How to Build a Temporary Wood-fired Brick Pizza Oven with Cheap, Easy to Find Materials

Step 6 Build the Opening and Chimney

You'll still have a bit of space past the archway towards the front of the oven – this is where the chimney will go. 

Make sure to consult the photos to see that you have the bricks oriented well. 

Start by adding six bricks, stacked sideways, on each side of the wall. This will create the entryway.  

Four bricks, on their sides, are placed on top of both walls. At the back side, a strip of angle iron is placed against the arch to create a lip that runs between both sides of the oven entryway.

A second angle iron piece is placed on the bricks at the front, to create a ledge for the top of the entryway. Place bricks, on their side, across this angle iron.

Three bricks are placed on each side wall, leaving a space in the center that the chimney flue can fit over (the back of the flue rests on the angle iron that goes in front of the arch; the front of the flue goes on top of the bricks that make the top of the entryway.

Place two more bricks on each side of the chimney to block any remaining opening from the archway.