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My second Wood-fired oven build.... http://imageshack.us/g/824/soven008.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/g/830/soven9022.jpg/ Regards... Terry

Cannyfradocks update....... UK WFO forum is going strong with 8/10 builds underway at the moment all giving detailed photo's and stage by stage comments. No Cob oven builds so far (this year), but Pompeii oven builds, Vault oven builds. modular oven builds and a few individual Quick fix builds...

......It's not just you guys who are having problems with the automated spam bots at the moment. It seems like a lot of forums (regardless of the forum provider) are having problems especially in the last 2 weeks with these evil registrations. I am Admin of a Forumup forum and the Webmaster has...

Happy new year to all good folk of the UK Workshop. Many thanks for all your help and advice last year when I was trying to set up an info/interactive forum for people wishing to build their own wood-fired ovens in the UK. With your encouragement and a lot of research I was able to assist many...

Hello all good folk of the UK workshop. After reading this thread I would like to post these two articles on wood, which were posted on a wood-oven forum. Beech wood fires are bright and clear If the logs are kept a year. Chestnuts only good, they say If for long its laid away. But ash wood...

bugbear Did you mean the printed newspaper or the Daily mail? Terry (C.F)

Talking about beer cans and cardboard boxes......When I built my wood-oven I used cardboard as a form to lay my bricks on. I went down to my local wastesavers and gave the foreman a fiver to get me 12 sheets of clean cardboard from the skip. These I turned into 24 half-moon shaped interlocking...

Bugbear and Jason Pettitt are quite right of coarse. It does take a good deal of timber and up to 2hrs to heat up if built correctly. But that does'nt alter the fact that cooking bread, pizza, meat etc in one of these things is just that bit special, and the taste of the food can never be...

Many thanks for the idea's lads. The only problem with sand or polystyrene is that it would have to stay in at least until the uppermost keystone had set. I believe it would take 3 days to build a 42 inch diameter dome correctly. The fire-cement goes off like iron and is difficult to clean off...

Many thanks OLD for the advice.I have already been on google for 3 weeks solid and have about a dozen names of fire-brick suppliers . I don't want to sound greedy but a personal lead or contact name is worth 10 names off the web. Bob 321...if you want a portable build then this link may...

Bob 321 Many thanks for the advice, but I am more interested in any knowledge the forum members may have on refractory companies. Although I would love to approach the woodworking specialists on this forum and ask them how to make a wooden form which could support the build of a Pompeii-style...

Many thanks for your encouragement and suggestions. All taken on board. It is surprising the amount of people who wish to build a wood-oven for themselves, but hav'nt taken the next step into commiting themselsves to starting their project. Kalimna.......I started the forum 5 weeks ago and...

Hello UK workshop Admin & members Although not a wood related question I am looking to the UK workshop for some help. I have a passion for building and baking in wood-ovens. The problem in the UK for people like myself is the lack of refractory company's or suppliers of fire-bricks etc. I...