Dino's 42" Pizza Oven Starts

[DrakeRemoray]

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Looking Great Dino! I filled my cracks with some furnace cement:
Ace - Ace Tree: Heating & Cooling: Fireplaces & Stoves: Fireplace & Stove Repair: Gasket Cement: Rutland Hi-Temp Stove & Gasket Cement
as it has a little flex to it. I heated up the oven and applied while the cracks were open...

$100 for a cord of wood is a great deal.

You are ready for some fun now!

Drake

[egalecki]

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Avocado and lemon wood sound fabulous! I use locust, which burns really hot, black walnut, which is sort of medium, and red oak. But then, it's free (if you don't count my husband's labor cutting it up on his dad's place).

I think the citrus wood will burn extremely hot, so be careful. I seem to remember a story RTFlorida told about thinking he was going to burn down the neighborhood once. I remember laughing so hard about it that I nearly disgraced myself...

[Dino_Pizza]

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You aint kiddin Elizabeth, the dry lemon wood did burn hot but very clean. Who knew a pizza oven teaches you all these kinds of things.
Thanks for the pointers Drake, I ran out and got some fireplace sealant too, (the non-intumescent kind of course) filled the larger gaps while warm and open, skipped a firing to set it and was impressed that it kept the large gap sealed. The smaller hairlines I applied it to just split open because they were not big enough. I'm really happy to see my large crack stay sealed and "closed". I guess if the cracks big enough, you get enough of the fire sealant in there, it stays.

Had 1st pizza a few hours ago: Pizza Margarita with fresh heirloom tomatoes & fresh mozzarella, the 2nd pizza added meatballs we made a few months ago. Pizza crust was awesome! Caputo 00 flour rocks. Pizza's done in under 2 minutes. I new about the dome turning white at 800 deg but still was surprised. We celebrated our 1st pizzas with a 1990 Opus One. We deserved it. Dino

[egalecki]

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Oh my. If my palate ever came near a wine like that it would go into shock.

I'm glad your first pizzas came out well. Incidentally, if you push your fire to the side instead of the back, you'll keep the floor hotter. I think pushing the fire to the back interferes with the heat recharge. You get used to doing it after a few times. I have a small fireplace shovel my husband bolted to a piece of metal conduit that I use to shove the fire over and scoop the little pieces with.

[Cypress]

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the oven looks good. what are you going to finish it in?

[bbell]

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First pizza! That is cause to celebrate. I think i have Opus envy....

[Modthyrth]

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Gorgeous work, congratulations!

We just use a long (charred, slowly getting shorter) 2x4 to push the fire over to the side. I'd like to get or make an appropriate tool at some point, but the wood works quite well well for now.

[mfiore]

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I've figured out my roof pitch and eave lengths so I'm ready to cut the vertical steel studs this weekend.

Dino, I'm trying to work out the dimensions of my enclosure so it looks proportional. What did you plan for the roof pitch? How high is your framing on the sides? When I work out a structure that looks proportinal to me, this oven ends up huge! Especially when I consider the chimney on top.

BTW - I'm pretty jealous of the 1990 Opus One. I'm sure it was drinking well.

[bbell]

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I have that same 2X4 for shifting the fire to the side.

[Calabrese]

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Hi Dino,
It looks like your a natural with that pizza peel The pizza looks great and the oven looks awsome. CONGRATULATIONS

Regards Joe

[larrya1049]

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Wow great job Dino! I hope my oven turns out half as good as yours.
Larry

[exceloven]

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Dino,
1990 Opus! How long have been holding that bottle. Sooo jealous.

Mark

[Dino_Pizza]

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Well Larry, everyone can learn from my misstakes so I'll bet your pizza will come out better! Thanks everyone, it's was a great evening last night. We may even try again tonight.

Thanks Elizabeth for the hints about log placement. It is a big oven so I need to keep the floor charged and the circulation going. I'll try it tonight.
We are using our fireplace shovel and 2 garden tools for fire management. I've melted paint on one already.

Cypress: I'm about to order the black slate roofing tomorrow and we found a stone veneer we like that is squares and rectangles, granite shades with the ability for mortar joints to go wide which is what I'm looking for. I'm trying to avoid an English Cotlswold look and hope it will be more French Country Farm Oven. It will be stone top to bottom. Counter:: still not sure. It will be a heavy roof so I'm going to make my upper part as strong as I can.

Which brings me to Mike (mfiore): Attached is a picture and the same in pdf format if my dimensions are not clear. I think proportionally, I should go with a 30 deg roof and maybe 4 inches taller but I've got 2 overriding concerns: 1) I'm putting slate on it so I want to SEE it close to eye level. The gal on the left in the pic is 5.5' tall and the dude on the right is 6'. The roof edge will be at their eye level. 2) I don't want this to look too massive so my peak height will be 7'-10" when I'm done and between 5'-6" and 5'-2" for the low eves necessitating the somewhat steep roof angle. Look at these pics and if you like the proportions, use what you want. I'm cutting my vertical steel studs about 28" long on top of the base which is 39.5" high. Again thanks everyone for your support and help. : Dino

[Les]

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Dino - It looks great!! Did you really opened that bottle of Opus for pizza? I shudder to think of what you have for Kobe beef

[mfiore]

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Wow! Great sketch! This will be very helpful to me.
I guess this shows that building a nice WFO will attract good looking women in short skirts.

I'm debating a 40 degree roofline, which will match my houses lines. Thanks again. This was very helpful.