How to build a hearth in the country with your own hands. How to make a brick or curbstone bonfire bowl - ideas and tips Fire Zone in Landscaping

In the courtyard of a house, in a summer cottage or garden plot, it is so nice to sit by the fire, fry kebabs. There are meat for frying, but they are utilitarian and it never occurs to anyone to enjoy the sight of burning firewood. On the contrary, they often throw in ready-made coals, adding only a little thin firewood to keep preparation time to a minimum. In the case of a bonfire - a special place to make a bonfire - it's different. This place is more commonly referred to as a fire pit. It was conceived in order not only to fry kebabs, but also to admire the fire. In the summer cottage and garden area, the fireplace will be useful after pruning: you can burn the branches, and use the ash as fertilizer.

Campfire site in the country

Fireplace on personal plot or in the country it is better to place it at a sufficient distance from the house - so that the smoke does not reach the house.

The site must be blown by the winds - good traction is needed for normal combustion. The place should be flat, or you will have to level some area - under the hearth itself and under a place to rest, or an armchair.

Device and dimensions

A fire pit can be round or rectangular. It can be buried so deep that it will be on the same level with the ground, it can be partially buried, with slightly raised walls. There are options that are generally above the ground level - they are placed on a previously prepared site. So the choice is yours.

It is useless to argue about the forms. Round ones are more convenient - we put the firewood in a hut. But it is easier to build rectangular ones, especially brick ones. Here all the techniques are known - the masonry is carried out as regular wall... It's just that the wall thickness is a quarter of a brick.

Those who decide how to equip a fireplace in the backyard of a house, in a country house or in a garden area usually have several questions:

• What size should a fire pit be?
• Do I need a blower, if so, how many, what sizes, how to make them and where to place them?
• To put the grate or not?
• How can you make cleaning the hearth easier?

In fact, the first two questions are interconnected. If the dimensions of the fire bowl are quite overall - a meter or more in diameter, you can make the walls solid, without a blower. If less than a meter, you will have to make holes for air intake.

It is better to do the blower not from below, but in the walls. Their number - two or four - diagonally opposite each other. Small holes are left in the wall, breaking off a piece of brick (about a quarter, approximately). If necessary, they can be laid with the same, slightly hewn, quarters. It is not worth making a blower from below: with such a design, ash flakes often fly around the site during the "operation" of the hearth - they are carried away by the air flow, which with such a design is difficult to regulate.

About the grates. It is as it is more convenient for you - you can do it, but they do not really affect the functionality or convenience.

Site preparation

If the site has dense sandy soils, earthworks can be excluded. The second option for a simplified arrangement of a fire pit is an existing site, lined with paving slabs, stone, asphalt or concreted. On this base, you can lay a couple of rows of brick or stone. So the hearth is ready. This option is ideal for soils that do not drain water well. After rain, in such an area, the buried bowl under the fire will turn into a mini-pond and will dry for a very long time.

You can prepare the site like this ... By the way, an interesting idea is to use concrete blocks loading voids with pebbles or rubble

In other cases, preparatory work is indispensable. No, you can lay down the hearth for a fire right on the ground, but after a few years it will become unusable - the walls will "crawl" after the rains or the spring heaving of the soil. Preparation of the site for the fire pit is standard:

1. We remove the fertile soil layer, remove the roots, stones.
2. We level and tamp the soil.
3. We pour a layer of crushed stone (not lime, but granite) medium and large fraction sizes 10-20 cm, align, ram.

Already on this base, you can install a hearth, provided that you are satisfied with a crushed stone pillow as a base or are going to pour concrete. True, for concrete, you will need to assemble the formwork around the perimeter. If you plan to pave the area around the hearth with tiles or stones, sprinkle sand or fines on the crushed stone. Sand / screening is rammed, leveled, then tiles or stone are laid.

Rubble is not so bad

On clayey or fertile soils, so that crushed stone does not "go" into the ground, a density of 200-250 g / m is placed under it. This is a non-woven material that allows water to pass through, prevents roots from germinating and prevents rubble from mixing with the soil. In fact, this is a very important layer that is best applied.

How to make a concrete fire pit

A concrete fireplace can be round or square. The only difference is in the form of the formwork. You only need two rings or two rectangles / squares.

A round shape can be made, for example, from two metal barrels of different diameters. You just need to cut off two rings of the desired height. After the concrete has set, the mold will need to be removed, so it will have to be cut. If you may need it in the future, make a split form from two half rings. On the one hand, weld the hinges, on the other, make the locking locks.

The easiest way to make a square shape is from boards, scraps of fiberboard, thick plywood. They don't have to be new, but they should be even. We use self-tapping screws to assemble the mold - it will also need to be disassembled.

The distance between the outer and inner formwork must be equal to the wall thickness. For a concrete hearth, the thickness is sufficient - 15-20 cm. We put the form on the prepared base, check the distance, verticality and horizontalness. We fix the form by driving in pegs - so that the formwork does not move when filling with concrete.

A ring has formed between the two formworks, into which we will pour concrete. We stick into this ring into the ground and hammer in pieces of reinforcement with a diameter of 10-14 mm. They are needed for greater rigidity of the walls. The length of the reinforcement is about 60 cm, the installation step is 15-20 cm. We also drive the reinforcement into the ground by 15-20 cm. We place the reinforcement in the middle of the ring and so that its upper edge "sinks" in the concrete by 5 cm or a little more.

The concrete can now be poured. The composition is usual; for 1 part of cement M150, 3 parts of sand and 4 parts of crushed stone. Water is usually obtained from 0.7-0.8 parts (depending on the moisture content of sand and gravel). Pour the concrete into a mold, leave it for 5-7 days, after which the formwork is disassembled. A concrete hearth for a fire is ready, but you can start a fire in it no earlier than in 2-3 weeks, and better - in a month and a half. Only then will it gain enough strength and not crack from fire.

Making a fireplace out of brick or stone

You can equip a campfire site with bricks different ways... There are simple and cheap ones, but which can quickly fall apart. There are more complex ones to manufacture, but they will serve for several years for sure. For the construction of a hearth for a fire, you can use an ordinary corpulent red brick, but it will not "live" for long. Such material can be used for country or garden hearths for one or two seasons.

If you need to do it quickly, you can.

According to the rules

For permanently decorated recreation areas, you will need to look for fireclay bricks. You will already pick up the sizes yourself, but it is easier to put from the smaller ones, even though it takes longer. But even for the largest fire pit, only four to five dozen bricks are needed, so masonry will not take so much time.

Fireclay brick is not a cheap pleasure, so when laying a hearth, fireclay is usually laid out interior the hearth, which is in direct contact with the flame. The outer part can be lined with ordinary brick or stone.

If you are already broke on fireclay bricks, then put it on fireclay mortar - it is sold in the form of powder in bags. Water is added to the composition, stirred. After a while, the solution is ready for use. After you fold the hearth, you will have to wait 5-7 days for the solution to dry out. Then you load the hearth with firewood in full and warm it up for a couple of hours. This is necessary so that the mortar and brick are sintered into a single whole, and for this the temperature must be high. So do not feel sorry for firewood here. But fireclay solution is used only for laying the inner part of the hearth - where the temperatures are highest. The outer row is placed on cement-sand mortar... Fireclay is unacceptable here - it will not have enough temperature and it will simply crumble.

Ordinary brick can be laid on clay or cement mortar. In some cases, you can do without mortar at all - by filling the voids between the bricks with compacted rubble, sand or soil.

Simple and fast

It takes just a few hours to set up a campfire site. You only need a few flat granite stones or pebbles, rubble. They spread the bottom of the fire pit. You can also lay a brick at the bottom, and fill the gaps with rubble. To erect the walls of the hearth for a fire, you will need two or three dozen bricks. That's all.

The procedure for arranging a fireplace is as follows:

1. We mark a circle on the ground.
2. We remove the sod and remove the soil to a depth that is equal to the length of the brick and the thickness of the base. The brick installed on the poke should at least slightly rise above the ground level - then the hearth will not flood or blow out.
3. We align and compact the bottom.
4. We lay out bricks or stones, tap them well with a mallet (or just with our feet).
5. We fill the gaps with rubble, which we also press well into the ground.
6. Along the circumference we expose "sticking" bricks. They stand on one side close to one another, and on the other side small gaps are formed. They are filled with previously excavated soil (if it is not clay or loam), sand or fine gravel.

That's all, actually. A simple brick fire pit is ready. Not the fact that after good rain it will remain in its normal form, but it requires little time and money.

Reliable construction of a round brick fire pit

In order for a brick fireplace to serve for a long time, its walls must stand on a solid foundation. On a crushed stone pillow, it is usually poured reinforced belt made of concrete. It is made in a circle, the thickness is not less than the thickness of the walls, the height is 10-15 cm. For greater strength, a reinforcing ring made of a rod with a diameter of 12-14 mm is placed approximately in the middle of the height.

The inner part of the hearth is lined with fireclay bricks, the outer part is ordinary, hollow, laid with bandaging of the seams (offset by half of the brick). Fireclay brick is placed on clay or fireclay mortar, ordinary brick - on a cement-sand mixture.

Such a brick fire pit requires more materials and time to set up, but it will last for more than one year. And so that it is not flooded with precipitation and foliage, you can cover the fire pit with a shield. In this form, by the way, it can be used as a table.

In exactly the same way, a square or rectangular brick hearth is built. Technologists are unchanged, the only difference is in the form.

Simple options

You can make a hearth for a fire much faster. Firstly, a lot of country or courtyard metal hearths are offered. All you need is a platform where you will put up a metal fire pit.

Metal bowl - quick way arrange a campfire site

The advantage of this solution is not too high a price and the simplicity of setting up a place for making a fire. The advantages include low weight, which allows you to bring the installation under the roof for the winter or in bad weather.

A very similar option is a concrete fire bowl. They are cast in different sizes, they are round or square. You can do exactly the same yourself, but you will have to wait at least a month. And you put the finished bowl, and you can use it.

Photo ideas for decorating a campfire site

Making a fireplace is only half the battle. We also need to equip the site - so that you can sit, look at the fire, enjoy the evening and chat with friends. Several interesting ideas we have collected in this section.

You can just stack the stones one by one ...

Metal hearth for a fire - safe, inexpensive

Make seats from logs - in the style of forest fires

Very easy to fold ... but very difficult to find such bricks

Campfire in landscape design- This is a wonderful decorative element that will decorate your summer cottage, adding harmony to the surrounding environment. In addition, the fireplace in the country house will also serve as a practical option, because every spring and autumn trees are cut down on the garden plot, leaves and garbage accumulated over the winter are collected. All this is burned in a common heap, and sometimes such an unfenced fire pit is completely unsafe.

What are the foci

The outbreaks can be of 3 types: open, in-depth and closed. They can be purchased at specialized stores, order from the masters or do it yourself.

The deepened (earthen) type of campfire is considered the safest. For the hearth, a recess is made in the ground, which is strengthened with stone or concrete. The fire is kindled in this bowl. If you have opted for this type, then you need to know that in this case there may not be enough oxygen for a good flame, moreover, such a fireplace should have a shelter from precipitation.

It is easiest to make a hearth in the country house with your own hands according to an open principle, you do not need special skills for this, and such a fireplace will look very beautiful. Most often, for this, a paved circle of any diameter is made, in the middle of which a shallow hole is dug, which is also laid out with a brick or stone. The diameter of the circle depends on your preference, but it is not safe to make it less than 2 m. It is better to make the circle wide, so that it not only serves as a protection against the spread of fire, but also serves as a platform on which you can install a table or benches.

A closed fireplace can be completely varied in shape. For its device, it is also necessary to pave a site for fire safety, and on it the structure must already be installed. Nowadays, a closed fireplace in the form of a Russian stove is gaining more and more popularity.

There are also portable hearths - you can easily put this option where you want to see it at the moment. In essence, this is a table and a bowl for a fire; if you wish, you can close it with tempered glass or make an additional grill for a barbecue. If you are a master of working with metal, such a fireplace will be a wonderful and stylish decoration of your summer cottage even without fire. The table can be laid out with decorative tile mosaics, and the metal fireplace itself can be supplemented with beautiful forging.

Choosing a place for a fireplace

In the question of how to make a campfire on your own, it is necessary to approach the problem of its location with all responsibility. A campfire site in the country is an important issue. After all, we are talking about an open fire, which means it must be removed from outbuildings, children's playgrounds and, in fact, the house itself. You also need to make sure that sparks from the fire will not reach the trees or to the fence (if it is wooden). So that the fireplace does not have to be cleaned of water all the time, do not choose lowlands or insufficiently well-drained places, however, it is better not to place the hearth on a hill either.

How to do everything yourself?

It may seem surprising to you, but making a hearth in the country with your own hands is not as difficult as it seems. In addition, it can be made not just a place of warmth and comfort, but the main element in a recreation area. Around the hearth, you can install benches, a small table or a whole cafe with a table top for cutting meat, a wood storage and a large table for a friendly company.

Although there are now kits on the market that include a bowl and stones for decoration, it is more pleasant to sit by your personal fire. Therefore, stones can be collected on a river or mountains, and a bowl can be made from an old leaky barrel, which is at every summer cottage.

After choosing a place, you need to decide on the size of the fire pit. To do this, place the bowl in the center and lay out the stones on the platform. To outline the boundaries, you need to remove the last stones and draw arcs with paint, then remove all the stones and connect the arcs in a circle.

Where you marked the place for the bowl, you need to dig a depression of about 15 cm.If your soil is dense at your dacha, then besides a shovel, you may need some other device: a hoe or even a hammer with a chisel, but do not give up - a hole you need a shallow one.

When you get through the hole, you will need to pour gravel into it so that it almost completely covers the depression. This is a very important point - the gravel is needed so that during the rain your fireplace is not flooded. This is a kind of drainage.

Now there are no problems with stones for landscaping in stores. If you decide to buy stones, then their choice depends only on your taste, imagination and wallet. However, keep in mind that the stones in color and texture should correspond to the general concept of your summer cottage. The stones will need to be spread over the edge of the gravel. To keep 1 row even, you can put the bowl, but then it will need to be removed. You can adjust the stones in height and make the distance between them as small as possible with a rubber hammer. Lay the 2nd row of stones so that the middle of the stone falls on the junction of 2 stones from 1 row. Lay out subsequent layers in the same way. In order for the stones to adhere to each other, you need to use a solution of clay or lime. Do not use cement, which will not work in this case - it will crack from the heat and stones will fall. After laying out the stones, place the bowl in the center.

Another option

It is even easier to make a portable hearth in the form of a barrel. Of course, it will be hard to wear it every day back and forth, but if you really need it, then you can. For a portable hearth, you need a metal barrel and a circle. Put a piece of metal on the barrel and cut an even circle, retreating from the barrel itself by 40-50 cm. In the center of this circle you will need to cut 1 more circle, but it should be flush with the diameter of the barrel. Slip the circle over the barrel, secure it, and spray paint. Pour gravel inside the barrel, not reaching the edge of 40 cm. That's it, the fireplace is ready - you have a hearth framed by a small table on which you can put a cup of coffee. The barrel itself can be decorated under a tree (sheathed it with boards and fastened with metal rings) or trimmed with pebbles.

Site decoration

In order to pave the area around the fireplace, various materials are suitable: tiles for paths, pebbles, gravel. But the most impressive look, of course, are plates of irregular shape, which are located in a chaotic or bizarre pattern. Choose wide slabs - then it will be convenient for you to place garden furniture on them. The circular bench around the fireplace looks very nice and cozy. If desired, the back of the bench can be built from the same stone as the fireplace, but do not make it high - maximum 50 cm.

The wood-burning stove looks very nice and cozy next to the fireplace, besides it is very convenient. If you install a fireplace near the pool, then it will serve not only as a place for warmth and fried meat, but also as lighting, but do not forget that the ash will fly in different directions, including into the water.

Rest in the country can be unforgettable if you pay due attention to the arrangement of the territory. There are many interesting landscape design techniques that the owners of suburban real estate use on their personal plot. One of them is the arrangement of the hearth. It's nice to gather near him in the evening to chat with family or friends, relax and unwind. An open fire pacifies and calms.

There are many options for how you can arrange fireplace in the country. You can do all the work yourself. What materials and by what technology such a building is being built will be discussed further.

Peculiarities

Fireplace in the country (photo presented below) can perform several functions. It can be kindled both during the day and in the evening. In this case, the hearth is an integral part of the landscape design of the site. Therefore, it must fit into the overall style.

Most often, a bonfire is built with decorative purpose... It can complement a beautiful flower display, an alpine slide. Most often, a whole area is equipped around the fireplace, where benches and chairs are installed. Here the owners of the summer cottage can get together in the evening, talk with their households, guests.

The hearth can also perform a fairly practical function. The fireplace can easily become a brazier for preparing various delicious dishes. Here you can envisage the presence of a table, a gazebo, etc. Everyone can arrange the area for a picnic to their liking. The design of the hearth itself can also be very different. Various materials are used to create it.

Fireplace

By constructing do-it-yourself fireplace in the country (photo presented in the article), you should first of all choose the right place for its creation. The hearth should be away from trees. There must be at least 3 m to the nearest buildings. If there are trees on the site, there must be at least 4 m from them to the fireplace. These fire safety rules must be followed exactly. A strong gust of wind can cause a fire.

The site on which the hearth will be built must be on a flat area. It doesn't have to be high or low. The site must be prepared before starting construction. Everything foreign objects, roots, debris must be removed from the surface. The soil in this place is leveled. Upper layer the sod needs to be removed. This will allow in the future to cover the site with paving slabs.

You need to do the markup. At the same time, they take into account where the fireplace will be located, what shape and size the site will be around it. You need to think over the location of benches and other items that are provided in this place for rest.

Design options

There are many options for what shape, from what materials to create a hearth. Its location on the site differs.

Often created fireplace in the country with your own hands made of bricks, stone, metal and various available non-combustible materials. For example, it can be a concrete ring, like for a well, an old wheel rim, and other similar materials. The walls of the fireplace should not be too thin, otherwise the structure will not be strong, the walls will crumble.

The focus is usually round. This option is easier to do with your own hands. There are also rectangular, square structures. Most often they are created from stone or brick.

The structure can be built above ground level or slightly recessed. To prevent water from accumulating here, it is necessary to provide a cover or build a full-fledged roof.

Overhead building

One of the popular options is the arrangement of the aboveground fireplaces in the country with their own hands. Instructions assumes to start with the preparation of the site. First you need to determine the size of the future structure, choose suitable materials... In the center of the fireplace there should be a brickwork, a rim from a car wheel, a concrete ring. The choice depends on the personal preferences of the owners of the site.

Around the main contour will be decorative trim... It is made from artificial or natural stone, brick. You can also use paving slabs. All materials used in construction must be fireproof. This also applies to the solution.

Specialized stores sell masonry mortars, which include special additives. These components make the solution resistant to high temperatures... If natural stone is used for decoration, it must be laid out on a clay-sand mixture. Strengthening the walls of the hearth with decorative masonry is simply necessary.

Creation of an aboveground hearth

Aboveground fireplace in the country with your own hands it is quite simple to create. Even an inexperienced master can do this. All actions are performed according to the instructions. Having prepared the rim, you need to outline its size on the prepared site. More often, a fireplace has a diameter of 1 m.

In the center of the outlined circle, a layer of soil (10 cm) is removed. The walls are compacted. The ring is installed inward. Next, decorative masonry is made. Its walls should not be thinner than 15 cm.

When this process is complete, you need to pay attention to the space between the masonry and the center ring. There should be no voids here. Otherwise, various debris and water will get inside. This space should be covered with sand or fine gravel. Also, for these purposes, earth, clay mortar is suitable.

The benches should be at least 80 cm away from the hearth. If the arrangement of swinging benches is envisaged, they are placed even further.

Deepened hearth

Considering options for how to make a fireplace in the country with your own hands, attention should be paid to recessed structures. This design will suit almost any style of site decoration. A deepened fireplace can be flush with the ground or rise a few centimeters above the surface.

There are many design options for a deep hearth. You can make an area around it at the level with the plane of the site itself. In some cases, not only the fire is deepened, but also the steps. So several steps will go up from the fireplace. The lower one will be below ground level. The top step can rise above the ground. it original solution will harmoniously fit into the design of a spacious personal plot.

In order for the selected structure to be strong, safe, it must be built in accordance with certain norms and building rules. For this, only refractory solutions are also used. Masonry can be used with a mixture intended for stoves and fireplaces.

Creation of a deepened fire pit

Professional advice will help you understand how to make a fireplace in the country. The deepened hearth is constructed quite simply. A pit should be dug on the marked site. Its depth should be at least 30 cm. To outline its shape, a peg with a rope is installed in the center. With this device, you can draw an even circle. Its diameter should take into account the thickness of the hearth walls.

The bottom of a deepened fireplace must be very strong. When the pit is dug, the walls and bottom must be carefully tamped. A 10 cm thick layer of gravel is poured to the bottom.

Walls made of bricks or concrete blocks are laid out inside. For this, a previously prepared refractory solution is used. You can use clay. The bricks are leveled and compacted with a special hammer. A playground is being set up around paving slabs, stone, brick.

Materials at hand

Can be made from various materials at hand. If there is a sheet of metal corrugated board available, this is a good option to create a hearth.

The sheet needs to be spread and marked. The edges of the first strip should be connected. This creates a circle. The width of the strip corresponds to the height of the walls of the fire pit. The diameter of the circle should be 1 m. Next, the second strip is outlined and cut out. Its width should be the same. The length of this segment will be longer. The diameter of the circle must be at least 20 cm larger.

The sheets are fastened with self-tapping screws. They are installed in a prepared foundation pit. Gravel or sand is poured into the space between the circles. You can use old metal barrels, cauldrons, etc. as a form for a fireplace.

Arrangement of the site

It is almost always complemented by a special platform. It is most often laid out from tiles. Applying imagination, you can create a beautiful original platform. Suitable for this different materials... You can lay out the space near the hearth with a terrace board, gravel, slabs of different geometric shapes.

Here you can provide for the availability of seating, as well as storage of firewood. The rounded shapes of the site look best. The bench can be supplemented with a stone side. It can have a semicircular shape.

On the site, you can lay out a stone path to the fireplace. It can be decorated with street lights. Various figurines, decorations, details will complement the overall style of landscape design.

Benches

Great attention in the design campfire in the country deserve a shop. There are a lot of options for arranging a vacation spot. It can be both the simplest benches and original hanging swings, garden furniture, etc.

When choosing benches, it is important to take into account the general design of the site. This element of the exterior should harmoniously complement the site and make it cozy. Specialty stores sell many models of special garden furniture... Stylish varieties of armchairs, chairs will help to decorate the area for relaxation.

Ordinary camping chairs are also suitable for such purposes. You can build benches from logs. It is possible to lay out semicircular benches made of stone at the construction stage. They must be provided with wooden flooring, warm pillows and blankets. Sitting on a cold stone will be uncomfortable even in summer.

Having considered the features of creating a hearth in the country, everyone will be able to choose the best option for their personal plot.

The recreation area equipped at the summer cottage will become your favorite place to spend time near the fire with friends and relatives.

If you like to spend time in the country, then undoubtedly, your suburban area should have an equipped campfire site... How to make a place for a fire in the country with our own hands, we will tell you in this article. We share our experience in arranging and decorating the hearth. In our master class we will tell you how to make a place for a fire in the country with your own hands.

Before us is a ready-made recreation area with a pit for a fire. Before getting started, you will need the following Construction Materials and tools.

DIY materials and tools for building a pit for a fire:

• Cement: 5-6 bags
• Heat-resistant glue for stoves and fireplaces: 5-6 bags
• Construction reinforcement 8-10 mm: 10 pieces of 60 cm.
• Sandstone: 750 kg
• Refractory bricks: 60 pcs

From the tool you will need:

• Protective glasses
• Watering hose
• Wheelbarrow
• Chisel for stone
• Hammer
• Shovel
• Gloves
• Patience

Before starting the main work, you need to choose the right place for the fire. Try to place a recreation area with a hearth away from residential buildings. Remember that smoke from a fire must not enter living quarters. If neighbors live around your site, keep in mind that they may also be uncomfortable with smoke. The most optimal solution would be to coordinate the future campfire site with your neighbors.

Campfire site dimensions

Once the site has been selected, the size of the campfire site needs to be determined. In our master class, the place for a fire in the country (see example in the photo) has the following dimensions.

The diameter of the focus is 1.5 m.
Height 45 cm.

The size of the hearth can be changed at will. Before starting construction, you can make a preliminary calculation of the future hearth.

So, we have chosen a place for a fire at our summer cottage. They made measurements and made markings using a simple device. To get an even circle, we will use a homemade compass, and to make it you will need: a stick (you can use a pipe or fittings) and a rope.

Determine the center of the fire pit and drive in a stick to which a rope is tied. That's it, our compasses are ready. Important! The size of the rope should be equal to the radius of the hearth.

Advice! Use a spray paint can, which you can tie to the end of a rope, to mark the pit area.

Having made the markings, we determined the place for the foundation of the hearth. Armed with a shovel, we proceed to digging a hole. In order for the campfire site to serve you for more than one summer cottage, we advise you to first determine the depth of freezing of the soil. Professional builders advise to dig a hole for the foundation with a depth of at least 90 cm.Also, you need to take into account climatic conditions and humidity.

After the foundation pit is ready, we proceed to reinforcing the foundation and pouring it with concrete.

The mixed concrete solution must be poured into the prepared hole, this must be done slowly, let the solution fill all cavities. When the foundation pouring work is done, it is necessary to level the surface using wooden block or a special spatula. Make sure that concrete mix lay flat.

Wait until the solution is completely dry. While the concrete mixture is hardening, you can start sorting the stone. Distribute it so that the big ones are in one pile, flat in the other. Decide what kind of stones you will use for the base of the hearth.

Advice! Before starting work on laying stones on glue, make a trial layout of the first row. When choosing stones for the first row, give preference to an even and flat stone that has no irregularities and bends. Experienced craftsmen, before laying out the stones, they are processed with a special tool. Giving the base a flat shape.

When foundation dry, you can start laying the first row of stones using the principle of Tetris. Important! Stone blocks should be in contact with each other as closely as possible.

We admit that this is the most responsible and not in a hurry job that can take a large number of time. Advice - be patient, it is from this stage of work that it depends on how the hearth in the summer cottage will look like, made with your own hands.

Knead the amount of solution required for work, laying out a new batch of stone. The main thing is to take your time and knead required amount solution, this will help you avoid unnecessary waste of expensive material.

Advice! To avoid damage to the lawn and the site, try to do all the work in one place.

The task of laying stone will get more difficult with the next level. Ideally, the upper edge of the laid out hearth should be at the same level, because such a hearth looks beautiful. Aligning the last row of stone is not easy. Use a mallet and hammer, and if you have a stone power tool, the task of leveling the top edge of the fire pit becomes much easier.

The photo above shows the penultimate row of a fire pit, inside which a refractory brick is laid out, fastened with a special mortar.

When laying stone and brick, craftsmen advise leaving small gaps for ventilation. Based own experience, this can be omitted, since the size of the pit for the fire already provides air access.

When the stone and brick laying work is finished, the bottom of the pit must be filled with fine gravel. During use, it can be easily washed out or replaced with a new one.

So, the hearth made with your own hands in the country is ready, and the next step will be to check it.

Campfire site, hearth in the country (photo)

As you can see from the photo, the grass around the hearth is heavily trampled. The next step is to equip the space around the fire pit.

To do this, we take a homemade compass, and determine the size of the area around the hearth. When the marking is done, we grab the shovel and remove the sod around the pit (see photo below).

Be sure to prepare in advance where you will move the removed turf and soil. Once the sod around the campfire site has been removed, deepen the space to the required depth, but remember that the depth should be at least 8 cm.

Campfire site, hearth in the country (photo)

Advice! When this stage of the site arrangement is completed, we advise you to lay geotextile material on the bottom. This avoids contact between soil and gravel. Don't forget about climatic conditions and rainy weather.

After the preparation of the site is completed, it must be covered with fine gravel. Try to find the right combination of stone color and gravel pad to be filled.

If you do not want to use gravel, then it can be any other material. For example: garden tiles, small river stones, paving stones, etc. Gravel stone is one of budget options for arranging a pit for a fire and it can be replaced at any time with a more suitable one.

Campfire site, hearth in the country (photo)

So, when all the work on the construction of the campfire site and the adjacent area is ready, you can invite your friends and have a party. Before doing this, do not forget to stack firewood next to the hearth so that they do not have to be carried from the back of the site.

If you want your campfire site to look cozier, plant suitable plants and shrubs around it. Red, orange and yellow colors will look great.


As you can see from the photo, the stones left over from the construction were used and a small path was laid out with them. Now you can comfortably sit by the fire and spend unforgettable evenings to the sound of firewood crackling in the hearth.

Need in open hearth in the country is indisputable. Such a detail will decorate your site, you can also spend evenings at such a structure and cook food. It is so nice to sit at the open fireplace with friends and family members. Drink tea or tell some incredible stories, thanks to this pastime, your mood rises and you get a lot of positive emotions.

Laying the hearth from stones

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But, having built a fireplace in your dacha, it is necessary, first of all, to remember about security measures. If you decide to build such a hearth with your own hands, then it should be located as far as possible from various combustible structures: buildings, residential buildings, planting trees, as well as shrubs. When using the fireplace in windy conditions, there is a possibility of fire even at a house that is at a great distance; in this case, special protective screens should be used.

Hearth on the street

It is quite easy to build fireplaces yourself in a very short time, while this process will take you the most of your weekend. For its construction, you can use almost any material:

• boulder,
• brick,
• concrete blocks and so on.

An open fireplace, as in the photo, is easy to build, and for this you only need a cinder block or ordinary brick. It is better to make the walls of the hearth from a wider and larger brick, from this important moment the strength of the walls depends.

The number of bricks that will be useful for you to build with your own hands such an important building as a fireplace with your own hands on your site will depend on what kind of hearth you want to build in size, how thick the material will be, on the number of rows when erecting a wall. An open fireplace in a house should be built with the preparation of the foundation for a future structure in your country house; you should not make a fire on the soil, since it will be very difficult to remove coals or firewood from its surface. In this case, you can simply lay an ordinary thick iron sheet, but its dimensions should be larger than the dimensions of the circle of this structure.

Next, we proceed to preparing the base of the hearth, for this we fill it with mortar, you can also use concrete, then we begin to lay out the bricks. But also take into account the dimensions of the fireplace before building, it is better to choose a medium size, because in the future you will kindle a fire in it.

Open hearth

After choosing a place for the fireplace, you need to mark its territory on the ground and take measurements. During this process, you can also roughly calculate how much brick will be useful for construction works... In most cases, the owners in their own home decide to use the hearth for cooking, such as a grill. And to mark its contours and dimensions, a grill grate should be placed on the ground. The grill grates should be larger than the walls on the sides.

Brick base masonry without mortar

When the foundation, built by the hands of the owner in the country, is ready, you can start building the walls. The first of the rows of bricks must be laid near the base of such a structure as a fireplace, in a circle, so that the ends touch each other. If during the construction bricks are used that have holes, then it is better to build walls of bricks, so that the holes are turned to the area of ​​the ground or up. Brick wall should be monolithic both outside and inside.

After laying the first row, you must start laying the second layer. The second row must be laid on the first, while one should not forget about the joints of the bricks. Next, we lay the wall until it rises to the required height, which is convenient for use. In the end, our fireplace in the country will turn out to be a little uneven, for this it is necessary to knock out its walls in some places, and in some places to level it, and the cracks should be covered with cement mortar. The last row of bricks must be laid on a special mortar.

Laying the walls of the fireplace

Option for laying brick walls for mortar

You can build a hearth with your own hands immediately on a solution. Work on the laying of bricks is carried out in the same way as in the above version. The main difference is the need to lay more evenly and immediately begin to coat the seams. And in the end, you won't need to tap the protruding elements.

An open hearth should be high enough to be comfortable for grilling food. If during the laying of such an important structure, you still have extra bricks, then they can be used to erect a ring around it to strengthen the structure, while the first row is strengthened. A handmade fireplace with such a base will be much more stable and durable.