Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Bill
Pickleball, Speed Tennis, Volleyball, Basketball, Badmitten and skates are all doable. Check out Sport Court? - Backyard Game Courts and Indoor Sports Flooring.
Greg

[bbell]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

And great build and pizzas as well!

Decades ago my father and two friends started pickleball. It still cracks me up when I see it around and about. Great game.

I need a firestick!

Bill

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

That's a riot. It would be great to have a founding father stop by next time you are in San Diego. Even if you didn't have a awesome WFO, you would still need a firestick......lots of fun and completely lit is 3mins or less. Love you stone work, left a question for you on your thread.
Greg

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Built a door last weekend.
made a tray out of sheet metal.
Made a door out of tung and groove pine wainscot.
filled the tray with vermiculite and connected the two with a 2.5 inch wide alum band.
After cooking pizzas on Sunday still had 450 dome and 400 floor deg F on Monday morning.

First pizzas with 00 Pizza flour. Wow, what a difference. Made handling and sliding a breeze. also first time using my live yeast from www.Sourdo.com
D-Lish

[Les]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Sweet! Nice looking door Greg. The temps look like you have some good cooking in your future.

Les...

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Les
thanks, reading through all the ebooks now. trying to wrap my brain around a sequence of cooking pizza in the afternoon on a saturday, puting some kinda stew and veggie to cook saturday night for sunday nights dinner with fresh bread i bake sunday morning. Nobody said we were gonna have to think to master this......
greg

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Repaired the arch brick this weekend, ran some electricity and started preping for the scratch coat.

[ThisOldGarageNJ]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Looking great,,, Love the door...

cheers Mark

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Bought some Granite Pool Cowling and cut it to size for a Hearth. Also bought a 4ft piece of 3inch flat steel and used it to hold ash back while cooking. just bend it a few times so it stands up. Saw some Italian chefs using one on the travel channel. works great

[bbell]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Greg, great looking hearth, door and exterior. Very impressive.
Bill

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Thanks Bill. It's probably going to end up looking a lot like yours. Scratch coat goes on this weekend.

[Dino_Pizza]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Greg, great to see all the good progress. Sounds like a good weekend ahead for you.

I really like your door. I was looking at 2x2 pieces of sheet metal add OSH yesterday wondering how to make a door with it. What or how did you cut your sheets of steel? Heavy duty tin-snips? Or a metal grinder blade?

Your pizza looks delicious. Or was it the wine that had me salivating??? -Dino

[ThisOldGarageNJ]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

your landing looks great.. nice job on the whole oven,, looking forward to seeing it finished

Cheers
Mark

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Dino
I traced the shape of the door onto the sheet metal I bought at HD. added a two inch border all around for the thickness of the door and cut with tin snips. Then using a long blade set of vice grip pliers, I bent and shaped the metal as you see in my pictures. I then bent a 2" wide strip of alum around the door and screwed it into place. Filled the tray with vermiculite and fit the two pieces together and used a lot of screws. TADA.

The pizza is coming out perfect. Using the Caputo Flour really makes a difference in texture and ease of use.

gg

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

your landing looks great.. nice job on the whole oven,, looking forward to seeing it finished
Cheers
Mark

thanks, Mark.
Believe me, no one wants to see it finished more than me......ok, maybe my wife. Rock facing going on today.
gg