Using all my kiln building skills I set out in the autumn to build a base for a pizza kiln in the spring, this is how it went.

The former

The first bricks go on

Ceramic fibre is wrapped over the kiln and wire ready to slop over insulating cement

Door, showing the vermiculite and cement render

Brick red

All done, base is painted with lime wash

In full flow. Cone 05 down at the back .