The Laying of Brick

This past Tuesday our brick arrived in the rain, all 1,500 of these little beauties.  Many thanks to Scott Olson at Olson Brick Sales and Tim Dougherty at Acme Brick for their help and support of this project. The bricks are beautiful and will give the oven the "old world" look that we were looking for.

We moved the bricks up to the worksite, and then the more skilled amongst us made all four corners level and square.

Then the newbies started laying the brick out from there.

 Before you knew it, we started to have actual rows of bricks and it started to look like a real brick oven.

 Not too shabby.  The hole that you see is where the wrought iron door to the ash chamber will go. The white clouds on the brick will also be power washed off when the oven is completed.