If you don't want to be satisfied with a simple campfire, you can of course make your fireplace much more elegant. It will be particularly clean if you pave the area - this makes it easy to clean, and you won't be sitting in the mud at the next fire after a few rainy days. The paved area is at best larger than the actual fireplace - so you can position benches and other seating (such as sawn-off tree stumps) on it.
What steps should you take when paving a fire pit?
To pave a fire pit, you should use hard natural stones such as granite or bas alt, clinker, brick or brick. First clear the area, fill it with sand or gravel, spread chippings on it and then lay the stones. Position a shaft ring in the middle for the actual fireplace.
These stones are suitable for paving the fireplace
Which stones you use to pave the fireplace depends primarily on their contact with the fire. Not every rock can be in or near a fire - soft natural stones and most concrete stones in particular burst very quickly under the influence of heat. It is therefore best to use hard natural stones such as granite or bas alt as well as other fireproof material, especially clinker, bricks or bricks. Conventional paving stones, on the other hand, are suitable for simply designing the border of the fireplace. To frame the actual fire pit, you can place larger chunks of natural stone into a ring, build a wall out of cut stones, or simply use a concrete shaft ring.
Paving and creating a fire pit - This is how it's done
And this is how it is built:
- First measure the fireplace including the area to be paved.
- Stake out this area.
- Dig the area about 20 to 30 centimeters deep.
- Fill in sand or (concrete) gravel.
- Shake the material firmly.
- Place a manhole ring in the middle.
- Now fill the area to be paved with about five centimeters of grit.
- Now you can pave: Use quartz sand for grouting.
- Bas alt split is also ideal.
- Carefully shake the paved area and sweep it.
The area in the shaft ring itself is not paved; you stack the firewood directly on the sand base. The fire is only lit in the shaft ring, which has several advantages: On the one hand, the fire is limited and cannot spread, and any moving logs do not fall out. The cooled ash can be easily removed.
Tip
It will be particularly cozy if you build this fire pit with a roof. Then nothing stands in the way of a warming fire in rainy weather.
