We are starting with a less-than-ideal location: replacing a portion of our retaining wall with the oven foundation/base and building into our hill:
We are trying to build something similar to the Wood Fired Oven Chef on Youtube (BTW- he is very nice and even sent me some plans used to build his oven):
Since the base of the oven will also serve as a retaining wall, I hired a mason to help with the foundation and setting the blocks. I spent a few weeks annoying my neighbors with a jackhammer trying to get 12" dug out for the footing in very hard decomposed granite (I actually only got down a little over 10"):
After more jackhammering, I had leveled enough area and I had the masons come back to help form and pour the hearth:
25 bags of concrete later:
Jim
We are trying to build something similar to the Wood Fired Oven Chef on Youtube (BTW- he is very nice and even sent me some plans used to build his oven):
Since the base of the oven will also serve as a retaining wall, I hired a mason to help with the foundation and setting the blocks. I spent a few weeks annoying my neighbors with a jackhammer trying to get 12" dug out for the footing in very hard decomposed granite (I actually only got down a little over 10"):
After more jackhammering, I had leveled enough area and I had the masons come back to help form and pour the hearth:
25 bags of concrete later:
Jim
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