PIZZA OVEN BUILD
100 mm thick concrete slab
on compacted layer
Stock brick
Face brick
PLAN: BASE WALL: PLAN: BASE WALL:
First layer of brickwork Second layer of brickwork
1,2 m precast lintels (13)
ELEVATION: PLAN:
Base wall built up to oven floor height Oven floor
m
62 m
Face brick
soldier cours
Face brick
back wall
Stock brick
stretcher course
PLAN:
First layer of oven wall
Screed over lintels around brick work (at least inside oven).
Use cement + perlite mix to add insulation to oven floor.
Lay oven floor tiles before constructing barrel vault.
Do not cemtn tiles down but lay them on a bed of river sand
or plaster sand to allow for movement.
Edge tiles at door may be fixed with tile adhesive/cemtn.
TILE LAYOUT PLAN
NOTE: use 50% less cement than usual
for brick joints on inner skin of oven because cement
does not handle heat well and will crack
Face brick-on-edge
with buttered joints
(no cement gap at
narrow edge of joint)
ELEVATION:
Inner skin of oven barrel vault
Half bricks
CONSTRUCT OUTER BRICK SKIN & CHIMNEY
Plaster 10-15 mm with
cement + perlite mix to insulate