Stage 1 - Hearth template

To start off you will need a strudy base to work off. As this workshop was only on for two days, Henrick had the base constructed before we arrived.

The base consisted of block work as shown in the photo below this post. Paving slabs were used on top of the walls to support the finished oven. The wall was clad after the workshop with a stone finish and a treated timber counter top was placed over the slabs by the door to the oven. Steel or bricks could also be used to form a counter top.

This is the before picture:











Close up of brick arch /doorway:








Brick template for hearth:

Day one

On day one of the workshop we,

• Made a brick template for the hearth,
• layed the hearth of the oven,
• created the temporary sand mould for the oven void,
• constructed the first/inner layer of the oven with "oven mud" (mixed on site)

As you will see from the photos we made two different ovens because there was ten people in the workshop. The main one is the oven with the brick arch and the second one was a temporary oven set up with no arch. The ovens can be done with or without a brick arch. I will be switching between the ovens with the photos. The process of building is the same.