Fire Bricks For Pizza Oven Floor

Fire bricks x 45 67 50 45 delivery from ebay 25kg fire clay 9 45 10 postage from ebay you ll also need general things like mixing buckets trowels etc which we ll already used earlier plus an angle grinder for cutting bricks.

Fire bricks for pizza oven floor.

Brick type matters for many things in a pizza over especially including how hot it will get and how long the oven will last over time. Some ovens use a too thick 4 floor constructed with cast and air dried refractory material which is too much mass to fully heat up to pizza baking temperature. Buddingco fire brick kit of 4 red perfect for fire pits pizza ovens and stoves. When you drop a pizza on the hot base and see it instantly expand and cook in front of your eyes it is really cool.

Fire brick ceramic fiber and castable refractories are the three forms of refractories used in kilns but fire brick is the most significant. Good for fireplaces bread and pizza ovens kiln chimneys and back up linings. This is the brick that we recommend for both the cooking floor and dome of the pompeii brick oven. If you think about it the size of the oven floor ultimately defines the size of the whole oven.

This now brings us to the size of the oven floor. Pizza oven build part 3 the oven floor. 9 x 4 5 x 2 5 straight 2 51 ea 9 x 4 5 x 1 25 1 split 2 39 ea. The brand of brick i went with for the oven floor were vitcas fire bricks.

Medium duty firebricks are comprised of roughly 35 alumina and 50 silica heat up quickly easily withstand the 900f heat your oven will reach and are designed for the rapid heat up and cool down thermal cycling that your oven will experience. A brick with many faces fire brick is a generic term that encompasses any brick that can withstand repeated heating and cooling at various temperature ranges. Firebrick is the preferred building material for most pizza oven builders but a clay brick oven is better than no oven at all. The set for this oven were not so good which meant i had a lot of gaps in my herringbone oven floor.

I should say that when i brought my original fire bricks from vitcas they were perfectly straight with good right angles. Temperature use limit of 2700 f. The bottom of the floor remains cool and continually wicks heat away from the inside of the oven and the baking floor is always cooling down.