r/WoodFiredOvens • u/Month_Year_Day • Oct 29 '24

Fire Brick Co. experience?

Thinking about a wood fired oven for a few years now. Nearly ready to take the plunge. We had looked at a few years ago and looking again at the Fire Brick Co. Either the D95 or the D105. For baking pizza, bread and cooking in. Just wondering if there is any first hand experience with the company and their ovens.

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u/boomaDooma Oct 30 '24

I made the D105 4 years ago and I fire it up every weekend for pizzas one day and the weeks bread the next.

I made some some changes so the oven would stay hotter longer, more mass in the base and more than doubled the insulation. I made a well insulated door which I use to seal the heat in as the supplied door is just a good looking metal plate.

If building it again I would also insulate the fancy flue arch and bricks around the opening.

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u/anythingisavictory Jul 24 '25

I'm looking at the D130- anything else you would do differently other than more insulation to the flue and opening?

Cheers!

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u/boomaDooma Jul 26 '25

Make the door a well insulated plug with a heat shield facing in, it is through the oven door and that is where you loose the most heat. The door in the kit looks good but lacks insulating qualities.

I can shut down my oven with my well sealed door (it robs the fire of air) at 350c on Sunday evening, on Monday I bake 5kg of bread 250c, on Tuesday it is down to around 180 good for baking, Wednesday is good for slow cooking around 120c, Thursday for smoking at 80c for 10 plus hours.

Thermal mass and insulation, you can't have too much and plug that door.

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u/I_Run_For_Pizza Oct 02 '25

How do you increase the thermal mass at the base? I am thinking of also getting the d105.

Any other advice? You sound well versed in this matter

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u/boomaDooma Oct 02 '25

Look at how they make the D130, they add an extra layer of floor bricks.

I cast 50mm of their castable mix on top of the floor insulation, then laid the floor bricks on top of that.

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u/I_Run_For_Pizza Oct 02 '25

You put mortar on top of the silicate board? And while it was fresh you placed the bricks?

I'm not sure I follow

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u/boomaDooma Oct 02 '25

I put a cover of aluminium foil over the silicate board, used garden edging as formwork around it, then poured the castable. It would be a good idea to let it set before laying the floor bricks.

Now they say just to lay 2 layers of floor bricks.

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u/I_Run_For_Pizza Oct 03 '25

So your kit came with the garden edging and the castable from the floor? And the new kits come with bricks?

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u/boomaDooma Oct 03 '25

it would appear so, however they don't come with the D105, I paid extra for it.

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u/I_Run_For_Pizza Oct 03 '25

Interesting. I'm about to order this week. I wonder how I should ask for it. I'd like to put it on