This article is about how to build an outdoor brick pizza oven. If you’ve ever dreamed about backing  homemade pizzas in a traditional Italian style brick oven, then you have to check out our project. However, the high cost of materials and scarcity of qualified professionals in this area might make it seem as impossible. Fortunately, you can build the wood fired pizza oven by yourself, in your backyard in just a few weeks. This diy project has an average difficulty, as you should cut the bricks using a wet saw and construct the dome brick oven. Nevertheless, you will find building the brick dome easier, if you read this article and pay attention to our tips.

First of all, you should start the project by building the foundation and the base of the oven. This is not a difficult procedure, providing you use the right materials and choose the correct location in your backyard. Make sure you dig the footings at the right depth (according to the soil structure, they should be between 1-2′ / 0.3-0.6 m). In addition, you should reinforce the foundation with a rigid structure of steel bars.

There are many models of pizza ovens, but you should  choose the one which suits best your needs and tastes. In this article we will show you how to build a traditional dome oven, which both looks incredibly good and helps the pizzas to bake evenly, but you can change the plans as to fit your tastes perfectly. If you like the idea, you could add a cooking stove and several cabinets and turn your construction in a real outdoor kitchen.

When building the brick oven dome, you have to glue the bricks together with clay mortar. Remember that is essential to use this mix of sand and clay, as a cement based mortar would crack at high temperatures. On the other hand, we recommend you to sink the bricks in water before laying them into position, otherwise they would suck the moisture from the mortar.

In order to build an outdoor pizza oven, you need the following: