John Adamz : Erica Wisner posted to my Forum
thread Because Every thing I printed was Not 100% accurate, I had even misread chart, a quoted figures from it
the chart in-accurately inspite of its following the 'expected curve'!
Much of what she has written deals with building to take advantage of the special benefits of Dense
fireKiln Brick (different regains have different
names !) And she specifically mentions problems that are created by mixing insulation types and locations, AND insulations! Its a lot to take in, I recommend the
read, it stretched my mind !
1) yes !
2) Ok., assumption time, with a Heat Riser core of any brick it is still necessary to insulate the Heat Riser on the outside, please check back at Erica Ws' carefully
worded insulation types and thicknesses list. about 4 paragraphs below the heading not suitable. she gives several suitable choices that depending on how care-
fully you drill down for bargains in your location, will produce reasonable prices !
3) after you insulate with clay slip and Perlite then you
should use a layer of structural
cob and then a finish coat to protect your exposures, you are building a type
of masonry stove and need to protect the exposures to include the floor unless you want the floor to be part of your thermal mass AND have no problem with
moisture at that location !
I have no idea what yo been by back ! Big AL !