Building An Inground Fire Pit

Gather your materials and tools.

Building an inground fire pit.

It s larger thicker and wider than regular brick and you can find it at most brickyards. For safety choose a spot located away from your house and low hanging limbs or anything else that. Install the paver. Measure out how wide you want your fire pit to be.

Place one stake in the middle and scrape the ground with the other going around in an even circle. We built our fire pit with a patio surround so you ll need to apply the same steps. Firebrick is a dense brick that s kilned to withstand high temperatures. Because regular clay brick can crack at high temperatures we re using firebrick also called refractory brick to line the inside of the easy fire pit walls.

Cut a piece of string half that width plus two inches for tying and tie stakes to either end. Fire pit depth really depends on what you want and how into your project you re going to get. How to build an in ground fire pit planning for an in ground fire pit. 10 steps to build fire pit with pavers.

You can go deeper if you want but keep in mind that you don t want the hole so deep you can t enjoy watching the fire. How to build an in ground fire pit step 1. Select your location and lay out your stones. Dig a hole by using a stake string and a can of spray paint like in the video below.

I built my fire pit using 30 landscaping flagstones and 4 tubes of heavy duty. Remove the sod level the dirt and add paver mix and level out the entire circle surround it with a single ring of pavers.