Tiling A Pizza Oven Dome

These ceramic and glass tiles present a very convenient medium to finish the dome of the oven since their flexibility allows them to repeat the shape of the dome.

Tiling a pizza oven dome.

To get a perfect shape dome put the sand in the shape of a dome. Given the variety of colors and styles of tiles available at hardware stores the design possibilities are huge. You can also frame and decorate the front portion of the dome arch with granite or other materials. Then using a string and marking pen build a compass half the diameter of your oven 18 or 21 and mark the circumference of your oven floor.

Tiles of different designs can be interchanged on same oven. I love in the north east of england in the uk we have an outdoor pizza oven which i am looking to mosaic tile. The dome itself a series of self supporting circular brick chains that curve inward until they meet at the keystone at the oven top. It is to do with the sand and afterward place the bricks onto them.

Construction of an igloo dome does not necessarily require a frame if completed by a competent brick layer.