The hopefully not obnoxious wood fired brick oven build thread

[Cape Brewing]

For the last 38 months straight?

 

[bob1852]

When are they gonna find PTN's "oven" in these trash piles?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...theyre-filled-with-trash/ar-BBklJ8s?ocid=iehp

 

[HoppyDaze]

what a ****hole, that town.

 

[paulthenurse]

I dropped that half $5 bill walking out of Whiskey Priest in a blizzard. Who do I call to get it back?

 

[paulthenurse]

Not for nuttin but how badly do you need a life if you are spending your free time reading articles about snow piles in a town you profess to hate.
Methinks thou doth protest too much and both you and Hoppy secret long to live in Boston and get out of that bad neighborhood in East Buttfu(k where you do live.

 

[bob1852]

How badly do you need a life to bring up something that was posted days ago. It's been on your mind ever since?

 

[paulthenurse]

Not really, I just happened to drive by that pile of snow today.

 

[paulthenurse]

For June 1 it's awfully God damned big pile of snow

 

[bluemoose]

Not really, I just happened to drive by that pile of snow today.

Prolly lookin for the other half of that fiver.

 

[paulthenurse]

I got lucky and found the missing half of that fiver so I went and bought some supplies for the oven.

Picked up some perlite that will act as insulation on top of the dome. Since there is no need to bring that insulation all the way out to the corners I got some 1/4" cement board and used that to cut the corners.

(I have it temporarily held in place with duct tape while I screw straps from the framing to the board. You can spare us the humorous jabs about the oven being held together by tape. I'm sure they would be hysterical but please spare us.)

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[ComcastWineRookie]

i know i throw a few jabs but this is coming along quite nicely

 

[paulthenurse]

I have to cut some blocking to go between the rafters to contain the perlite then screw more backer board on the exterior of the house. When that is done I can lay the Nomex cloth over the dome then pour the perlite in and fill up the voids with insulation.

I've decided to go with slate for the roof. I got a pretty good price on some light green slate. I've been practicing punching out nail holes with a slate hammer and learning how to cut the slate. That is definitely an acquired skill.

More pics to follow, since I know you jokers haven't had a decent nights sleep worrying about the oven since last fall.

 

[the_bird]

Can you find some old roofing slate with the nail holes already punched? There's tons and tons of that stuff available around here, people who have replaced their old slate roofs with asphalt.

 

[paulthenurse]

Mayhaps but I've already paid for the new stuff. It's only going to cost me $300 for enough to do the roof. I took a half dozen slates with me when I left the yard and have been punching dozens of holes through each. I'm getting pretty good at it. I'm at the wrong end of the state for used roof slate to be common. The people who have it around here want to sell it for $20, one piece at a time to artists.

 

[paulthenurse]

I'm really kicking myself for never learning how to paint. Not that I give a flying fu(k at a rolling donut about painting, but I could get into having a nude model show up at my 'studio' every morning.

 

[Cape Brewing]

Fckuing duct tape

 

[paulthenurse]

Pipe down. You're a fine one to talk. If it weren't for duct tape you would never get laid.

 

[the_bird]

Mayhaps but I've already paid for the new stuff. It's only going to cost me $300 for enough to do the roof. I took a half dozen slates with me when I left the yard and have been punching dozens of holes through each. I'm getting pretty good at it. I'm at the wrong end of the state for used roof slate to be common. The people who have it around here want to sell it for $20, one piece at a time to artists.

Listings on Craigslist around here for $2.50/each. Could probably re-do a NEW slate roof for cheaper than asphalt shingles, using old materials. But yeah, every old house around here used to have a slate roof.

 

[the_bird]

I'm really kicking myself for never learning how to paint. Not that I give a flying fu(k at a rolling donut about painting, but I could get into having a nude model show up at my 'studio' every morning.

How are you going to come up with the money, though, when he asks to get paid?

 

[paulthenurse]

I gave your mom $6.00. Second time that morning she seemed satisfied.

Not that it mattered. Either time.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Won't this cut into the margins?

 

[the_bird]

I gave your mom $6.00. Second time that morning she seemed satisfied.

Not that it mattered. Either time.

Isn't she about... oh, about fifty-two years too old for you, Paulie?

 

[HoppyDaze]

Can you find some old roofing slate with the nail holes already punched? There's tons and tons of that stuff available around here, people who have replaced their old slate roofs with asphalt.

I'm sure that **** slush pile has all kinds of free building materials.

 

[sbartelski]

My own story: After moving away from my first oven my wife insisted on a new one. I did not disagree as there is nothing like wood fired pizza. So about 9 months ago I started. The slab was already there, put in when we had some hardscaping done. I went to the DIY store to pick up the first cinder blocks and 80 lbs bags of concrete, 24 first batch. Something went wrong there and 3 epidurals, one major back surgery and two weeks in hospital, two months of rehab later, my oven is progressing. Unlike the OP I used a kit (from Italy) for the inside. Just needed to add heatmass and insulate the floor and dome. The total build is documented in a blog, part 2 after the story of the build of the first oven. However, here are a couple of pictures.

mywoodfiredoven.blogspot.com

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[paulthenurse]

NOC. This thread is not about building a pizza oven. Not even a little bit. It's more of a Moby Dick kind of tale. I would be Moby. Cape would be Ahab. AZIpper is Ishmael, Melana is Ginger, Yoop is Maryann, and Yeager (God help us all) is Guilligan.

 

[Paps]

NOC. This thread is not about building a pizza oven. Not even a little bit. It's more of a Moby Dick kind of tale. I would be Moby. .

I think some on here would agree with that.....well you being a "dick" part of the "Moby Dick".....not so sure if they agree with the rest or not.

On a non-obnoxious note.....how often have you been using the oven or did you just use it a few times on/around/near that big beer bash you had last fall and have been awaiting `total completion` to throw some pizzas in it.

 

[paulthenurse]

Your momma seemed to like my great white... Oh sorry. Wrong thread.

I haven't used it as much as I would have hoped this year. A large part of that is just plain scheduling. The spring was so late getting here and it took so long just for all the damned snow to go away, I was taking two classes in the spring semester, and then we went away to Bonaire for a week. So I have been using it but doing so erratically. The one thing I'm hoping is that the insulation will help it heat up faster. It takes a few hours to preheat at this point, I'm hoping that time will be less once it's sealed and covered with insulation.

 

[homebeerbrewer]

... It's more of a Moby Dick kind of tale. I would be Moby. ...

You fit that description pretty well. In more ways than one.

 

[paulthenurse]

Gfy

 

[Cape Brewing]

So.... basically what you are saying is that the only way this whole deal could be more of an epic fail is if it HAD actually exploded as several of us predicted.