March 19, 2017 - 6:34pm
old brick oven help
My 1800's cape has this oven beside the fireplace, this summer after some flue work it will be usable. My question is the hearth is in bad shape I would like to smooth it out, fire bricks as we know them now were not used back then just harder bricks.
Would a castable refractory cement poured as thin as 1" work or are fire bricks the only real solution, I don't want to decrease the height anymore than I have to.
Any thoughts appreciated.