How to build a brick oven / outdoor kitchen build / Part 4- Brick Oven Floor Installation
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2024
- In this segment of how to build a brick oven, I will show you how to install a brick oven floor. I will be cutting firebrick in a circular shape to allow for the construction of a Pompeii style pizza oven. I cut all the bricks to the shape of my template while my vermiculite insulated sub floor was curing.
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Links to the other parts of this build:
Full Playlist: • Brick Oven/BBQ: Outdoo...
Part 1: Building the base (This is my first video ever so go easy on me) • Brick Oven/BBQ Outdoor...
Part 2: Building the form (This is my second video ever. Slightly better that the first) • How to build a brick o...
Part 3: Insulating the oven floor • How to build a brick o...
Part 4: Installing the floor • How to build a brick o...
Part 5: Building the Dome • How to build a brick o...
Part 6: Building the Landing, Arches and Chimney • How to build a Brick P...
Part 7: Curing Fires • How to build a brick p...
Part 8: Insulating and Rendering the brick oven • How to build a brick o...
Part 9: How to build a wood fired BBQ: • How to build a Wood Fi...
Part 10: Kitchen Counters: • How to Build Outdoor K...
Part 11: How to Frame A Roof For An Outdoor Kitchen: • How To Frame A Roof Fo...
Part 12: Installing the chimney for an outdoor kitchen: • Installing The Chimney...
Part 13: How to build a Brick Arch • How to Build a Brick A...
Part 14: Installing Stone Veneer Over Cinderblock • Installing Stone Venee...
Part 15: Outdoor Kitchen is Finished • Building An Outdoor Ki...
How to Make the Indispensable Tool: • How to Make the Indisp...
Frequently Asked Questions About My Brick Pizza Oven: • Frequently Asked Quest...
Avoid My Mistakes: • Avoiding Mistakes Buil... 
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That brick cutting might be the best thing I have ever seen. You attention to detail is comendable!
This is awesome! Thank you for taking the time to make this video and providing clear instructions on methodology and materials.
THIS IS THE BEST TUTORIALS IN MY LIFE !!!!!!!!
Excellent description and easy to follow your thought process! Great editing
This is beautiful
So far the best video about how to make a Brick 🧱 Oven . Thanks 🙏. Will from Brazil 🇧🇷
Thank you friend!!
Nice job!
Great Video. I am a Carpenter Contractor and built mine in my backyard Pavilion! I installed my Brick on some Ceramic Board.
Thank you. I wanted to use ceramic board but I knew I wouldn’t be able to cover it this year and was worried about moisture problems.
What did you use in between the fiber board and bricks ? I choose the board as week but I’m not loving using the sand to level.
Good work
You make it look easy 👍
That is because I can edit out the hours of thinking and stressing. LOL!!!
Free Plans with measurements, materials, and additional information about my design on my website: www.artisanmadethings.com/brick-oven
Fire-brick we used in the OPEN-Hearth Furnaces were made in Scotland. App. 3"x 5"x 10".
great stuff
Awesome
Cool videos i am building my own oven here in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦😍👍🏻
very nicely done. that saw really helps with cutting the bricks. I think Home Depot and other places rent those.
You are right, they do.
Pro tip: Never lay down your fire bricks without soaking them up in water. I learned it the hard way. I needed to remove almost half of my floor bricks after setting them up without soaking them up in water because they came out right after 2-3 minutes. It is extremely important step.
These are not mortared down. It’s a bad idea to Mortar the oven floor. The floor needs to be allowed to freely expand, especially when the oven reaches temperatures in excess of 1000f. Soaking bricks is covered in part 5
@@ArtisanMade sorry I thought they were mortared. You are fine then. Thank you for the clarification. By the way I mortared down mine and didn’t have any issues over 2 years.
Daniel Demir that’s good news. I have heard a lot of horror stories. Im sure you will never have a problem if it hasn’t happened yet. I mortared my brick bbq floor and it cracked after several uses. Oh well life goes on.
@@ArtisanMade Some people uses regular cement sand mix instead of refractory mortar. It might be the reason. Also, top of the dome is always the hottest part of the Owen, so if your refractory mortar can handle it, it should be easily handle the floor.
@@ArtisanMade Quick question... in minute 6:21... I see that you started putting your fire bricks onto the clay/sand mix. Did you soak them before putting them on? I didn't see that in this video however, I did see that you soaked your fire bricks when you made the dome. Thanks!
Love the videos! You do the best job. Thank you. Quick question about fire bricks. I bought some firebricks from Lowes and that had a glazing look to them and every brick seemed to be a different size. I returned them and bought different fire bricks from a company that specializes in all sorts of bricks. These fire bricks seemed better but they appear to be very 'sandy'. If I rub my hands across them, I can literally rub off sand particles from the brick. Do I have the wrong firebrick for the floor...or am I just overreacting? Thanks so much!
I was thinking about using the half sliced fire brick (1 1/2 thick) for the oven floor. Any input on that idea???
Can I use fire clay/sand mixture for base of a pizza oven?
Thank you for sharing your video. Great job . How many bricks did you use for the oven floor?
Thank you! Not sure how many I used for the floor, but I used a total of about 250 firebricks
Hello! Thank you for the comments on your DYI pizza oven project. I am assuming the mortar you used to set the fire bricks into for the oven floor is the same you used for skim coating the vermiculite base?? Thanks - Gary
No it is not. Check out part 5. I explain the the whole process
Amaizing work!!! Can you tell me with what i can replace the fire clay because i can not find it in BELGIUM.
THANK YOU
Maybe a little sand instead. The purpose is to allow you to level the bricks.
great pizza oven, what exactly is the 1 to 1 mixture refractory mortar and quartz sand ?
I didn’t measure the amount of water added. You want the same consistency as thinset. It should be easy enough to spread but not runny.
What is the reason using fire clay instead of refractory cement for the floor?
usta firinin olculeri ve kac adet ates tuglasi gitti
Hi thank you for this amazing video , what Fire clay are you using ?
Masonry fire clay
Awsome videos ! Can castable refractory cement be used rather then the fire clay sand mix ?
I'm not sure. The most important thing is to make sure that the floor can freely expand and contract
Great video! I’m currently making my own pizza oven and am on the same step. I don’t have fire clay readily available but I do have refractory mortar. Do you think I can use that instead?
From everything that I researched over the years. I think more people are opposed to using mortar Under the floor. The idea is that the floor is supposed to expand with heat and if it’s mortared if might become a problem. If you want to play it safe, you can pre cut as much of the firebricks as you can and then use the the paste that builds up at the bottom of the water pan. Mix that with sand, and you will have something similar to a sand clay mixture.
@@ArtisanMade how much is higher the insulation floor?
Generally pottery making shops have this readily available.
I'm from Argentina, I don't speak English... the translation of this message was made by Google, understand the mistakes.
If in your country vermiculite is expensive, imagine in Argentina !!!!
Here, broken glass and salt is used for the floor. I don't trust the salt, which may affect the irons of the bottom slab. From your cool video, I want to use vermiculite and cement over the ground glass, but one inch thick, do you see it possible?
I see you answer every comment, your patience is infinite, you are a great person in doing so, that's why I dare to bother you. I apologize for that.
If you decide to use vermiculite, you do not need to use the glass. It has worked very well for insulating my oven floor.
Hi, great ideas and will help me do mine. I can't find part 1 and 2, can you help?
Thank you! Parts 1 and 2 are the first videos I ever did. Video quality isn’t as good as the more recent ones. Go to my channel page. Click on videos and scroll to the bottom.
fantastic craftsmanship advise me if i can't find fire bricks can i use granite or any thing else good wishes from pakistan
Granite is not a good idea.
Hello Sir.
I watched all your videos. Your work is amazing! I have a question, May I know where did you buy the fire bricks?
Thank you!
Local masonry supply store
Awesome project! How many fire bricks to complete your dome? Thank you
Thanks! About 250
And you cut those in half, correct? So total 500 cut?
Is there a downside to using Perlite rather than Vermiculite? Finding it hard to source bulk Vermiculite for some reason, but plenty of Perlite in home/garden stores. I was thinking of the following layering for the base starting from the lowest:
Aluminum foil,
either Perlite base (4 inches) or FORMULAR 250 (4 inches),
followed by Al clad Rockwool rigid base (2 inches),
Masonry sand layer (1/4"),
Firebricks (2.5 inches)
Would love to get your thoughts!
As far as I know, perlite is very similar and can also be used. I don’t know about the rock wool for the base though. If it is ceramic fiberboard, that works too. Perlite is also a form of insulation. Only one is needed, but be aware, if you choose ceramic fiberboard, it cannot get wet.
hello, tanks for the video, let me ask you if i could use refratary mortar insted of fire clay
Do not use refractory mortar for the floor. The floor needs to be able to expand and contract.
Hi there. Regarding the Masonry Fire Clay mix you used for your oven floor, can you tell me what mesh number it was? I can't find the masonry fire clay in Canada but there's a pottery place that sells fire clay that's either a 35, 48 or 100 Mesh type (35 being coarse and 100 being the finest). Thanks!
Mine was very fine. Similar to Portland cement.
Hi thanks for making these videos. Can you please tell me what the internal diameter of the oven ended up being after you laid down the soldier row?
Details, dimensions, and list of materials are available on my website. Artisanmadethings.com/brick-oven
This link works. www.artisanmadethings.com/brick-oven
How much $ did the whole project cost you?
How much would it cost to build this complete oven the way you have? How long can I take between steps? Can I build it over time? Or is it better to gather everything and build it at once?
Great questions. I think the the whole thing cost me about $2500-3000. Not including the steel reinforced floor. You can build it over time. I built the base a year earlier. One you begin building the dome, I would recommend finishing it up without waiting to long. It took ma a month but that is because I wasn’t able to work on it every day. You can get it done in 2-3 weeks of full work days, but you have to wait a week for the vermiculite to dry and I would also wait for the dome to cure for a little while as well. Depending on where you live, you want your dome protected from the elements. Here in NY, if water gets inside my oven and then it freezes, that could cause problems
Where to buy fire bricks? Thank you for sharing 👍👍👍
Bought mine at a local masonry supply store. Cost about $1.60 each
love the channel , I live in New York and am having a hard time finding vermiculite , none of the garden centers have it in bulk . can you suggest a supplier? thanks
Try Hicks or Prianti farms. You can also use perlite
@@ArtisanMade thanks
How many bricks did you used in total? And where did you bought them? Prices online are crazy
I used about 250 firebricks. Go to a mason supply center. I believe they all sell firebricks because that is what is used in fireplace construction which is fairly common near me.
Is there any disadvantages of just pouring the insulation layer on the entire concrete pad? (Avoid the extra work of making the form)
Depends on what you are planning to do to cover the exterior. Vermiculite is not a good surface for attaching brick or stone veneer
@@ArtisanMade according to this: www.perlite.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/perlite-aggregate-lightweight-tile-mortars.pdf it can be used as tile morter. So i would assume you could also tile over it?
So does having used the fire clay mean that the fire brick is mortar down? If so how would you go about replacing a brick that has broken in the future? Thanks
Firebrick is not mortared down
@@ArtisanMade thanks for the reply, sorry I had then heard that in the video the second time around I watched it. Really amazing work, thanks for sharing all the info.
I was advised by my local mason suplier to go with thinner 1 1/4" thick firestone for the floor which would heat up floor quicker and hotter. When I built my oven, I used The 4 1/2 x 9 standard firebrick like you did( only because at the time, someone gave them to me for free). pizza comes out good but the bottom doesnt cook has well as the top. I 'm wondering if its because the floor brick is too thick and should of gone with the thinner. Stove is hot with oakwood, insulated very well no problem, but I just cant get the floor super hot for a crispy bottom.
Any thoughts ?
Thin brick is a very bad idea. First, they are much more likely to crack. The heat that cooks the bottom of the pizza is the heat that is retained in the fire break. A thin brick will retail less heat and cool more quickly. I never have problems like this. I am wondering if you are heating the oven to the right temperature. When all the black soot that builds on the brick is gone, you are ready to make pizza. Also, another factor that could cause a problem is the overall height of the dome in the center. If the dome is too high the heat that is reflected downward will not be sufficient enough to get the floor to very high temperatures.
Hey thanks for the reply. Yeah, my oven is about 1/2 the size of yours so the dome isn't as high.
I do get the oven cranked up pretty good !!
I think my concern could be my oven dome is not brick ( only floor) it is made of 2 inch thick vermiculite/ Portland, then a 2inch ceramic fiber blanket, then rendered about and inch.
I'm curious, does your pizza have a crispy bottom when done ?
@@che-7207 My pizza is crispy on top and bottom. Now I understand the problem. Vermiculite is an insulator. It doesn’t retain heat and it doesn’t reflect heat down to the oven floor. That’s why it’s not hot enough.
Dam, I guess I have to build a better one now.
Thanks for the advise and I downloaded the plans you provided, thanks !!
I have the same exact pizza platform you made, so I can go by your design without hitch
Whats a guy gotta do to get a slice of pie round here' lol looks big can't wait to see the finished product
This oven had better make really good pizza!
Any reason you didn't make your own fire bricks using the mix you used on the foundation?
Firebricks are made from a completely different material and can handle these extreme temperatures
Hi how many fire bricks I will need for the wood oven floor of 30” radium ? Thank you
I used about 250 for 40 inch
Could you send me a link to the fire clay please, I am in the Uk but then I could find something similar.
I bought them at my local mason supply store. Check your local mason supply store or any store that sells fireplace building materials. You should be able to find everything you need in the UK without too much trouble. Good Luck!
Hi. Did you manage to source this? I'm having similar issues, Bedfordshire
I decided to take a different route and bought pizza oven clay from potterycraft it is air dry and made for creating pizza ovens.
what size is the front rectangle deep and long - the circle is 48 inches - thanks
dimensions are on my website. Artisanmadethings@gmail.com
I can't find reasonably priced fire brick.I find 6 for 50 dollars which seems steep.Where did you get yours?THks
Masonry supply store. Should cost under $2 each
Im building the exact same oven as Allessandro. The fire brick I will buy is 2.80/brick! I found no cheaper anywhere. One place was 4.86/brick!!! Unbelievable! The refactory mortar was 78.00 a bag! Wow this is going to cost me but I wanted this kitchen build so here I am. I live 30 miles south of Boston.
Hi could you Sand me a List of all the materials that you used i.e. how many firebricks plz
List of materials is on my website. Artisanmadethings.com
Hello! Please write the full name and model of the brick cutting machine . Thanks !!!
Kobalt 10 inch wet tile saw. I purchased it at Lowe’s
How many bricks did you use in total ?
About 250
can I use split firebricks for the floor or does it have to be full?
Only use full
@@ArtisanMade got it thank you very much, we used 4 inches of perlite with Portland cement, laid out the full firebricks in the herringbone pattern, now the plan is to sand down the floor of the oven so it's as smooth as possible because there are a few slight edges sticking out
Adi Mart very nice! Good luck friend!
Por favor en español
Could you pls give the sizes for oven?
Height of oven, diameter and others
Hasan Tigli they are on my website
@@ArtisanMade okey thank u regards from Turkey 🇹🇷🇹🇷
Question, where did you buy the fire bricks? If you can't give a web address, could you please at least give a part number, description or something like that? I know of fire bricks used in furnaces for melting metal, but those are extremely soft & actually fall apart when they get wet.
Your local mason supply store should have them. That's where I got mine They are fairly common in North America and Europe.
Pizza peel