DIY Backyard Fire Pit for under $90

[Music] well hello this is justin hall with buy from justinhall.com and long lewis ford uh here today with another video but uh not a video about any cars or trucks uh today i've decided to uh build a fire pit in my backyard my son and i are going to tackle this today we saw a youtube video by a youtuber named statupbox that says you can build a really nice brick paver fire pit for under eighty dollars so we're going to tackle that today he says the items that you need are of course 30 brick pavers some kid sand pete gravel lava rock and shovel on a level and says you can get it done for under 80 so we're gonna give that a try today my backyard is in definitely need of a fire pit uh along with some other things but don't judge me there uh but we're gonna tackle that today so let's get started all right so jack and i have made it to our local big box home improvement store and we're about to go in and buy our list of supplies uh for our fire pit jack are you ready give me a thumbs up all right so these are the brick pavers we're gonna go with uh looks like these are a dollar 38 each and we've got to get 30 of them is that 30 all right good job loading all that up all right we got our play sand and our gravel let's load that up all right so we need to pick us out of the level buddy which one one of these right here how about that one that one might be a little too short let's go for a bigger one let's get one of these guys up here let's look up here of course you go towards the 50 one how about this one right here how about this guy check out this one here check that out you think that'll work your hat's on sideways yeah i think that will work see which one of these bags says red lava rock is that it right there i think that's it i think we need one bag of this stuff right here all right jack is that everything sure is that everything okay all right so we're done with getting our supplies uh in the local home improvement store uh our receipt came out to just under 120 that was our full list of supplies again we already had uh a wheelbarrow and we already had a mallet so we didn't have to get those items but i did pick up uh a bag of firewood so really we're about 110 dollars into this project based just based off of uh local prices on the supplies so we're headed back to the house now to get started all right so we're back to the house with all of our supplies a truckload of pavers gravel sand level mallet a little 2x4 for some of the small leveling uh some firewood and uh shovel along with my wheelbarrow as well we picked out a nice little spot over here our backyard had a few flower beds that we uh dug up uh and so i've got some nice soft soil right here and uh actually in a uh circular shape here that uh is gonna serve as a good spot for our fire pit so we're going to get started by laying out the pavers and getting our shape [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all right so there it is our quick and easy i say uh under 90 i actually end up being about 88 and some change uh fire pit that we threw together in a sunday afternoon uh gotta be honest with you it's pretty easy to do a couple things i would have done differently uh the bricks i don't know if you can see right here i have a little bevel on them on the top right here uh probably would have gone with some pavers that were maybe flatter and may have been a little bit easier to piece together and make my my shapes with and but overall yeah i'm pretty happy with our fire pit turned out really well and like i said came in at around 88 dollars i ended up taking the uh um the sealant back because i didn't use it and uh didn't count that i bought a level as well so i'm going to use the level another project so i didn't really count that into the cost so around 88 bucks plus tax and that'll get you a nice little fire pit in your backyard so um that's it hope you enjoy the video thanks for watching we'll see you next [Music] time here i think i want to eat just that part do you want to make a marshmallow sandwich you

Channel: Justin Hall

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Length: 7min 30sec (450 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 18 2021