Ive been making my ow pizzas and cooking on a pizza stone in the oven for a while now. They’re pretty good - very pizza express style, so I thought a wood fired jobby would be nice. Very Mediterranean style. Cost as always most important (max £500 budget) - reuse, beg, borrow, buy being the hierarchy. Luckily for me I’d saved all the bricks from when I knocked down the outhouse before doing my extension, so a big cost saving there.
I watched tons of how to vids on YouTube on making pizza ovens. I’d decided to go the perlite concrete route over an exercise ball, insulated then rendered and priced materials up at approx £350. Then when looking for my materials I found a ready made one for £400. Not my shoddy diy effort, refractory bricks inside, then insulated and rendered. So I cheated and went for that. Easy peasy I thought. All delivered in a couple of days to my drive whilst I was building the brick base for it to sit on. Just pick it up and put it on the base.
How much does the pizza oven weigh? 680kg - 1500lbs in old money. That’s stupid heavy. Didn’t really think that through. After racking my limited brain and realising that manpower alone wasn’t going to shift this thing I borrowed a pallet truck and used boards to shift it down the end of the garden. Then I made a tripod out of 14’ scaffold poles to hoist it up onto a wooden platform in front of the base. Repositioned the tripod and then relift into position. Sounds straightforward but was a right ball ache.
Just need to paint the oven a terracotta or dark blue and fashion something to cover the crappy fence. First pizza cook up went well - just need to get the oven hotter next time.
I watched tons of how to vids on YouTube on making pizza ovens. I’d decided to go the perlite concrete route over an exercise ball, insulated then rendered and priced materials up at approx £350. Then when looking for my materials I found a ready made one for £400. Not my shoddy diy effort, refractory bricks inside, then insulated and rendered. So I cheated and went for that. Easy peasy I thought. All delivered in a couple of days to my drive whilst I was building the brick base for it to sit on. Just pick it up and put it on the base.
How much does the pizza oven weigh? 680kg - 1500lbs in old money. That’s stupid heavy. Didn’t really think that through. After racking my limited brain and realising that manpower alone wasn’t going to shift this thing I borrowed a pallet truck and used boards to shift it down the end of the garden. Then I made a tripod out of 14’ scaffold poles to hoist it up onto a wooden platform in front of the base. Repositioned the tripod and then relift into position. Sounds straightforward but was a right ball ache.
Just need to paint the oven a terracotta or dark blue and fashion something to cover the crappy fence. First pizza cook up went well - just need to get the oven hotter next time.
