Kemo's South Austin Pizza Oven

[RCLake]

Kemo,
Looking great! What's a watertable?

[Ken524]

Originally Posted by Kemo

I want to use a metal roof...so far, all of my materials are non combustable

and as far as the trusses go...i think i stole the idea of the plywood jig from you! worked great!

I'm going metal roof as well. Yep, that's my patented truss jig you borrowed. Looks like I'll be borrowing some of your enclosure ideas since you are ahead of me now!

Keep up the nice work!

Spring is in the air... I can't wait to get back at it!

[Kemo]

Originally Posted by RCLake

Kemo,
Looking great! What's a watertable?

its a band of rock just along the top of the stone...it makes a little shelf and is built at an angle so the water runs off of it and doesnt pool up. My brother in law told me what it was, I had never heard of it either...

[thebadger]

Kemo,

Awesome!!! I actually saved your pictures to show my wife. This is what I'm looking to do. Where did you get your limestone? You did a great job on the install

Any plans for the area above the oven arch? I found a round "decorative" stepping stone at Lowes for $2.44. I'm thinining of putting it above the arch to fill in the space and I was thinking about adding some "candle" light fixtures on the side. I love the "bump out in the front"!

Dick

[Ken524]

Kemo,

I absolutely love your elevated landing that you built. You mentioned that it's made from travertine. Could you give me (and others that may be interested) a quickie lesson on how you built it? What did you use as adhesive/mortar to hold it together?

Thanks!

[gjbingham]

Nice work Steve. It all comes together, and really nicely, I might add. I look forward to seeing the finished product. Should be great!

[sarah h]

Steve, it looks great. Can't wait to see what you do next.

Sarah

[Kemo]

Originally Posted by thebadger

Kemo,

Awesome!!! I actually saved your pictures to show my wife. This is what I'm looking to do. Where did you get your limestone? You did a great job on the install

Any plans for the area above the oven arch? I found a round "decorative" stepping stone at Lowes for $2.44. I'm thinining of putting it above the arch to fill in the space and I was thinking about adding some "candle" light fixtures on the side. I love the "bump out in the front"!

Dick

Dick,

the limestone is acutally a concrete rock veneer. you can get them at just about any rock supply company. They are only about an inch thick and you stick them on with mortar and grout like tile. Super easy, which is how I roll!

[Kemo]

Originally Posted by Ken524

Kemo,

I absolutely love your elevated landing that you built. You mentioned that it's made from travertine. Could you give me (and others that may be interested) a quickie lesson on how you built it? What did you use as adhesive/mortar to hold it together?

Thanks!

Ken,

the bottom shelf itself was built out during the pour of the structural table top. I ended up stopping my firebrick about 8 inches from the front edge of the table top. So I had this step up from the base to the floor of the oven. This was pretty big since i had the 4 inches of vermiculite plus the firebrick. I had originally wanted to make the front of my oven flush and go with stucco. Thru the guidance of this forum, I was easilly convinced to have an arch.

So, I made a rectangular mold about 5 inches deep and a few inches on each side of the oven opening and estimated the height taking into account the travertine and mortar thickness. I drilled about 2 inches into the table top and put in 3 rebar feet and tied in rebar inside the mold. Then I just mixed up a bag of concrete and poured it in there. I think i got lucky on that one since i kinda just eyeballed it

Then i just layed in the Travertine Floor Tile with regular old thinset mortar. Once it was all dried up, I tied in the new arch and built up the new structure around it.

Ill see if I can find some pics

[Kemo]

i couldnt find any pics of the building of the shelf...but...hopefully these will help with the above story.

in the second picture, just imagine the concrete without the travertine

in the third, you can see the decorative arch simply built on top of the travertine shelf. I build the shelf wider than what the arch bricks would need plus a few inches. overall, I think it turned out real well.