Setting up a fire pit at the dacha: do-it-yourself outdoor fireplace

A fire in the country is a special pleasure that is not available to us in a city apartment. By making an outdoor fireplace with your own hands, you will be able to enjoy the play of fire more often, cook something tasty on the grill by the fireplace, or simply bask in the warmth on cold evenings.

In order for the fire to look harmonious in the garden, it is better to arrange a permanent place for it that would provide proper fire safety standards and provide comfort.

And, although the outdoor fireplace in the photo may look absolutely luxurious, its construction does not require a significant investment of either time or materials.

You may well choose an option for yourself that you can implement in a couple of weekends.

How to make an outdoor fireplace out of stone.

In order to make an outdoor fireplace finished with natural stone, we first mark out the hearth's kennels and pour a small concrete pad under the masonry.

The masonry will consist of two layers. The inner layer is a brick layer and the outer layer is made of natural stone.

The upper part of the hearth can also be finished with stone.

In order to use the fireplace as a barbecue, provide a grate for it in accordance with the size of the fireplace.

Such a beautiful fire pit can be placed on the terrace in front of the house, where you can spend truly unforgettable evenings in the country.

Review of purchased kits

Ready-made outdoor fire pits
Fire bowls and ready-made fire pits will be the optimal solution for a gardener who can afford such a purchase. Unfortunately, the pleasure does not fall into the cheap category. But if your budget allows, you can choose amazing designs.

The assortment of special stores with equipment for country holidays includes cast iron or ceramic hearths, barbecues, tandoors, beautiful spheres, bowls, ready-made designs for outdoor fireplaces, fire barrels and other vessels.

Bowls and spheres

sphere Bowls
and spheres

They are a bestseller. They have different diameters, depths, and are made of different alloys. Some are suitable for grilling.
They are rounded compositions with metal carvings on a low or high base. The set includes lids, protective glasses, and tongs for turning over coals.
The price range varies in the range from 7 thousand rubles. for an ordinary concrete bowl, up to 150 thousand rubles. for a unique design idea.

Street fires

Classic ready-made design

Street fires

These are ready-made structures for installation in a specific location. They are not transported, not disassembled, and are used only for their intended purpose. The structure is dug into the ground, strictly following the instructions.
Made of high quality metal, beautifully decorated.
The cost of a finished fire pit starts from 80 thousand rubles.

Fire barrel

Braziers

Stylish grill design

Braziers

For cooking meat or vegetables on skewers. The most convenient shape is rectangular, depth – from 25 cm.
The upper walls of the vessel usually have notches for installing iron knitting needles.
A simple, laconic product will cost 3-5 thousand, but the upper limit can be even more than 100 thousand.

Cauldron with frying pan lid

Cooking utensils over a fire

Tandoors, cauldrons, frying pans, cast iron, flat stones for baking. These are utensils for outdoor cooking. It comes as a pleasant bonus to the complete set of a country fireplace. The cost of containers depends on their volume, manufacturer, and quality of the metal. The average price for a 15-liter pilaf cauldron with a lid is 4-5 thousand rubles. Over time, avid gardeners acquire useful accessories, outdoor frying utensils, and folding furniture.

They pay attention even to small things, like all kinds of gratings, tongs, and hooks for hanging. They think over a design that includes a decorative woodpile, bright blankets, and mosquito nets.

Fire pit made of concrete blocks.

In fact, the simplest outdoor fireplace can be made from ordinary concrete blocks.

In order to protect the soil as much as possible from fire and for more convenient cleaning of the fireplace, it is better to place concrete blocks on a brick platform.

If the top of such a fireplace is decorated with natural stone, it will look quite respectable.

By placing the fire pit next to the outdoor kitchen and gazebo, you will have another wonderful seating area in the garden.

Rules when working with open fire

The simplest safety precautions apply:

the fire source must be located 3 - 3.5 meters from residential and outbuildings,
the bowl should not be placed under overhanging branches or near dry vegetation;
if the structure is planned to be low, it is necessary to build a platform of sand, gravel or a garden path around it;
Place a fire extinguisher nearby.

What type of fire pit do you choose for your site?

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The hearth is made of a semicircular curb and paving slabs.

Concrete blocks are produced not only in the form of rectangles; semicircular concrete curbs are usually used to fence trees.

Such concrete blocks are perfect for creating a small outdoor fireplace.

If semicircular blocks cannot be found, pay attention to paving slabs. It turns out that using it as bricks, you can also make a fireplace for your summer house.

Design features

After the fire pit is built with your own hands, sprinkle gravel on the ground inside it and around the fireplace. Moreover, in these places all vegetation is eliminated in advance. This will avoid a fire that may start inside this pit.

To protect the stones from the effects of various precipitation, you can apply a cement sealant to them using a brush. This will also prevent the cement from cracking or falling apart.

The surrounding area can be developed. Using spray paint, a circle is drawn around the fire pit and then they begin to dig a groove 8 cm deep along it. Then it is covered with geotextile. After this, gravel is sprinkled on it. Many people don't like pea gravel getting into their shoes, so you can use a different material.

You can plant decorative herbs and flowers around the fire pit, and install plastic chairs and tables, wicker chairs, and wrought-iron benches around the perimeter. This will wonderfully decorate the local landscape. You can also lay out a gravel path to the fireplace.

By the way, the hearth can be not only in the form of a circle . The fire pit will look great if you give it the following look:

Lunar crater.
Fireplace with a painted guardian cricket.
Suns with improvised rays.

Outdoor fireplace made of brick.

For those who are not a fan of excessive creativity, the easiest way is to use bricks to create a fireplace.

We lay out the brick of the required size of the fire pit, mark the contours and dig a hole to the height of the brick. We cover the contours of the hearth, adding gravel to the bottom. Advice: if the walls of the pit are made slightly inclined outward, the structure will be more stable.

By minimally decorating the top of the fireplace, you will get a cozy and beautiful fireplace in your country house. You can place a metal tripod in the hearth and cook kulesh. For meat lovers, you can install a simple spit and cook the whole bird on the spit.

Fire pit: barbecue made from an old car rim

If you don't want to lay bricks, you can use a simple and proven method for making a fire pit yourself, which I mentioned earlier - using an old car wheel (stamped, not cast!). It's perfect for this - round shape, high walls, air intake holes and easy to install. You can either bury it in the ground, making a fire pit flush with the ground, or place it and cover it with bricks on top to give it a more attractive look.

By the way, from the same disk you can make not only a fireplace, but also a barbecue - on steel legs to make it easier to monitor the kebabs being prepared, a grill (by adding a grate of the required size on top), a barbecue and much more.

And if, instead of a car disk, you find some other metal bowl or other container in your garage or basement, you can easily use it to make a fireplace in your summer cottage. By the way, an old steel basin will also work for this - who else still has one of these from Soviet times?

How to make a fire pit in your country house.

To fit the fireplace into the overall design of the garden, you can make a special area for it.

Such a place for a fire will be more cozy and convenient because... a stone border can be used as a bench, and the smooth shape of the platform will add an elegant touch to the landscape design of the entire garden.

Outdoor fireplace made from scrap materials.

For those who like to use scrap materials, there are also beautiful options for an outdoor fireplace.

For example, you can make such a beautiful hearth from an old basin and the remains of stone and metal.

In fact, any durable metal will do for the inside of the fireplace.

This metal can be a washing machine tank.

For it to function, it is enough to weld the legs to it.

Or you can add minimal brickwork. It's not a lot of work, but the difference is noticeable.

Sometimes a fire pit is placed in a recess in the area - this technique is used for a windy or noisy area, this creates a more calm and quiet atmosphere around the fire pit.