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Diy Rectangle Fire Pit Ideas

We'll show you how to build a beefy concrete fire pit using Quikrete products and basic tools. ... I’ve been on the hunt for a fire table for our outdoor lounge area. Of course, when I finally found “the one,” I also found out it costs $3,899! This Plateau Rectangular Outdoor Fire Table from Crate & Barrel is exactly what I have been searching for and it is perfect in every way, except […] ... A DIY fire pit is the perfect way to enjoy the fall and winter weather.

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Interested in making a DIY gas firepit. It seems more costly to try to do it myself than buy one. Am I missing something?

You can look at this two ways, 1. You can make a custom pit to your exact specs or 2. Buy one that is close enough. That is the difference in the cost. More on reddit.com

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July 10, 2024

First Time Building A Stone Fire Pit… Did I Make A Mistake Here?

I did a lot of (youtube) research before building my own firepit a few years ago. The gravel/paver base underneath the firepit itself is usually for drainage, so your firepit doesn't become flooded after a heavy rain. It's not needed, but it is a nice convenience. People also like to bury pavers underneath around the outside of the pit to help with the "stiletto effect" of chairs sinking through the ground, but depending on your chairs and how they distribute weight, this may not be needed either. Finally, if you have not locked in your firepit with mortar, and are open to a little more work, I would recommend looking into turning it into a smokeless firepit. There are a ton of videos on it on YouTube(I personally learned a lot from both Haxman and Fix This Build That, both of who have a bunch of firepit videos and you can learn a ton from all their experiments with making them.) Reducing smoke blowing around into people's faces is a huge quality of life improvement for any firepit. More on reddit.com

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Built a pretty sweet DIY backyard fire pit that's done really well at helping keep the smoke down and not blowing in people's faces. There's different ways you can get the right air-flow to get a *smokeless* effect. This is how I did it - hopefully some helpful tips/inspiration.

Here I’m replacing our old worn out fire pit with a new modern concrete one. We picked up the fire pit as a kit from a local concrete centre here in Southern Ontario. The kind of place that makes custom concrete pieces for the yard - think bird baths, statues, fireplaces etc.

They had different options like the round one we got as well as square and rectangle. It comes with the white bricks and the metal insert. The only other material we used was a layer of bricks at the bottom from the old fireplace. These were just basic garden edging bricks and you could substitute with another kind you might have around.

The cool thing is if you build these things right you can greatly eliminate smoke which makes it so much more enjoyable to sit around and the neighbours appreciate it too :) I talk about how this works near the end of the video.

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