Hello, I hope I am posting this in the correct forum (if not please send me in the right direction..)
I've got an oven in my backyard, which was here when we bought the place so I don't know how it was built etc. Here are some photos:
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We've been here 6 years. In the beginning we had some (sort of) successful pizza days, although it took a lot of work to build and maintain a hot enough fire. I am the first to admit there were more frustrating days that enjoyable ones, so I stopped using the oven and focused on other things. I built a door for it although I was never able to successfully bake anything in the oven, and I think I have always battled moisture when using it. I could get it hot but as soon as the door went on the temperature dropped rapidly.
There are cracks on the outside of the oven, and I've included a photo that shows the moss & weeds growing out of it.
Note the design is like a barrel or vault style (?) and the floor of the oven inside is 1220mm deep (from the door to the rear), 900mmW wide and 530mm high.. which seems huge.
I'm debating what to do with it. I am considering knocking it down, maybe just to the top of the stand and building a simple open grill to cook on. Or a brand new oven... I have also had the thought of carefully knocking off the outside (cement?) layer to see how it appears to be built and maybe putting in some effort to bringing it back to life. Maybe it needs a roof built over it.
I'm in Melbourne Australia if that helps, and the oven faces west.
I love reading these forums and seeing what others have built and what you all cook. I guess my question is - what would you do??
Thanks in advance.
Phil
I've got an oven in my backyard, which was here when we bought the place so I don't know how it was built etc. Here are some photos:
We've been here 6 years. In the beginning we had some (sort of) successful pizza days, although it took a lot of work to build and maintain a hot enough fire. I am the first to admit there were more frustrating days that enjoyable ones, so I stopped using the oven and focused on other things. I built a door for it although I was never able to successfully bake anything in the oven, and I think I have always battled moisture when using it. I could get it hot but as soon as the door went on the temperature dropped rapidly.
There are cracks on the outside of the oven, and I've included a photo that shows the moss & weeds growing out of it.
Note the design is like a barrel or vault style (?) and the floor of the oven inside is 1220mm deep (from the door to the rear), 900mmW wide and 530mm high.. which seems huge.
I'm debating what to do with it. I am considering knocking it down, maybe just to the top of the stand and building a simple open grill to cook on. Or a brand new oven... I have also had the thought of carefully knocking off the outside (cement?) layer to see how it appears to be built and maybe putting in some effort to bringing it back to life. Maybe it needs a roof built over it.
I'm in Melbourne Australia if that helps, and the oven faces west.
I love reading these forums and seeing what others have built and what you all cook. I guess my question is - what would you do??
Thanks in advance.
Phil
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