Pizza Oven Vermiculite Mix
Building a pizza oven using vermiculite and refractory cement.
Pizza oven vermiculite mix. Vermiculite is mixed with cement at different ratio and applied on oven dome hearth and top of the oven roof as insulating material. At this stage the mixture should be a wet. When the new perlite oven is in location we will do some h. The pizza oven is to be fitted in wall and to be fully covered over with vermiculite perlite.
Comparing the weight and strength of wood fired oven doors constructed of vermicrete and percrete. How tobuild a high temperature pizza and bread baking oven from easily obtainable materials and avoid the use of expensive refractory bricks and to get it to heat as quickly as possible get maximum benefit from your fuel and use basic tools. 6 parts by volume. My pizza oven is only a few hundred pounds but i figured better safe than sorry.
It works as good and very effective insulator in pizza oven. 25kg of portland cement or cement fondu approx. Building a pizza oven using vermiculite and refractory cement. I think my platform was 45 inches long and 36 inches deep.
Perlite aggregate combined with portland cement and water produces a light weight insulating concrete used for pizza ovens. 100 litre or 2 x 50 litre bag of dineen vermiculite approx. The dome is formed by applying the concrete over a spherical mold commonly an exercise ball and leaving it to dry. And to make damn nice pizza.
1 part by volume 40 50 litres of water. We ran supports 12 15 inches and used 2 inch thick decking a neighbor was throwing out. How to mix vermiculite concrete materials needed. Vermiculite insulation for pizza oven dome.
Vermiculite is used to insulate oven dome. Put your water in the mixer add first 50 litre bag of vermiculite. 100 or so recycled bricks 250kg pottery clay i got mine from a local pottery equipment supplier who. 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.
We are looking into specifying a pizza oven for a job in tasmania and suppliers of the pizza oven zesti have recommended purchasing the vermiculite locally the product that they us is a vermiculite perlite mix 100l fine bag.