Building Your Oven

Stage one you’ve made the base and installed it we do them these days ad of steel utilising 75 mil angle for the sides Whether it be square or form fitting like this one then we use Hebel as the base material, It’s light weight can be used straight away or you can install corrugated iron and fill it up with concrete and Rio, This particular oven is one of the largest we do it’s a multi piece dome and it’s also gas-fired as Wellers would fired

Once installed in position next stage is to apply the insulation material on top of the base

The first piece of oven that goes on is the centre floor circle to be positioned centrally do your measurements and insure that you leave enough room for the oven the shell and the external bricks

With this particular oven as it is gas-fired there is a gas fire tube that comes through the floor of the oven and the pizza base circle needs to be cut to suit normally you would not need to do this

Install the rest of the floor pieces

Once you’ve got your floor installed the first of the shell pieces is the front mouth we find sitting out on a bucket to hold it up vertically works very well just check your measurements side to side left and rightTo ensure that it’s in the right position

If gas-fired make sure that you seal around the gas Burn tube with the appropriate refractory cement

Once you have the front mouthpiece in position then you can start to put the external four pieces of shelves in starting either side putting your front to shell pieces left and rightFollowed by the rear to shell pieces

This shot shows the rear shell place in position use a crowbar to slowly move them around to minimise the gaps

Okay you’ve got all five pieces of oven dime in position now it’s time to put the top on making sure that you carefully look at the shape and see that it faces forward, You will clearly see which edge Is the front

All pieces in position should look like this don’t be worried about slightly bigger gap than another

Position the front mouth piece on top of insolation material also put a piece of cement sheet under the front and back edges two pieces of the front totalling 10 mm thick one piece at the back 5 mm thickYou will see that the chimney pays if you’re using as you can build the oven without the chimney please or cut it in half it sits on top of the front chamber

Front shot with the chimney piece in front mouth on

Seal all the joins with Refractory & Ceramic and mix

Wrap the oven in insolation blanket

Put on the front arch supporting underneath each age with three pieces of cement sheet

When you’re doing the brickwork on the dime use the bricks on the edge not flat and simply just go Rover row following the done You do this up until you get close to the top at which point you just fill the top in with half bricks and chip in mortar mix and start rendering it all

Here’s another shot of the bricks going up row by row

See you at this point is when we pretty much feel in the top section or with half bricks then with the front and back of the chimney clamp to boards front and back and fill the space with a with mix of mortar after a few hours you can take the boards off before doingThis you put your chimney outlet piece on the top generally we use either a 6 inch or 8 inch outlet

This shot shows the boards clamped and everything rendered

The next day however the oven with a another fine coat of render

Now the oven is ready for tiles or colour texture whatever you pick

Finished product