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2014 MHA Annual Meeting

4' x 3'-6" Pat Manley Pizza Oven


Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Floor is insulated with 2" of calcium silicate board.

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Sand bed for firebrick hearth.

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Floor is in place.

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Metal door plug lying on the hearth.

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Checking the arch form for the door opening.

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Laying out the arch bricks for the door.

  Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

  Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Cleaning up the inside side walls before starting the vault.

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley


  Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Notches on the side walls, near the front, are to receive the skew bricks that will receive the dropped front arch.
The projecting bricks from the side walls act as ledges to carry the steel reinforcing harness.

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Form for dropped front arch.

  Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Skew bricks in place.

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Dropped front vault directs gases down towards exit, which is just on the oven side of the door.


Pat Manley explains the use of tapered arch bricks for the vault.


 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Ledge for main vault form.

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Main vault form in place.

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

   Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Laying up the main vault, using a running brick bond.

 Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Gas exit slot visible at front.

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Tapping the last vault brick into place.

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Custom made pivoting damper section.

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Gas exit in place, ready for hookup to the chimney.

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Steel harness in place to contain the side thrust from the vault.

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Starting to remove the formwork.

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Note the flex in the middle of the channel iron. Normally the vault forms are not removed until the mortar has set and cured.
In this case, it was fresh and exterted more pressure than normal.

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
We jury-rigged additional support for the vault.

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Starting the curing fire. In fact, we had to burn out the last remaining pieces of the forms to avoid putting
additional stress on the vault by rough handling during removal of the forms.

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Pegboard vault form is visible.

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Note the shifted bricks on the dropped arch. They had started to drop, and were jacked back into place as the reinforcing
was added to the steel harness.

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
The oven is venting properly, even though the pegboard form in the exit throat is still in place. It is venting largely through
the pegboard holes.

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Small wisps of smoke through leaks, possibly from the vault shifting.

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley

Pizza oven workshop with Pat Manley
Getting ready to cook some pizza.
Go to the Pizza Party.

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See also,

2013 Photo Report

2012 Photo Report

2011 Photo Report

2010 Photo Report

2009 Photo Report

2008 Photo Report

2007 Photo Report
2006 Photo Report
2004 Photo Report
2003 Photo Report
2002 Photo Report
2001 Photo Report
2000 Photo Report
1999 Photo Report
1998 Photo Report
1997 Photo Report

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