The Super Official Homeowners Thread

[D_Eclipse9916]

Took the first bite out of our plan for the backyard. Built a firepit (my wife insisted she wanted one before baby was born). We used our wood fire in our old house extensively (2-3 times a week in winter, and a couple times at night during summer), so my wife was eager for this as our new house is a gas fireplace. Next up is designing our paver patio to sorround.

I probably went vast overkill on this and used clay fire-bricks to line the inside. Seems most builders and contractors do not; but reading forums of course led me down to the path that my "building stones" would get hot and explode haha. Happy with the way it turned out; although one or two bricks on top slid just a tad and it drives me nuts considering I really took the time to level everything correctly.

Its about a day job, but I took a couple weeks of setting up the bricks, resizing and deciding on how high and wide to go multiple times. Really glad we did as original intention was 3 bricks wide and 4 high, over 3 iterations we ended up 4 wide and 3 high. It was not an involved project.
Dig a couple inches down
Paver Base and tamp
Weed barrier
Thin Paver Base and Tamp
Thin sand and Tamp
Bricks
Landscaping adhesive between layers
Line fire bricks inside
2 inch thick sand layer and tamp inside
Lava Rock