Talk about hitting the"hot button" for a lot of us here ...I have been getting my wife warmed up to the idea of the pizza oven in my deck expansion......
If you haven't already, get her hooked on wood fired pizza, and you'll have an easy time of it. Besides, it is so useful for a variety of outdoor oven cooking. We just purchased a Lodge cast iron Dutch oven (3 legs) into which we can put our favorite Dutch oven foods (like crusty European bread) and heap the coals on top while the pizzas cook. Add to your argument that it is an outstanding way to entertain with everyone helping and congregating around the oven area and she'll be sold.
Very nice job! I have seen some covered in tiles, and some in stucco, or bricks. Are you considering anything to top it off with - or leave it natural?
Thanks teesquare! I'd love to encase the unit in a stucco style dome, but I don't know if stucco would do well in my area where we have temperature extremes and lots of freeze thaw. Tile would also be great as would brick, but I think I would need to contract that job done so that it doesn't come out looking lumpy and lop-sided like a melted kids toy.
Maybe the driveway can go a few more years...
Interestingly, we were at this crossroad a couple of years ago. We do one big project each year, and we had to decide on a driveway or a pizza oven - we chose the oven thinking that our guests would choose wood fired pizza over an asphalt driveway any day of the week. Guess what our big project was this year?
Outstanding setup. I would love to have something like that, including the view
Thanks mikecorn1; I just lucked into this place over 25 years ago when the housing prices were dirt cheap in my area. I couldn't afford to purchase the place in today's housing market! I've been grateful for that view each and every day for the past quarter century