Howdy Folks.
I was very fortunate to find someone with a big pile of what he calls 'soft' firebricks for a very good price and thus far I am very impressed with these beauties.
They are amazingly easy to work with, which helped me hugely as I needed to fix the replacement woodstove here, which meant making them fit, and they can be cut so easily that it was a nice, quick repair.
Now that the old, nasty stove is out I will soon begin to make the RMH in the central room here.
If anyone here is familiar with these kind of bricks, I hope I can get some advice, please.
The potter I got the bricks from very generously also gave me some clay, hence my query:
Is clay suitable by itself for mortaring/sealing the gaps between firebricks ??
Is there something better ??
(I do have some regular mortar which is, of course, much coarser than clay.)
((I will much prefer if I can avoid buying more stuff, if possible...))
The man I got the bricks from said thay will take whatever heat is thrown at them, and I already see how these may be more resilient after the 'hard' bricks in the woodstove fell to bits during transport on a pickup truck.
I will greatly appreciate any pertinent info anyone will share with me on this subject.
Thanks !!