Friday, May 22, 2015

Sealing the chamber with high temperature concrete

It was all hands on deck today as we tackled the last of the big muscle jobs. We needed to mix a bunch of concrete to pour over the top of our cooking chamber.  This will help keep the chamber solid, and the high temperature concrete will also keep it insulated.



We had over a dozen people out this afternoon to help (not too shabby for the Friday of Memorial Day weekend).

We had expert supervision.



We had four wheelbarrows going back and forth.







Then we had a team filling a big bucket and pouring it over the top of the chamber.








After waiting a day to take the forms off, we finally had a look at the finished product...behold the cooking chamber. (NOTE: we still have to build our walls, chimney, roof, and the oven "entrance")









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