Brick Fire Pit

y2kcrawler

y2kcrawler

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Anyone have and good fire pit designs? I got a bunch of free brick and want to run it along the inside of the firepit with about a 1/2 Ft perimeter and build a small grill to attach to the pit where I can scoop coals into to warm the grill plate.

Whats the best cement to use for this? The fire pit is on a spot on the water that sees gale force winds at times. Will cement be strong enough or do I need to reinforce with rebar or something?

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yup...add some rebar. That's pretty much all the help I can be.
 
Although there is a special mortar made for high temps you can use regular type M or S mortars. I'd be more concerned about the brick, as regular clay brick will fail when exposed to the high temps in a fire fit. You could build the structure using the free brick and line the fire pit/box with fire brick.
 
x2 on the fire brick... but might depend on how big you're building it and how far the bricks will typically be from the fire. My dad has a fire ring made with the concrete keystones (think stacked wall) and they're ok after several years and some fairly pyro events. ;)

I'd be less concerned about rebar unless you're building it fairly tall (over say 18")... and then you're looking at backing it up with block or at least another wythe of brick on the back side, anyway. Which, also, takes you back to getting some fire brick for the pit side.

Use mortar mix and not too wet... you'll need it to stick to the trowel, not slide off, when you turn it upside down.

Hope that all makes some sense... We decided to leave out the fire pit when we did our patio, but I can do some decent masonry work... 5x slower than the pros but not bad for a white girl ;). I can post more photos of the brick wall we put up and maybe find some suggestions for fire pits, if you'd like.

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That's not quite 2' tall on the patio side (the grass on the far side slopes down to the left and up to the right) and there's rebar in between and we used 8" concrete block underneath and at least one course of 4" block on the back side where it won't be visible... it is ridiculously over-engineered for what we did, but that's how we roll. ;)
 
Thanks trailhugger - Yea I just googled some designs... Looks like I will need that fire mortar to line the inside of the fire pit, then I want to build a 1-2' retainer wall surrounding the pit with an open extension for grilling that I can scoop the coals into.

Ill try and snap a pic of the one I have going on from there and then maybe do a design in sketch up on how I want it to look.
 
trailhugger said:
Use mortar mix and not too wet... you'll need it to stick to the trowel, not slide off, when you turn it upside down.

Hope that all makes some sense... We decided to leave out the fire pit when we did our patio, but I can do some decent masonry work... 5x slower than the pros but not bad for a white girl ;). I can post more photos of the brick wall we put up and maybe find some suggestions for fire pits, if you'd like.

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That's not quite 2' tall on the patio side (the grass on the far side slopes down to the left and up to the right) and there's rebar in between and we used 8" concrete block underneath and at least one course of 4" block on the back side where it won't be visible... it is ridiculously over-engineered for what we did, but that's how we roll. ;)
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