Recent content by ferdy

So, we screwed 2”x4” onto the concrete block wall as a ledger. Then we cut 3/4” plywood and set it on the 2”x4” ledger and screwed it down. We propped up the other side on the plywood with 2”x and 4”x4”. Then we placed plastic landscape edging on the plywood and screwed it in place from the...

That’s the wet grinder on the grill. It’s at about 110 in the sun. Lol

Sorry. It should read “fiberglass insulation”. Fat fingers + autocorrect.

Pardon the mess.

Brian, if you tell me what details you are interested in, I would be happy to provide them.

And here is the final product. It just took me three years, but it works great thanks for all of your input.

I finished the brickwork the first week of April. I put the cladding around the oven brickwork two weeks later. I then started firing it around the end of April, starting with a small newspaper fire, then a small twig fire a few days later, and every few days after that a progressively larger...

Oven (covered for now to keep the rain off)

Smoker

Grill

I polished the concrete counter with a wet grinder, then applied epoxy for the finish. I still have to apply the final coat of stucco (acrylic to keep the oven from soaking up water), apply the stone veneer to the concrete block walls, and extend the patio to the edge of the reveal. I had steel...

We poured a concrete counter. We glued fiberglass I dilation to the edge of the form to give a textured edge. Once we pulled the forms, we brushed the insulation off with wire brushes, and what little did not come off, we burned off with a torch.

Here we are staring the cooking chamber for the smoker. I lucked out. My cousin married a mason. Once he saw my project, I couldn't keep him away from it. He was of tremendous help.

I decided to use Alan Scott's Bread Builders design for the oven. I am very pleased and glad that I switched from the Forno Bravo pizza oven design.

I filled the form with concrete for strength, then mixed perlite with cement to insulate hot surfaces. This is the grill area. Firebrick went directly on top of this. For the oven, I used some higher tech insulation (ceramic board and an insulating silicon/cement product.