Installation guide

Pompeii Oven Instructions

10. Oven Vent

Overview

Unlike a fireplace, where the chimney is inside the firebox

in the back, the brick oven's vent and chimney are outside

of the oven -- in the front. There are several different, and

widely used methods for constructing the vent system for

your Pompeii Oven.

1. A Steel Vent

Have a steel vent fabricated, which can be attached to the

oven enclosure and connected to a steel double wall

chimney system, such as Simpson DuraTech, or a

refractory chimney flue liner. The steel vent can either be

fully enclosed, using either brick or metal-stud and

concrete board walls, or it can be left open, giving you an

unobstructed oven landing area. The fully enclosed vent

landing can be finished with it's own decorative arch made

from brick or stone.

The vent itself can be hidden behind decorative material,

or if you like the metal vent look, you can have an

attractive vent fabricated, and left on display. Photos 10.1

to 10.9 show the various venting methods.

10.1. A fabricated metal vent.

10.2. The vent attached to a terracotta chimney and fully

enclosed.

2. A Brick Vent

Use one or two course of firebrick to construct vent walls

and the arch that contains the vent opening. Build your

vent walls first, then using a wood or Styrofoam form, build

the arch, cutting the center bricks to leave a vent opening.

Depending on the type of chimney system you are using,

you can either leave a roughly 6"x10" opening for use with

a rectangular refractory chimney flue liner, or a 9 1/2"

opening for an 8" Simpson DuraTech Anchor Plate.

10.3. A brick vent.