In order to make a dome clay stove you need clay, sand, straw, sawdust, glass bottles, chammed bricks and a couple of sheets of a common newspaper. Make a clay stove much easier than you think!
Perhaps you are interested - "What can be done in such an oven?" Good question!
These furnaces are ideal for baking pizza, bread, cookies, cakes, potatoes, rice, beans and even stew!
Is it enough for you to start building your own stove?
Here is a phased guide, how to do it:
Step 1: Creation of sand-clay kneading (Samana).
In the stuff, the main thing is to choose a fatty clay, which is easy to fall in hand and make the proportion of sand and clay. How to determine it? Very simple. In your hands you have to get into such balls.
Step 2: Make the basis with isolation.
Glass cans or bottles provide reliable thermal insulation. A chammatory brick will be the basis for creating a dome furnace.
Step 3: Creating a sand furnace.
More precisely, this is not the stove itself, but only her layout. Reminds the principle of how Papier Masha do. On top covering it with a newspaper and wet
Step 4: Creating a heat layer.
The main goal of the heat layer is to maintain heat inside the furnace. After the first dome is ready, all the sand is neatly removed from it.
Further adding a bit of straw to the kneading arc under the door
Step 5:. Layer of insulation. The purpose of this layer, maintain heat in the thermal layer.
He is much thicker and sawdust in it.
Finally, finish! Fract the stove of clay to give a smooth surface of the furnace and add sculptural decorative parts.
Well, here is a stove made of clay ready. You can lay firewood and ignite.
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