Assembly instructions Le Panyol wood fired oven
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Model 83
Page 4
BUILDING A BASE TO SUPPORT THE OVEN
Materials
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Generally 2 breeze-block pillars and 1 reinforced concrete slab 10 cm thick.
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The base could also be a sufficiently strong steel table.
Base width and depth
The size of the base will vary according to 2 criteria:
1/ The final shape of the oven:
o Traditional shape (fairly cubic): you’ll need to include the thickness of the surrounding wall
in your size calculations.
o Rounded shape: here there’s no need to build a surrounding wall–
see “Advice on insulation
and surrounds for a rounded-
shape oven” which you can download from
www.lepanyol.com/documentation
2/ The surround materials : the thickness varies depending on whether it is a rendering, decorative
brickwork or natural stone. You’ll need to include this thickness in your size
calculations.
The instructions are based on the following sizes:
Surrounding walls : 10 cm thick (for the sides and back of the oven) and 7 cm thick for the front of
the oven.
Surround : rendering (i.e. a few millimetres thick)
If the surround material is more than 2 cm thick
and you have planned to use it to surround the
whole oven (base + oven), you must build the surround on the base before you assemble the oven.
Height of the base
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The oven floor (where the fire will be laid and the cooking done) is generally between 100
and 120 cm high, depending on the user’s height and comfort requirements.
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As the hearth tiles in the oven are 6 cm thick and the insulation under the hearth is
approximately 7 cm thick, subtract approximately 13 cm to obtain the height of the base (see
diagram on page 8).
