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Pompeii Oven Instructions

16. Walled Enclosures

Overview

The Gabled House, or walled enclosure, is one of the

most traditional ways to finish a brick oven. There are

examples of these ovens throughout the Italian

countryside.

The basic process for finishing your oven this way is very

straightforward. Construct walls around your oven using

metal studs to a height of at least 6" higher than the top of

your insulated oven dome. Face the metal studs with

concrete board, and finish the exterior of the oven with

stucco, brick, or stone. The roof design is up to the builder,

and it can be finished with stone, clay tile or modern

composite tile.

The gap between the oven and the house walls is filled

with loose vermiculite insulation.

Instructions

Using traditional partition wall building techniques, build a

wall using a single metal stud lying flat as a bottom plate,

and two metal studs lying flat as the top plates for each

wall. Attach the bottom plate to the concrete hearth slab

using concrete screws. Set metal studs every 16" in the

body of the wall to support the concrete board.

Interlock the top two metal stud top plates at each corner

to give the structure more strength. Set two vertical studs

at each corner for a larger face to attach the concrete

board, and to give the structure more strength.

The Oven Opening

Set the location of the front wall of the oven enclosure so

that the brick arch at the oven opening projects forward by

a couple of inches. Set one horizontal stud at the top of

the arch, and set two additional studs at a 45-degree

angle on the sides of the arch to provide support for the

concrete board.

Finish

Attach your concrete board using screws designed for

metal studs. You can finish your oven with stucco, brick, or

stone. The walled enclosure is also a traditional way to

finish a pizza oven. To finish your oven as a walled

enclosure, construct walls around your oven using metal

studs, concrete blocks, brick or stone to a height of at

least 6" higher than the top of your oven dome. Face the

metal studs with concrete board, and finish the exterior of

the oven with stucco, brick or rock. The roof design is up

to the designer, and can be finished with stone, clay tile or

modern composite tile. The gap between the oven and the

enclosure walls is filled with loose vermiculite insulation.

16.1. The basic walled enclosure.