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I wanted to thank all of the wonderful, knowledgeable people here that make this a terrific source of information!
We're in the downhill stretch of our pizza oven installation, so I thought I'd post a few details. We had an existing small barbecue open on two sides which contained our gas grill and wood smoker. After getting enthused about wood-burning pizza ovens here, I decided to expand the barbecue into a large full-fledged covered outdoor kitchen with a corner installation of the pizza oven. I have tons and tons of admiration for everyone here who has built their own oven (and it seems that just about everyone does it themselves!) but I have neither the ability nor inclination to do the work myself. I wasn't sure whether we could find a local mason who knew how to properly build an oven, and there seemed to be plenty of contractor horror stories, so I decided to go with the Artigiano, which has the dome part pre-built. It is a gorgeous oven. The masons built a stone surround using Oklahoma Silvermist stone.
The up side of buying the oven partly pre-built is that I know it's constructed correctly. The down side is that it's really heavy. It took four strong men and some ingenuity to lift it into place.
Another difference in having the oven structure constructed by someone else vs doing it yourself is that there is no time to ponder anything! I was glad I had read a lot on this forum before construction began.
There is still some work to finish the counters, plumbing, and electrical, but I'm looking forward to our first pizza!
P.S. It turns out that our mason had built a wood burning pizza oven once before a few years ago, and he had kept the instructions that the owner had provided him, which he brought to show me. Guess what it was? A Forno Bravo Pompeii oven!
We're in the downhill stretch of our pizza oven installation, so I thought I'd post a few details. We had an existing small barbecue open on two sides which contained our gas grill and wood smoker. After getting enthused about wood-burning pizza ovens here, I decided to expand the barbecue into a large full-fledged covered outdoor kitchen with a corner installation of the pizza oven. I have tons and tons of admiration for everyone here who has built their own oven (and it seems that just about everyone does it themselves!) but I have neither the ability nor inclination to do the work myself. I wasn't sure whether we could find a local mason who knew how to properly build an oven, and there seemed to be plenty of contractor horror stories, so I decided to go with the Artigiano, which has the dome part pre-built. It is a gorgeous oven. The masons built a stone surround using Oklahoma Silvermist stone.
The up side of buying the oven partly pre-built is that I know it's constructed correctly. The down side is that it's really heavy. It took four strong men and some ingenuity to lift it into place.
Another difference in having the oven structure constructed by someone else vs doing it yourself is that there is no time to ponder anything! I was glad I had read a lot on this forum before construction began.
There is still some work to finish the counters, plumbing, and electrical, but I'm looking forward to our first pizza!
P.S. It turns out that our mason had built a wood burning pizza oven once before a few years ago, and he had kept the instructions that the owner had provided him, which he brought to show me. Guess what it was? A Forno Bravo Pompeii oven!
Please keep the pictures coming.This looks epic
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