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Hello there!
I started on this journey of building a brick oven a couple months ago. However with the excessive amounts of rain in Missouri, travel, and life. I have not gotten a lot of opportunities to work on it. Things seem to be slowing down so we finally see some progress being made.
The county that I live in requires that these ovens have a footing that is at least 30 inches below grade and that the footing extends 6 inches past the face of the oven. I need not realize how much work goes into digging a whole 30 inches deep. Never again will I attempt to do this kind of digging without a machine (I eventually called someone who had a backhoe for an extra day to finish up the final 14 inches).
Anyways more pictures to come in the following week. I've seen many great ovens on this site and I hope mine will be one of them when this is done. Look forward to posting this journey and any insight or recommendations are always welcomed.
-Mike
The developer
I started on this journey of building a brick oven a couple months ago. However with the excessive amounts of rain in Missouri, travel, and life. I have not gotten a lot of opportunities to work on it. Things seem to be slowing down so we finally see some progress being made.
The county that I live in requires that these ovens have a footing that is at least 30 inches below grade and that the footing extends 6 inches past the face of the oven. I need not realize how much work goes into digging a whole 30 inches deep. Never again will I attempt to do this kind of digging without a machine (I eventually called someone who had a backhoe for an extra day to finish up the final 14 inches).
Anyways more pictures to come in the following week. I've seen many great ovens on this site and I hope mine will be one of them when this is done. Look forward to posting this journey and any insight or recommendations are always welcomed.
-Mike
The developer
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