Building A Pizza Oven Chimney

Cover the hearth in plastic to keep it clean.

Building a pizza oven chimney.

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. The flue and a smaller connector that is placed on top smooth side up. It was a bit tricky as the first course of the chimney cantilevered off the doorway walls and required some temporary support. Build the entrance and chimney.

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. Put enough grout at the base of the chimney element and the connector to make them level in all directions. The chimney will sit outside the dome. Place the bricks at the outer edge of this circumference leaving a 530mm wide gap for the entrance see dimensions above.

On each side of the front of the oven stack 2 layers of 3 bricks on edge running front to back. The first thing we will address is fire combustion and making sure your wood burns hot and efficient. The actual cross sectional area of the chimney flue is only the size of one brick. These will frame the oven s mouth.

As a finishing touch contact a mason to give your oven a nice stucco finish. Page 1 2 3. 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. The chimney flue consists of two parts. Begin building up the chimney behind the arch. This attachment holds the required 6 inch pipe.

Wood fired ovens hearth dome vent flue chimney heat expansion mortars thermal insulations and oven building plans. The dome is built with fire bricks that are cut in half using a masonry grinder and or a hammer and bolster. Checkout the lessons learnt section which talks about the combustion flows. Build an arch over the doorway using half face bricks over the formwork.

I ve been wanting to build a pizza oven for ages and some time ago i saw an oven built without a chimney just a simple dome with a door. 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. Building plans tutorial with pictures. Oven construction overview connect your chimney system prior to insulating as you will insulate the chimney section inside your oven housing.

We now have an oven and we could start cooking in it but we really need to improve the efficiency of the oven.