Brick Oven Dome Building

All ovens start with a design idea.   Dome building however, is technical.  Just because an oven looks great from the outside, doesn't mean it will work if the physics of shape, thermal management, and flue design are wrong.

My personal oven in conservatory

TBO 36" at deck level
A sauna room was built under it as a way of providing a foundation with another purpose.
They do not share heat sources or flues.

More than 30 ovens later... there's more learned and more to add.  Precise dome bricks make a strong oven.

Domes, rather than barrel vaults produce even heat.

Note: Common misconception--the hole in the top is NOT the chimney!  It is the last part of the dome that needs to be closed.

Bricks pre-cut on styrofoam dome 

view from top before final chains 

The final space ready for keystones

Pre-cut and fitted keystones

TBO innovated this way of fitting the keystone.

View of dome roof from inside

Greek style oven by TBO

TBO collaborates with owners to make each project unique to person and place.  This oven was built due to the customer's heritage and taste.  An opportunity that exists with every oven TBO builds.

In the past five years I have built more indoor (kitchen or three season room) brick ovens than outdoor ovens; not to say outdoor ovens are less than fun.  But in the northern half of the country the inevitability of winter, bugs, and rain, make an oven attached to the house and under cover a more frequently used device.

face of oven inside

volume of oven outside