Vermiculite Pizza Oven Floor

It works as good and very effective insulator in pizza oven.

Vermiculite pizza oven floor.

I started with a dry mix of 5 parts vermiculite to 1 part portland cement. Even it helps to add another insulating material on pizza oven. Now the vermiculite mix but first here is a tip for gardeners. 4 10 lb ft3 64 160kg m3 and thermal conductivity.

Vermiculite is used to insulate oven dome outside. Vermiculite insulation for pizza oven dome. A 100l bag from a fire stove store cost 19 go figure. Litre bag of vermiculite.

For this part i used 200l of vermiculate to create an insulation base of 6. Finally add the last 50 litre vermiculite slowly until the mix comes to the correct consistency adding more water if necessary. Ensure to keep the mix very wet add more water if you find it too dry. 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.

All i was looking for to calculate the amount of material needed for making a lightweight concrete form vermiculite. Also page for how to add back up insulation to refractory hot. 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 is mixed with cement at different ratio and applied on oven dome hearth and top of the oven roof as insulating material.

Ball in hand test. By vermiculite for my pizza oven job. At this stage the mixture should be a wet slurry mix. The dome is formed by applying the concrete over a spherical mold commonly an exercise ball and leaving it to dry.

When the new perlite oven is in location we will do some h. 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. Add the 25kgs of ciment fondu. Vermiculite is a heat proof insulation material typically used in chimney backfills and is cheap and easy to find in your local builders yard.

A 10l bag of vermiculite cost 5 at the garden centre.