Burn the right wood
Use clean, dry, seasoned firewood. Never burn treated or painted timber, plastic or household waste.
Installation and ongoing care
Pizza Oven Installation and Curing
This page covers installation preparation, curing, safe operation and ongoing maintenance. Always follow the instructions supplied with your specific product.
DIY Oven Installation Instructions
Download the official Fire & Dine guide for the complete DIY oven installation process.
Fire & Dine DIY Oven Installation Instructions 2026
Keep this guide available while preparing and installing your DIY oven.
RECOMMENDED TABLETOP SIZE FOR DIY RANGE
How to Install a DIY Pizza Oven
A summary of the official guide above. Your oven arrives either as one pre-built unit (floor and dome joined) or as a separate floor and dome.
- Build the base first. Fire & Dine does not build stands. Recommended tabletop sizes: Standard 1.0 × 1.0 m, Grande 1.1 × 1.1 m, Superior 1.2 m wide × 1.3 m deep, each about 1.1 m high. More in the size guide.
- Lay the insulation layer. Mix the bag marked “insulation under base” with water until it holds a firm ball. Lay it 20 mm thick at the back, tapering to 15 mm at the front, so water runs out of the oven, not in.
- Place the oven or floor. Set it level on the insulation. Against a wall, leave a 10 mm expansion gap, and leave a gap if you tile around the oven floor.
- Fit and seal the dome (separate floor and dome only). Bed the dome on the supplied mortar, line it up squarely with the front of the floor, then work mortar neatly into the outside joint. Do not fill any internal expansion gaps.
- Grout around the base. Mix the base grout with the bonding liquid to a tile-grout consistency and smooth it around the bottom edge. Textured-finish ovens get a touch-up textured coating instead.
- Let it dry for 7 days. Keep the oven dry and cover it if rain is expected. After drying you can add touch-up paint or a mosaic border.
How to Cure a Wood-Fired Pizza Oven
Only DIY ovens need curing. Our mobile ovens, the Mobile Countertop, Premium Pre-Fabricato, Forno Neapolitan, steel ovens and FLINT 1 arrive pre-cured and ready to use.
Curing drives the remaining moisture out of the dome slowly. Rushing it can crack the oven through uneven expansion.
- Wait for the 7 drying days after installation before you light the first fire.
- Cure over 5 days with one small fire a day, burning for 2 to 3 hours.
- Raise the heat gradually, from about 60 °C on day one to about 250 °C on day five.
- Stay below 350 °C until curing is complete, then cook as normal.
Always follow the curing schedule supplied with your oven if it differs. Questions? Ask the team.
Looking After Your Oven
Keep the floor clean
Sweep ashes aside with a dry brush before cooking, keep wet tools off the floor, and run the oven hot now and then to burn the floor clean.
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