Post by oblertone on Jan 12, 2015 10:01:39 GMT
Bit of a latecomer as I've already built my WFO (on wheels) before discovering this forum !
I live in a rural part of West Devon (UK) where we have a church, a village hall, a telephone box (decommissioned), 4 street lights and about 30 houses.
The hall doesn't get much use but in a drink fuelled discussion with the neighbours I rather foolishly agreed to provide pizza at an Italian Night in the hall to raise some maintenance funds.
Now while I support the hall I didn't feel like donating an oven, so the answer was simple, make it mobile ! A road trailer was considered but as I only live next door a hand trolley was a much cheaper option, and so it was off to eBay where a 500kg rated trolley was snapped up.
A second trawl of eBay secured 50 odd storage heater blocks for the princely sum of £4.12. Recovering these nearly killed my elderly Volvo estate as they weigh about 5kgs each.
A few calculations later saw me off to a local fabricator who produced a tray & stand in short order; the rest as they say, is history. I fully documented my build process on another forum and there is a link on my signature line for the insomniacs.
A basic tenet of my build was to use what was available at the lowest cost, preferably free; so the dome bricks came out of a neighbours skip, a length of flue pipe was a leftover from another neighbours stove installation. Coping stones for the arch and a pack of tiles were scavenged from yet another rubbish pile.
To continue the free cycle ethos I've a few bits left over that others may find of use; could someone point me at the correct section or could I just start a Free Stuff thread ?
The image hopefully shows the bare oven in use at the village Italian evening; it's had some refinements since then and is now insulated and has a flue. Next step is to finish the render and build a door to enable a bit of baking.
I live in a rural part of West Devon (UK) where we have a church, a village hall, a telephone box (decommissioned), 4 street lights and about 30 houses.
The hall doesn't get much use but in a drink fuelled discussion with the neighbours I rather foolishly agreed to provide pizza at an Italian Night in the hall to raise some maintenance funds.
Now while I support the hall I didn't feel like donating an oven, so the answer was simple, make it mobile ! A road trailer was considered but as I only live next door a hand trolley was a much cheaper option, and so it was off to eBay where a 500kg rated trolley was snapped up.
A second trawl of eBay secured 50 odd storage heater blocks for the princely sum of £4.12. Recovering these nearly killed my elderly Volvo estate as they weigh about 5kgs each.
A few calculations later saw me off to a local fabricator who produced a tray & stand in short order; the rest as they say, is history. I fully documented my build process on another forum and there is a link on my signature line for the insomniacs.
A basic tenet of my build was to use what was available at the lowest cost, preferably free; so the dome bricks came out of a neighbours skip, a length of flue pipe was a leftover from another neighbours stove installation. Coping stones for the arch and a pack of tiles were scavenged from yet another rubbish pile.
To continue the free cycle ethos I've a few bits left over that others may find of use; could someone point me at the correct section or could I just start a Free Stuff thread ?
The image hopefully shows the bare oven in use at the village Italian evening; it's had some refinements since then and is now insulated and has a flue. Next step is to finish the render and build a door to enable a bit of baking.
No mucking about with extra layers, no waiting for cement to cure and dry. And a smooth flat surface for the hearth.