How To Make A Firepit
For this diy fire pit begin by spraying the inside of the container with non stick cooking spray and pour it completely full of quickly setting concrete.
How to make a firepit. Shovel in 4 inches of gravel and 4 inches of sand. Measure the diameter of your fire bowl or steel bowl. This is the width.
Make the hole round by hammering a stake into the center of your fire pit area. After that you can build the circular structure for your pit. Dig out 12 inches of soil.
Set one or more gel fuel canisters into the wet concrete to create the right sized space coat the canister with non stick cooking spray for easy removal. The hole should be 1 5 deep and 5 wide. There should be enough that you can make a circle to your desired size with the bricks standing on their ends.
Dry lay a ring of blocks on the fire pit site placing them end to end until you have a perfect circle positioned where you want the finished pit to be. Form the circle in the hole by standing the bricks on end and putting one next to the other 2 x research sourcestep 3 solidify the ring. Buy a bunch of firebricks used to line fireplaces.
To adjust the size of the circle you may need to cut a block. Before you start your pit mark the area that you want to cover and tile it up. Put a cane in the lawn to mark the center.
Hold the block over the gap it will fill then mark it on the underside at the proper width. Get it as flat as possible on the bottom 1 x research sourcestep 2 set up your firebrick ring. You would of course need to shape the stones that you are using so that they fit properly with one another.