Building A Pizza Oven Chimney

Build your own clay pizza oven entrance chimney.

Building a pizza oven chimney.

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. 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. Place the bricks at the outer edge of this circumference leaving a 530mm wide gap for the entrance see dimensions above.

The internal diameter of the pizza oven should be 420mm. The flue and a smaller connector that is placed on top smooth side up. We now have an oven and we could start cooking in it but we really need to improve the efficiency of the oven. Building plans tutorial with pictures.

As a finishing touch contact a mason to give your oven a nice stucco finish. These will frame the oven s mouth. On each side of the front of the oven stack 2 layers of 3 bricks on edge running front to back. 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 the entrance and chimney. For outdoor brick oven construction you can use either a simpson double wall sectional chimney system or terra cotta chimney pieces. It was a bit tricky as the first course of the chimney cantilevered off the doorway walls and required some temporary support. 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. For a wood burning oven to work properly and efficiently there are few rules to be remembered and applied in practice. Page 1 2 3. Building swishy wood pizza oven page 2.

Oven construction overview connect your chimney system prior to insulating as you will insulate the chimney section inside your oven housing. The chimney will sit outside the dome. The first thing we will address is fire combustion and making sure your wood burns hot and efficient. Begin building up the chimney behind the arch.

The dome is built with fire bricks that are cut in half using a masonry grinder and or a hammer and bolster. Build an arch over the doorway using half face bricks over the formwork. Put enough grout at the base of the chimney element and the connector to make them level in all directions. 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.

Checkout the lessons learnt section which talks about the combustion flows.