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This project will consist of a 36" Pompeii Wood Fire Oven, a Rumford Fireplace, a built in Grill and some other misc kitchen stuff... at least that's the current plan.
To start with I created a kitchen layout with 2 counter spaces surrounding a fireplace and with the oven on the end of a counter. For the foundation I dug 5' deep post holes, 1 per counter and fireplace and 4 for the oven. I was originally going to do a total of 10 holes but I'm dealing with both brown and gray clay which took everything out of me just doing the 7 and when I got done with those I decided it looked good enough.. time will tell.
I then made my forms out of 2x6's, sunk my tubes and poured 2.5 tons of pea gravel in. If I were to do this again I would have gotten a couple large tubes and 7 slightly smaller tubes, they come that way at most box stores. I would have then cut the large ones up into 1' sections and put those in the ground to hold the gravel back. Then I could have waited to sink the smaller tubes until the day I poured. Instead I only sunk my forms a foot into the ground but soon realized I might not be able to get them all the way in if I didn't do it before I started putting rebar in so I did. These then got wet from a high water table and ended up mostly trashed. Lesson learned.
To start with I created a kitchen layout with 2 counter spaces surrounding a fireplace and with the oven on the end of a counter. For the foundation I dug 5' deep post holes, 1 per counter and fireplace and 4 for the oven. I was originally going to do a total of 10 holes but I'm dealing with both brown and gray clay which took everything out of me just doing the 7 and when I got done with those I decided it looked good enough.. time will tell.
I then made my forms out of 2x6's, sunk my tubes and poured 2.5 tons of pea gravel in. If I were to do this again I would have gotten a couple large tubes and 7 slightly smaller tubes, they come that way at most box stores. I would have then cut the large ones up into 1' sections and put those in the ground to hold the gravel back. Then I could have waited to sink the smaller tubes until the day I poured. Instead I only sunk my forms a foot into the ground but soon realized I might not be able to get them all the way in if I didn't do it before I started putting rebar in so I did. These then got wet from a high water table and ended up mostly trashed. Lesson learned.
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