If you don't want to be satisfied with a simple campfire, you can of course make your fireplace much more elegant. It gets particularly clean if you pave the pitch - it's easy to clean that way, and after a few rainy days you won't be sitting in the mud by the next fire right away. The paved area is at best larger than the actual fire pit - so you can still position benches and other seating (such as sawed-off tree stumps) on it.

A paved fire pit looks modern and lasts a long time

These stones are suitable for paving the fireplace

Which stones you use to pave the fireplace depends primarily on their contact with the fire. Not every rock should be in or near the fire - especially soft natural stones and most concrete blocks burst very quickly under the influence of heat. So it is best to use hard natural stones such as granite or basalt as well as other refractory material, especially clinker, bricks or bricks. Conventional paving stones, on the other hand, are good for just designing the border of the fireplace. To frame the actual fireplace, you can put larger chunks of natural stone in a ring, build a wall from cut stones or simply use a concrete manhole ring.

Paving and creating a fireplace - this is how it's done

And this is how it is built:

  • First measure the fireplace including the area to be paved.
  • Stake out this area.
  • Dump the area about 20 to 30 centimeters deep.
  • Fill in sand or (concrete) gravel.
  • Shake the material well.
  • Position a manhole ring in the middle.
  • Now fill the area to be paved with about five centimeters of grit (€46.95).
  • Now you can pave: Use quartz sand for grouting.(15.85€)
  • Basalt split is also ideal.
  • Gently shake and sweep the paved area.

The area in the shaft ring itself is not paved, there you stack the firewood directly on the sand base. The fire is only ignited in the shaft ring, which has several advantages: On the one hand, the fire is limited and cannot spread, and any moving logs do not fall out. The cooled ash can be easily removed.

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It will be particularly cozy if you build this fireplace with a canopy. Then nothing stands in the way of a warming fire in rainy weather.

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