FAQs

When it comes to buying a wood-fired oven in Ireland, we know you have options. But at woodfiredoven.ie, we are committed to providing the best quality, best service, and best value in the market. Whether you’re looking for a ready to use pizza oven for your home or a high-performance oven for a professional setting, we are here to help you make the right choice.

Here’s why we’re the go-to supplier for wood-fired ovens in Ireland:

1. Safe & Secure Online Shopping – Trusted by Irish Customers

Buying online should be simple and secure. At woodfiredoven.ie, we ensure every transaction is 100% safe and encrypted so you can shop with confidence. Whether you’re browsing from Dublin, Cork, Galway, or anywhere across Ireland, you can trust that your details are protected when you order from us.

2. Fast & Reliable Delivery Across Ireland

We understand the importance of fast and hassle-free delivery. That’s why we offer nationwide kerbside delivery across Ireland on most of our ovens. Whether you’re setting up an outdoor pizza kitchen in Dublin or upgrading your restaurant in Limerick, we make sure your oven arrives safely and on time.

Every shipment is safely packed, so you can have peace of mind knowing your oven is protected against damage or loss.

3. Customer Service Is Our Priority – We’re Here for You!

At woodFiredOven.ie, we believe that great service makes all the difference. We pride ourselves on offering:
✅ Expert advice on choosing the right oven for your needs
✅ Immediate order confirmation and shipping updates
✅ Friendly, responsive customer support – real people, no bots!

Whether you’re looking for the perfect pizza oven for your garden, advice on how to get the best results from your wood-fired cooking, or support after your purchase, we are always just a phone call or email away.

4. We Are Ireland’s Trusted Wood-Fired Oven Specialists

Unlike some generic retailers, we specialise in wood-fired ovens. That means we only stock premium, high-quality ovens that are built to perform.

We supply our own range of premium wood-fired ovens,specially selected from throughout Europe, including models like the Fáilte Oven—designed specifically for the Irish market.

Our customers trust us because we don’t just sell ovens—we help people transform their outdoor cooking experience.

5. We also offer bespoke oven builds where you can have an input in the finish of your wood fired oven – ask for details.

When you buy from woodfiredoven.ie, you’re buying from an official supplier. That means:
✔️ Genuine, high-quality products.
✔️ Full manufacturer’s warranty -subject to following manufacturers instructions.
✔️ Peace of mind that you’re getting the best

We work closely with our manufacturers to ensure that every oven meets the highest standards of quality and durability—so you can invest in an oven that lasts a lifetime.

6. The Best Selection of Ready to Use Pizza Ovens in Ireland

Looking for a ready to use pizza oven? We stock some of the best pre-assembled ovens available in Ireland, meaning you can start cooking authentic wood-fired pizzas in no time.

Whether you’re a:
✅ Homeowner looking for a stylish garden pizza oven
✅ Restaurant or catering business needing a high-output wood-fired oven
✅ Professional chef looking to perfect your craft with a traditional Italian oven

We have the perfect oven for you.

Why Choose woodfiredoven.ie?

There’s a reason why customers across Ireland choose us over competitors like pizzaovensireland and other suppliers. We offer:

✔️ Unrivalled quality – Only the best wood-fired ovens for serious cooking
✔️ Expert knowledge – We know our products inside out and can help you choose the right one
✔️ Competitive pricing – High-quality ovens at the best prices in Ireland
✔️ Reliable delivery & customer support – We make sure you get your oven safely and offer ongoing advice

Ready to Transform Your Cooking? Order Your Wood-Fired Oven Today!

If you’re serious about authentic wood-fired cooking, don’t settle for second best. At woodfiredoven.ie, we are dedicated to bringing Ireland the best wood-fired ovens, expert advice, and top-tier service.

👉 Explore our range of premium wood-fired ovens today at WoodFiredOven.ie and start your journey to incredible outdoor cooking!

While our range of traditional brick wood fired ovens are very durable, they must be protected from rain and moisture.  We recommend covering any outdoor appliance when not in use to protect it from the sun, rain, and harsher weathers. With our special heavy duty high grade PVC Brick Pizza Oven Cover with ties your outdoor pizza oven should last a lifetime!

Here’s a great article on Will my brick oven crack? that demonstrates the importance of protecting your investment and it illustartes what could happen if you don’t protect your brick oven from moisture.

Sometimes our customers get so excited when their new oven arrives that they immediately create blazing hot fires for their first pizzas.  Unfortunately, this can lead to cracking if the curing process is not done first.Cracks are completely normal for all hand-made terracotta and brick wood-burning ovens and won’t affect the cooking in any way. However, you can minimise any cracking by going through a proper curing process as recommended above.

We supply what we believe are the best pizza ovens in Ireland and we encourage all our customers to protect their investment by covering their oven with our custom sized heavy duty PVC covers or having a Pergols/Roof over their oven to protect it from the elements.

Some customers give us a call after their first few oven fires because they see cracks appearing on their brick wood-fired oven.   First, just know that your traditional authentic wood fired oven will show signs of cracking.  However, it won’t crack like the blog post cover if you go through the curing process and care for your oven properly.

When authentic ovens are built, moisture is trapped in the layers of brick, mortar, cement, or clay.  When you cure your oven, you create small fires to allow the heat to slowly rise thus pushing the water out of the oven dome. As the heat rises, the moisture in the oven materials will turn to steam and attempt to escape the oven walls quickly. 

It is best to make curing a slow process to minimize cracking but, due to the process, superficial cracks will still occur.   While some traditional ovens may crack more than others, these superficial cracks create no structural damage and your oven will live for a long and prosperous life. We recommend carrying out this process at the beginning of each season to ensure the longevity of your investment.

Here’s the deal…

While larger cracking in your brick oven may mean the fires started in the oven were too hot over too fast a timeframe,many times you will get larger cracks even when doing everything perfectly.  It’s the physics of brick ovens and the refractory bricks used to make them.  Keeping your fires low and slow is the best policy during the curing process.

It is best to use your oven for a couple of months to allow it to crack where it will before you repair, paint, tile, or stucco.  Just as you may patch and repaint cracks in your home over the years, your oven may require the same care and maintenance over time.  But like all luxuries, it will be totally worth it!

If the bricks inside your oven dome crack, it’s not the end of the world.   If your handmade oven is triple-insulated like our brick ovens from Authentic Pizza Ovens, your oven will continue to hold heat and cook perfectly.

When building our range of traditional wood fired ovens, the craftsmen begin with a layer of brick and mortar, which is then covered with refractory cement.  On certain models a thick layer of Rockwool insulation is applied and held down with metal batting before an additional layer of refractory cement is applied.  

So, on the inside, there is so much mortar that cracks in the brick or mortar won’t allow the heat won’t escape. If your inside brick or mortar crack, you could lightly brush the inside to clean any loose mortar.  

Sometimes your brick oven face can crack.  Creating blazing hot fires before properly curing your oven can result in cracks on your oven face as can normal firings.  If your oven face cracks, you can use high-heat clear silicone to fill the crack.  Remember that all cracks will expand when the oven is hot and then close up when the oven cools.  

Covering your oven when not in use is the best practice.  Since water can re-enter the oven walls or arch via rain, that moisture will again try to escape with subsequent firings potentially causing more cracking. For this reason, you should keep your oven covered when not in use or go through the curing process again if your oven was affected by rain or snow.

Brick ovens are sturdy stalwarts in any backyard’s culinary arsenal, but even these tough appliances are sensitive to the elements. In order to keep your backyard oven working for a long time, here are some facts about how weather can impact your brick oven’s longevity and a few tips on protecting it from Mother Nature’s wrath!

Water is the worst

Here at woodfiredoven.ie, we’ve noticed a common thread in most of the questions we get about pizza oven problems. Most of the time, the cause of a worn or ruined wood-fired oven is simply the presence of water.  At its best, your oven will show many more signs of decay.  At its worst, your oven may fall completely apart.

As pointed out by construction industry professionals Building Solutions, masonry materials such as brick are porous and can absorb moisture from rain, snow, and even water vapor in the air. Once moisture enters brick, it will expand and contract in conjunction with changes in temperature.

This is of particular concern to pizza ovens since their temperature changes both substantially and quickly. The expansion and contraction of water inside the brick can lead to cracking or even structural failure of the oven if the water is present in large amounts. However, moisture-induced disaster is not inevitable…

Starting off strong

Our best advice for any outdoor oven owner is to cure your oven before your first use. We outlined how to cure your oven previously and it’s a simple process that will save you a lot of tears in the future. Curing your oven involves the use of controlled, slowly increased heat that evaporates the moisture inside your oven at a rate that dries your oven out instead of damaging it.

A proper cure removes most of the water from your oven’s masonry that may have seeped in during construction, shipping, and the idle time your oven might have spent in wet environments. Please note that we always store our ovens indoor and they are never stored outside in the elements.This prevents the catastrophic cracks that one might see cooking in an uncured oven, such as those depicted above.

It’s also worth noting that some small cracking should be expected if you cook in your oven a lot; however, if your oven was correctly cured and any damage you see doesn’t affect the oven’s operation, you can safely assume in most cases that these cracks are just signs of a well-loved oven that can be worn as a badge of honour or repaired if you wish.

Protecting your oven

Now that we’ve covered how moisture can affect your oven and discussed how early preventative measures are important first steps, let’s move on to how you can protect your oven from the inevitable effects of the elements.

While there is no way to perfectly waterproof a brick oven, good moisture maintenance can be followed without too much work. Our recommendation is to cover your brick oven while it’s not in use. A good quality PVC custom sized PVC cover will stop egregious amounts of moisture from damaging your oven, especially if you live in an area that gets a lot of precipitation.

However, covering your oven is primarily effective against visible moisture; humidity in the air can still seep into your oven while it’s not in use. Here is where a rinse-and-repeat method works best: Regularly curing your oven, after rainy seasons or snow-filled winters, will ensure that you remove the bulk of the moisture that has built up in your oven between uses so that you don’t unintentionally superheat a soggy oven and crack your dome in the process.

If you have any other questions about oven maintenance, cooking tips, or even delicious recipes, don’t hesitate to ask in the comments or through our contact page! We’d love to hear from you!

For cover options for your outdoor pizza oven, check out our accessories section.

If you’re a perfectionist at heart, oven cracks may annoy you.  But, as you will find, cracks in a traditional European oven dome simply means the oven has been used to its full potential.  Cracks are the sign of a seasoned oven.

It may be best to make inner peace with oven cracks and assume that periodically minor repair will be necessary. 

If you just can’t stand it and want to repair the brick pizza oven cracks, you can smooth over the cracks using similar material (ie, refractory cement, mortar, clay) or use the Ultrafire reapir kit to fill the cracks.

Curing simply means removing the moisture in the mortar. Curing will significantly help to protect the cooking ability and the life of your oven.  Just as with the authentic ovens of Europe, it is highly recommended that you “break in” your oven by making a small fire (low heat) to dry out any moisture in the oven.

So, yes you need to cure your traditional brick and terracotta ovens (not necessary for portable ovens). It is recommended that before you begin you let your oven sit for about a week. You will be starting small fires and repeating daily for 5 days.

Start a small fire and let it burn throughout the day (4-5 hours) maintaining temperature:

Day 1. 140F/60C Day
Day 2. Repeat 215F/100C
Day 3. Repeat 300F/ 150C
Day 4. Repeat 400F/200C Day
Day 5. Repeat 480F/250C

Make sure that you close the oven door each night, which will keep in the heat and protect moisture from getting in until the curing process is complete.  A visual inspection of your oven will provide you with the best clue as to its readiness; the brick surfaces transition from black to white as the charcoal is burned off the oven walls.

Curing a pizza oven

An outdoor brick pizza oven is an addition to your home that pays for itself in no time, from the delicious meals you can cook in it, the increase in your property’s value, and the quality time you will spend with friends and family beside the blazing oven.

That’s why it’s no surprise any defects or damage to your oven are highly unwelcome; an unsightly or even compromised oven due to major cracking in the dome or insulation becomes little more than an eyesore at best, and a useless pile of brick at worst.

To keep your brick pizza oven in tip-top shape, it’s critical that you cure your oven before you use it and at the beginning of each season. Here are some answers to common curing questions to get you started on the path to Neapolitan excellence!

Why is curing so important?

In the simplest terms, all masonry ends up with moisture trapped inside of it once construction is complete. This usually isn’t an issue for most masonry applications, but as The Wood Fired Enthusiast points out, moisture inside of an appliance like an oven will get heated up while you’re cooking.

If this moisture is heated too quickly, as it would be during the normal cooking process, water will turn to steam, expanding in the masonry and potentially creating cosmetic cracks or even structural damage to the oven itself. The curing process uses small amounts of sustained heat, which simply causes the moisture inside the brick to evaporate a little quicker, allowing you to fire your oven at max temperature later on without worrying about damage.

It’s also worth mentioning that the process of thermal expansion and contraction caused by cooking in your oven will inevitably create some cracks, but these are nothing to worry about, as they’ll typically be minor fractures in the exterior brick. If you like the rustic appearance of a seasoned oven, great! If not, you can use refractory concrete or a repair kit to seal the cracks up.

The base of the oven may appear to have some chips when you first receive it but do not worry because it is perfectly normal. It is not damaged. The base is designed to protect the oven itself especially while in transit. The chips can easily be painted using the a good quality exterior masonry paint once the oven has been placed in position and it will look good as new!

In the below instance, when the oven was delivered, the chips are very visible since the base is painted a different colour. This damage is still very minuscule and solely cosmetic and can be easily repaired.

You can purchase a pre-made tile grout to fix these areas. For quick reference, you can pick some up from your local hardware store. This grout is great for smaller chipped areas and should do the trick!