Pizza Oven Project - Excavation Continues - Dry-Fitting Timber - March 2025
I continue to find small bits of time to excavate and prep the ground in front of the pizza oven slab. After work, on weekends. A little bit at a time. This is #2 on my list of 'priority projects', but that full project also includes weather-proofing the actual oven . The other part is the hard-surface to stand-on, in-front of the oven. My (current) thinking is that I'll create an 8x8(ish) area that is edged with landscape timbers. I'll use a nonwoven geotextile underneath the whole thing and install a couple of timbers as a retaining wall - to help handle the grade change. Here's my initial excavation post showing some of the dirt removal . And, just last week, I measured the depth of grade-change at the seven-foot-deep-mark. About 12" of earth that needs to be held back . Over the weekend, I picked up one (1) 6x6x8 treated ground-contact landscape timber from the big box lumber store. It is H E A V Y. ...