Building A Fire Pit In Your Backyard

Pick a spot for your fire pit ensuring that it is located a safe distance from any structures bushes or trees and insert a stake in the ground where the center of the pit will be.

Building a fire pit in your backyard.

Remove high spots in your in ground fire pit by scraping off soil rather than digging. If you are building a circular fire pit in your yard drive a stake at the center of what will be the fire pit location. Bring the fire with you with a portable grocery cart fire pit. Dig down 2 3 inches.

Don t disturb the underlying soil. If you re putting in a seating area and a walkway leading to the fire pit you ve got a whooooole lotta digging to do. First things first satisfy yourself that building a fire pit wouldn t result in your getting burned with a fine. Shovel out the soil to a depth of 8 in.

Grocery cart fire pit. Pull the string lightly taut and walk around the stake as you spray paint your circumference. Set one or more gel fuel canisters into the wet concrete to create the right sized space coat the canister with non stick cooking spray for easy removal. Use marking paint tied to a string to draw a circle around the stake.

Create the first tier of the fire pit by forming a circle alternating the large and mini bricks to create a pattern. Build a fire pit in an afternoon. For this diy fire pit begin by spraying the inside of the container with non stick cooking spray and pour it completely full of quickly setting concrete. The diameter of the circle should be slightly larger than the outside dimensions of the fire pit ring you re preparing to build.

Cut down a tree safely if you need firewood for your fire pit. Add a spark screen and a base to catch the embers and your on your way with a pit that cost less than 100. Check local ordinances to make certain fire pits are allowed in your area. Make a foundation for the stones to sit upon.

Check the bottom of the hole with a level. Tie one end of the string or twine to the stake and measure how wide you want your circle to be. Keep fire pit level. You can even keep a stock pile of wood underneath.