If you’re planning to build a square or rectangular fire pit, make careful measurements and mark its footprint. Step 4: Excavate at least 8 inches of dirt within the fire pit ring. Now it’s ...

Place your ring back into your fire pit, and you’re all set. To build a new metal smokeless fire pit, take the lid of your 20-quart pot and use the bottom of your smaller pot to trace a circle ...

Gather a few materials for this DIY project. To build a steel fire ring pit: Step One: Select or create a flat surface in ...

Build it or fabricate it ... of your fire or protect any liner you are using from rusting. Use metal fire pit rings for additional shaping and fire protection. Common ring materials include ...

Press the ring into the concrete for strength ... Check for level across the DIY fire pit and the vertical level of the bricks as you go. Complete the Outside Walls with Face Brick We used ...

Building a DIY fire pit lets you be more creative when it comes to shape, size and stone color choice. Pick a metal fire ring to line the inside of the fire pit, then design the outer walls using ...

A backyard fire pit can be your family’s favorite ... Or, if you’d prefer to create an evening gathering spot, you can build only the fire ring without the cooking grate.

To ensure all your guests can comfortably fit around your fire pit, try this version with five benches in a hexagon shape. They're made of cinderblocks and wood. You can build the benches with or ...

Don’t build the pit under low-hanging limbs or a power line ... we carefully laid up and leveled two layers of blocks, bolted the fire ring together and installed it so it was centered in ...