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Oven roof finished. Nicely designed over all.

Nicely designed, over all it is one beautiful oven. Gary from Hamilton, New Jersey, recently completed their oven with its roof. And then, just one week after they had completed it, the Hurricane Sandy come through their location when it took down a tree that was closest to this oven and the house. Luckily it fell down in the opposite way.

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Foundations had to be altered

Rado, I have taken more pics from our firing last Sunday, all went well, just need to get used to temperatures and timings etc. With the images I have also written a short story of our bread / pizza oven, which you may or may not want to include. Foundations had to be altered to follow the elevated ground behind the oven, it may be of interest to some people. Here it is –

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Designed to match house. Accent lights. Lovin’ my oven!

Steve in Morgantown, West Virginia – USA designed his oven to match their nice house plus he incorporated accent lights and complete wiring into the structure for a future sound system. It is the Masterly Tail oven design/project – MTo, described in his own words.

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Doncaster oven with Yorkshire puddings

What can be better to make in a brick oven from Doncaster than those unique Yorkshire puddings? Already done 5 poultry roasts, steer corn, wings, or even smoked roasted turkey, pizzas, breads. Have a look at the felled tree table and benches and the classy chairs! Heavy firebricks for this oven are all reclaimed from an old electric storage heater.

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Making slab behind existing retaining wall

We built this oven on a new slab which was made behind an existing low retaining wall separating an entertaining – sitting area with the grass garden and land. We use our oven frequently for cooking of all sorts of meals one can think of plus baking. I also made a few pizza paddles cut out from plywood material which is very easy and fast to do.

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Use of Angle Iron

I told you I would sent pictures of my use of angle iron instead of building the wooden support as shown in your pictures. I used 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 quarter thick angle iron with 2 1/4 thick concrete base. This is angle iron I had from another project. I will cut reinforcement wire and fill with concrete. It should be able to hold up the world (Ha!) After quite a bit of searching in a hardware and tools store I was able to find a tape measure that had inches and cm measuring units also.

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Making concrete slab with footings

How to make ground concrete slab for small but heavy in weight sense masonry structures. this concrete slab is set deeper in the ground. The slab has one foot or 300 millimeter deep and wide foundation footing, reinforced with metal bar in each of four sides. The actual slab surface is reinforced with iron mesh and the layer is 100mm thick which equals to 4 inches thickness.

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Concrete garden bench – how to make

Creating by do it yourself a new garden concrete bench to sit on and relax. This concrete bench can be made easily by using left over material from different project. The page by Paul includes complete step by step instruction and material list with photo documentation for “how to” making concrete garden benches. Paul also suggests a few changes or improvements that can be also included. How to make a garden bench for sitting.

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Brick oven built by Lady. Christine.

All the brickwork on the whole project was done and finished by a woman, lady, Christine. The whole structure was also scaled down to a smaller size version. 99 percent of this whole and wonderful project was completed by female. And, Why Not?! …

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Project held up by Colorado winter

Nicely built brick oven, but the project was held up for a bit by the winter weather in Colorado. Now it’s done and the cooking goes on as it should be going on.

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