Hey Lee, that`s a great video! I did an apprenticeship with an old school plumbing firm in the north of England, we did everything from fixing a leaky fawcet to lead glazing to large scale heating, plumbing drainage and roofing construction projects. I`ve done plenty of lead, zinc and copper roofs in my younger days. The secret to getting the patina on copper roofs is as old as time and it is this........ One time I was fitting a copper roof on a catholic church in the shape of an A-Frame, and the old priest was amazed at how the bright copper sheets we placed each day, would turn green overnight. He`d often ask me how this happened and I`d always tell him it was a miracle! One day he saw one of the lads on the scaffold with a mop bucket, mopping the roof. He asked me what was in the bucket and I told him it was Holy Water! What it actually was, was piss ! The lads would piss in buckets throughout the day and we`d mop this on the new sheets before leaving site for the day. The acid in the urine reacted with the copper and turned it green! If you try this with modern copper sheets, they often have an oil based protective compound on them which has to be removed with detergent , first.

I have been educated! That was one of the most thorough videos I have ever watched on KZread! Thank you!

The best project I saw in KZread so far and it is exactly I plan to do. Thanks for great video ❤

I am having a hard time understanding anyone giving this a "thumbs down". This is one of the best demonstration vids I have ever seen!

@LeeMcNeil

6 жыл бұрын

I don't know either. People are crazy I guess. LOL!

Fantastic video. Thank you for the detailed description of your process. It's a great overview video, well-edited, with good narration. Definitely the best how-to video I've seen on building a classy brick wood-fired oven.

This is fantastic, your design is likely going to be my inspiration for my dream back yard oven as a centerpiece in my landscaping. Great work

The smoker box idea was genius.

I really like how you break down the project, talking about materials and tools, design and engineering.

@LeeMcNeil

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Well done, that is by far the best brick oven video I have come across. Love the fact that you took your time and planned every move before executing them. Very informative, I will be watching it several more times before moving forward with my project at some point. Thanks again.

This is the best oven build on KZread. Inspiration to start my own build. Thank You!!

Now, THAT, is what I call a well thought out, narrated and honest video as to how to go about making a wood fired pizza oven smoker combo out of bricks and other material. Hats off to you Lee. Excellent job.

@LeeMcNeil

Жыл бұрын

Thanks man. I really like hearing that!

I've watched a lot video about building pizza oven and this is best video! This is exactly what i want in future for my garden. Thank you

@LeeMcNeil

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words.

I have been researching building a outdoor pizza oven for a few months. I have to say your video is by far the most informative i have found, Great job m8. The finished oven looks amazing.

I've seen a lot of D.I.Y. brick ovens on youtube but this one takes the cake. Nice job.

@LeeMcNeil

5 жыл бұрын

I love it! Thanks man.

WOW.....WHAT A GREAT TIME AROUND THAT PIZZA ....SMOKER OVEN......

That was satisfying to Watch. Now that I watched all the steps I just have hire someone to build me One !

@LeeMcNeil

3 жыл бұрын

Git 'r done!

Thanks from NY, for including the tip about making sure the foundation is beneath the frost line.

@matermark

4 жыл бұрын

Think about what he said, how could that be? Northern states frost lines are 36"-42". That's impossible. It would be like 6 to 9 cubic yards just for the flat base to the soil level, not including the pad above ground! There must be a different way, like a floating pad for northern states. I had a similar idea for a smoke box but my idea was to put a second floor 12 to 18 inches below the main floor and at the back of the main floor, have an opening for smoke from a fire on the lower floor to come up and pass around the meat to be smoked on its way to the front chimney. You can also use the opening to brush your ashes then remove them from the lower floor...

Thanks, I do hope to build a combo too!! When the funds get there!! I live in Atlanta, clay soil. So, I know I need to build a very strong base with rock and sand. Thanks for your tips!!!

I just completed a walk in tile shower ,I thought that was a nice challenge , now I've been given another project. An out door brick rocket oven/pizzeria.Watching your video convinces me of how much I don't know.But you sir are a master journeyman.

@LeeMcNeil

4 жыл бұрын

I love it! But I am no journeyman. Those were the first bricks I had ever laid. I am in construction though.

I didn't expect to make it all the way through this video, but there was enough info to keep my attention. Nicely done, sir!

@LeeMcNeil

3 жыл бұрын

I'll take that as a compliment LOL! Thanks.

@renaissancemaneric8019

3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeMcNeil It was a compliment. It's not easy to make a video well. Respect, sir!

intense labour of love! it was beautiful to see the level of craftsmanship you applied.

Fantastic job. Really like your attention to detail and general thinking style around the project.

Wow - this is truly awesome. Best design and best explanation I've seen for one of these ovens, not to mention the dual-purpose cooking!

EXCELLENT video. You answered several questions that occurred to me as I was watching other videos. Very well designed and constructed oven/smoker, and very well done video. Thank you.

Thank you for posting such in depth of details video. I am so inspired to build one.

I just had this idea (smoker & oven combo) the other day as well. Researching it I found your video which was exactly what I needed. Thanks for making the video, it is very helpful and your end result looks great!

I like the music and the rocking of the legs back and forth. Like a kid

The amount of detail in this ovens construction is amazing!

What a fantastic job and design. I envy you right now, would love to have this in my back yard.

Great work, love it. you had me at the sketchup model. smoker combo is also an inspired addition.

I have been hoarding bricks for a few years now hoping to build myself a brick oven. I have 480 reclaimed firebricks (acme everlast, apgreen lonestar, unknown logo stamped), 60 new firebricks, 1980 texas red clay bricks(ferris, palmer, mexia, texas, abilne, cherry reds, dallas, local), 2100 reclaimed substandard Mexican bricks to use as outer veneer. I'm so close!!! :-) Awesome video interesting method for the dome instead of using a trammel. I've physically reclaimed all of these bricks out of the ground, demolished houses, remodels, etc.. by now I'm pretty damn good at cleaning bricks.

Definitely one of the best home built ovens I've seen. Awesome work!

I have been growing more and more interested in building my own wood fired brick pizza oven and I've watched a LOT of videos on how to make them, not nearly as detailed and helpful as this! Thanks so much, I'll be starting my project soon!

@myownruin187

5 жыл бұрын

Patrick Berg >please document it all for the rest of us.. thank you .

@Gommas

4 жыл бұрын

how is your oven going?

@inigobalboa2836

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. I'm starting planning for my own pizza oven and this is one of the most helpful videos I have seen, thank you for the detailed explanations, Lee.

@johnsm3568

3 жыл бұрын

How did it work out?

@radvids48

3 жыл бұрын

Well, how is the pizza oven? Would like to see an update. Thanks Patrick

That is one the best videos on "how to do something" I've seen. Really well done, and edited. And "boy" that was a lot of brick, time and work. And I'm inspired. Thanks for posting!

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/lKdo1pScj8uwZ84.html.

Beautifully done and narrated

Awesome oven/smoker thank you for sharing the video

One of the best descriptions and videos to date! Many Thanks

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/lKdo1pScj8uwZ84.html.

Just came across this vid all these years later and gotta say it is the most fantastic vid on this topic. Attention to detail is fabulous, description of processes is fabulous, the design AND location and how it all fits together with its surroundings is fabulous - awesome! Most important this isn’t a ridiculous vanity project but a beautiful piece of functional art. Well, well, well done!

@LeeMcNeil

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Very nice, design, and function. Great details in your video too without overtalking.

You are the MAN Lee! This is awesome, I plan on building something like this when I have my own house. Thanks for sharing!

I wonder how many generations it took for everyone to agree that this thing is beautiful and it truly is

@nicogs97

2 жыл бұрын

I used to think they were ugly and a waste of space but now I want one lol

That is amazing. I've been looking for a combo smoker idea to build into an outdoor fireplace. Love the design and look. I'm up in Wisconsin so come spring I'll be getting started and will probably be basically copying your pizza oven plans and use some of your tips for the smoker. Great job. Thanks for the ideas and taking the time to go through your project in so much detail!

@davidlawrence2508

5 жыл бұрын

Mathew, Let us know how you did, and give us a detail of the build.

@anothersomebody8195

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, how did the smoker part work out?

wow, beautifully done, just the right amount of time explaining things. Pizza is only 1 of the things cooked in it, we fix salmon, veggies, potatoes, breakfast is awesome, eggs are incredible, bacon, sausage.

Absolutely the best build I've seen. Really a great design. Thanks for sharing!

Brilliant. I'm in construction as well and this is so good to watch. Talking my language..... Hope you are enjoying hte fruits of your labour.

@LeeMcNeil

8 жыл бұрын

+Alan Lloyd Thanks Alan. I looked at some of your videos from Thailand. I haven't been to Thailand but I've visited Cambodia and I absolutely loved it. I need to find a job over there!

Nothing but respect, thank you for your help! I am almost done with my oven!

@LeeMcNeil

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I would love to see pictures of it, but you can't share them here for some reason. If you have them posted online, or even better, a KZread video, I think you can post a link here in the comments.

Just got mine finished about two months ago,it’s a new lifestyle, wife thought I was crazy but the taste of the food drives her crazy 😂😂❤

@LeeMcNeil

Жыл бұрын

Nice!

@LeeMcNeil

Жыл бұрын

I wish people could post pictures of their ovens here.

This is the best design I’ve seen after looking at dozens. Another option for the base in places with hard winters and freezing temperatures would be to dig out down to your frost level and fill it with rocks and or large gravel. This allows moisture to expand without obstructing or changing the shape of the ground. This is how they used to build log cabins and they would just make a big pit Full of rocks kind of like we would now dig out and fill with concrete to make a foundation footing when you fill it with the rocks and gravel and or sand even if water gets down in there the water is allowed to expand but the rocks don’t move with the expansion so you stay level, there are cabins that were built hundreds of years ago that are almost still perfectly level with those foundations. Another option would be to use an auger and drill holes down and basically make a deck to build all of the sun come out a very strong deck but it could definitely be done. I see a lot of people that misunderstand the installation process in the bottom for the perlite mix and end up making that in the bottom of the interior of their oven which means when they light the fire they’re heating it only from above because they don’t have that layer of brick to retain that heat and so everything has to cook from the top because the oven floor loses its heat being that the surface is the perlite insulated mixture that won’t retain the heat The same way the brick will so basically it’s a cooler bottom oven and then I have problems cooking things and they take a long time. I like your solution because if you make it solid rock it holds massive amounts of heat and you’re constantly having to turn your pizza and keep it moving and cook it within a couple of minutes to where you were insulating the bottom then adding a layer to absorb heat so you come out somewhere in the middle where your bottom still retains heat and there’s enough to cook but you’re not constantly dealing with extreme amounts of heat on the bottom of the oven. My only change is instead of using the fire brick on the inside of the bottom, using the perlite mixture basically you get that fire brick installation of fact, I would’ve used pizza brick which is just a precast porous concrete like your clay, it retains heat but it also porous so you don’t get a frying effect it doesn’t resist moisture it lets the moisture out and to flow through it. That’s what most professional pizza ovens that aren’t a moving rack would use and I’ve always told her to call pizza stone probably because that’s its intent fire brick is an insulator meant to not retain heat to where the pizza stone is kind of a cross between that and solid rock it’s still retains heat but it is still porous enough to where you’re not going to have a completely solid surface so it’s going to allow moisture in air to flow on the bottom so you don’t end up with a soggy boiled mess in the middle. For your copper stand to get the patina on there there are chemicals you can buy that speed the oxidization process but a lot of people just use a water with a little dishwashing liquid and a torch. You could also just brace or even just glue or Apoxsee some sort of trellis system or other material for those vines to climb up. Plants generally don’t like copper, if you use copper spikes or nails in a tree you can actually kill it in many instances. But on that I think if you put some kind of trellis on the outside, you could wrap it with the wire like a cattle panel or fencing or you could do a wood trellis or a wire or string trellis the plants can climb up.

@LeeMcNeil

3 жыл бұрын

You are correct about the foundation. I didn't get into that much detail in this video because it was already long enough. Not to mention that the vast majority of my experience is in Florida, so I can't claim to be an expert on the best way design a foundation for those conditions. Thanks for the comments!

Outstanding job! I'm in the process of building a much smaller verision. Great site

@ChenteChannel

3 жыл бұрын

If you can share the process I have the same idea, just a little bit smaller than this one. Thanks

Congratulation. Brick oven is amazing is the best one I ever saw I have one but not even quite as cool as the one you have and thank you very much for share all that information thank you

Not sure why anyone would dislike this video. It turned out great and I would love to cook pizza and drink beer there!

I do construction work and this is the first time I see someone doing something excellent, thanks to teach us their experience you do amazing work!!!

Hello from Ireland 😀 Thanks you so much for sharing Lee , very informative, I've just subscribed.

Wow. Fantastic work sir! You just earned a subscriber. Hopping to do this in about a month.

It’s guys like this that make KZread great, perfectly filmed and explained throughout. Over here in the Uk I have been trying to find out if I can’t use normal bricks to make a pizza oven, all builders merchants say no! I need to buy fire bricks but I know in Victorian times they used Engineering Bricks and the Italian for thousands of years have used clay bricks, I think this video clearly shows bricks are fine too use. Cheers 🍻 for the upload

@LeeMcNeil

5 жыл бұрын

I used fire brick on the inner dome and I think that is the smart thing to do. Regular bricks might work, but then again, they might not. I would spend the small amount of extra money on the fire brick so I don't have problems later on - because it will be hard to fix if you do.

This is only the second video on pizza ovens I've seen and luckily is not only perfect to me in its looks, but it's designed well with great instructions. Thanks a million for sharing this build with the world.

@LeeMcNeil

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

This is actually genius!

AWESOME video bro! VERY informative! Thank you kindly for sharing!!!

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/lKdo1pScj8uwZ84.html.

love the essential bottle opener LOL. Finally a video that tells EXACTLY how to build in a short and to the point way! Big THANK YOU for your work. I am stealing your plans and starting an exact copy here.

@LeeMcNeil

8 жыл бұрын

+John Phillips (Kitakitz Publishing) Yes the bottle opener is essential! Good luck with your build.

You, sir, are a genius. I would love to do something like this for my wife and I someday. She loves to make pizza and bread and I love BBQ. We don't have space to make two separate structures, but if I'm crazy, I could make ONE. Great work!!!

You're a damn legend. Congratulations on making the coolest/hottest oven ever and documenting it so we can learn from your experiences too. Cheers!

@LeeMcNeil

7 жыл бұрын

HAHA! I don't know about all that but thanks!

Lee. I haven't watched all of this, but I have to tell you that I'm already blown away at what you've done. I've been thinking of building a wood oven on the patio of my restaurant and you may have just solved my problem. Thank you so much!

Definitely one of the better guides to building a pizza oven on KZread. Lot's of detail at each step. Loved the smoker box on the side and how that works. I was wonder how I would integrate one of these as well. Torn between this method and a built in Kamado now. This it's definitely over engineered for my skill set (or lack of!!) but their is a lot of good stuff for me to take away. Cheers!

One of the best built pizza combo ovens I’ve seen . Your brick work is sweet . 🇳🇿🇳🇿👍🏻

Really enjoyed this vid great work Lee regards KCB. (UK Carpenter)

3 жыл бұрын

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Nice Job! I do a lot of DIY stuff on my Ranch, one thing you can do to get Air Bubbles out of Concrete is to use a round stick zipped tied/attached well to a vibrating sander! works great for getting your mix to jiggle real good! ;Peace)

@LeeMcNeil

7 жыл бұрын

That is an awesome idea. That would have worked perfectly. I'll have to remember that trick the next time I pour some concrete.

Very lovely work. I live in Austin, Texas the home of off set smoking BBQ. You have the ability now to make brisket and ribs suited for the gods, cooked low and slow. Congrats and I hope it brings you many years of fun.

Seriously, well done, sir! That looks fantastic!

Amazing, just amazing, good job, Sir?!!

@Alwis-Haph-Rytte

4 жыл бұрын

I gave you a like and maybe pushing your comment up so the KZread AI might recommend this video. It looks similar to the type I've been thinking of over the years, but never seen this one in the past. I want a rocket stove added with the smoker. Forgot to add grill with rocket stove.

@LeeMcNeil

4 жыл бұрын

Yes a wood burning grill would have been a good add to this oven

beautiful work. I can appreciate an expert and how much time is involved. In the event of a nuke strike, you can seek shelter inside it as well as cook incredible meals.

Thank for not playing obnoxious music just plain calm explanations.Great build and thank you for sharing.Just a tip when you poured your oven base and was little short that is great.Fill the rest with salt it is great insulation and easier to level the bricks on top.

@LeeMcNeil

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I agree, I should have made the bottom of the oven about 6" higher. That would have made it much easier to get things in and out of it. But, it would have made getting the brick out to use the smoker a lot harder.

Amazing skills. Unfortunatly not for everyone. Great job

The dislikes are from McDonald's fans.

Beautiful good there bro.would love to build something like this soon.mite have to get this pizza oven design off you.😊😊 agian nice job.👍👍

As an artist I use copper sheet and ribbing - if you use M38 gel over the sheet you can jump start the patina process. also the copper needs to be fairly clean. IF the sheeting is thick enough. I'm going to build one of these after I move. I also work with a lot of different types of glass. Thanks for your channel,

@LeeMcNeil

8 жыл бұрын

+Shereen Timmerman I haven't heard of m38 gel before but I knew there were some ways of accelerating the patina process. I didn't want to mess it up though. I need to just go out an spray it occasionally with some vinegar and ammonia just to give it a little push.

@shereentimmerman4164

8 жыл бұрын

Google CAN be your friend. (M38 gel) Did you use plans from a book or PDF? Thanks again!

@LeeMcNeil

8 жыл бұрын

+Shereen Timmerman I drew them myself with Sketchup and my model can be downloaded from the Sketchup 3-D warehouse. I think there is some plans in PDF format that you can download from the Forno Bravo website also. They are pretty generic though.

This is extraordinary. You are a true craftsman. Thank you!

I watched a lot videos how to build wood fired brick .Not nearly as detailed and helpfull like yours! Thanks

@LeeMcNeil

7 жыл бұрын

That was my goal

great video. ..the oven will outlast us all

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/lKdo1pScj8uwZ84.html.

Nice job Lee! I have wanted to build one of these for quite some time, sans the smoker portion of the build... Thank you for taking the time to make the video!

Great Job. Still working on my Ideas for my space. Thankyou for posting

That was awesome. I'm researching to build one at our new home in Philly so thanks for the Frost line info. I love the addition of the Smoker. Hope mine works as well as yours when done. what was the group you found information in online?

@LeeMcNeil

7 жыл бұрын

Forno Bravo in the Forums section.

Its been 5 years now. Can you do an update on the oven video? Tell how it has held up and what it looks like now.

@LeeMcNeil

4 жыл бұрын

I actually built it a little over ten years ago, I just did the video around five years ago. I'm in construction so I have been super busy over the last couple of years and haven't done a new video in a while. This is the exact subject that I plan to do my next video on. It will be uploaded soon so stay tuned.

@malancronje6805

4 жыл бұрын

@@LeeMcNeil Thanks enjoyed your video. I love your idea for the smoker, but I am concerned that the mess that will make inside will be a problem when you want to do pizzas. Do you burn it clean or do you wash it? Maybe its not as big a problem as I imagine?

@LeeMcNeil

4 жыл бұрын

@@malancronje6805 No. When you cook pizza in it, you build the fire on the floor of the oven right over where any grease would have dropped when it was previously used as a smoker. Plus the oven gets to close to 1,000 degrees when you cook pizza, so everything in it gets incinerated.

I was looking to build a smoker. I really like the one you build. Combo pizza/smoker. I think I will try my hand in building one for myself in Brooklyn. You really did an excellent job.

This oven is LEGEND! Well done brother!

You inspire me. I too am a builder of sorts and really love your innovative hybrid cooker/oven. I love to grill and smoke as well. I know how much time money and time, did I mention time??? it takes to undertake a major project like this. My hat is sincerely off to you. I don't mind projects that I can complete in lets say... a month or so. This must have taken you at least 6 months or longer to do. Lots of dedication to the project and the end result is nothing but amazing, fantastic, astonishing. A lot of heart went into it, and I'm sure you have made amens by now with the other half for taking so much time. Wives usually can't see the end result locked into your mind, until it's done and up and running. Loved the detailed video (And the steak cooking one as well) Check my channel if you have spare time.. :) kzread.info

Your oven will still be standing after the next 300 years.

@LeeMcNeil

9 жыл бұрын

robert elber Hells yeah it will!

@emielkramer4461

4 жыл бұрын

Try 2000+

Just watched this and wanted to say awesome job, not only on the build and construction but on the video and explaining the whys and how’s. Really informative stuff. I’m only at the information gathering phase of my pizza oven journey but this video is by far the best I’ve seen, thanks for the time and effort spent sharing this Lee.

@LeeMcNeil

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

You have covered it all! Great great job. Your video documentation can give anyone with some light skill all the information necessary. Built many insulated cabinet smokers, reverse flow and a Santa Maria grill.... you've got me thinking...enjoy this beautiful oven

Wood fired pizza? Hows pizza gonna get a job now?

@LeeMcNeil

4 жыл бұрын

Noice one Stoink!

@anothersomebody8195

Жыл бұрын

Pizza will find a way to roll up on some dough, because if I know Pizza, Pizza neads dough.

Wow. I can imagine u building a lot of awesome and creative building structures with your experimental imagination

I totally enjoyed your video! I've watched ALOT of pizza oven building videos and I think this was probably the best one I've seen. Slow, clear, insightful. Without boasting or telling us how we should do it. It was how YOU did yours. Thanks for taking the time to document and provide a different and intelligent approach and execution to building your oven.

@LeeMcNeil

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. That is what I was shooting for.

hi Lee I finally got my oven done and posted. Thank you for some of your answers to questions i had and i feel it turned out pretty good .Reggie

That’s an amazing oven, beautiful job.

Great. It's just what I'm looking to build. It incorporates everything I want..

Greetings from Australia. This hits the target. Well done Lee.

Great build Lee, Love the smoker too.

holy shit what a video. best instructional video for a wood fire oven on youtube, hands down.

@LeeMcNeil

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Damn, a great looking project, professionalism and a great educator too! Learned a lot. Thank you!

I like the idea of the combination of pizza oven and smoker. That is great.

@LeeMcNeil

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! It works great both ways.

Epic oven lee, top quality and I love the smoker idea thanks for posting and being so informative 👍