200l of vermiculate to create an insulation base of 6. We created a 4 layer of vermicrete made up of 9 parts vermiculite to 1 part portland cement a part is a spade full.

A 100l bag from a fire stove store cost 19 go figure. 4 10 lb ft3 64 160kg m3 and thermal conductivity. All i was looking for to calculate the amount of material needed for making a lightweight concrete form vermiculite. Add the 25kgs of ciment fondu.

The dome is formed by applying the concrete over a spherical mold commonly an exercise ball and leaving it to dry. Also page for how to add back up insulation to refractory hot. Finally add the last 50 litre vermiculite slowly until the mix comes to the correct consistency adding more water if necessary. At this stage the mixture should be a wet slurry mix.

Ball in hand test. Vermiculite is mixed with cement at different ratio and applied on oven dome hearth and top of the oven roof as insulating material. Even it helps to add another insulating material on pizza oven. I started with a dry mix of 5 parts vermiculite to 1 part portland cement.

A 10l bag of vermiculite cost 5 at the garden centre. Ensure to keep the mix very wet add more water if you find it too dry. Litre bag of vermiculite. Vermiculite is used to insulate oven dome outside.

Vermiculite insulation for pizza oven dome. Although some grades are a bit more absorbing it won t matter in wood oven it will do the job well as loose in a sealed fill. Comparing the weight and strength of wood fired oven doors constructed of vermicrete and percrete. Now the vermiculite mix but first here is a tip for gardeners.

0 40 0 45 btu in sq ft deg f 0 058 0 068 w mk i have a book somewhere on perlite concrete s when i get back home i could look in it if.