Cutting and Bending Rebar for Flow-Thru Bond Beam Blocks in Pizza Oven Stand - June 2024
Earlier this week, I updated my wood-fired pizza oven build progress with some photos showing the bottom trays and their supports/bracing cut to size . I have a couple of things that I need to do (I lifted eight steps - bracing for trays shimmed, rebar to bond beam blocks, fill gaps, cut rebar for grid, set up 2x8 forms, wire them, add drainage pipes and fill remaining cores with sand ) and most of those can go in any order. Once I had the trays in place, I decided to see if I had enough rebar on hand to complete the job. That started with bending some of the 1/2" steel rebar for around the bond beam blocks. Then, I cut the rest for across the top in a grid pattern. Below is a photo showing the rebar bent and laid into the bond-beam blocks. I'm doing curved rebar at every corner and doubling-it-up with 90-degree corners on top of those curves. On top of this will be a 4.5" thick hearth, so the rebar you see running across the top of the s...