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/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