Ben and Mia's Oven

[SpringJim]

Pear shaped BenjaMia Oven

Yes Frances, I did the stand to roughly match the oven. (made sense to me)I'm still working on terminology for this one....ovoid, teardrop, egg, pear... it's really just a slightly stretched dome...42x50 in the planning stage.

Pear might be best as the "stem" will be the entry arch...

And for fun, I'm going to make the same shaped pizza's!

X

...broke down and bought new firebricks for the hearth!

[SpringJim]

First Hearth Layer

Framing up the structural hearth layer.

[SpringJim]

Re: Ben and Mia's Oven

Put in the rebar including used rebar from the concrete recycling center (picked up for free)

Also built a frame for the island hearth to go on the slab.

Now thinking about thermocouple tubes.....

[SpringJim]

Building improvements

Took a break to put some wrap on the building and some tarpaper.

....probably helping to hold the wreck together...it's made from recycled pallets

[SpringJim]

The brickyard

Brick soaker

Tile saw (borrowed

[SpringJim]

Playing with bricks

Note the different colors....

used and different bricks from different places

[SpringJim]

Trial runs....

Laid out the full sized bricks to find out how many I needed. These are the better ones that will be the first course.

[SpringJim]

Arch form too!

Made my arch form for the oven 20 inches wide, 13 inches high.

What about a rustic brick look?

[SpringJim]

bag vs redimix

I needed one yard for the hearth pour...

mimimum delivery is for 2 yards

...so I'm looking where I can pour another yard
...to avoid mixing up 40 - 50 bags
...and the Chiro bill!

[asudavew]

Re: bag vs redimix

I needed one yard for the hearth pour...

mimimum delivery is for 2 yards

...so I'm looking where I can pour another yard
...to avoid mixing up 40 - 50 bags
...and the Chiro bill!

i bought a sand and gravel mix
and 3 bags of portland cement

my hearth cost about 50 bucks plus 2 hours work.

[SpringJim]

Re: Ben and Mia's Oven

You know Dave, I should probably just go back and get a couple of tons of the recycled concrete sand and gravel mix......$12 plus some portland $30...and it would be about $50 too!

did you mix by hand or have a mixer?

[SpringJim]

Re: Ben and Mia's Oven

O where O where does the time go...

I was looking for information on this build since the brain cells are challenged!

Nice to have the record here@!

Hope everyone is doing well.
SJ