Hansen Horno Brick Oven Photos Discuss Hansen Horno in the Good Background Information forums; It looks great Daren, I'm so jealous. Your oven sits in such a nice setting. The stone patio in front ...

[Dino_Pizza]

It looks great Daren, I'm so jealous. Your oven sits in such a nice setting. The stone patio in front is very nice too.

When you say "ugh" on the lights, did you put lights in but have not yet dug for the power to the oven? -Dino

[dbhansen]

Originally Posted by Dino_Pizza

When you say "ugh" on the lights, did you put lights in but have not yet dug for the power to the oven?

Thanks again, Dino! Yes, that's it exactly. The oven is wired for lights but I have to connect it to the house. But that's a long-range goal; I think I'll do some cooking first!

[mackerrow]

Daren you built a beautiful oven ! I enjoyed your pics on Picasa. I am just starting my long project in Santa Fe. We have cold winters here at 7000 ft so I dug a trench footer 36" deep, poured an L shaped kitchen counter and oven slab 6" thick in the bottom of the trench (gravel base). I realized after the fact that "oops", now my outdoor kitchen counter has a basement..., we filled that void on top of the subsurface slab with lots of concrete blocks and filled them. Lots of extra concrete and block, I wish I had dug a footer like yours. How did you build the forms for the cantilevered landing? I saw the pics and the final outcome,looks great, but did not see any info on how you did that.
Thanks for any advice, Ed

[dbhansen]

Thanks Ed!! I love Santa Fe. I can't believe you needed a deep footer there, but at least it will be stable. Do the houses there have deep foundations?

Originally Posted by mackerrow

How did you build the forms for the cantilevered landing?

Yeah, I completely forgot to document that part of it. But check out Ken's pictures. I got all my ideas from him! The landing is a bit small, so in hindsight I would have done what you did and built a foundation for a counter right away.

Daren

[mackerrow]

Hi Daren, the code here is 32" deep footers, although most people don't really go down that deep. We have deep foundations on the houses, but nothing like where you are, i.e. no basements out here. This weekend I hope to lay the block for the hearth and rest of the attached outdoor kitchen, looking forward to the actual build of the dome -- slowly over the winter and spring.
ed

[schallert]

Hi Darin,

I am ready to mount the chimney anchor plate. I plan on following your technique with tapcon screws. What size did you use? I assume the insulation is to allow for expansion and prevent the hot plate from fracturing the brick base. How is it holding up? Would the screws heat up and potentially fracturing the brick chimney base? My other option is to use the technique Dino did. Looking for your advise.

Thanks,

Dan

[dbhansen]

Hey Dan, sorry for the delay. The chimney plate was holding up fine at the time I sealed it all up. No cracks there. I was following someone else's lead when I installed it, and I haven't heard of anyone else having any problems with that method. I'm sorry I can't recall the screw size....

[dbhansen]

FWIW, here's the latest "state" of my oven. It still needs a final coat of stucco, but I made a rather rustic outer door and decided to go without a door for the wood storage area, at least for the time being (I'll see how it does over the winter). Now that light wood trim under the roof is bothering me; I need to make that darker.

[Modthyrth]

Wow, I love the oven door! The whole thing looks absolutely amazing. I'm impressed that you're actually using the wood storage; I can't be bothered to haul more than a fire's worth from the wood pile at a time. ;-)

[mfiore]

hey, Daren, Great to hear from you!

The oven looks great! The door really ties everything in nicely? Is it insulated in any fashion? Can you use it in on the hot oven, or will it burn up? Again, looks great!