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After casting the foundation and building the wals

Start of my first arch

Arch completed

Rest of the front wall

Fixing in the supports

Ready for the shuttering

Some old roofing sheets

Ready to cast the upper base

Old gate instead of rebar will serve the same purpose

Strengthen with some wire under tension from mould sides

Ready to pour

Pouring the upper base

Finishing off

We have a oven base

Now time for some insulation between that and the oven floor / harth

I used 75mm nails and tape to get the mould for this stage

Close up

Vermiculite base cast

Firebricks layed out

Time to make a big sand castle. This is to let me cast over

Wet newspaper over the sand and starting to cast the homebrew note 3&quot; thick

Another view

Arch built

Base of the vermiculite, will put the insulation on next but wanted a firm base to build on in a few days time

High temp 1200deg c insulation added

Now putting 2&quot; of vermiculite over the insulation

All done one step closer

Very happy with the progress need to stop myself from lightning a fire

First curing fire

Rendering over the vermiculite layer

Week later and a bigger fire

First pizza