With a few basic skills and a bit of creativity you can easily design and build your own diy fire pit using retaining wall blocks.
Diy retaining wall fire pit.
In this video i show and explain how i built my fire pit from retaining wall blocks with a galvanised round garden bed for the inner rim.
Simple brick fire pit design.
Her fire pit fits snugly inside the frame.
It may seem to be tough and complicated but building a fire pit in your spaces is really easy and fun to do yourself.
This particular fire pit cost 250 with the brick design.
Image by kwankyewaa s kitchen via youtube next make sure your circle is the size of your fire pit top.
This helps it to not easily fall apart and it looks better that way too.
Combine a hexagon shaped fire pit made with lumber for the frame fence boards for the slatted table and adirondack chairs for a spot on design match.
Once the second course is installed remove any sod or vegetation from the center of the fire pit area.
Using retaining wall blocks our fire pit ended up being about 4 feet 49 inches in diameter on the outside and 3 feet 35 5 inches in diameter on the inside if you want something bigger or smaller you will just need more or less blocks.
Stack the next course of blocks making adjustments as necessary.
First take the retaining wall blocks and just make a circle while stacking them on each other with the seams overlapping.
After a little work it turned out to be the perfect place to circle round in late evenings.
Our video and homemade fire pit instructions complete with a list of tools and materials will show you how.
Marie from the interior frugalista built this fire pit table to blend in with her adirondack chairs.
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Lay in approximately six 50 lb 23 kg bags of clean rock within the circle to cover the bottom of the fire pit.
Our fire pit is also 16 inches high.
You only need to level your space and fills it and then create a pit circle with the stone bricks with three or four layers and its done.
This fire pit design idea is simple and can be done for less than 300.
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