How to build a DIY fire pit as a beginner. A complete guide for your backyard project!
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Build a DIY fire pit in your backyard and enjoy evenings around the fire. We explore all the materials, stones, fire ring inserts, leveling and drainage options you’ll need to build a fire pit as a beginner. This is an easy outdoor diy project you can tackle in one day!
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0:00 Lots of Fire Pit Options!
0:40 Picking the Right Stones
3:30 Which Fire Ring is Right for You?
5:49 Best Location for a Fire Pit
6:34 Laying out the Fire Pit Space
7:40 Digging out Your Fire Pit Base
8:30 Adding Drainage to the Pit
10:20 Leveling for the Stones
12:20 Laying the First Row of Pavers
13:50 Adding the 2nd and 3rd Layers
15:10 Installing the Fire Ring and Fill Stones
15:58 Cost Breakdown and Thoughts
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Best thing is that you drive an avalanche
Great job, appreciate the video… beautiful pit!
If you use bricks of lesser height than your stones all around, could that be enough gaps to be the airflow for a "smokeless" setup – provided you drill some holes in the ring?
See how I made this Fire Pit Smokeless! – https://youtu.be/kqF4-zG0W3o
Great video! I am truly inspired to build my own fire pit!
Well done!
Great information 👍
Thank you
Grass is going to grow into the gravel and create a mess.
Really enjoyed watching this video I'm going to have a go at building one myself so this video came in handy..keep up the great work mate 👍 ☘☘
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Licensed septic Inspector primarily doing real-estate transactions with thousands of septic inspections under my belt. I see damage to septic systems as well as structures built over them all the time, even on those who pulled permits.
What an awesome video! TY. Just starting my Firepit and got some very helpful tips from this. I looked at the retaining wall stones at Home Depot. Good price and large but I found the rear lip to be a deal breaker. It makes the stacked layers off level and I’m not about to start chipping them away lol. Used other bricks instead. One tip I would share from past experience of working with gravel for drainage….wrap the gravel in some weed block then bury it. Will prevent the dirt from compacting between the gravel over time and defeating the drainage capability. Back at the build tomorrow morning bright and early. Lol. I really hate the ground leveling part.
At 2:22 ur bushes/trees look like a horse or something
Gravel may mean a septic field or pipe, water supply, previous owner ran a water line to a yard hydrant… Might want to find that out.
I love this video. My kind of guy, he tells us the pricing.💜
Oh next year for sure I’m making one. Might be sooner but right now too many home projects. But it’s on the list.. thanks great making video.
@4:21 …bro I'm making a video here lol he said it like he knew the bird on a personal level. 😂🤣😂
Great video. Already to go. I have ordered the fire ring online. Need help with material HD list. I took notes and of coarse home depot online search list is causing problems. "EG. 12" retaining wall brick and I got backsplash wall samples".Do you have sku# of all material or proper search list terminology. I'd like to order all in one shot.
I've looked at this pleasant hearth ring. Pictures show it to have screws on top of the flange, but nobody that uses it in their video has those screws or holes on top of the flange….
What about holes for ventilation?
Now, what about your smoke video? Didn't you show in the smoke video that rocks on the bottom were not desireable?
I love these vids but go with metric system pretty much only America goes with 'about an inch,'
Why do so many m0r0ns keep recommending galvanized rings? They're TOXIC. You're not supposed to breathe in Zinc oxide fumes!
how about a chimney to suck up the smoke
Why would you put lava stones inside. It's just impossible to get the ash later out of there!
I am interested in a smokeless brick pit mad by you
How many tumble blocks did you end up using?
Dig a hole and your done . Wow that was easy and free…
Looks good, only concern is cleaning out the old ash, etc with that lava rock in there.
You could find all the material for free at a junk yard minus the concrete
He has an avalanche, I don't trust it.
Why do you have to protect the bricks from fire? I thought that they stand up to heat on average pretty well….
Nice work!! Is it possible to do this over cement? I don’t have grass in my backyard.
Looking at the addition of the lava rocks in the base… wouldn't that make it extremely difficult to clean up the fire pit or is that not an issue?
Do you have issues with the stones poping when they heat up. These are made from concrete that does contain water
I just put free field stones in a circle in my backyard. I never have to clean out ash. It naturally just decomposes down and I garnished the outside of the pit with free sea shells.
I call it "Life without a home owners association"
I'm looking to either use reclaimed bricks I can find online or cast my own bricks to save money. Is there particular materials that will save more money but won't exode like I've read concrete bricks tend to do?
How to make a smokeless fir pit
Thank you for this video and showing the struggles on the way! 🤦♂️🤣 I watch other videos and when it doesn’t go as planned I’m over there getting frustrated at my self and wondering why others are able to get it done but my project is stonewalled! 🤣💁♂️ pun intended!
Quite informative and Interesting build. Now to another issue – as a non-native English speaker I am curious to know why most Americans tend to pronounce the indefinite article "a" with an "ei" sound (instead of the the pronounciation "uh" we're being taught at school). Has it something to do with the region where you live, or is it just some new trend? Yes, I of course know that the letter "A" is pronounced "ei", but the indefinite article isn't. Or? 🤔
All you need to do for smoke-less is leave a few gaps in your bottom layer, use those spacer bricks. Then when you drop in your pre-drilled insert in everything is smoke-less.
And here I just went and got stones from the woods and set them level on gravel didnt cost me a thing.
I can't believe they sell galvanized steel for firepits! It's zinc coated which produces toxic fumes when heated! Definitely steer clear
What do you do to clear all that ash and half burned wood? It seems that you will just get a sludge build-up on the lava rocks. In other words, what is the easiest method to maintain?
Fire and galvanized steel can also give off toxic fumes.
one last comment… it needs much much more air flow my dude. learn the trifecta of fire before you teach about it.
Bought the exact fire pit you did and it’s way too bare on its own. This is the perfect video and I’ll be doing this in the spring. Thanks!!
so if you didnt like the lava rock base what should I use?
Need the video on the smokeless firepit please.
Thank you,