Finally started

[mnl]

Re: Finally started

Slowly but surely

[cobblerdave]

Re: Finally started

End of progress for the day. The top left brick us the height of the top of the slab. If you have seen the photo in the foreground, I have taken Dave's advice and fitted everything in place with my biggest hammer.

This new angle grinder is a weapon. I really do not enjoy using it!

Gudday
I have a lumpy hammer which would do the job real well. I have a few to pick from.
At work , a watch band pin hammer, 2 jewelers hammers. A Italian boot hammer, 2 London hammers ( one marked John Barnsley which became John Barnsley and sons in 1880) a slide hammer and 2 tack hammers( one of my own design) a nylon mallet and leather face hammer.
At home , 2 more London hammers. A 20 oz Estwing and 26 oz . A tack hammer. 2 different size engineers hammer. The lumpy hammer, rubber mallet, nylon mallet, and a sledge hammer.
So I've got all tasks covered.
Regards dave

[chubbybones]

Re: Finally started

Looking good Mark,
Are you still going with a vault design or an igloo type dome?

[mnl]

Re: Finally started

Still going with the barrel vault as had my mind set on it. Also picked up a loan of a cement mixer yesterday. It is my brother in laws brother in law's cement mixer.

[mnl]

Re: Finally started

End of progress for the day as has started raining. Getting close to be ready to core filled.

[david s]

Re: Finally started

Make sure you get onside with your neighbours. In Qld. (or at least where I live) if you build closer than 1.5m from your boundary fence and you get complaints, they can force you to remove it, which may mean demolition.

[cobblerdave]

Re: Finally started

Gudday
Looking at the pic of the stand with the cement mixer in the foreground.
You slab is about the same height as the surrounding ground. It also appears from the pic the oven is on the low side of the yard. If we have a good storm or a big rain day like last Australia's day the stand could fill with water.
You might add a extra layer of builders plastic on the top slab under the insulation layer for piece of mind.
I thought mine was high enough till it got flooded last Australia Day, and trust me a wet oven and stand takes forever to dry.
Regards dave
Spoon drain after last nights storm

[mnl]

Re: Finally started

Front lintel poured this morning

[mnl]

Re: Finally started

Cores also filled. Took about 3-4 hours. Hoping to pour the hearth slab next weekend but have tickets to the first Ashes Test for both days of the weekend.

[TropicalCoasting]

Re: Finally started

Pizza oven ashes take a back seat to cricket ashes

[mnl]

Re: Finally started

I agree cricket ashes potential take precedent over pizza ashes, however I'm going Thursday, Friday and Saturday, therefore have decided to dedicate Sunday to the pizza oven. The plan is to get the hearth slab poured, then I can get on with the real part of the pizza oven build!

[mnl]

Re: Finally started

Hearth slab poured this morning. I think a few cold drinks in front of the cricket might be in order.

[mnl]

Re: Finally started

I feel like I have started the pizza oven bit now. Insulation laid. The place I went to only had calcium silicate in 600 x 150 x 25 boards. Therefore have doubled up. I have also ended up with more than I need and was thinking I might use it along the straight walls of the even as insulation.

[mnl]

Re: Finally started

Approximate oven layout. This is only with clay pavers on the bottom that I'm using for a bit of extra thermal mass as the refractory tiles I'm using for the hearth are only 50mm think.

I was going to try to get the hearth laid this afternoon, however if I'm going to lay the floor on a 45 degree angle, I need to do a bit of cutting before I start. I also have my 1 year old son at home today, therefore don't want to start playing with a big angle grinder when he might be creeping up behind me.

What do people thing, should I go 45 degrees for the hearth slabs? I also got some fire clay today, my plan was to mix up with some sand and water to put under the floor and assist with levelling. Is this the right approach?

Thanks

Mark

[chubbybones]

Re: Finally started

Sounds like you are well on your way,looking good.
I really like those hearth brick slabs,i couldnt find them when i was looking.