How to Build Your Own Brick Fire Pit
It's exciting, outdoor cooking and off. Also, it is not just a pleasant change to standard kitchen food preparation whjich there is something about cooking outdoors that makes food taste better.
Sure, there are purchased the easy way to have it with a simple shop or hibachi grill, but also receive a unique experience, a great flavor and make the best dining experience possible, you should really consider trying to build a brick fireplace . This is really the best option forCooking outdoors.
And it is easy to build our own brick fireplace. To set an apt day to do some basic bricklaying with the family and the following seven simple steps.
1. First we choose a site in our garden for our brick fireplace. There should be a safe distance from the walls of the house, from the ceiling, out the windows and the trees. The website should be easy to drain.
2. Dig the pad. There should be 2 to 4 cm deep. In terms of size, we opt for our preferred dimension.Level the pad base of our brick fireplace.
3. We make the molds with 2 by 4-foot wood and screw them together. Simply screw them to make decomposed. Then we prepare quick-set cement according to certain proportions as in the bag and pour into the pad foundation of our brick fireplace. Then you put steel rods in latus a pattern in the concrete before it sets, marked an important mark in the concrete and bricks ready to plan for the fire pit wall.
4. Prepare the cement mortar. Theusual proportion is 3:1, or 3 parts of sand to 1 part of cement. A stronger ratio is 2:1. The idea is to have a consistency easy to work with-like soft ice cream. Take care not to have it too watery. Mortar for our brick fire pit should be mixed well to attain a balance of components.
5. Build the brick fire pit wall. To lay the bricks, put enough mortar on our key mark including the underside and ends of the bricks. The bricks should steadily rest on the mortar. Adjust until they are upright and stable on the mortar. Do this level after level with the help of a string for the alignment.
6. The string should be perfectly horizontal and parallel to the upper edge of the stone at her. We can also use a leveler for this purpose. A brick was on another in an overlapping (not directly over) way. Overlap should be half the size of bricks. This strengthens our brick fireplace.
7. For metal grille, insert it into the brick fireplace wall at a desired height.The upper part of the wall can be limited with special bricks or stones.
So we have it. One day after the brick built fireplace, it is ready for use. We can begin to enjoy barbecue outdoors with family and friends.
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