Building A Pizza Oven Chimney

Build your own clay pizza oven entrance chimney.

Building a pizza oven chimney.

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. The chimney flue consists of two parts. Oven construction overview connect your chimney system prior to insulating as you will insulate the chimney section inside your oven housing. 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.

The flue and a smaller connector that is placed on top smooth side up. The dome is built with fire bricks that are cut in half using a masonry grinder and or a hammer and bolster. This attachment holds the required 6 inch pipe. As a finishing touch contact a mason to give your oven a nice stucco finish.

Checkout the lessons learnt section which talks about the combustion flows. Wood fired ovens hearth dome vent flue chimney heat expansion mortars thermal insulations and oven building plans. On each side of the front of the oven stack 2 layers of 3 bricks on edge running front to back. It was a bit tricky as the first course of the chimney cantilevered off the doorway walls and required some temporary support.

We now have an oven and we could start cooking in it but we really need to improve the efficiency of the oven. Place the bricks at the outer edge of this circumference leaving a 530mm wide gap for the entrance see dimensions above. The actual cross sectional area of the chimney flue is only the size of one brick. Build the entrance and chimney.

Build an arch over the doorway using half face bricks over the formwork. The first thing we will address is fire combustion and making sure your wood burns hot and efficient. 40 pictures just on how to make a concrete slab from the ground leveling digging the footing out 2020mm x 1655mm slab 10cm thick and footing 30cm deep x 30cm wide putting wooden forms boxing together use of reinforcing metal rods for footing and metal mesh for the whole slab. 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.

Building swishy wood pizza oven page 2. Building plans tutorial with pictures. Page 1 2 3. For outdoor brick oven construction you can use either a simpson double wall sectional chimney system or terra cotta chimney pieces.

Cover the hearth in plastic to keep it clean. Put enough grout at the base of the chimney element and the connector to make them level in all directions. The internal diameter of the pizza oven should be 420mm. These will frame the oven s mouth.

For a wood burning oven to work properly and efficiently there are few rules to be remembered and applied in practice.