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He wanted a pizza oven, So by God he made himself one (16 Photos)

January 23, 2013 | In: Architecture, Awesome, DIY

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: It began with a hole in the ground

: Footing of the foundation.

: Building the foundation.

: Building the oven stand.

: Completed oven stand.

: Laying of the hearth.

: Planning the arch

: Framing the dome.

: Completed dome and arch.

: Cleaning up interior of dome.

: First fire.

: Laying brick walls.

: More laying of brick walls.

: Chimney goes up.

: Finished oven. (Without granite)

: Finished Masterpiece

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Slavo

What just happened?

Deviant Khan

It's not delivery ..

MonkeyMadness

#2 Holy shit, why does the foundation need to be so deep?

Slavo

Guy was dedicated haha
http://echogeo.wordpress.com/ echogeo

Has anyone seen his wife?
_DoC_

Soft ground + heavy oven – sufficient footing =sinking oven

Smitty

Indeed.

We are looking at probably 2-3 tons of concrete and brick.
Dude is/was pretty serious about it, because he did it right.

_DoC_

Absolutely. A man that serious about his pizza is not messin around.

CoolGuy

Freezing

Team Venture

Only person who seems to know what frost depth is. High five.
Jackson

It's surprising how many people don't know what a frost heave is.

MonkeyMadness

10 to 1 odds says his wife is now encased at the bottom of the pit.

Alex

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

JP1983

That's a lot of weight in a small footprint due the amount of brick/concrete. The deep footing and foundation is to ensure that the masterpiece doesn't shift/crack over time as the ground settles under the weight. Maybe a bit excessive, but the cost difference in a 4' hole and a 6' hole is pretty much negligible. I don't really understand the need for a brick oven, but whatever floats his boat. They take half a day to heat up to temp anyway, so you'd have to be planning to eat a pizza a day in advance, lol.

Dyquen

Nope If built right It takes the same amount of time as a conventional oven. It gets hotter as well so pizza is done in less than 2 mins. Plus you can't beat that true brick oven taste man.

yoyo

pizza is done in 2 minutes after an hour of fire starting and heating up the oven…

Paul

With beer in hand, that sounds fine to me.

Team Venture

The deep footing/foundation is not because of the weight of the oven. That amount of weight is not that much. Lets say that thing weighs 6000 lb and that the soil can support 1500 psf (Code allowed assumption for design if actual soil bearing pressure is not known). That means the entire weight of the structure could be supported on a 2 square foot spot footing (I know this is not totally accurate since it is a continuous footing and not a spot footing, but you get the idea)

The depth of the footing is used to get the bottom of the footing to sit below the frost depth. That will keep it from heaving settling as a result of freezing and thawing of the soil that is supporting the footing.

FoolOfATook

thumbs up from a fellow SE.

TazeMeBro

His wife told him "you'll build a pizza oven over my dead body!"

Phil

Well played sir

TheAssMan

That is damn cool!
But I'm broke……And Lazy.
So I'll just call Domino's

bryan

judging by the snow on the ground he had to go 4ft down for the frost line or it would heave

Canadian Murse

I would be so fat.

Alex

Truth, you said it. Would apply to me as well.

bigyawns

pizza or it didn't happen
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Suddenly everybody's new best friend.
Thats a lot of work

Has he not heard of Tonmbstone?

ThatGuy

I don't think anyone has heard of Tonmbstone.. O.o

Revlis1

Yeah, I dunno… I love Pizza but that level of commitment is almost spooky.

Rule34YourMom

"Spooky"? You, wouldn't know an awesome use of one's time if it cock-slapped you in the face. Go back to camwhoring on FB, little girl.

http://www.thechive.com AdamBaldick

That was aggressive
dirty carl

well that escalated quickly
DRK

WOW

_DoC_

Your score is 69….huhuh huhuh
Ryan

Your comment could be one of the huge problems facing this Nation these days. Lack of commitment.

john

its beautiful
Bud

No want pizza oven. Want humps…

Silverstone

Then stop reading everything else, dipwad!

Hara

As an old school pizza guy, I have to say: Hats off to you, sir! Even a granite stone to smack the dough on!

The only bad thing I have to say is that with no venting to adjust upper and lower temps, you're gonna get unevenly cooked pie, but that's old school.

Ryan

You do know he will be cooking at about 950 degrees so his pies will be cooked in about a min and a half right? you also turn the pie once to cook evenly

sfb101

Pretty nice design, you can fit the whole body in there.
Lukeatmacok

Now he just needs to make and eat 13000 pizzas to recoup the money spent

ThunderKCCO

sooo… whats the downside of the argument?

http://twitter.com/FL_Chiver @FL_Chiver

#15 I agree with Canadian Murse… I'd just get fat, quick!
AnItalianChiver

this is just awesome. Good job man. The Republic of pizza approves.
killerV

#1
that's a beautiful soil profile

profil-icious

Thumbs up from a Geology/ soils nerd
farley

those horizons are tits!!

MoarMirrors

What bappened between #3 and #4?? It went from being in a 4 or 5 foot hole to being in a 6 inch hole?? What did i miss?

ps86

thank you, i thought i was the only one that noticed
scooby dood

So in 3 he is building the foundation wall up to the surface, and at #4 its already been backfilled and he poured the slab and walls for the oven. What I dont understand is, if was going to pour a slab at foundations and at ground level, then he should have just had a monolithic pour of the foundations as well. I also don't see rebar.
Team Venture

Photo 3 is of the footing/masonry stem wall. Photo 4 has the soil placed and the concrete slab added to the top of the stem wall.

It is kind of like this:
http://www.infoforbuilding.com/stemwallslab.gif
tdub

also look at the trees around the two pictures. the location has changed I think he started at one location, had to blow it up and started over at a different location

profil-icious

perspective and piles of dirt, yes… location, not very likely

Dydy

I was just lookin at plans to build on of these. He rocked this one out. I saw some photos of one who built theirs on top of their fireplace.
papa john

This guy the real lil ceasar? pizza pizza
Alex

But…where does the pizza go? I R so confyoosed.

Amazing work!
Shoofly

You wouldn't get the wood fire taste, but for $30-40 for a pizza stone, and cranking your oven up to 500, you can get almost the same texture of crust. But, it that's what you want, who am I to bitch about it.
Philip Pliskin

If the half dome part, where he puts the wood and the pizzas, is sealed, what's with the chimeny ?

scooby dood

Naw, there needs to be an opening, I think its at the front of the dome, or else the smoke from the burning wood would have to escape from the front opening.
douche

check out picture #8 there is a hole at the front that then goes up the chimeny

JeffsNuts

No big deal…..I made the same thing on Minecraft

JeffsExGirlfriend

Fuck Minecraft

dave

Fuck you

Tony

awesome!
Beardstache

I'm giving this guy a man-card. He clearly deserves it more than I.

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