Outdoor clay pizza oven: the build begins!

By the end of the summer, 'im indoors and I WILL cook a pizza in our mud oven...made of clay dug (well, OK, stolen) from a field nearby.
Here's the plinth, finished today by a builder friend of ours - the base of the oven should be about eye level and a storage area for wood underneath. Just waiting to get a 1.1m square of 8mm thick mild steel cut as a base (which will sit under the top sleeper layer, just balanced there at the mo) to put firebricks one, then brick-bricks on top.
Then on top of THAT base will go the clay and sand dome. Which will be a v mucky and fun job.
Need to mix sand in with this fab pure clay - and some sawdust too to create an insulating layer. Can't wait! That could be tomorrow's job.

 

If you have visitors from Oop North, you'll have to warn them that that's not the outside lavvy...

 

Or a pigeon loft.

 

She'll come down in the morning to find them sitting on it, reading the Yorkshire Post...

 

Following...


bon courage.

 

is it to soon to order a pizza

 

That's very nice BUT shouldn't you be taking your lovely camper van out?

 

Dominos deliver in 30 minutes ............ and you get a cheesy ring

 

Hopefully I can do both. And I have discovered the van is great for transporting big heavy sleepers and sacks of sand.
VW should have called it something like, ummm, a portyvan or transportavan or something. .

Oh, hang on...

 

Oo-er.

 

Are you accusing me of knowing Northerners?

 

I've built one of these ,still learning to not burn stuff but great fun

 

Picture?

 

When lit



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Link to a 'how to' build one?

 

Wow! If mine is even half as good I'll be happy. Looks like you could shoe horses with that fire! Fantastic.
What's the pale outer skin made from? Doesn't look like clay...?

 

I learned on a River Cottage course, see their website. But this doesn't look too far off...
http://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/how-make-outdoor-brick-oven-recycled-materials

 

YT will give you a thousand how to's

 

Can't you just nip down to Pizza Express?