Yeah it turned out pretty good. Gotta build the side pieces next. And in two weeks im putting in a underground ac system. Ill video that. Gonna be pretty cool. Come up this year and go duck huntin with me.
@@uncledavesfrontier6846 ok sweet. Let me know a week in advance and I’ll come up for the weekend. I haven’t duck hunted in a few years. Gonna need some practice
Watching your video on this fireplace has been an adventure! It looks amazing and I appreciate you doing this. I am starting building in a few weeks and I am going to do mine exactly as yours but I'm going to try to smooth it out rather than rock look to fit my decor!
I still have to build the side pieces. Im building a vertical rotisserie for this fireplace. Ill be busy the next 2 weeks. Doin a video on installing a underground ac system. It should be a pretty cool video. I appreciate you watching.
Great technique. When your cleaned up the joins and created striations in the “rock” that looked fantastic! I’ve followed your pattern for mine which I’m thinking I’ll just to a thin render over to retain the join lines. Would love to you how your fire burns and what kind of heat you get from it. I’ve been trying to get a sense of how much the interior space/shape affects the fire and it’s projection and that interior space can be manipulated with all sorts of techniques and materials. Looking forward to your next! Thanks
I was gonna do a thick layer and do some deep carving but this Texas heat made me change my mind..lol The fireplace put off good heat. After ive had a fire goin for about a hour, the bricks are just warm enough but never get hot. I still gotta add the side pieces. And build the cookers. Lets say im not a fan of summer... hate this heat.
I still have lots of videos to go on the different fireplaces. But my next will be on my offgrid underground ac system. I hope to have it done and get the video up in the next 2 weeks.
@@uncledavesfrontier6846 Thank you again Uncle Dave! First, you made my day. I came across your build and said, finally someone that doesn’t complicate this. Thank you for your prompt responses. Was tired of seeing all these expensive builds. Smh. I have a couple of questions- 1) When you put the blocks together, do you glue them with the Liquid Nails stuff? 2) I want to go with a brown vintage look. Any issues if I paint the blocks? I noticed those blocks only come in that grey color (unless you think I could get them in another color). 3) I recently constructed an outdoor pavilion. Some pavilions, have the fireplace connected to the structure. Id hate to go back, and chop into my structure. If I have to, I will do it. Any advice?
@@frankortiz5008 the blocks only come in grey. You can paint them. Just use an acrylic paint. I listed liquid nails as an option to using motor if people didnt want to use mortor. Myself, i just drystack them. I dont use anything. As for being attached to the pavilion, i wouldnt attach it. But thats just my preference.
I'm sure yalls humidity is as bad as ours here in northeast Texss. I've never messed with stucco. I used a cement mix over the top of mine. I haven't had any cracks and I abuse this fireplace a lot. The mix I used is 3 parts sand to one part Portland cement. But I have since started using premixed cement type S. It's the same mix ratio. Seems to hold up really well. Especially for carving projects where you want to make cement look like rock or stone.
First, thank you. Yes, you can use the cinder block. Id do it the same and fill the voids with clay. Or you can fill it with cement if you wanted. If you do fill it with clay, add a little lime to it.
Appreciated! I still javelin no way of adding a photo so you can see my build but I love it! Thank you for sharing! I will be building a simple pizza oven next to it in a couple of weeks.
When you were applying the scratch coat did you use a trowel? Beautiful job! Can you kindly breakdown the amount of stone block’s used? Have a blessed day and Happy Easter
I used 2 bags of Portland cement and 6 bags of play sand. But i no longer mix this way. Its much better to use type s cement. Its already mixed in the proper portions and does a great finish. Check out my keebler tree pizza over. I used type s cement on that and you can see in the video how easy it is to carve it and mold it.
Awesome! I am in the process of building mine but I the angle iron I purchased at H.D. was only 3 feet. Will that be alright to use as there will be a little space where the brings are not on them? The four foot ones stick out a bit from the sides and I don't have a way to cut them. Thank you for sharing this!
Your fine with not having them go the full length. As long as the angle iron is on at least half the brick. Good luck with yours. I still have a lot more im gonna do with this one.
Fireplace completed! I actually went overboard and did 4 layers above the firebox, 5 layers above that and then 4 layers on the top before topping off. My question now is will that be too much weight for the angle iron? I will try to add a link to a photo. Thank you again!
You said before that you didn't add fire brick inside your fireplace because it's easy enough to replace a busted cinder block due to being dry stacked. You just screwed that up.
I can still add fire brick to it. Ive just never had a brick crack. And i abuse this fireplace a lot. If a brick cracks... i do another video on blowing it up...lol
I JUST LOVE how you are using cement for a rock finish....so cool
Fricking genius!!!’ Looks FANTASTIC!
Thank you very much.
Wonderful job !!!
Thank you
I'm waiting for HD to deliver my bricks for this project. Thanks man
Can you briefly describe
your base? Is it concrete slab, dirt, gravel? I cant tell what your cinder blocks are resting on.
That's badass. Doesn't even look like it was blocks.
Yeah it turned out pretty good. Gotta build the side pieces next.
And in two weeks im putting in a underground ac system. Ill video that. Gonna be pretty cool.
Come up this year and go duck huntin with me.
@@uncledavesfrontier6846 ok sweet. Let me know a week in advance and I’ll come up for the weekend. I haven’t duck hunted in a few years. Gonna need some practice
Watching your video on this fireplace has been an adventure! It looks amazing and I appreciate you doing this. I am starting building in a few weeks and I am going to do mine exactly as yours but I'm going to try to smooth it out rather than rock look to fit my decor!
I still have to build the side pieces. Im building a vertical rotisserie for this fireplace. Ill be busy the next 2 weeks. Doin a video on installing a underground ac system. It should be a pretty cool video.
I appreciate you watching.
Turned out awesome great job!!!!
I appreciate it
Great technique. When your cleaned up the joins and created striations in the “rock” that looked fantastic! I’ve followed your pattern for mine which I’m thinking I’ll just to a thin render over to retain the join lines. Would love to you how your fire burns and what kind of heat you get from it. I’ve been trying to get a sense of how much the interior space/shape affects the fire and it’s projection and that interior space can be manipulated with all sorts of techniques and materials. Looking forward to your next! Thanks
I was gonna do a thick layer and do some deep carving but this Texas heat made me change my mind..lol
The fireplace put off good heat. After ive had a fire goin for about a hour, the bricks are just warm enough but never get hot.
I still gotta add the side pieces. And build the cookers. Lets say im not a fan of summer... hate this heat.
I still have lots of videos to go on the different fireplaces. But my next will be on my offgrid underground ac system. I hope to have it done and get the video up in the next 2 weeks.
Badass job! You have gotten very creative
Yeah ive got lots other cool builds coming.
Bout to build a vertical rotisserie for the fireplace thats gonna be pretty awesome
Your chimney video is excellent. I have be able to construct my thanks.
Awesome! You continue to amaze me!
I appreciate it. I have lots of other designs im gonna build.
@@uncledavesfrontier6846 Thank you again Uncle Dave! First, you made my day. I came across your build and said, finally someone that doesn’t complicate this. Thank you for your prompt responses. Was tired of seeing all these expensive builds. Smh. I have a couple of questions- 1) When you put the blocks together, do you glue them with the Liquid Nails stuff? 2) I want to go with a brown vintage look. Any issues if I paint the blocks? I noticed those blocks only come in that grey color (unless you think I could get them in another color). 3) I recently constructed an outdoor pavilion. Some pavilions, have the fireplace connected to the structure. Id hate to go back, and chop into my structure. If I have to, I will do it. Any advice?
@@frankortiz5008 the blocks only come in grey. You can paint them. Just use an acrylic paint.
I listed liquid nails as an option to using motor if people didnt want to use mortor. Myself, i just drystack them. I dont use anything.
As for being attached to the pavilion, i wouldnt attach it. But thats just my preference.
In the complete build video, I thought you mentioned another version, open on all 4 sides? Am I wrong? Link please?
@tonybove2468 haven't built that one yet. Doing that one this fall.
Quick question. I live in SC, would the block joints expand and contract and crack the stucco?
I'm sure yalls humidity is as bad as ours here in northeast Texss. I've never messed with stucco. I used a cement mix over the top of mine. I haven't had any cracks and I abuse this fireplace a lot. The mix I used is 3 parts sand to one part Portland cement.
But I have since started using premixed cement type S. It's the same mix ratio. Seems to hold up really well. Especially for carving projects where you want to make cement look like rock or stone.
How has the concrete blocks held up to the fire after a while
Still going good
How sturdy/wobbly was the dry stack?
It's solid. There's no wobble in it at all. These are heavy bricks
I love you work Mister. I have a bunch of cinder blocks left over from a previous project. Any idea how the cinder block would hold up to the fire?
First, thank you.
Yes, you can use the cinder block. Id do it the same and fill the voids with clay. Or you can fill it with cement if you wanted.
If you do fill it with clay, add a little lime to it.
Do you recommend putting on a chimney cap or screening for any embers?
You can add a cap if you like. Ill prob add one later.
Appreciated! I still javelin no way of adding a photo so you can see my build but I love it! Thank you for sharing! I will be building a simple pizza oven next to it in a couple of weeks.
@@ictd5 im sure it looks awesome. Hope you gets lots of years of use out of it.
Thank you!
When you were applying the scratch coat did you use a trowel? Beautiful job!
Can you kindly breakdown the amount of stone block’s used?
Have a blessed day and Happy Easter
I put the scratch coat on by hand. Jut rub it on. The whole build used 121 paver stones. 16x8x4. And 21 cinder block for the base.
God bless and Happy Easter to you and yours.
Thanks for the info!
I wounder if you could build one of these as a fire place in a cabin :) I know a box stove is better but nothing beats the look of a fire place :)
You could do that. Id layer the inside with firebricks for sure if i was gonna use this as a cabin fireplace.
How much material did it take to cover the entire thing?
I used 2 bags of Portland cement and 6 bags of play sand.
But i no longer mix this way. Its much better to use type s cement. Its already mixed in the proper portions and does a great finish.
Check out my keebler tree pizza over. I used type s cement on that and you can see in the video how easy it is to carve it and mold it.
Awesome! I am in the process of building mine but I the angle iron I purchased at H.D. was only 3 feet. Will that be alright to use as there will be a little space where the brings are not on them? The four foot ones stick out a bit from the sides and I don't have a way to cut them. Thank you for sharing this!
Your fine with not having them go the full length. As long as the angle iron is on at least half the brick.
Good luck with yours. I still have a lot more im gonna do with this one.
@@uncledavesfrontier6846 Much appreciated! I will try to upload some pictures when completed.
Fireplace completed! I actually went overboard and did 4 layers above the firebox, 5 layers above that and then 4 layers on the top before topping off. My question now is will that be too much weight for the angle iron? I will try to add a link to a photo. Thank you again!
@@ictd5 awesome. Glad you got it done. No....your not gonna overload the angle iron.
Thank you! Now I just have to make up my mind about the stone look or even tile. Either way, we appreciate you sharing with us!
You said before that you didn't add fire brick inside your fireplace because it's easy enough to replace a busted cinder block due to being dry stacked.
You just screwed that up.
I can still add fire brick to it. Ive just never had a brick crack. And i abuse this fireplace a lot.
If a brick cracks... i do another video on blowing it up...lol