Understand the planning, space, tools, materials and time involved before beginning your backyard pizza oven project.
Which BrickWood Pizza Oven Kit Is Right for You?
Compare oven sizes, cooking capacity, build time and backyard fit to choose the best BrickWood kit for your family.
Pizza Oven Chimneys, Dampers and Draft: What You Need to Know
Learn how chimney height, draft and damper control affect smoke movement, heat retention and oven performance.
How Hard Is It to Build a BrickWood Pizza Oven?
See which skills, tools and time are required and why patient DIY homeowners can successfully build a BrickWood oven.
7 Common DIY Pizza Oven Building Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Avoid the planning, material & construction mistakes that can reduce performance or shorten the life of your oven.
What Materials Do You Need to Build a Wood-Fired Pizza Oven?
A complete guide to the firebrick, refractory mortar, insulation and finishing materials needed for a lasting oven.
High Temperature Mortar & Refractory Mortar: The Complete Buyer's Guide
Factory pre-mixed, dry-mix, and our time-tested homemade recipe. Everything you need to know before mortaring your pizza oven, fire pit, or kiln.
How to Cure a New Pizza Oven: Your First Fires Explained
Follow the gradual curing-fire process that removes moisture, protects the masonry and prepares your oven for cooking.
Choosing the Best Firewood for Your Brick Pizza Oven
Learn which hardwoods burn hot and clean, how dry your firewood should be and which wood should never enter your oven.
How to Get the Perfect Neapolitan-Style Crust at Home
Master dough hydration, oven-floor temperature, flame placement and timing for a crisp, airy wood-fired crust.
See how two first-time builders turned a BrickWood kit into a backyard pizza oven and a brick bread oven, with every step in photos.
DIY Outdoor Pizza Ovens: A Brick Pizza Oven Build
A retired chef with no masonry background built this Mattone Barile Grande barrel oven in Connecticut. 35 build photos.
Outdoor Bread Oven: How to Build a Brick Baking Oven
A first-time builder finished this brick bread oven in six weeks and now bakes every week. 58 build photos.
