Brick Oven Floor Insulation

This pizza oven was built the way that it has insulating tiles on top of the top concrete slab and with fire bricks sitting on top of the tiling insulation.

Brick oven floor insulation.

If this is the case you just pull the bricks out add some insulation and put them back in. Check out our full line of wood fired brick ovens and tools. I recently had some contractors build me a brick oven. Question about oven floor insulation mate you should be good to go.

First you need to decide are you going to build the side wall on top of the oven floor or around it. Needless to say they did not do their research and neglected to use any insulation. Spread the compound to the stone pieces and secure it to the brick oven. The inside of the oven floor walls inside of dome are all covered with firebrick and refractory mortar.

These guys had never built one before nor did they use a pre purchased kit. Building on top is the simple solution but building around gives you better insulation. Make sure the gaps between the stones are no larger than 1 2 inches otherwise the pizza oven won t have a neat look. As for amounts of insulation i would say 2 of calsil under the oven is a bare minimum 3 to 4 is better but you will see diminishing results as you go beyond that.

In this video i will show you how i insulate my brick oven floor. The oven still retains good heat within the firebrick layer for making many pizzas while the fire is ongoing. I take it from your description that the floor bricks are inside the dome walls. The first step in building our brick oven kit is to cut and lay the calcium silicate board insulation.

I will explain the advanta. They are very soft and not ment to cook on. Then for the d105 kit we pour an extra heat bank fo. Start fitting the stone pieces from the bottom to the top of the dome.

Ad for the dome i would say 3 is good. Covering the pizza oven with stone. Some brick ovens are encased in a virtual cube of solid material to help keep in all the lovely heat enabling one to use the oven for cooking many hours after the fire has died down. You can not use the insulating brick as the floor of the oven.

I will discuss different options for insulating the oven floor. Not having money enough for that much material and wanting to preserve the attractive dome design i opted for a more modest but as it turned out highly effective approach. Includes 2 boards of calcium silicate insulation each board is 2 wide x 3 long x 2 thick.