36" in DFW Area - Building the Oven!

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36" in DFW Area - Building the Oven!

Picture #1 - Dry fit on garage floor of bricks around cut floor tiles. That triangle brick at the left corner of the opening still needs to be rotated to look like the right. We did something different with our floor layout... there is a half 12x12 floor tile cut in a trapezoid shape that fits into the 90 degree corner to the left and right of the first full floor tile. This prevented us from cutting the circle shape on the lower portion of the floor tiles just inside the inner arch and then filling that cut portion with some small cut bricks.

Picture #2 - Cut bricks dry fit around the wooden template. These will be the sailor course.

Picture #3 - Cutting bricks to go around the floor layer and for the sailor course.

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36" in DFW Area - Building the Oven!

Floor of oven

Picture #1 - Laid out 12" x 12" floor tiles on garage floor. When the tiles were first laid out, we moved them around and rotated them, until we found the best sides with the tightest joints and least amount of change in thickness with the neighboring tile, then laid wooden template to mark. (by the time we remembered to take a picture, the left, right, and top tiles had already been removed to cut). Those 3 tiles were cut in a straight line first to the desired width because the bigger portion of the tile was used in the circle floor and the smaller portion was used in the left/right of the vent/inner arch area. The tiles were marked with a masonry pencil and the rounded cuts were made by taking multiple cuts tangent to the circle.

Picture #2 - Here is what they look like cut and in place, except the corner brick on the left side of the opening should be rotated to look like the right side. The triangular piece on the right will be cut again for the first row of bricks to but into. A drawing is in the planning portion of our build. http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/6/36...tml#post184278

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Re: 36" in DFW Area - Building the Oven!

Preparing the insulation board

Pictures #1 & #2 - After laying the pieces on the garage floor and marking each layer with a marker, we used the jig saw to cut any pieces. Cutting was not as dusty as we thought it would be.

Cut the insulation to a 22 1/2" radius (18" floor + 4 1/2" brick) except where the mouth of the oven is... made that straight. Each layer was laid out so that the seams did not overlap. By cutting the insulation to the round shape, we could get all 3 layers out of 1 box. Without cutting, we would have needed another box.

Additional dimensions are in the planning portion of our build http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/6/36...tml#post184278 and more pictures are later in this section.

I didn't take pictures when we had it laying out on the garage floor, so I showed you these here.
Picture #3 - bottom layer
Picture #4 - middle layer
Picture #5 - top layer with where the 12x12 floor bricks and the floor row of cut Empire S bricks will be placed

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Here are the links to the different portions of our build:

In Getting Started section, I included the Design, Specs and Supplies & Equipment:
36" in DFW Area - picture of finished product - post #1 http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f6/3...rea-21562.html (36" in DFW Area)and below.

36" in DFW Area - Design Phase - post #5 http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f6/3...tml#post184271 (36" in DFW Area)

36" in DFW Area - Specs - post #14 http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/6/36...tml#post184280 (36" in DFW Area)

36" in DFW Area - Supplies & Equipment - post #15 http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/6/36...tml#post184281 (36" in DFW Area)

In the IT, Jigs, & Forms section, I included our IT, Jigs and Forms used:
36" in DFW Area - IT, jigs and forms - http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f28/...tml#post184284 (36" in DFW Area - IT, jigs and forms)

In the Pompeii Oven Construction section - I included the building of our oven:
36" in DFW Area - Building the Oven - http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f8/3...tml#post184381 (36" in DFW Area - Building the Oven!)

We had the base for the oven made by a contractor, then we built the oven, and they came back and did the oven enclosure and finishing work. The concrete on top of the oven base was covered with a leveling concrete to make it smoother and more level.