The past day has seen us running around getting metal for the roof, metal for the door of the pizza oven , finishing the clay for the chimney, and has involved Karen spending an hour and a half standing holding plastic bags … [...]
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Pizza Oven Laos So it turns out that getting the chimney, and having a chimney that we can use, are two quite different things. On the morning we got the chimney, which arrived with a skirt on the bottom and a mystery bend in … [...] For the past week or so, we have all been patiently waiting for the thick insulation layer to dry. We've lit a couple of fires to help with the process, and the chimney hole seems to be working well with the smoke mostly going out .. [...] Pizza Oven : Archway and Unexpected Developments. Posted on July 22, 2012 by admin. Today was a moment of truth when we scooped out the sand holding up the archway and it stayed solidly standing! It also revealed the flat front we had … [...] We started the day with Karen building a sand support for the front archway. It took about an hour to build up the sand in the right shape and have it be just wet enough to hold it's shape and not too wet for water to seep out the … [...] In the morning we were talking about how to do the insulation layer – most of the pizza oven building websites we had visited recommended vermiculite as insulation, of course we can't buy anything remotely like that in Laos … [...] Well it would seem that like everything else we have done in Laos, the Pizza Oven project has a mind of its own. It will progress exactly how Laos dictates it will, and that's just how it is. [...] |
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