In spare time from major home reconstruction works this Summer we decided to build a cool and fancy garden pizza oven, connected with a water supply (sink) and electricity - making a cool outdoor kitchen with a lot of space for not only baking pizzas but doing some other exciting things.
Some time ago I built a foundation form using old clay bricks from chimney we took down inside house. It took me some 2 weeks before I continued works on garden pizza oven, and today I had a free time and will to concrete foundation using ready made mortar (mixing it together with water). Tools I used - a bucket, hand drill with a mixer.
We had decided to extend a little bit our garden oven, to have some space to store firewood (under) and a place for a sink. I took the shovel and dug off about a meter of soil.
Extending garden oven
I will use the same old clay bricks to fill up the empty space.
A bucket for mixing a mortar
I will need to mix a lot of mortar in this 10 liter bucket to finish concreting works for garden oven's foundation.
Pouring mortar
I poured about 5 or 6 buckets of mortar today when the drill burned down. No more concreting works for today and some next couple of days - as I get it, using a ready made mortar is way too expensive, and using a hand drill for mixing a mortar is way too complex. As I will need to concrete foundations for house, I have already planned to purchase a huge mortar mixer (about 140 liters). So that's all for today.
Views toward house
We are planing to feature here a lovely outdoor area with benches, outdoor patio and more with Garden Pizza oven as a center piece of this area. See how we celebrated Summer Solstice 2016 here a few weeks ago.
