We decided to bring life to an under utilised corner of our garden by constructing a brick and mortar pizza oven.
Roof pizza oven.
By now the archway had dried and was safe to stand on we have added a 4inch thick vermicrete layer to insulate the oven.
More images on the oven and its roof cover.
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I covered the top of the oven with corrugated metal roofing and also final finished the flooring around the wood burning oven.
Slates roofing tiles or shingles are acceptable roofing materials.
The roof structure.
The size can be varied according to individual preference.
The framework can be done with loam or profiled wood.
Generally the determination of building an igloo dome or barrel vault pizza oven should be identified by aesthetics cost and the types of food which are to be cooked.
Use a circular saw with a sharp blade to notch the wooden rafters.
This turned out to be great family activity and now that the oven is built pizza building is a regular family activity in our home.
Although barrel dome ovens are usually larger allow for greater room for bread and may offer a slightly uneven cooking area they are still be equally viable for cooking pizza.
We had managed to get some roof tiles free that were left over from a project so used those to build a roof bedded on the insulation layer using 5 1 mortar mix and nailed in.
You asked me to send you any photos if i was cooking in my wood burning oven i snapped photos of the different steps in the making and cooking.
Now we cannot wait for another storm so we can test out our new clear pergola roof.
In order to build a durable roof for the pizza oven we recommend you to cut the rafters from 2 4 lumber using the information from the diagram.
Adding a roof to a pergola seems like a big deal but we partnered with the home depot to make it easy.
The sides and the rear wall can have cladding added.
It looks so nice and is absolutely diy friendly.
This space saving variant is sufficient to protect the oven from the weather.
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