Building A Brick Outdoor Fire Pit

Installing a custom fire pit on a patio if you re installing on a paver patio with polymeric sand in the joints you ll need to line the bottom of the fire pit to protect the sand.

Building a brick outdoor fire pit.

Gap between the firebrick and the face brick. Set the screen on top of the bowl to complete the fire. Pour a generous amount of crushed gravel paver base into the hole so your finished base will be approximately. For the cap of the fire pit set regular face brick on edge.

Create the first tier of the fire pit by forming a circle alternating the large and mini bricks to. Pour a few inches of gravel into the center of your fire pit for drainage. Build a fire pit in an afternoon create foundation. Pull the string lightly taut and walk around the stake as you spray paint your circumference.

Begin the next layer by alternating the large and small bricks again this time placing the small bricks on. Place the metal fire pit bowl down inside the circle of the brick fire pit. Make a foundation for the stones to sit upon. For a fire pit with a diameter of 5 feet attach a string to the stake half the length of your circumference and tie this end of the string to a can of spray paint.

Keep fire pit level. Use fire rated bricks cut to fit the inside of the pit. Check the base at several points to be sure it is level and make. Of fresh mortar on each course of face brick into place leaving a 1 4 in.

Let the brick fire pit cure for a week before building your first fire. Cut the bricks using a circular saw with a concrete blade or a stone chisel and hammer. The outer rim of the bowl should rest on the top layer of bricks. Working on one third of this easy fire pit at a time lay 3 8 in.

Align the interior edge flush with the fire brick.