Building A Pizza Oven Chimney

Build an arch over the doorway using half face bricks over the formwork.

Building a pizza oven chimney.

Wood fired ovens hearth dome vent flue chimney heat expansion mortars thermal insulations and oven building plans. The dome is built with fire bricks that are cut in half using a masonry grinder and or a hammer and bolster. The first thing we will address is fire combustion and making sure your wood burns hot and efficient. Build your own clay pizza oven entrance chimney.

The internal diameter of the pizza oven should be 420mm. The walls or dome of the pizza oven were built using ordinary hard clay bricks reclaimed from the fireplace in the house laid in a lime rich mortar to date no problems have been seen. Page 1 2 3. We now have an oven and we could start cooking in it but we really need to improve the efficiency of the oven.

These will frame the oven s mouth. The chimney will sit outside the dome. It was a bit tricky as the first course of the chimney cantilevered off the doorway walls and required some temporary support. Put enough grout at the base of the chimney element and the connector to make them level in all directions.

As a finishing touch contact a mason to give your oven a nice stucco finish. I ve been wanting to build a pizza oven for ages and some time ago i saw an oven built without a chimney just a simple dome with a door. Begin building up the chimney behind the arch. Oven construction overview connect your chimney system prior to insulating as you will insulate the chimney section inside your oven housing.

The actual cross sectional area of the chimney flue is only the size of one brick. Checkout the lessons learnt section which talks about the combustion flows. On each side of the front of the oven stack 2 layers of 3 bricks on edge running front to back. For a wood burning oven to work properly and efficiently there are few rules to be remembered and applied in practice.

This attachment holds the required 6 inch pipe. If mixing your own mortar i d go for a 1 3 mix which is one part lime putty to 3 parts well sieved sharp building sand. Build the entrance and chimney. The flue and a smaller connector that is placed on top smooth side up.

Building plans tutorial with pictures. For outdoor brick oven construction you can use either a simpson double wall sectional chimney system or terra cotta chimney pieces. Building swishy wood pizza oven page 2. My oven will be built outside so i was wondering if the chimney is really necessary or is it like a woodburner where the hot chimney sucks the air into the fire to get it really going.

The chimney flue consists of two parts.