The oven fire either.
Concrete pizza oven floor.
The 2 1 2 floor can be fully heated to an 800ºf pizza baking temperature which allows for continuous baking without the floor cooling down.
The forno bravo oven uses 18 x18 x2 1 2 true firebrick baking tiles the optimal thickness and material for baking pizza napoletana.
First you need to decide are you going to build the side wall on top of the oven floor or around it.
Construction of a blockwork base slab support walls concrete hearth slab the installation of a precast wood fired pizza oven kit demonstrated from start.
Pizza oven build part 3 the oven floor in part 2 of the oven build i utilised my bricklaying skills and built the base structure and now it s time to actually get onto building the oven floor.
How to make heat resistant concrete type for buildig wood fired pizza ovens and similar applications where heat and heating is present.
Refractory concrete mixture ingredients recipe for mixing by hand and concrete in building pizza ovens.
Heat differences in materials.
Building on top is the simple solution but building around gives you better insulation.
Therefore fill the holes with mortar and even out the gaps between the stone pieces with a small putty knife.
Pizza oven floor comparison.
1 you will need to build a base with a 15cm thick concrete slab for the oven to sit on.
The only problem with the second option is you need to cut the bricks on the oven floor so they fit snug inside the walls.
Temperature differences in material heat expansion and contraction shrinkage of edges with cooling downwards.
Want to build your own pizza oven.
A vermiculite pizza oven is one that is made from a concrete composed of the coarsely ground highly insulatory mineral vermiculite and a refractory cement suitable to withstand high temperatures.
The dome is formed by applying the concrete over a spherical mold commonly an exercise ball and leaving it to dry.
Check out the rest of the brick pizza oven series to find out more on how to build the stove and the wooden shelter.