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.

Even it helps to add another insulating material on pizza oven. Add the 25kgs of ciment fondu. Ensure to keep the mix very wet add more water if you find it too dry. By vermiculite for my pizza oven job.

A 10l bag of vermiculite cost 5 at the garden centre. Vermiculite is used to insulate oven dome outside. When the new perlite oven is in location we will do some h. 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.

Finally add the last 50 litre vermiculite slowly until the mix comes to the correct consistency adding more water if necessary. Vermiculite insulation for pizza oven dome. A 100l bag from a fire stove store cost 19 go figure. Litre bag of vermiculite.

Comparing the weight and strength of wood fired oven doors constructed of vermicrete and percrete. Vermiculite is mixed with cement at different ratio and applied on oven dome hearth and top of the oven roof as insulating material. 4 10 lb ft3 64 160kg m3 and thermal conductivity. At this stage the mixture should be a wet slurry mix.

Ball in hand test. It works as good and very effective insulator in pizza oven. We created a 4 layer of vermicrete made up of 9 parts vermiculite to 1 part portland cement a part is a spade full. Also page for how to add back up insulation to refractory hot.

For this part i used 200l of vermiculate to create an insulation base of 6. I started with a dry mix of 5 parts vermiculite to 1 part portland cement. All i was looking for to calculate the amount of material needed for making a lightweight concrete form vermiculite. The dome is formed by applying the concrete over a spherical mold commonly an exercise ball and leaving it to dry.

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.