Rockcote Traditional Arts

Instruction Guide

• Introduction
• What you will need
• Selecting A Site
• Enlisting Helpers
• Setting up the Site
• Marking where the Pizza Oven will Sit
• Mixing Up Cob
• Forming the Cob into Bricks
• Installing the Firestone Pizza Oven Arch
• Building the Oven's Walls
• Filling with the Pizza Oven with Sand
• Building the Chimney
• Applying the Insulation Coat
• Optional Final Coat and Decoration
• Taking the Sand out and Firing
• Just Do It

What you will need

• A Rockcote Firestone Arch and Door, or somethign to use a mould for a clay door.
• 23 x 20kg bags ROCKCOTE Clay Cob Base. Or a lot of clay, sand and soil and Manure
• 15 x 17.5kg bags bedding sand
• 2 x bags compressed straw
• 30 x Firebricks
• 1 x adhesive notched trowel
• Shade cloth to mix Clay Cob on.
• Paper template of Base
• A base or stand to build your oven on
• Shelter to keep your oven under
• 450mm long Measuring stick
• Pencil
• Spirit level
• Square
• Baby pool, old bath tub, or wheelbarrow
• Shovel

Check out our forums for more info on making you oven without the Rockcote Wood Fired Pizza Oven Kit