Outdoor Kitchens/ My wood fired oven build

[sxtasy]

My company builds outdoor kitchens and living spaces. I've been pretty fortunate to work on some pretty fun projects, like built in bbq's:







And outdoor fireplaces and patios (built the wood box out of firebrick in herringbone pattern):








My current project on the go is an Italian Style wood fired brick pizza oven. I downloaded the free plans from www.fornobravo.com
There is a forums there and pretty much all the information needed for people to build their own.

Information I have gathered about the ovens, temps can reach 800+ degrees, cooking temperatures can be maintained for 12+ hrs (you can bake bread the morning after a fire) and cook a pizza in two minutes.

My motivation:

[sxtasy]

On to the build, here is the concept for the stand for the oven. A very basic drawing (still learning sketchup) with wood storage under the oven:



And here is the space I am working with, kind of small but just means we will have to have to be efficient with the footprint of the oven:



Notice the orange tarps overhead (still raining lots here), they will be giving most of my photos a lovely orange hue

[sxtasy]

Laid out the block stand, drilled holes into the pad and doweled vertical rebars into the pad to help tie the pours together:





After the block stand is at height I core filled all of the blocks with concrete. Doing this in two pours helps give me something solid to attach my countertop forms to as well as makes bending the rebar over into the slab much easier.


At this point, the forming is pretty much done except for vertical support under the overhangs.

[Guillermo]

fucking awesome! i plan to do this same thing once I can get enough money to buy an actual house instead of a condo. i hope you post up some pics of all the awesome stuff you make this summer.

oh, and that looks like a super cool job, too!

[Kloubek]

Totally ballin. That'll be insane.

[sxtasy]

4" concrete countertops:



The concrete cured overnight then stripped the sides of the forms off and wet sanded to give the slab a little bit of texture:
before


after




Now the slab needs about a week curing before the vertical supports are removed

[sxtasy]

Thanks guys!

Stonework time, we faced the block walls with 5" thick natural sandstone, hand chiseling each piece and even rounding the sandstone to the same arc as the countertops:



I found a nice big rock to serve as a one piece header over the wood box:

[ExtraSlow]

Fucking awesome, keep the pics coming.

[sxtasy]

Time to layout the oven, I am using standard size refractory fire brick (can be found at IXL) and the floor is sitting on 2" of fireproof insulation board. As per the plans, I am using a herringbone pattern for the oven floor so as to reduce the hard edges that might snag a pizza crust:

[sxtasy]

After the oven floor is done, I built the oven entry opening:


And then the dome starts,

[sxtasy]

More of the dome under construction:







Used styrofoam forms once the oven was near the top, at this point it gets tricky as the dome radius gets tighter, the compound cuts get more extreme. I widened up the joints and used a more coarse mortar to speed things up a bit. After the oven is used a few times the brickwork will be blackened in soot anyways:

[sxtasy]

The dome is complete! It was a pretty good feeling, pulled the forms out immediately so the inside could be cleaned up from the mortar:

[sxtasy]

Now it needs to sit and cure for a few days, then it needs to be cured further with fires, each one increasing in temperature. Still quite a few steps to go, I have to build the chimney out front of the oven, the dome needs to be insulated, then it gets a scratch coat layer, then it will be clad in tile. Stay tuned for more progress

[bourge73]

That is brilliant work man. Wood fired everything is going to be killer. So your going to open a late night, after the bar, "beyond wood fired pizza stand" right?

[VWEvo]

Wow, very cool build. I never realized how much work goes into one of these.

[C_Dave45]

Sweet progress pics, SX. Looking forward to the finished product! A lot of hours in that project. Very nice work.

Originally posted by bourge73
That is brilliant work man. Wood fired everything is going to be killer. So your going to open a late night, after the bar, "beyond wood fired pizza stand" right?

Sure..if you wanna fly out to the Island after last call!

[Guillermo]

Originally posted by bourge73
That is brilliant work man. Wood fired everything is going to be killer. So your going to open a late night, after the bar, "beyond wood fired pizza stand" right?

i'd volunteer to help out with the pies. here's a Nick and Vito's clone from a couple of weeks ago:



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[sxtasy]

Originally posted by bourge73
That is brilliant work man. Wood fired everything is going to be killer. So your going to open a late night, after the bar, "beyond wood fired pizza stand" right?

haha good idea, i bet a wood fired pizza joint would do pretty well in Calgary

Originally posted by VWEvo
Wow, very cool build. I never realized how much work goes into one of these.

Yup pretty time consuming, took 4 days from the floor of the oven to finishing the dome

Originally posted by C_Dave45
Sweet progress pics, SX. Looking forward to the finished product! A lot of hours in that project. Very nice work.




Sure..if you wanna fly out to the Island after last call!

Thanks Dave, I might need some tiling tips for over the dome

Originally posted by Guillermo


i'd volunteer to help out with the pies. here's a Nick and Vito's clone from a couple of weeks ago:

Dam those pies look good

[legendboy]

wow man you have some skill! I wish i could work with stone and brick like that!

awesome job

[core_upt]

Nice work! That's awesome!