Starting 42" NW Pensylvania

[NCMan]

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I don't know it all, but I know what I know. Your welcome.

No, you certainly don't. Personally, I think you think you do, and some of the advice you have given to folks on here is questionable, at best and sometimes flat out wrong. Oh....that's right, it's due to "regional differences". The very large majority of people who waste their money on pavers live to regret it. Fact. Yeah, I could go into all the reasons why, etc., but I've got better things to do. And none of them is "moving my pavers". People can just look around at some paver projects, ones that have been around for quite a few years. I'll take my properly designed, poured and cured concrete slab over even a free paver job any day and would recommend the same to anyone contemplating which to use. Now, if an owner likes the look of pavers and really gets into the maintenance required, even have the ability to move them around, I say go ahead and use them, by all means. As was stated by someone earlier, they both have their place. People just need to decide if they want to do it once, correctly, and be done w/it, or.....you know, use pavers. "You're" welcome.

[hodgey1]

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The concrete patio portion of our WFO project is complete. The rain stopped long enough for our contractor to finish it over the memorial day weekend. We are very pleased with how it has turned out. It has definitely enhanced our pizza ovens practicality and beauty and also improved our back yard immensely.

I now have to start putting our seating area back together which has lots of work involved building frame work and cutting counter tops and such. I will update as we proceed.

[NCMan]

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Beautiful job and great decision. Are they going to apply a couple coats of sealer after it dries? It looks like they did some saw cuts for control joints. Nice looking work.

[hodgey1]

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Beautiful job and great decision. Are they going to apply a couple coats of sealer after it dries? It looks like they did some saw cuts for control joints. Nice looking work.

Thanks NCman, we could not be much happier with the finished product. They have put three coats of sealer on.

[stonecutter]

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The patio completes the area nicely.

[hodgey1]

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The patio completes the area nicely.

Thanks Stone. We can't wait to be completely finished, we will putting seating area back together this coming weekend. We are on our thirteenth year of the back yard improvement project. My wife and I have done it all ourselves except the latest concrete pour. The retaining wall was the biggest of the projects before the WFO. That made the wall seem like child's play, it was finished in one summer, this is summer three on finishing details on the pizza oven.

Thanks again to everyone who's helped me here and all of the prop's along the way.

Chris

[hodgey1]

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I came home yesterday and my wife tells me she thinks she saw something go into my WFO and not come out? I asked what she thought it might be and she replied, maybe a ground hog? I told her that she had to be mistaken because the door was on the oven and the only place it could have gone was up the chimney. I thought if anything maybe a squirrel but not a ground hog? So I went to stove and banged on door and chimney and nothing came out. My wife was still adamant that what ever it was, was still in there. I then lit a piece of newspaper to create some smoke and armed myself with a camera and waited to see if anything came out. Pictured below was the what came out. Weird!

[NCMan]

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Watch out for those squatters, Chris!! We had a neighborhood cat that liked to climb up into ours and lay by the nice warm door, but so far, no ground hogs. I now close off the vent area to keep out the critters and the weather. I made a cheap wooden door to close off the vent landing area. That's a cool photo!! Hope it's tail isn't on fire!!

[Gulf]

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I wonder if this going to have some effect on the weather .....

[NCMan]

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It just might. You know Chris lives up there near Punxsutawney Phil. That could easily be one of Phil's kin. Maybe Chris should look into installing a lightning rod on his oven......just in case.

[hodgey1]

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The weather here couldn't be worse so maybe it is related!

[hodgey1]

I feel like a stranger here😞. This new forum is a mess.😔

[Gulf]

Welcome back Chris,

Forno Bravo has came on board in the last few days and are very active on the forum and seem determined to correct all of the issues.

They have a sticky topic for anyone to voice the issues that they are experiencing. It can be linked at the top of the page or here.

If you haven't seen them, we have a few workarounds to use until they get the forum fixed.

Here is how to make the forum skin a little easier to view.

Finding the most recent posts.

A temporary Search Engine for the site.

[hodgey1]

Thanks Gulf for the info. I appreciate all your input during my build and others builds. I will try to learn the nuances and except that all thing must change.

[hodgey1]

This post is way over due since finishing my project in June of this year. Please see attached the finished product of 2 1/2 summers of effort by my wife and I. For anyone just starting a build or on the fence thinking about building your own WFO, my advice is just do it! Although I have always been handy and considered a "fix-it" guy, as I've stated multiple times threw my posts here, this was the first time i've picked up a trowel. Forno Bravo, the FB forum and its members are solely responsible for my build getting off the ground and ending up so perfectly functional! So thank you, to all here, past and current members and most of all to the FB plans that made it possible for me to wrap my mind around making a round dome out of square bricks!