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

Filling with the Pizza Oven with Sand

• When the walls are approximately 250-300mm high you will to fill up your oven with damp sand.

• Put your sand into a wheelbarrow or other large vessel and wet the sand down.
• Start filling the oven with the sand. Place the measuring stick into the sand and continue filling until the top of the sand is at the height of the stick.

• Mould sand into a ball-like shape as in the pictures and diagrams. This will be the shape of the inside of your oven.

• Once you are happy with the shape of the sand lay some wet newspaper over it.

• Recommence laying the cobs around the oven as before, except now using the sand to support the cobs as you build.

• As you get towards the end, the angle that the cobs are laying at will increase until the last few are sitting almost vertically.

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