Drying oven is necessary in two stages, the main principle which should be observed – drying should be gradual. To be able to efficiently dry oven, it is advisable to put it in the summer.

The steps of drying



In the first 6-7 days after the masonry stove is not recommended to heat. You need to create maximum thrust inside, which is achieved by fully opening all valves, views, and doors. In this way an enhanced circulation of air is achieved by drying the surface of the words of a clay solution. You can try to strengthen the ventilation, giving the furnace an electric fan and placing it in an electric lamp of high power.


After setting of the upper layer of the solution can proceed to the next stage of forced drying. For this purpose, the finely split dry firewood. They need to be put in the furnace and burn, and then cover the ash pit, thereby reducing the supply of fresh air. Enough to leave a gap of 1-1,5 cm, a view also need to cover by ½ to reduce cravings. This method is achieved by the slow movement of hot air, which will contribute to the quality and deep drying of the masonry. After 6-7 hours of door and gate valves must be fully open and leave the oven in this position for a day. In the next 4-5 days you need every day to repeat the firebox of the stove, but the burning wood should be small (2-3 logs), so that the masonry dried gradually.

How to understand that kiln dried?



Oven can be considered dried if when the doors are closed and the view in 3-5 hours on the metal parts of the doors do not cause condensation. You can then heat the oven to full capacity, 7-8 using logs. When the furnaces appear the coals, you need to close all doors, latches, and for 5-6 hours to observe the outside surface of the oven, noting the formation of fresh cracks and the smoke of them. The smoke from the cracking furnace is obviously defective, this pizza oven is in need of alteration. Fortunately, this happens very rarely, and threadlike cracks appearing on the surface of the stove – it is a normal phenomenon, this oven it is possible to exploit. Cracks 2-3 mm require sealing genomescan solution, but better to do it immediately, but after 2-3 months, so that their edges are finally formed.

How to avoid marriage



In addition to the importance of training quality material for masonry stoves need to carefully choose the specialist. It is no secret that a good setter is very difficult to find what can be said about Amateurs and charlatans. It is best in such cases to benefit from the advice and opinion of friends, choose a qualified professional, whose skills will not be in doubt. Each master has its own version of the drying ovens, which he will recommend to use. In most cases, these recommendations differ only in detail, but the main rule remains the same: immediately after the masonry oven it is impossible to sink.