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I've always wanted to build an outdoor wood-fired oven and after a year into retirement I'm starting. My problem is that I can't just do simple and have added a full masonry fireplace to go with it. I also usually build based on my "vision" I have in my mind, adding and changing as things take shape. Anybody else out there that builds on the fly? Anybody build their own Fireplace/Wood-Oven?
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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I have not built a wood oven, but did a brick patio fireplace years ago. I rarely do any kind of formal plan for building things. At most a list of what I need to buy. For example, when I built my greenhouse I wrote down what I thought I needed to buy, the wood, PVC pipe and connectors, and sheet plastic. I forgot about screen for the door and window, and hinges for the door. When I built a 20' long bench for displaying my bonsai, I just bough the wood and sacks of concrete for the posts, got home and designed as I went.
I've always wanted to build an outdoor wood-fired oven and after a year into retirement I'm starting. My problem is that I can't just do simple and have added a full masonry fireplace to go with it. I also usually build based on my "vision" I have in my mind, adding and changing as things take shape. Anybody else out there that builds on the fly? Anybody build their own Fireplace/Wood-Oven?
I build on the fly. My projects design themselves as I go along.
I once sat for about a year and looked at the site for a tool shed project before I realized I was trying to build it in the wrong place! Once I "moved it over" about 75 feet it began to take shape. That was 17 years ago. It is still there and recently received a new roof.
My garden patio is still taking shape. The raised beds are a full 2 feet high and filled with soil, and the brick pavers are about 20% installed. It sits 35 feet from the house, out in the sun. It will include a bench with shade so that my wife can sit and rest her back without going inside.
It will probably have a few other features that have not revealed themselves yet. (I saw a solar powered bird bath fountain once. I wonder if.......)
I even know where it will go: There's a sunken conversation pit that we've never used and never will use. DH has some reservations about this -- I think he thinks people will be able to see him naked. But I have a snail shower in mind.
I even know where it will go: There's a sunken conversation pit that we've never used and never will use. DH has some reservations about this -- I think he thinks people will be able to see him naked. But I have a snail shower in mind.
Because it's always good to have clean snails!
Not to mention, you live in the perfect climate for an outdoor shower.
I've always wanted to build an outdoor wood-fired oven and after a year into retirement I'm starting. My problem is that I can't just do simple and have added a full masonry fireplace to go with it. I also usually build based on my "vision" I have in my mind, adding and changing as things take shape. Anybody else out there that builds on the fly? Anybody build their own Fireplace/Wood-Oven?
Open heath and ovens are so often built just WRONG by so called "fireplace guys". Find a mason from Europe. You should be able to in St. Louis (German, Yugoslav, etc. where lots of rock work is done, maybe Scottish) you'll not be sorry as I think you want to do this right.
I've always wanted to build an outdoor wood-fired oven and after a year into retirement I'm starting. My problem is that I can't just do simple and have added a full masonry fireplace to go with it. I also usually build based on my "vision" I have in my mind, adding and changing as things take shape. Anybody else out there that builds on the fly? Anybody build their own Fireplace/Wood-Oven?
DH was going to build a wood fired oven out of a bunch of bricks he has. Then he found out you have to use a special kind of brick and mortar to withstand the high heat, and we both lost interest.
I'm a planner. I don't like wasting time or resources on doing things that don't turn out properly.
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I also usually build based on my "vision" I have in my mind, adding and changing as things take shape. Anybody else out there that builds on the fly? Anybody build their own Fireplace/Wood-Oven?
Find a European trained true "Mason"
