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Looking to build my first pizza oven as cheaply as possible. To the experts here, how does this sound as a plan…?
Place a large 100 × 100 cm concrete tile (ideally pre-bought but may need to create a mould) on top of an empty plant pot. The pot is 55 cm wide. So there would be an overhang of approximately 17 cm.
On top of the tile I would arrange a single insulation layer with fire bricks surrounding glass bottles and sand, topped off with concrete.
Then a layer of fire bricks, held together loosely with sand.
On top of this — a clay dome with an archway.
Question is, would the plant pot be wide enough to accommodate the oven and provide optimal insulation?
Or...am I better off going to the extra expense of building a plinth from ordinary red bricks and/or breeze blocks? The insulation layer and cooking base would still make use of fire bricks.
Place a large 100 × 100 cm concrete tile (ideally pre-bought but may need to create a mould) on top of an empty plant pot. The pot is 55 cm wide. So there would be an overhang of approximately 17 cm.
On top of the tile I would arrange a single insulation layer with fire bricks surrounding glass bottles and sand, topped off with concrete.
Then a layer of fire bricks, held together loosely with sand.
On top of this — a clay dome with an archway.
Question is, would the plant pot be wide enough to accommodate the oven and provide optimal insulation?
Or...am I better off going to the extra expense of building a plinth from ordinary red bricks and/or breeze blocks? The insulation layer and cooking base would still make use of fire bricks.
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