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I have been wanting to build a pizza oven along with an outdoor grilling area and fireplace for quite some time and I finally decided to start this project as I have secured all my material for the build and will be delivered soon.. I am from Chicago so we have pretty cold winters and in my area the frost line in 42" I am in the trades so I am able to get information on pretty much everything except for concrete I just don't see those tradesman where I work too much anymore. I want to pour a pad that is 13' long and then 45 degrees 5'6" long. I would be putting rebar in this pad every 16" - 18" to give it some good reinforcement. When I build something I tend to over kill it and spend extra money and waste material but it would be a tank. My question to everyone is I was thinking of our winters and I was thinking of putting 12" sonotubes at each corner of the pizza oven 42" deep along with 4 sonotubes in each corner of the fireplace and space a few 12" tubes in between the fireplace and the pizza oven. The tubes would have rebar in them and bent over to tie into the 6" pad rebar and all poured in a monolithic pour so it's all together and the stone base would be 8" compacted gravel. I talked to a landscape contractor who does these builds for a living and he told me I was over killing it. He said 8" of stone and an 8" concrete pad would be more than sufficient and he would put his name on it. He even said the 8" pad was overkill but if I felt better to put it in go for it. He said he warranty's his builds for 5 years and he has never had a call back for anything shifting or settling. I know there has been multiple posts on this forum for foundations and base construction but I would like to open it up again in a new thread to see what anyone else has done since and if they were close to my area with similar weather. I'm looking to start in a few weeks on the pad and get my build going.
I have been wanting to build a pizza oven along with an outdoor grilling area and fireplace for quite some time and I finally decided to start this project as I have secured all my material for the build and will be delivered soon.. I am from Chicago so we have pretty cold winters and in my area the frost line in 42" I am in the trades so I am able to get information on pretty much everything except for concrete I just don't see those tradesman where I work too much anymore. I want to pour a pad that is 13' long and then 45 degrees 5'6" long. I would be putting rebar in this pad every 16" - 18" to give it some good reinforcement. When I build something I tend to over kill it and spend extra money and waste material but it would be a tank. My question to everyone is I was thinking of our winters and I was thinking of putting 12" sonotubes at each corner of the pizza oven 42" deep along with 4 sonotubes in each corner of the fireplace and space a few 12" tubes in between the fireplace and the pizza oven. The tubes would have rebar in them and bent over to tie into the 6" pad rebar and all poured in a monolithic pour so it's all together and the stone base would be 8" compacted gravel. I talked to a landscape contractor who does these builds for a living and he told me I was over killing it. He said 8" of stone and an 8" concrete pad would be more than sufficient and he would put his name on it. He even said the 8" pad was overkill but if I felt better to put it in go for it. He said he warranty's his builds for 5 years and he has never had a call back for anything shifting or settling. I know there has been multiple posts on this forum for foundations and base construction but I would like to open it up again in a new thread to see what anyone else has done since and if they were close to my area with similar weather. I'm looking to start in a few weeks on the pad and get my build going.
I look forward to seeing your progress.
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