2) Building the Base

Starting the build - Building the base

Day one of my Wood Fired Oven build & the materials arrive :

• 300 Bricks 73mm Royal Mixture
• 30 Concrete blocks
• 50 Special Blue Bullnose 65mm
• 8 pressed conc lintels 1200mm x 100mm
• Building Sans & Cement

Setting out to find a good location for the WFO.

There was some deliberation as to where it should go...... in the end decided to move to other side of the garden as a focal point.

First course of concrete blocks - managed to rope in some free labour, never too young to start!
 

As Expected, it started to rain...... it is Leeds

Level ish.......Managed to get the block work for the base done & the 8 lintels in (realised I need more lintels!)

The next day (when it stopped raining) I had a dry run setting out the bricks. I should have enough!

Looks like the base is big enough...... :-}

Aerial view of the garden.

I've also found a decent bit of stone to use as a lintel - just needs chopping down slightly & squaring up!
Not going to take any weight just decorative!
 

Started laying the first course of bricks.
 

View of Gledhow Hall from our attic window.... Roundhay in distance.

Painting of Gledhow Hall as painted by the William Turner  - You can just see Gledhow hall in top centre o fmy foto & painting.

Managed to lay a few more bricks.....and purchased 4 more lintels.... 1:3 mix Building sand & cement.