How to make a fireplace for yourself on the plot?

To build a fireplace for your own private plot, without resorting to the services of specialists, is quite realistic. The main thing is a competent selection of materials, a serious attitude to the task, as well as the choice of a suitable place where the fireplace will be located. Let's find out how to make a fireplace for yourself with your own hands.

Choosing a location for the hearth

Before you start to work, you need to find the right place for the location of the fireplace. Here it is recommended to pay attention to the following points:

1. The outbreak for the fire should be away from buildings, trees, car parks, and other flammable objects.
2. It is desirable that around the place chosen for a fire, there was a brick, concrete, stone, iron or any other non-flammable fencing. In this case, the site will be protected from the embrasions that fly out into the sides.
3. The place for the hearth should be even. Otherwise, the fireplace will be flooded with water during the rain.
4. It is recommended that you take the size of the free territory. If the hearth for a fire is planned to be placed on a modest plot of land, this decision will not be very convenient.

Tools and materials

To create a full-fledged focus in the country, such means may be required:

• cement;
• Refractory bricks;
• Flat stone;
• shovel;
• Roulette for measuring the necessary parameters;
• Small gravel or pebbles;
• Pegs and rope;
• Trowels.

Hearth from the stone

To make a fireplace out of the stone with your own hands, a wooden peg with a rope is put in the center of the proposed place to house the fireplace. Using such a simple device, mark the circle. Then proceed to create a ditch, the depth of which can vary between 20-100 cm.

Then prepare the cement slurry. The canal is filled with the mixture almost completely, leaving about 3-5 cm to the edges. In the cement, the pieces of reinforcement are placed and the surface of the cement is leveled.

While the material is not frozen, the future hearth for a fire is laid with flat stones in a circle. Using a trowel, the gap between the stones is filled with cement mortar. Excess material remains removed with a damp sponge.

In addition, it is worth taking care to protect the fire from moisture in rainy weather. To do this, you can make a cover for a hearth of sheet metal, or make a simple high canopy of canvas.

Brick hearth

The simplest and most affordable solution is to build a fire place for bricks. To do this, a circular groove is prepared in the ground, the height of which corresponds to the length of the brick. The walls of the prepared fireplace are covered with this material, located in an upright position. It is only natural that the pit for the fireplace should initially be slightly wider than the desired diameter. After all, the bricks will also occupy a certain area.

The edges of the fireplace can be covered with sidewalk tiles or the same brick fragments. The wide, even frame of the hearth will serve as a convenient place for the location of the dacha furniture, where household members will comfortably be accommodated.

Hearth of metal

A fireplace with metal walls is the least wasteful option in terms of costs, time and effort. First, the excavation is dug to the required depth. In this case, you can not make the walls of the groove perfectly even.

As a frame of such a fireplace, a piece of corrugated steel can be used. The length of the sheet in the folded form should approximately correspond to the circumference of the prepared pit with some allowance. Folding the material into a ring, the edges of the segment are fastened with screws or bolted connections. In conclusion, the space between the ground and the steel sheet is covered with sand or fine gravel.

Surface fire

Planning to make a fireplace in the garden, it is not necessary to prepare a foundation pit for a future fireplace. If desired, you can make a ground structure. A good basis for such a focus will be a reinforced concrete flower girl or circles for a well. You can put the product on the ground or in advance place in the ground stones, refractory bricks, which will serve as a solid base for installation of the structure.

In this case, there is no need to lay out the area around the fireplace with brick, tile, other materials. The main thing is to preliminary clean the site and install any suitable reinforced concrete capacity of an arbitrary shape that will play the role of a fireplace.

Design of territory around the hearth

After the hearth for the fire at the dacha with their own hands is completely laid out, it is necessary to take care of the finish of the structure. The earth around the fireplace is sprinkled with gravel or gravel. Around the site at a distance of about 2-3 meters pre-clean vegetation. Such decisions will subsequently avoid the onset of a fire.

To protect the facing of the fireplace out of stone, brick or tile from external influences, if it is provided for in the plan, a sealant is applied on it. This also allows the cement to maintain its integrity, not to fall apart and not to crack in the sun.

In addition, you can take care of the arrangement of the adjacent territory. A small depression about 8-10 cm is pulled out around the hearth. In the latter, geotextiles are laid, on top of which all the same gravel is poured. Some homeowners do not like small pebbles that can get into shoes. Therefore, it is possible to lay another, more dense material on the geotextile, on which it will be convenient to put chairs, tables, benches, etc.