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DIY Stone Firepit
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Tara Butler
(IC: blogger)
22 Materials
Creating your own professional grade, beautiful fire pit is easier than you think! See the full post at http://laceandgraceblog.com/2016/07/diy-stone-firepit/
Step One: Plan Plan Plan! Where do you want your fire pit? How big? Take into consideration any future plans you may have for your yard and make sure the placement of the fire pit doesn’t conflict with those plans. For instance, do you want to build a big deck in the future? A pool? Do you think you will add an addition to your home? Where are you property lines? – you don’t want to build a large fire pit too close to your neighbor’s house (or your own!) – for privacy and safety issues. Look around for different veneer stone, designs, etc that you like. Shop around for the best prices.
Step Four: Dig a 60inX60in square hole 10-12 inches deep (you can easily adjust this based on how high you want your fire pit)
Step 12: Lay out your veneer stone and plan your pattern for the first side, use your corners as a start and work your way from left to right
Step 16: Mix up veneer mortar and place mortar in your grout bag, slowly fill in the gaps between each stone, doing a few at a time (like icing a cake folks!)
** Note Oxygen gets to the fire just fine. To avoid cement block damage do not make the base of the fire too large. For a lasting fire-pit get steel sheets and place on the inside sides of fire pit to stop direct flames from touching the cement blocks. We are working on getting these made and I will update when they are installed.
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Suggested materials:
- Paver Base (Lowe's)
- Drainage Stone (Lowe's)
- 8X8X16 Cement Blocks (36 of them if going with our design) (Lowe's)
- 3 Bags of Mortar Mix (to use on cement blocks) (Lowe's)
- 32 Sq Ft worth of your favorite stone veneer.
- 12X36X1 Flagstone (4 of them if going with our design)
- 12X12X1 Flagstone (4 of them if going with our design)
- 2 Bags of Stone Veneer Mortar Mix (to use on veneer stone)
- Gravel
- Shovel
- Wheel Barrow
- Trowel
- Metal Rake
- Level
- Rubber Mallet
- Masonry Slicker
- Claw Hammer
- Grout Bag
Want more details about this and other DIY projects? Check out my blog post!
Published July 18th, 2016 1:21 PM
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Lyle McElwee on Feb 19, 2018
good job,,,looks like a lot of yrs of fun around a fire..hope you enjoy.
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Bjorn Karlstrom on Jul 30, 2020
Using concrete blocks as a liner in a fire pit will fail unless you fill the holes in the blocks with concrete! If you don't the blocks will crack in the heat and soon you will have real mess. We have tried this and generally it is not a good idea to use concrete blocks for this purpose unless you line the inside of the pit with fire resistant bricks, etc.
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I don't understand this step, would you clarify?
"Start laying first layer of cement blocks, each side should be 3 cement blocks wide. There should be a 6 inch- 10 inch gap between the outside of the cement block and the edge of the hold."
The picture shows cinder blocks, 1 block wide going up. Where did you install them 3 wide? Where is the 6-10" gap? What is "the edge of the hold"? What is a hold? Thanks!