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    Advice on a build - building a smoker inside a wall / hill side

    Hi Guys Making progress on this, after a run of bad health and weather I'm now 2.5m down in the main section (the deepest part) I'm about to dig back now where the smoker and pizza oven will sit. Quick question what is the most common 'internal' size for a smoker? IF there is such a thing? I...
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    Advice on a build - building a smoker inside a wall / hill side

    Thanks for the reply, no steel will be used on rebar to reinforce the concrete :)
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    Advice on a build - building a smoker inside a wall / hill side

    Oh nice tip thanks :) Yeah I figured would need a fair bit to get it warm and started. I was concerned having all but one face more or less buried it would work.  Cheers Gerry
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    Advice on a build - building a smoker inside a wall / hill side

    Thanks both :) Yeah figured it would be ok and would need to get it going before it starts to work correctly! Just wanted to be sure before I start building as once its made it's not going to be that easy to get back at it not without pulling a few ton of stone away! Few more weeks / months of...
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    Advice on a build - building a smoker inside a wall / hill side

    Hopefully this helps also, so looking top down at it. Obviously I hope my mortar joins are a bit closer than that ;) ha
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    Advice on a build - building a smoker inside a wall / hill side

    Thanks for the reply Dave, all the stone I'm backfilling with is Sandstone pulled from the very ground and planned on using sandstone again for the rest of the hardcore maybe with the od concrete block, brick and slab also. The internal oven build will have an outer hollow block skin with bat...
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    Advice on a build - building a smoker inside a wall / hill side

    Ok here you go so my idea is, to have a gabion basket retaining wall. I'll build a pizza oven and smoker inside that wall using steel and hollow blocks filled with rebar and concrete hardcore will go around them with a nice facing stone on the outside so my ovens are inside the baskets in effect...
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    Advice on a build - building a smoker inside a wall / hill side

    Hi All After a bit of advice I'm in the process of removing around 120ton of soil from my garden to create more of a usable space, to retain the top 3/4 of the garden I'm going to be adding a 2.1m high by 1.5m deep gabion basket retaining wall. I'm looking to make the most of that wall space as...
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