Construction of my Outdoor Fireplace
Constructed in July-August, 2008, it includes about 175 cinder blocks, 50 solid blocks, a few hundred 80 year old bricks (which came from my house foundation when it was rebuilt a few months prior) for the stack, Sandstone for the flat surface/shelf areas, river rock for the front vertical faces, black marble for the fireplace floor, and approx. 650 patio bricks with 8 bags of sand. The Patio edge is roughly 13 1/2 feet long each side which calculates to about 185 sq ft.. EDIT (May 2009): Just had to rebuild the underside of the fire box. The black marble floor that was exposed and had no support underneath, became brittle, cracked, and broke away over the last 9 months and had to be rebuilt with a solid block base under the new fire box floor. Not too difficult to fix, but was still an unexpected expense.
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Awesome work!
Not me, but the guy who built it for me (shown later in the video spreading the sand for the brick patio) is a concrete mason by trade from Mexico and built the entire thing and I was his ‘helper’ per se..
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Are you a mason, or brick layer by trade? It is top notch work!
nice
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The Fall season is the Perfect Time for something like this too!
wow that looks amazing, very well done.
Thank You..
ThankYouVeryMuch!
damn fine work
Yeah, I love it..
Especially now that it’s getting colder.
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sweet got a smaller version at the cottage perfect!
It was!
lol that looks fun
Muchas Gracias!
nice work, muy buen trabajo.-
Ah.. Noted.
Thanks again
Would love to see a vid of it in action.
It Truely Is!
My wife and I, along with her niece enjoyed a fire in it just last night.
God that must be so satisfying to have built. :]
Ha! Yeah.. I hear ya man. K is a cool cat.
That’s pretty neat. I really want to do some hard scaping in the back yard
Thanks! I’ve always wanted one of these..
The kiva/beehive fireplace sounds Excellent!
When you do get it built, let me know and/or post a clip of it. I’d like to see that!
Sorry to hear you know ‘Special K’ too.. HA! He’s a GR8 fella!
I have connections through my business Here in Rock Hill with guys that build these.
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Muy bueno Amigo! This is some cool shiznit. (as the bros say) You know Special K? He B a friend of mine. We want to build one of these babies in our yard but not sure if we want to do a fire pit instead. Do you do these? I didn’t listen to all the audio so you may have said. U from RH, SC? Right on… I went to Winthrop U.
hey..nice work!! im looking to build a kiva/beehive fireplace w/bbq…cant find any videos..good job man!