StoneCarver
Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense
When I bought my house, there was a lot of 3/8inch thick boards of foam insulation in the basement used in all kinds of weird ways. So, I ripped it all out and put it in my woodhouse. There it laid for a number of years till I came across y'alls information regarding kilning tobacco. Using Deluxestogie's exoskeleton as a template, I figured out a way to layer those boards of insulation. I found four of them stacked is the same thickness of a 2x4. I built my kiln so that its a total of 8 insulation boards thick. I glue the boards together with wood glue and use silicon to seal it to the 2x4s. In this picture angle, you can see how I fitted the 2x4s together to form the frame. The rest was cutting and sanding the boards so that they fitted in the frames. Before assembling the 2x4s, I treated all the wood with bee propolis varnish to prevent molding and increase water resistance. I'm still working on fitting foam into the door frame; so its not completed yet. I'll be wrapping the kiln up in reflective aluminum/mylar insulation that I have left over from coating my basement ceiling.
