Vermiculite Pizza Oven Floor

Finally add the last 50 litre vermiculite slowly until the mix comes to the correct consistency adding more water if necessary.

Vermiculite pizza oven floor.

Ensure to keep the mix very wet add more water if you find it too dry. By vermiculite for my pizza oven job. The dome is formed by applying the concrete over a spherical mold commonly an exercise ball and leaving it to dry. A 10l bag of vermiculite cost 5 at the garden centre.

4 10 lb ft3 64 160kg m3 and thermal conductivity. It works as good and very effective insulator in pizza oven. At this stage the mixture should be a wet slurry mix. Add the 25kgs of ciment fondu.

A 100l bag from a fire stove store cost 19 go figure. A vermiculite pizza oven is one that is made from a concrete composed of the coarsely ground highly insulatory mineral vermiculite and a refractory cement suitable to withstand high temperatures. Vermiculite is mixed with cement at different ratio and applied on oven dome hearth and top of the oven roof as insulating material. 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.

Vermiculite insulation for pizza oven dome. I started with a dry mix of 5 parts vermiculite to 1 part portland cement. 1 cubic meter for an area in 100mm or 4 inches thick layer or possibly with an increased thickness for extra structural strength. We created a 4 layer of vermicrete made up of 9 parts vermiculite to 1 part portland cement a part is a spade full.

For this part i used 200l of vermiculate to create an insulation base of 6. Now the vermiculite mix but first here is a tip for gardeners. Litre bag of vermiculite. Ball in hand test.

Comparing the weight and strength of wood fired oven doors constructed of vermicrete and percrete. When the new perlite oven is in location we will do some h. Also page for how to add back up insulation to refractory hot. 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.

Vermiculite is used to insulate oven dome outside.