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Hello All,
First of all I would just like to say that after using this site for a few years for pizza recipes and tweaking doughs it is nice to finally have a reason to get into the meat of the forum and start to design and build an oven. I am at the point where I have the basic design settled upon in various pieces and different sketches on napkins. My first question is I see a lot of people using excellent programs to sketch their designs and measurements on a computer. Aside from CAD (trying to keep costs down) does anyone have any free/low cost programs they have used to mock up their designs on a computer first?
I am planning on building a 42" pompeii oven with an attatched bbq. I found DJOs build and interestingly enough it is extremely simialr to the style that my brother-in-law and I have planned out. The house we are matching has a ring of mortared rock along the lower half of the house, and we were hoping to do the same to the oven/bbq. His design and implementation is impressive and has beome our goal to aspire to, coincidentally its also in Seattle. I have been looking through a ton of posts and the more I find the more posts they link to that have excellent advice. I am planning on using the rest of winter to dig out the foundation, I have a lot of loose rock/dirt to dig through to get the space needed, but it should be worth it since the location ought is fairly ideal. I will also use this time to source and design the specifics and measurements.
I am certain that I will have a lot more questions that will come up, but as I wade through all the posts nearly all of the small ones are being answered. This weekend I am planning on talking to a company that sells wood fired pizza at a local farmers market as they are apparently a dealer of FB kits and ovens, so I am hoping I could source some FB Board and insulation without worrying about shipping costs.
So thank you in advance for everything I will read/study/emulate and for any assisstance that can be offered. The largest journey begins with a single step, here's mine.
Sam
First of all I would just like to say that after using this site for a few years for pizza recipes and tweaking doughs it is nice to finally have a reason to get into the meat of the forum and start to design and build an oven. I am at the point where I have the basic design settled upon in various pieces and different sketches on napkins. My first question is I see a lot of people using excellent programs to sketch their designs and measurements on a computer. Aside from CAD (trying to keep costs down) does anyone have any free/low cost programs they have used to mock up their designs on a computer first?
I am planning on building a 42" pompeii oven with an attatched bbq. I found DJOs build and interestingly enough it is extremely simialr to the style that my brother-in-law and I have planned out. The house we are matching has a ring of mortared rock along the lower half of the house, and we were hoping to do the same to the oven/bbq. His design and implementation is impressive and has beome our goal to aspire to, coincidentally its also in Seattle. I have been looking through a ton of posts and the more I find the more posts they link to that have excellent advice. I am planning on using the rest of winter to dig out the foundation, I have a lot of loose rock/dirt to dig through to get the space needed, but it should be worth it since the location ought is fairly ideal. I will also use this time to source and design the specifics and measurements.
I am certain that I will have a lot more questions that will come up, but as I wade through all the posts nearly all of the small ones are being answered. This weekend I am planning on talking to a company that sells wood fired pizza at a local farmers market as they are apparently a dealer of FB kits and ovens, so I am hoping I could source some FB Board and insulation without worrying about shipping costs.
So thank you in advance for everything I will read/study/emulate and for any assisstance that can be offered. The largest journey begins with a single step, here's mine.
Sam
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