Oven Landing & Surrounds - The Fire Brick D130 Instruction Booklet

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Oven Landing & Surrounds
6. Oven Landing and Surrounds
Before you render the dome, finish the top of your concrete slab with tiles or stone, and seal off the exposed
CalSil board at the sides and front of the Vent area using either our Stainless Steel Wrap, or an Oven Landing.
If you do this now, it will be much easier to cut the tiles to fit as they don't have to be cut very accurately.
If your stand isn't deep enough for a landing, we have an 2mm thick Stainless Steel Wrap to cover the front and
sides of the Vent area available as an optional extra. To install the Stainless Steel Wrap, tuck the lip on the base
of the wrap underneath your CalSil board, and tap the wrap into place using a rubber mallet, or hammer using
a piece of timber to spread the blow. Use a long nail on the left and right through the holes in the S/S Wrap to
secure the sides to the CalSil board. If you have installed the Water Barrier System you'll need to cut through
the silicone along the front edge of the Calsil in order to get the lip to slide underneath the CalSil board.
If you have the space, we highly recommend fitting an Oven Landing. Landings have two key benefits; it's a very
useful area to pull large dishes onto to check how they're cooking, and it's also a platform to rest the Oven Door
on so that it can be used as a 'Draft Door' (see our instructional videos on firing your oven for more details).
Polished granite is one of the best materials to use; it resists high temperatures, it's easy to keep clean and will
last practically forever. If you want to keep the landing area and tiles around your oven looking neat, use non-
porous materials that won't be easily stained by the oils from all the delicious food you'll be cooking.
To install a landing, you'll build an 'upstand' to bring up the stand height around the vent area. We use 20mm
thick polished granite for the oven landing, so we build the upstand to a height approximately 25mm below the
oven floor height (allowing 20mm for granite and 5mm for tile adhesive). Normal building bricks work well for
this, you can lay them using mortar or good quality tile adhesive. We recommend using tile adhesive to glue
the granite landing in place. There will be a small gap to fill on the left and right between the floor tiles and the
granite landing, which you can fill with tiling grout or Refractory Mortar.
STAINLESS STEEL WRAP GRANITE LANDING
PERLITE RENDER WILL COVER ROUGH TILE CUTS