Need

Something to keep us busy with during lockdown

Steps Taken

After some research into DIY pizza ovens, rough hand drawings and a CAD model drawn in Fusion360 we began building the Pizza Oven.

  1. Created a mould for the pizza oven dome using an exercise ball & plywood
  2. Covered it in a mix of vermiculite & cement and let it dry for a month
  3. Prepared concrete foundation and brick surround for the pizza oven structure
  4. Made a concrete slab that would be used to place the heat sink and pizza oven on
  5. Filled the heat sink area with wine bottles and fire clay
  6. Fire bricks were then laid on top of this. This will be the fire & cooking surface.
  7. Secured pizza oven dome the chimney with fire cement
  8. Added tiles around the front of the pizza oven
  9. Plastered and lime washed the dome of the oven!
  10. Place counter top of support

What I learned

  • Brick Laying & Plastering
  • How to make pizza dough, sauce and concrete!
  • Cement can really burn your skin :(
  • I really should have taken better pictures throughout the process!