Mortaring In First Course - DIY Pizza Oven Construction - May 2024
Last I posted about my backyard DIY pizza oven construction project, I was showing the foundation slab after I had stripped the forms . The pour went well - thanks to the MudMixer. Now that the reinforced slab was done, I can move on to building the stand. That stand is made out of 8x8x16 cinder blocks. If you go back and look in the archives, you'll see that I went back-and-forth about the dimensions of the slab and stand and after a bunch of thinking/tinker'ing, I ended up deciding on these dimensions : Slab: 72" wide x 80" deep. Stand: 4 blocks wide x 4.5 blocks deep - 62.5" wide x 70.312" deep. Hearth: Same as stand. Oven: 39" interior, 51" exterior side-to-side x 64" front-to-back. That's the slab that I poured: 72" wide (6 feet) by 80" deep (6 feet, 8 inches). And, so I could go about building the stand with four blocks wide and four-and-a-half blocks deep. Setting these blocks square is important and I had to pl