How to build a brick fire pit

Give your garden a glow with this easy to build brick fire pit! Craig Phillips shows you step by step how to build a DIY circular fire pit out of bricks that will last for years to come!
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0:00 Intro and Tools You'll Need
0:18 Dig Your Foundation
1:08 Prepping
3:54 Mixing Your Mortar
4:48 Laying The Inside Skin of Fire Bricks
7:38 Pointing The Inside Skin
10:51 Making a Soak Away In The Base
12:03 Cutting Engineering Bricks In Half With a Hammer and Bolster
13:07 Laying The Outside Skin
15:11 Coping The Top Using Fire Mortar
16:30 Lighting Your Fire Pit and Finished Project
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[@TicklerDude]

Home Depot sells steel fire rings this size for $150, and they last for years. Total install time averages about 30 seconds

[@yu-hasjourney1941]

Although I am aware, I could never complete this magnificent design in a million years. I continue to watch, hopeful that I will be able to do so in the future. You make it look so easy; I will try to make it in summer.

[@MrandMrsDIY]

Many thanks

[@cliffordwilliams9597]

Once begun, I am sure you will find yourself more capable than you expect

[@PLAY00992]

Me at 3 am watching knowing that I don’t even have a backyard

[@MrandMrsDIY]

Cheers Junior

[@traciewaide1494]

Have you ever thrown colorful small pebbles on the top as it's drying?

[@TheBillythepoet]

Why no mortar in between the firebrick courses?

[@miyeonyoon4427]

우와~

[@fredpesina4817]

You are a true inspiration! 😊 Well illustrated & explained! I watched your outdoor bbq 🍖 grill video! It was awesome! I plan to make that one. Keep pushing forward & God Bless. 👍🙏 🍗

[@SilverlineToolsTV]

Thanks so much!

[@Bullylover-tm7gn]

Can you use a concrete block on inside and normal face brick on outside???

[@MMG_MoonManGuitar]

Great tips.

[@MrandMrsDIY]

Thank you MMG

[@creativeone2656]

Great job

[@SilverlineToolsTV]

Thanks, think you'll give this build a go yourself?

[@creativeone2656]

@@SilverlineToolsTV absolutely

[@SilverlineToolsTV]

@@creativeone2656 please send us a photo when it's compete, we'd love to see your build

[@debbie3865]

clean job and clear tutorial , wonderful, thks!

[@SilverlineToolsTV]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mclarenjohnf1]

nice work

[@MrandMrsDIY]

Cheers F1

[@MrDIYCraigPhillips]

Thanks

[@genghisbunny]

Looks great, really well explained process as well.

[@MrandMrsDIY]

Thank you!

[@thomaslipstenstien5282]

@6:07 Bohemian Rapsody?

[@kylestaker9279]

What kind of gravel do you recommend for the bottom?

[@MrDIYCraigPhillips]

Just pea gravel or rubble is fine

[@epiphgd4302]

Will those firebricks not just crumble in the rain?

[@SilverlineToolsTV]

We made it over a year ago and still holding up with regular use

[@roymarable5860]

Dumb question. What is the inner and outer diameter?

[@thomasmann4879]

What cement are you using that is heat resistant please?

[@chrisoliver5649]

Most likely fire cement

[@tsant6591]

It's called refractory mortar.

[@im_not_giving_my_name_to_a8810]

Why don’t you add mortar to the second and third
Course of the firebrick? Just curious.

[@MrDIYCraigPhillips]

It didn't need it on the inner course

[@leighbroad662]

How many half bricks was used in this please

[@MrandMrsDIY]

There was around 100 half bricks used

[@stun9771]

Where did you get, and how much did the fire bricks cost…?? They are far too expensive for most folk…use ordinary bricks and get some fire cement and put a 25mm render over those bricks…works fine…just need to let dry out slowly, then have a small fire to properly dry out the fire cement….👍🏻

[@MrandMrsDIY]

The bricks are from Forterra and will cost more than a standard brick but will last longer without the need to render the inner sides, if you do use standard bricks make sure there engineer bricks what we used on the outer skin

[@epiphgd4302]

Ordinary bricks can explode because they take in too much water. Engineered bricks like Craig said are designed to not absorb and retain water.

[@freetipuk]

That will smoke like hell... no vent holes to help the fire burn hotter.

[@MrandMrsDIY]

We've lit it 5 times now and its been perfect, we love sitting around it.

[@freetipuk]

@@MrandMrsDIY Then I stand corrected.

[@MrandMrsDIY]

@@freetipuk Vent holes can help get air to the fire which could maybe help the fire to burn quicker

[@neostefanides]

I agree....to be smokeless you require vent holes at the bottom of the pitt.....the fire burns hottter with less smoke.

[@TheBillythepoet]

It'll smoke... and fill with water when it rains.

[@georgeschlaline6057]

Slow down and pronounciate Can't understand your Australian accent