Hello from south Cheshire .THE BUILD

[diggerjones]

Hi. Just creating my patio then I would like to build wood oven. I am a builder so have all the necessary skills and equipment. I could do with some advice. What materials do I need. Do I build out of cob, old clay cheshire brick, fire bricks, concrete. 
 I have lots of materials like york stone, bricks etc.
Thanks dylan 

[awalker]

Hi dj
I built my first wood oven out of cob to see how much use it would get. Four years later I am now going to build a brick barrel oven.

So it depends what you want .

Slow cooking will be better with an insulated build.

But any of them can do high heat for pizzas etc.

[chas]

Feb 14, 2016 18:32:31 GMT diggerjones said:

Hi. Just creating my patio then I would like to build wood oven. I am a builder so have all the necessary skills and equipment. I could do with some advice. What materials do I need. Do I build out of cob, old clay cheshire brick, fire bricks, concrete. 
 I have lots of materials like york stone, bricks etc.
Thanks dylan 

Hi Dylan and welcome. As above from awalker plus this: look through the "Guides to..." settle on a form that pleases you, then look at the appropriate "builds" section. There's no real rights or wrongs for a practical guy like you, but there may be wrinkles. My contribution would be to insulate if you want to do anything other than cook pizza. I didn't believe it at first...

Keep us posted!

Chas

[diggerjones]

Thanks for replying guys or maybe gals. Keep changing my mind, I'm using fire bricks then see some thread where they've using normal clay bricks, I've got plenty clay bricks that would be ideal.
Anyway I'm definitely using fire bricks.
Took a fire place out today at work and got about 2 barrowfulls of fire bricks, also been to builders merchants and got 1/2 a pallet of all sorts of fire bricks and a ton bag of off cuts of timber. Just got to make a donation to their charity, £20..
I have also put a want out for fire bricks on my local village website.
Dylan

[diggerjones]

Not the best picture but the oven is going on the left where me digger is.
Will get some more pictures as I progress.
Dylan

[oblertone]

Welcome Digger, looking forward to seeing how a professional approaches this task as most WFO builders in here (myself included) are definitely 'Sunday League' in terms of experience.

[diggerjones]

Not sure how professional it will look. For someone like me everything is a lot easier because I understand the process of building also I have all the gear and lots of materials. Here's some progress with the patio. I have to do the patio first at the lower level because I won't be able to get digger down the steps when finished.

[diggerjones]

This was last sunday morning

[diggerjones]

I bit of progress.not started the oven build yet but getting nearer.

[diggerjones]

Got the base in this morning, lay blocks tomorrow morning

[diggerjones]

Got the blocks in today and lintels on.I've got 2 more lintels. I was going to cast a reinforced slab on top of lintels but I can't see the point.by the time I have put 2 more lintels on there won't be much left to fill in.

[downunderdave]

Hi Dylan,
Because you are building the oven into the bank and your foundation slab is below ground level you may have trouble with rising damp. This can be a problem with WFO's so consider sealing the top of the supporting slab, or lintels if you aren't pouring a slab, to prevent water wicking into the under floor insulation.

[diggerjones]

Do you think it's feasible not having a pour slab and just cast a insulation layer on top of the lintels.
The slab will be about ground level. It's a bit wet at the back and bottom of block work, I have a pipe layed to catch this. Will put some plastic on top of lintels to stop damp rising.

[downunderdave]

Mar 6, 2016 20:19:06 GMT diggerjones said:

Do you think it's feasible not having a pour slab and just cast a insulation layer on top of the lintels.
The slab will be about ground level. It's a bit wet at the back and bottom of block work, I have a pipe layed to catch this. Will put some plastic on top of lintels to stop damp rising.

Using lintel slabs is a hell of a lot easier than boxing up form work and pouring a slab. Try not to have more than a few inches between them.  I presume they are reinforced. You will probably have to sit some cement sheeting on top of the lintels so you can cast your insulating slab over it, to prevent the insulating mix from falling through the gaps between the lintels.

[diggerjones]

Was thinking about laying a sheet of Kingspan insulation over lintels first.