Pizza Oven Build

Our pizza oven build has taken us all year and we are still not finished. It is much harder than we thought. Once it is completed we will have a great big pizza party.

Here are some pictures and video of our process.

Matt making an outline of where we will put the pizza oven.

Our animals checking trying to help out with the dig.

        Putting our gravel in as the base.

Getting our mortar mixing staged.

        

Pouring Cement 

Placing our center blocks .

Building the wall.

Staging the pour for the top.

Prep of our top to support weight of the concrete.

Mixing Concrete

Concrete Layer

Concrete and perlite layer

Soaking firebricks.

Setting the firebricks in a cool checkered pattern.

Nick doing a great job.

The firebrick floor layer.

Building the indispensable tool.

Establishing the dome area.

Big haul of firebricks to build the dome.

Matt showing off the indispensable tool.

Getting ready to cut the firebricks.

Awesome dry cut blade.

Cutting the firebricks.

The two arch templates Nick built.

The indispensable tool at work.

The dome taking shape.

A cool night time shot.

Building the second arch.

   More build of the second arch.