Pizza oven - Building one

[digerjones]

Wanting to build one of these soon. Anyone built one, any ideas, websites, blogs,etc.
Got lots of stone bricks flags sand.
Thanks

[lutonlagerlout]

we had a big discussion on this a few years ago Dylan
i think cookie may have done just that
hes the man to talk to
LLL

[digerjones]

Yes I remember something, but couldn't find owt in the search button.

[cookiewales]

Hi Dylan
I bought one from the stone bake oven company you can put bricks around them if your building your own you would need to use fire bricks to retain heat and you can slow cook over night pulled pork etc I can cook a pizza in 90 seconds top tip only use kiln dried wood I use silver birch no smoke and great heat no soot will look for links there are photos on my Twitter feed ps great for cooking steaks and bread

[digerjones]

Cheers cookie, how come with your skills you didn't build one yourself. I'm giving it some serious research now. I've got alot of old clay cheshire bricks I'm thinking of using. Fire bricks are about 130 each.

[joydivision]

Hi Dylan,

I have built a Pompeii style pizza oven from scratch, if you have any questions I will try to help.
if you haven't already, the Forno Bravo and uk wood fired oven websites have great forums where I did the majority of research.
I would say fire bricks are a must, these ovens operate at 500 degrees C!
You could build the outer wall in your Cheshire's though.

Cheers
JD

[joydivision]

Some photos on here:

https://plus.google.com/b....5484551

JD

[digerjones]

Cheers jd. Yes think fire bricks will be the way forward. Just need to find some cheap and work out how big.

[cookiewales]

Hi Dylan
I bought one from the stone bake oven company you can put bricks around them if your building your own you would need to use fire bricks to retain heat and you can slow cook over night pulled pork etc I can cook a pizza in 90 seconds top tip only use kiln dried wood I use silver birch no smoke and great heat no soot will look for links there are photos on my Twitter feed ps great for cooking steaks and bread

Small garden and would have built a monster took 1 hour to put together and if we move can take with me .mine is the prmo 60 plenty big enough to big you eat up wood . The powder coated frame is spot on if you have the room you can build one but lots of work and time .😍

[DNgroundworks]

Built one last summer, cladded it in pitched faced walling stone and put a slat roof over it, had a chimney stack aswel!!

Looked like a mini house, not my cup of tea really, id of preferred the traditional dome/render look

[GB_Groundworks]

I got bought one from my sister in kit form like cookie did a year of research etc but for small garden kit was better when I've got more room I'll build one, there is a fire brick refactory near chapel en le frith can buy direct and they have the fire clay to use as mortar ,

1 mate of mine has two trailer ones and is just opening a restaurante in old industrial space we are screeding floor next week nether edge pizza company

Another mates just opened a shop near me doing wood fired pizzas porter pizza company

His is on wooden floor! I said get 'builder' to come up off cellar conc floor in block! Builder used 4 acros and left them in!

[digerjones]

It's going where the black plastic is on the left .

[joydivision]

I used the Forno Bravo, 'home brew' mix for the mortar.
3;1;1;1 - sand, lime, cement, fireclay.
when building your dome, more so from half height when the courses have a tighter radius, unless your going to taper every brick 2 ways, front to back and top to bottom, you will end up with some wedge shaped joints.
This is mainly why they use the homebrew mix, as standard fire cement seems only to be used with very tight joints around 2mm.
The mix worked great for me.
JD

[joydivision]

realised link above doesn't work http://s802.photobucket.com/user....&page=1

also, good basic guise to a build.

https://www.fornobravo.com/pompeii-oven/brick-oven-table-of-contents/

JD

[lutonlagerlout]

these wood fired pizza ovens are all great and nice bits of kit
but like the ubiquitous bifold doors we see on every job now, how often are they used after an initial flurry of excitement?
cheers LLL