Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

[geisen]

Inside Arch Complete

Big day today. Decided to finish the third row before adding the outward stress of the inside arch. Then moved on to the arch. What fun it was to put in the keystone. Going to let it set up for a couple of days before I pull out the support.

[exceloven]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Greg,
Nice to see your progress. Everything looks great. It is a lot of fun working on some of the harder parts, like the arch and tie-in. Keep the pictures coming.

Mark

[Dino_Pizza]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Hey Greg, your inner arch is really tight! Great job tappering those bricks. That's going to be very strong arch. Nice work. Take care, Dino

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Mark: How is your WFO doing? getting the hang of lighting it off and throwing the dough?

Dino: I feel like the Angleizer is almost like cheating. You gotta try it on your next dome.

[exceloven]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Hi Greg,
Thanks for asking. Yea I have been lighting a lot of fires.I've learned (the hard way) that placing the pizza in the oven with the toppings intact is a developed skill. I am really enjoying cooking in it. I have done a few things on the construction end of mine that I will post this weekend.
I think it was Bill who was saying last week that once the oven is working you lose a little of the motivation to finish the outside. But I'm ready to continue.
I've been following your build and it looks fantastic.

Mark

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Mark,
Got a whole day today with nothing but bricks ahead.
Life is good.
GG

[exceloven]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Greg,
If your not to tired post pics of the days progress. We're going to a really big wine tasting event at Humphreys tonight, should be fun.

Mark

[mfiore]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Can I come?

[mikeye15]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Another San Diegan taking the plunge. Greg I finally started. Got 4 courses of the block up. Now trying to decide on how high. When everyones WFO are done we should start a monthly circuit between houses. I'll try to start a thread on my build

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Mike
Welcome to the jungle.

Mfiore
you bring the wine.

Mark
wasnt too tired to post pictures, but wife had the camera in her purse....I aint going in there.

Fired off a few snaps tonight. finished another ring and a little more.
Starting to look like something. Can't say my arch tie in is pretty but it will work.

Son Ryan was just told his job is going to be to clean the inside....

Greg

[jwnorris]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

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Son Ryan was just told his job is going to be to clean the inside....
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Greg,

Do you rent him out?

J W

[Calabrese]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42&quot; - San Diego

Don't worry Ryan it looks really clean inside. Great job Greg.

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42&quot; - San Diego

I don't know if you could afford Ryan's daily rate....he eats me out of house and home. I am building this WFO just to see if we can feed him enough pizza.

Constant cleaning slows down the construction but I think it pays off in the end. I am 6'2" 270lbs. I don't think I'll be crawling around inside the oven anytime soon.

Images below of 5th row.

[geisen]

6th row transition

6th row starts with the last tough transtion between the arch and dome. In order to maintain as much strenght as possible, I went with full bricks and hollowed up a wedge to fit the arch.

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42&quot; - San Diego

Not very pretty but it works. A lot of sins can be covered with extra mortar.