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A Guide To Getting A 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.

In order to do this job correctly you will need to have a shovel, gravel, cinder lamps, mortar mix, grill top, metal braces, trowels and bricks. If you do not already have all of these items do not worry as they can be purchased for any good home improvements store.

The first job that you need to do is to decide where you want to create the pit and it should be somewhere that will allow you to maximise the use of it. It is not a good idea to put it too close the house because you will want to avoid having smoke going into the house when you are having a BBQ. If the smoke goes into the house then you will soon find that everything is smelling like a BBQ, which lets face it nobody really wants.

Another important aspect that you need to consider is what size you want and how much of the yard will the pit take up. It is best to avoid it taking up too much of the yard or you will not have space to relax and enjoy it. Take time to think about this aspect in a practical way as it will be hard to move or change the pit once you have made it.

Once you have done all of the planning work then the next thing that you need to do decide what shape you would actually like it to be. It is possible to have BBQ pits which are square or rectangular.

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.

Smooth the area over whilst the mortar is still damp. Continue this process until you have built the pit up to the height which you require. A lot of the design work is really mainly down to your preferences.




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