Finally felt I needed to deal with the crumbling around the door of the earth oven. At first, I was thinking I'd start from scratch, then realized I'd probably need to go to the quarry for more sand if I did that, so went for a retro-fit. First, scraped away the loose stuff:
and wet it down with slip so I'd be ready to attach the new stuff
Got a lot of painting help down low. Here you can see that not that much was removed:
Later in the day, I'd mixed up a batch of cob and sculpted in the new door idea, with a chimney coming out the top:
The plan is to have the metal chimney easily slip down into the hole, extending the draw:
We have more cob to add before we're through:
