What You Should Know About Custom BBQ Pits

By Gary Mitchell


There is nothing better than having a BBQ with your friends and family on a lovely sunny and warm day. Custom bbq pits will enable you to enjoy great food with the people who are important in your life, which lets face it nothing can beat it. Creating a home bbq pit is a landscape project that can test a lot of people when they try to do it themselves but it is possible when you have the correct materials and tools providing of course that you have the knowledge.

The tools that you will require to be able to do the job correctly would be gravel. A shovel, water, morter mix, hand lamp, cinder braces, grill top, trowel, bricks and metal braces. All of these items are very easy to get if you do not already have them as they will all be available from the local home improvements or hardware store.

The first task that you need to do is to decide on the location for the pit. The pit should be located in an area that will allow it to used to its maximum potential. Avoid having the pit too close to the house or you could end up with everything smelling like a BBQ if smoke goes into the house. If the smoke goes into the house you will find that soon all the stuff in the house will smell like a BBQ, which really nobody will want regardless of how much they like bbqs.

Another aspect that is very important is what size you are going to make it as you do not want to make it too big as this will mean that you will have not space in the garden for relaxing. You will need to get a happy medium between it being too small and it being too big so try to think about it practically and get an image of how it is going to look. Make sure that you get it correct from the start as you will not want to move it once you have started.

You will need to decide what shape you want the pit too be and if you had a vision of how you want it to look you may already know exactly what shape you want it. The most common shapes are rectangular and square however you can design it in any shape that you want as long as it is practical.

The shape that you decide will be mainly based on your preference and the space that is available for the pit. Once all of the planning work has been done then you are ready to start on preparing the area. The initial job that you will need to do is to dig out a space in the ground which is about eight inches in depth and about fifty meters across. This area will need to be cleared and the surface will need to be leveled off.

The next task that you will need to do is to lay the gravel so that it is about two inches in thickness and spread a layer or mortar over the top of the gravel so that it extends a couple of inches in from the edges. Use a trowel to put the combined mortar and water in the pit.

Then smooth up the area whilst the mortar is actually still wet. Continue to do this process until the pit is at the height where you require it to be for using.




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