With a few basic skills and a bit of creativity you can easily design and build your own diy fire pit using retaining wall blocks.
Retaining wall block fire pit ideas.
Our fire pit ended up being about 4 feet 49 inches in diameter on the outside and 3 feet 35 5 inches in diameter on the inside if you want something bigger or smaller you will just need more or less blocks.
Nearly every fire pit in this gallery costs between 50 and 150.
Using blocks of a different style can also change the look of your fire pit.
After a little work it turned out to be the perfect place to circle round in late evenings.
We built our fire pit on the lawn from regular retaining wall blocks lined with clay fire bricks you can also build your pit on a patio.
How to build a fire pit using retaining wall blocks.
Find out how to build a fire pit in your backyard.
Rectangular blocks make it easy to adjust the layout to a size that works well for your design.
This particular fire pit cost 250 with the brick design.
Build the foundation pad.
Other types of fire pits can be made using repurposed materials such as metal planters flower pots and even glass.
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The secret to these super low costs is the basic building materials used to form the fire pits such as bricks pavers concrete and retaining wall blocks.
Determine the location of your fire pit.
Then lay out the first course of blocks to find the size of your fire pit and establish where the sod and soil will be removed to construct the base.
Simple brick fire pit design.
This fire pit design idea is simple and can be done for less than 300.
In this example we used 28 ab york blocks to construct each course making the diameter 81 in.