Now that I am in the process of adding thin brick veneer to my oven I wanted to share a reminder of how important it is to spray the brick (and mist the oven shell) with water before mortaring them. I started installing them and forgot to wet them and couldn’t believe how quickly the thin bricks pulled moisture from the mortar and made them hard to set. I guess it had been a little while since I finished installing the firebricks and had forgotten the about the importance of wetting the bricks, even thin bricks.
I just finished bricking the back of the oven, onto the front then a lot of grouting to do. 
