Building A Pizza Oven Chimney

Put enough grout at the base of the chimney element and the connector to make them level in all directions.

Building a pizza oven chimney.

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. Build your own clay pizza oven entrance chimney. This attachment holds the required 6 inch pipe. The dome is built with fire bricks that are cut in half using a masonry grinder and or a hammer and bolster.

Cover the hearth in plastic to keep it clean. As a finishing touch contact a mason to give your oven a nice stucco finish. The chimney flue consists of two parts. These will frame the oven s mouth.

We now have an oven and we could start cooking in it but we really need to improve the efficiency of the oven. Wood fired ovens hearth dome vent flue chimney heat expansion mortars thermal insulations and oven building plans. Begin building up the chimney behind the arch. For outdoor brick oven construction you can use either a simpson double wall sectional chimney system or terra cotta chimney pieces.

The actual cross sectional area of the chimney flue is only the size of one brick. Checkout the lessons learnt section which talks about the combustion flows. The internal diameter of the pizza oven should be 420mm. 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.

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. Build the entrance and chimney. On each side of the front of the oven stack 2 layers of 3 bricks on edge running front to back. 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.

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. The chimney will sit outside the dome. Building swishy wood pizza oven page 2.

The first thing we will address is fire combustion and making sure your wood burns hot and efficient. For a wood burning oven to work properly and efficiently there are few rules to be remembered and applied in practice. Oven construction overview connect your chimney system prior to insulating as you will insulate the chimney section inside your oven housing. Build an arch over the doorway using half face bricks over the formwork.

It was a bit tricky as the first course of the chimney cantilevered off the doorway walls and required some temporary support.