Pizza Oven....YEAH BABY! (Part 2)
 

For those of you that were following my original thread, I apologize for the lack of updates. Life has a way of getting in the way...

Anyhow, since my last post is so old I can't post to it anymore, so here is my original post followed by my new progress photos:


Okay, it's not done yet, but I'm really excited that I got off my butt and got the ball rolling on this. I have been obsessed with pizza for years and I've been making my own for as long as I can remember, but I really hate making it in the oven. It still comes out really good, but it's lacking something.

I've played around with a lot of different ideas to modify a grill, as I'm really not a fan of how pizza comes out making it on the grill...I had been thinking of a FrankenWeber type mod.

Anyway, I decided to go a different route completely, so this is what hopefully is the start of something good:

Dug out a hole a little over a foot deep (didn't take pictures of just the hole...filled it with about 5 inches of gravel:

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2885.jpg


I topped that off with about 5 inches of concrete. I didn't get a picture of just the slab (not real attractive anyway, but this is just laying the bricks out to make sure I made the foundation big enough:

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2762.jpg


Here's as far as I got today:

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2763.jpg

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2766.jpg


Not too bad for a start...next weekend I should get a lot further on it. I'll keep adding pictures as I go. Wish me luck (because I seem to be severely lacking in the skill department!).



Okay, here's the new stuff:




http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2768.jpg

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2772.jpg

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2775.jpg

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2797.jpg

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2798.jpg

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2801.jpg

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2802.jpg

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2806.jpg

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2807.jpg

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2841.jpg

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2846.jpg

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2847.jpg

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2850.jpg


Well, I'm getting pretty close now. The base is complete, along with the insulation layer. The firebrick floor is set in a slab of 1 part fire clay to 3 parts sand and is currently drying. Next up is to make the arch for the entry and then make the dome. I can almost tase those pizzas already! Thanks for looking!

Why the bottles in the build,just filling or?
cheers.
Titch

That is coming along quite nicely!:clap:

The bottles help hold heat. Folks have been doing that for YEARS.

Love it so far man. I have to get off my duff and build one. Been salivating over them for a couple years now. My kettle attachment that CarolinaQue built me works great. You know you always want the real thing. Let's see more man.

Looks Great!

That looks really good!

Lookin good. This is inpspiring me to build one of my own. I've always wanted a pizza oven.


Following for sure!

Nice, but you should have offset the fire bricks. So when you slid your pizza peel it doesnt chip the edge, and go in your food.

Nice build. :thumb:

Looks great

Cool, thanks mate .
Cheers.
Titch

Looks really nice.

One thing, maybe move it six inches to the right. :twisted:

That looks awesome!

Update 12.12.12
 

Well, I was going to go with a nice round brick arch, but discovered quickly that with my lack of knowledge and any real skill, I was going to have a problem getting it done....and I was worried about it holding up over time. Instead I went with this...stacked brick on either side, with steel bars running across the top with bricks set on top of those:
http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2868.jpg

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2870.jpg


Beginning of sand form:
http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2874.jpg

Sand form done....this took a LOT longer than I expected. Almost everything so far has!
http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2878.jpg

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2879.jpg

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2880.jpg

Covering with wet newspaper:
http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2882.jpg

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2883.jpg

Building the clay dome:
http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/.../IMG_28852.jpg

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...n/IMG_2886.jpg

Well, I got the dome built a little over halfway before I ran out of clay and daylight, so I have picked up more supplies and will hopefully finish building the dome tomorrow. Then it's a matter of getting it dried out without any major cracks and digging the clay out. I'm starting to get excited about this now!