How to Build a Fire Pit | Mitre 10 Easy As DIY

a fire pit can be a great addition to your backyard and also can be a great focal point for outdoor entertaining i'll show you how to build one yourself easy as now to build our fire pit i'm going to be using these firth easy wall masonry blocks the great thing about these is they click together really nice and easy and i don't need any mortar or cement to hold them together now the position that i've got this ring is well away from the house should any wind blow no sparks or smoke are going to get into the house and it's well away from any overhanging branches now it takes exactly 20 of our first easy wall blocks to make up our perfect circle we have an overall diameter of 1o5a i'm going to allow 150 millimeters all the way around the outside edge as a mowing strip and i'm going to put some stones in there that way it's not going to be too hard when we come to mow the lawn so essentially what we've got is an overall diameter of 1350 the next thing i'm going to do is start marking out a circle so i know exactly how much soil to take away now we had an overall diameter of 13.50 now half of that is 675 millimeters so i've marked from the end of our stick 675 millimeters and i've drilled a hole and i'm just going to use this stake here i'm gonna put that in the middle hammer that in so that 675 is now our radius so what i've got here is is some upside down dazzle i'm going to mark out our perfect circle and start digging it out now i'm going to build my fire pit four blocks high and i'm going to have one of those layers into the earth and my fire brick is 125 millimeters thick and i'm gonna have about 40 to 50 millimeters of base coarse underneath so i need to dig down approximately 170 millimeters before digging make sure to check your plans so you don't hit any underground pipes and call your power company for information about any buried cables and always check with your local authority on open fire laws check your depth and then compact the loose dirt using a tamper if your backyard is prone to flooding or if you've got a high water table in the ground you might want to dig yourself out a hole approximately 300 by 300 and about 200 millimeters deep and fill that full of scoria when it rains the water is going to go down your little scorier plughole then add the first layer of the base coarse about 20 mils deep and roughly level it out give it a light spray so the top is damp then once again temp down the whole area now time to put in our top layer once again spread it out do a quick check for level before giving it one last temp down and a final smooth and overall level check righty-o so i've just put my rod back in to the center of our circle and i've put our guide stick back in i've got my garden edging here i'm going to keep in my guide stick and what i'm going to do is cut my garden edging to length i'm going to drop that in using my guide stick so i'm going to put the garden edging up against that nice and tight pin that garden edging in i'm going to get the perfect circle right so we're on to starting to lay our blocks now we have our standard tongue and groove style obviously got our groove on the side tongue on that side and these all slot together and then we have our groove on one side and smooth on the other obviously that is our top layer so we're putting that on last i've got my bit of timber here as a guide now i've got 375 millimeters that is the radius from the center of the hole to the inside line of our blocks so i'm just going to use that as a guide now remember it is 20 blocks per ring so i'm just going to start laying those in then i'll use my rubber mallet to adjust them nice and tight after they're in and we're just going to make sure that they're also sitting flush with each other on the top the good thing about the rubber mallet is you can hit them quite hard and they're not going to break or chip as if you to use a standard hammer so that's looking pretty good so we're just about ready to put our second layer in once we've got this first layer sorted to a home sailing now when you start laying your stickering you want to make sure that you stagger the join so we're going to start the next block right in the middle of the last one so pretty easy they just sit all nice together like that work your way around and build it up four layers high use your rubber mallet to tap the blocks into position as you go to ensure a tight sturdy fit and finally fill the perimeter with stones or pebbles [Applause] okay that's looking pretty good the only thing i really have to do now just put a little bit of topsoil down the side of our mowing strip and we're all good to go so to finish off your outdoor area you can knock yourself up a couple of bench seats out of macrocopper so you can sit back and enjoy your new firepit don't forget to subscribe to the mitre 10 youtube channel for more great content or click here to watch more now

Channel: Mitre 10 New Zealand

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Length: 5min 41sec (341 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 03 2019