Building our Pizza Oven - Part 2

I am not sure I realised how much hard work this was going to be, Pizza ovens certainly don't build themselves.  The oven itself is not a lot of work but we are building a full outside kitchen including a sink, a small barbeque, a preparation space and a tiled area just off the deck.  The pizza oven however is the priority and I am aiming to get it complete before Christmas.

Clearing the ground proved to be one of the easier tasks.  From there, I had to build the reinforcing for the concrete slab that would form the base of the tiled area.  This meant mixing and pouring nearly 0.5 M3 of concrete which certainly wasn't a job for hand mixing.  Here is the site with the reinforcing in and the concrete ready to pour.  Tia Belle, our springer spaniel isn't too sure what is going on, what was her running ground is now covered in blue tarps.

With the first slab poured, it was time to start on the pizza oven itself.

 

The oven weighs in at about half a tonne and with the base weighing in at nearly a tonne, the foundations need to be strong enough to handle the whole weight.  Deep trenches, rebar and half a tonne of concrete...

Once the foundations have been cast, the next job is to move the mains water pipe out of the way so I can build the base for the pizza oven.

Building the oven base has taken a lot longer than I thought it would, hoping to get the rest of the base finished over the next few days so I can then start on the oven itself...

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