It's that holiday time of year again. Hope all of you are having good times with family and friends.
Back to the heater.... I'm really lucky to have a good friend that also happens to be a mason. The last time I posted, the heater core was almost complete and the face brick was up about 7 feet.
Ivan spent quite a few hours running the face brick up as far as we could go before having to install the shelf on the south face. This would carry the face brick above it, so we stopped at that point until Paul cut and set the shelf.
Ivan is always upbeat and appears to enjoy the masonry arts.
As you can see, he had to work under that piece of plywood that was sticking out quite far on two sides. It was there to hold the four plumb lines that ran all the way to the bottom of the heater. All the face brick was aligned with these lines to keep it all plumb as they went up.
Paul did a little creative work near the top on the north and south sides. These courses held six bricks standing on end and turned at 45°.
They looked pretty cool when they were done.
Here you can see the top cap that closed off the entire stack. We screwed an anchor plate to this that would hold the insulated stainless chimney pipe.
All the face brick is on now and the boys were cleaning up, then the stone caps would be set.
I'll give you some views next time......
So that's it for now. Have a good Christmas season!I gotta go, Carlo
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