urnesBeast

The problem I see is that if you have a brick floor and an ember/spark/slage falls in between the bricks, it can smolder for a very long time before it flames up. You may never see it smolder. You don't want to look out you window at three in the morning and see you shop ablaze. Leave the flooring and you can see the burns and extinguish them if they smolder and if it got real bad, you could cut a piece out with a chain saw. Good luck.

Nice shop! I have a similar floor and my biggest problem is a vibrating floor when im forging, My solution will be cutting a hole in the floor about 3x3 feet and make a form so i can poor a cement pad level to the remaning floor, This is just for the anvil. Burns on the floor are not really a fire hazzard because if you drop a hot piece you will have to pick it up because it makes alot of smoke.

I took out my cement floor around the forge and anvil and replaced it with pea gravel, it works great. You can change the height of the floor where needed. I have it lowest at the forge higher at the anvil and higher still at the post vise. By kicking some stones here and there I can change the height ratio at any time. Plus its very nice on the feet and fireproof.

I built my smithy, 10 foot by 15 foot or so. Good thick plywood floor on top of 10" tall runners, 16" on center. I have plenty of burn marks on the floor already, but nothing caused imminent danger of anything other than smoldering.

Someone was giving away a bunch of brick, so I thought about bricking the floor. Should I bother with a fireproof floor? I don't think brick would be ideal. I have been thinking of putting down a tarp, then covering the whole thing with soil that would eventually compact and harden.

I will likely own this house and Smithy forever, so resale value is not a big deal. Strange ideas are welcome.

Here is a picture of the Smithy mid construction.

-Doug

I just called

Henry A. Evers Corporation - Everstamp, Quality and detailed steel stamps for over 100 years.

As of March 2009

The most basic stamp will run $100, mine saying "DougHull.com" with a little viking cap on it was going to be 1/4" by 1/2" in size and be about $180. This info from a three minute phone conversation.

-Doug

I have a side draft to the same dimensions as Uri's.

BP1048 Side Draft Chimney | Blueprints 1000

The 12 stack is 15 foot tall, all galvanized. I figure this is already outside where the draft is going up and out. The inside side draft over the fire is stainless and is cool enough to touch, so I doubt my galvinized stack 3 foot away through the wall is going to be a problem because it is significantly cooler, outside and drafting up and out.

Do any of you think it will be a problem?

-doug