Metal fire pit or build your own with brick

My dad built a rectangular brick pit in the middle of his courtyard. It looks better than any metal pit I have seen. Plus the bricks hold heat. Make sure you line the inside with crack-free bricks (or heat resistant, whatever they are) if you go that route.

Go to Brian's in Port Allen. Buy one of the mini cast iron sugar kettles. They have a 3-4 foot diameter. Get someone to make a stand and style it how you want. Total cost should be less than 600$. I did it and started a thread on here looking for a metal fab shop willing to help me. They put fleur d'lis on my stand and made it really nice. (It was a Christmas present for Mrs Corleone)

Materials will be less than $200 and labor about $150 if I hire some of trumps favorite work force

I built a 3ft x 3ft square (inner measurements) with these bricks from Lowes 2 years ago. Used 64 bricks (16 per layer, 4 layers high) and bought 70 so I'd have spares just in case I dropped one or one cracks in the future. Used some concrete adhesive found on the silicone/adhesives aisle at Lowes to hold it all together. Spent a total of about $275 after tax.





Although I didn't have any issues with it for a year, just to ease my mind about the heat possibly getting to and cracking the bricks, I bought these 12" x 12" metal, interlocking panels off ebay last year to line the inner walls of the pit. The seller sells them in kits of 8 panels, but if you contact him he will add as many more panels as you'd want for an additional cost. CAMPFIRE PORTABLE FIRE PIT RING



So all total, I have about $375 into the pit.

At our annual national rally this past year one of the vendors that we had set up was a guy who made these amazing custom made metal fire pits. They were very impressive but his prices were like $1,500 and up. Here's so examples similar to his work....







I know he sold a at least a couple of them. And they look really cool. But it's still just a fire pit. I'd make one out of bricks. You're out there to enjoy the fire, not the pit.

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Here is mine. It's made out of a 150 gallon propane tank. A friend of mine makes them and can do just about any design you like.

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I got a nice fire pit from the Walmart garden center for $35 fwiw

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This one?


I bought one just like it there to keep in my camper. I like that when we're done with it I can dump the ashes, spray it off, put it in a large garbage bag, and store it in my camper.