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- What to look for when paving a fireplace
- These stones are suitable for paving the hearth
- Pave fire pit and put it on - this is how it is done
- Tips
A paved fire pit looks modern and is durable
What to look for when paving a fireplace
If you do not want to settle for a simple campfire, you can of course make your fireplace more noble. It gets especially clean when you pave the place - it's easy to clean, and after a few rainy days you do not sit in the mud at the next fire. At best, the paved area is larger than the actual hearth - so you can use it to position benches and other seating (such as sawn-off tree stumps).
These stones are suitable for paving the hearth
Which stones you use to pave the hearth depends above all on their contact with the fire. Not every rock is allowed to be in or near the fire - straight natural stones as well as most concrete blocks burst very quickly under the influence of heat. It is best to use hard natural stones such as granite or basalt and other refractory material, especially clinker, bricks or bricks. Conventional paving stones, on the other hand, are well-suited to just framing the hearth. To framing the actual hearth, you can make larger chunks of natural stones into a ring, build a wall out of cut stones, or simply use a concrete paving ring.
Pave fire pit and put it on - this is how it is done
And so is built:
The surface in the manhole ring itself is not paved, there you layer the firewood directly on the sand base. The fire is ignited only in the chess ring, which has several advantages: First, the fire undergoes a limitation and can not spread, also any moving logs will not fall out. The cooled ash is easy to remove.
Tips
It is especially comfortable when you build this fire pit with a roof. Then there is nothing standing in the way of a warming little fire in rainy weather.