#18 Build A Large Square Fire Pit With Concrete Block
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
- Today we built a huge fire pit that's 80 inches square out of concrete block and recycled paver bricks to cap it off.
We didn't use any mortar in constructing this fire pit. Instead, we used landscape adhesive, which I've used before on other fire pits, and it works great.
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Great to see family work together !!!
Thanks. I enjoyed this project and everyone has enjoyed hanging out at the fire pit together.
Nice time working a family project, thanks for sharing
Great job 👏 Great kids!!!!
Thanks so much
This is exactly what I was looking for! This is sort of the plan we have for ours, but a little smaller and not so tall. Thanks for the video!
Glad it was helpful! We went this tall to keep little ones from falling in, but if I had to do it again, I'd go one course shorter. Thanks for watching
@@WoodsTreeFarm Totally understand that. My kids are teenagers, so I'm not that concerned about it. I think we're going to do one run of cinder blocks on top of the solid caps, like you did, and another layer of solid caps covered by patio pavers on top for asthetics. Thanks again!
Nicely done, Phil, Stacie and kids. That is a fine looking fire pit. I built one using cinder blocks and it did well. You have some great ideas that you've done on your farm. I love your farm layout. New Subscriber! Looking forward to viewing more of your videos. Have a fine week, guys.
Hey! Thanks a lot. The fire pit is working out really well. We burned in it for two days straight last weekend. Thanks for stopping by the channel.
Nice job and good dad
Thanks 👍
How has this held up since the build of the cinder block fire pit?
This is the 1st video I’ve watched of yours. Since I just finished watching this one, I tried to find one where you were actually using the fire 🔥 pit. I couldn’t find it anywhere. Did you make one where everyone is enjoying the pit?
That ought to be fun to clean out the ashes
At least its huge, so will probably only have to do it every few years. I've put a few utility trailers full of wood thru it so far, and can't even tell if there's any ash buildup yet.
Does using the adhesive cause anything toxic when exposed to high heat?
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Very informative. How is your fire pit holding up?
Great! We burned almost a half cord on it this Christmas season and it still looks like new. I'm going to do an update video on it in January or February as we want to make some modifications.
Uh Houston, Space Station here. It looks like Phil is roasting marshmallows at his fire pit / incinerator again.
Looks awesome man. Great work!
Matt
LOL! Uncanny timing with this comment. The satellite view on Google Maps just updated and you can definitely see the fire pit!
Woods Tree Farm I swear I’m not stalking lol. Just watching your videos in order since I’m home from work sick.
Will concrete block crack?
How many blocks and block caps did you use all together? If you don’t mind me asking?
sorry I have no idea.
Did you leave little holes for heat to escape so it doesn’t crack?
No. so far, with 3 years of use, we haven't had any blocks crack yet
i used that landscape adhesive on my firepit and i had to redo it several times. im actually here on youtube looking for better ways to build it since that didnt work
That's interesting. I built my in-laws fire pit with this stuff almost 8 years ago and its still going strong. Thanks for watching and for stopping by with your comment.
How are the cinderblocks holding up to the heat? I want to do something similar but afraid the blocks won’t be able to handle the heat.
So far so good. We've probably done 20 fires in it and several of those were all day burns. No signs yet of degredation
@@WoodsTreeFarm what about now?
Cinder blocks don’t do good with heat. You need fire brick that can handle heat. This pit won’t last very long.
@@joerepoman1 You do not need fire bricks for a firepit.
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After building the pit of cinder blocks couldn't you place a layer of fire bricks inside to help hold the cinder blocks from heat stress?
definitely could. We've had this pit over 2 years now and no damage from heat yet.
@@WoodsTreeFarm thanks for the update
How much did it cost to make a fire pit of this size
Hello! and thanks for the note. I built this 2 years ago and some of the materials were given to us, so it would be hard to give an accurate number. If I were just throwing out a number, I'm thinking somewhere around $350.
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good one 😄
How many does did you have before your cinderblocks failed?
5 years later and no failures yet. We've had dozens of fires, and burned lots of brush and debris in this pit. When our farm is open Christmas time we burn pretty much sunup to sundown.
@@WoodsTreeFarm good to know. I would have thought the blocks would break from the heat.. and Pine free fires get HOT.
i dont understand what kind of bricks can you use? iv seen people say that concrete bricks explode and crap like that
I just used normal structural concrete block and paver bricks. I know people say its not good, but I haven't had a problem. We've had a lot of fires - some lasting 10-12 hours and none of the block is cracked or even starting to deteriorate here after 2 years.
Won’t the block explode when heated?
It hasn't yet in 5 years
One suggestion:
I know it's too late now but maybe this will help other people who try to build the same thing:
Instead of leaving a space for your vent holes and then having to keep leaving that space on every course, For each place that you want vent holes, replace one 8x8x16 block with two 4x8x16 blocks (one with holes and one solid). These two blocks together should fit in the same space as one 8x8x16. Doing this will allow you to just keep your pattern of blocks. You only have to do this replacement on one course and you'll have two nice small vent holes at each location you do this. You could easily do this in the center of each side on the one course. So basically on that first course of block you will replace 4 of the 8x8x16 blocks with 8 of the 4x8x16 (4 with holes in them and 4 solid). Depending on the depth of your first course you can either put the solid one down first or the one with holes down first. I would not put the ones with the holes too close to the ground,so maybe it would be better to put the solid block down first, with the holed one on top.
Hope my suggestion makes sense.
I also agree with some of the other comments, unless you are going for a burning pit and not a fire pit, I think you could have stopped at two courses of block and then just put your topper on that You are awfully high and sitting in a chair I don't think you'll even be able to see the fire.
Good tip with the blocks. Thanks
I don't think he's going for a sit and chill feel, more of a stand and put your drink on it, watch the fire and socialize then leave. I remember him saying it was a business I believe in the beginning... At least that's what our local camps do around here
How’s it holding up with the cinder blocks? Looks great by the way,‘I’d definitely drink whiskey and shoot hogs near that pit!
its doing fine. but wish it was one course lower. the tall walls block the heat
seems tall. wont feel the heat when sitting on chairs.
Right. That's the only problem we see. Since we do public events I'm more concerned with keeping little kids from stumbling and ending up in the fire.
where is the fire
That's not a fire pit. It is a foundation for a small house.
😄😄😄 anything worth building is worth overbuilding.
I was thinking the same thing!!😂
lol you beat me to it.
@@WoodsTreeFarm Mind me asking how big it is? Im getting ready to build ours and I wanted to go big (just because) but then a friend of mine who has a pallet size fire pit said if he could do it again he would have went smaller, simply because when the fire dies down, you cant get close enough to get any heat. Thoughts?
@@DaCake2 sorry for just seeing this. I never got a notification even though you tagged me. It's 80"x80" on the exterior
Not being a smart ass, asking because I dont know and am about to build a fire pit...Why not just turn a couple of those block on their sides and use the holes in the blocks for ventilation instead of a couple of slits?
another commenter brought that up too. good idea, I just didn't think of it when building this.
How many cinder blocks did u use
18 blocks per course. 1 course of 4 inch blocks, 3 courses of 8 inch blocks.
Woods Tree Farm I love the fire pit, heading to Home Depot tomorrow to get material to make one of my own. What is a course? I’m trying to plan how many cinder blocks I’ll need to pickup.
@@collinwright6127 Hey sorry for the delay, and i'm sure my response is too late for your needs. RUclips has been really lousy with comment/reply notifications, so I'm just seeing this when I came to reply to another comment here on this video. A course is a row of blocks. So I have the initial foundation row with solid blocks, then 3 rows of standard blocks as you can see in the video. If you already done your pit, hope it worked out well! Have a good day!
Woods Tree Farm No problem man, I did get my pit together. I did 4x4 cinderblocks, stacked three high and the flat cinder blocks on top. It turned out really nice. I’m not looking for outdoor seating to go around it
You do realize that cinder blocks don’t do good with heat right?
You do realize this was published almost 2 years ago, right? We've had dozens of fires in this fire pit, some for 8-10 hours straight and it's holding up just fine. Thanks for the concern though 🙄😃