Post by nixie on Apr 24, 2013 10:22:02 GMT
Hi, after browsing your old and new forums for several years I've final taken the plunge and have started on a clay built wfo in our garden. I'm hoping its going to be ready for lots of use over the summer, however with a 1 year old baby and my mum just about to have surgery this could turn into a long slow thread (hoping not though as I love pizza ;D).
At the moment I have a site, a collection of materials and a part built bas that previously had my BBQ on it. The site is the dead space in up near the garage that gets no direct sun so is useless for veg growing, its fairly nice and close to both the house and patio so will hopefully make a nice party cooking layout.
The site is filled with pea shingle at the moment which helps keep the garage dry (previously had paving right to garage wall which caused a damp issue). I'm intending to float the pizza oven on top of this using larger paving slabs as a base. The old BBQ base was built like this and was fine for several years so I'm hoping the same will apply to the oven.
Materials wise I've a huge stack of concrete block paving paviours that we took up shortly after moving in. I'm going to use them to make the base, a little more time intensive than breeze blocks but uses up stuff I have laying around. The whole lot is going to be rendered once built so the paviours won't be visible anyway. Also got insulation blocks for the hearth and storage heater bricks. I was going to use these as the cooking surface, but have now decided to use them as thermal mass with a thin layer of new fire bricks on top.
I'm not going for a wood storage hole in the base as we have plenty of covered storage down the side of the house. The oven is planned as 80cm internal, 120cm external sitting at 45 deg across the base (giving a little more room for the door arch). Being lazy I've ordered clay (75 kg). This may seem a little strange as there is definitely clay under out garden (we dug 7-8 tons out when building our veg plots). Stupidly though I didn't keep any of it and don't have the time to go digging now so taking the easier route. Also got 33 25mm thick fire bricks being delivered for the cooking surface.
First up this Friday is extending the base from the state in the below picture out to the full 1.2m square. The old base was not cemented that well so will be reinforcing the existing walls by rendering the inside, and also building additional piers internally. Also going to use some old bags of postcrete on the base paving slabs to hold them together a bit more. Once the paviours walls are extended to the same height as the existing bit I'll bridge the gaps with more paving slabs. On top of this I'm going for a thin concrete layer with the insulation blocks on top. I doubt I'll get any further than that for week one but we shall see.
edit: whoops posted in pompeii ovens instead of clay cob
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At the moment I have a site, a collection of materials and a part built bas that previously had my BBQ on it. The site is the dead space in up near the garage that gets no direct sun so is useless for veg growing, its fairly nice and close to both the house and patio so will hopefully make a nice party cooking layout.
The site is filled with pea shingle at the moment which helps keep the garage dry (previously had paving right to garage wall which caused a damp issue). I'm intending to float the pizza oven on top of this using larger paving slabs as a base. The old BBQ base was built like this and was fine for several years so I'm hoping the same will apply to the oven.
Materials wise I've a huge stack of concrete block paving paviours that we took up shortly after moving in. I'm going to use them to make the base, a little more time intensive than breeze blocks but uses up stuff I have laying around. The whole lot is going to be rendered once built so the paviours won't be visible anyway. Also got insulation blocks for the hearth and storage heater bricks. I was going to use these as the cooking surface, but have now decided to use them as thermal mass with a thin layer of new fire bricks on top.
I'm not going for a wood storage hole in the base as we have plenty of covered storage down the side of the house. The oven is planned as 80cm internal, 120cm external sitting at 45 deg across the base (giving a little more room for the door arch). Being lazy I've ordered clay (75 kg). This may seem a little strange as there is definitely clay under out garden (we dug 7-8 tons out when building our veg plots). Stupidly though I didn't keep any of it and don't have the time to go digging now so taking the easier route. Also got 33 25mm thick fire bricks being delivered for the cooking surface.
First up this Friday is extending the base from the state in the below picture out to the full 1.2m square. The old base was not cemented that well so will be reinforcing the existing walls by rendering the inside, and also building additional piers internally. Also going to use some old bags of postcrete on the base paving slabs to hold them together a bit more. Once the paviours walls are extended to the same height as the existing bit I'll bridge the gaps with more paving slabs. On top of this I'm going for a thin concrete layer with the insulation blocks on top. I doubt I'll get any further than that for week one but we shall see.
edit: whoops posted in pompeii ovens instead of clay cob
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