Cover the hearth in plastic to keep it clean.
Building a pizza oven chimney.
It was a bit tricky as the first course of the chimney cantilevered off the doorway walls and required some temporary support.
The first thing we will address is fire combustion and making sure your wood burns hot and efficient.
Building plans tutorial with pictures.
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Building swishy wood pizza oven page 2.
If mixing your own mortar i d go for a 1 3 mix which is one part lime putty to 3 parts well sieved sharp building sand.
Oven construction overview connect your chimney system prior to insulating as you will insulate the chimney section inside your oven housing.
For a wood burning oven to work properly and efficiently there are few rules to be remembered and applied in practice.
For outdoor brick oven construction you can use either a simpson double wall sectional chimney system or terra cotta chimney pieces.
The internal diameter of the pizza oven should be 420mm.
Place the bricks at the outer edge of this circumference leaving a 530mm wide gap for the entrance see dimensions above.
My oven will be built outside so i was wondering if the chimney is really necessary or is it like a woodburner where the hot chimney sucks the air into the fire to get it really going.
Wood fired ovens hearth dome vent flue chimney heat expansion mortars thermal insulations and oven building plans.
We now have an oven and we could start cooking in it but we really need to improve the efficiency of the oven.
40 pictures just on how to make a concrete slab from the ground leveling digging the footing out 2020mm x 1655mm slab 10cm thick and footing 30cm deep x 30cm wide putting wooden forms boxing together use of reinforcing metal rods for footing and metal mesh for the whole slab.
Checkout the lessons learnt section which talks about the combustion flows.
The chimney will sit outside the dome.
Build your own clay pizza oven entrance chimney.
Begin building up the chimney behind the arch.
On each side of the front of the oven stack 2 layers of 3 bricks on edge running front to back.
The flue and a smaller connector that is placed on top smooth side up.
The actual cross sectional area of the chimney flue is only the size of one brick.
The walls or dome of the pizza oven were built using ordinary hard clay bricks reclaimed from the fireplace in the house laid in a lime rich mortar to date no problems have been seen.
This attachment holds the required 6 inch pipe.
The chimney flue consists of two parts.
Put enough grout at the base of the chimney element and the connector to make them level in all directions.
Build an arch over the doorway using half face bricks over the formwork.
The dome is built with fire bricks that are cut in half using a masonry grinder and or a hammer and bolster.
As a finishing touch contact a mason to give your oven a nice stucco finish.
