Building a backyard fireplace

[buzgun]

It started off as a firerock fireplace kit and I added about 100 concrete blocks to it to give it some mass and aesthetic appeal.......i have been working on this for approximately 2 weeks.......I started off by digging a very large footing, inserting rebar and then i had a concrete truck come and i made approx 40 trips with a wheelbarrow back and forth to the concrete truck , dumping the concrete in the footing......i didn't have to go to the gym that day......i then had to take a break for 4 days while a crew of guys laid down pavers......the pre engineered fireplace kit assembled like legos.....and now im finishing it up with stone veneer.....a lot of work.

[buzgun]

[Czubek]

Originally Posted by buzgun

I am always in awe of your work. Moving to Mizzery soon??

Brian

[buzgun]

Originally Posted by Czubek

I am always in awe of your work. Moving to Mizzery soon??

Brian

Thank you Czubek......you are very kind.....

[buzgun]

Here is the finished fireplace... I still am working on finishing the pergola and outside kitchen .

[Czubek]

Originally Posted by buzgun

Here is the finished fireplace... I still am working on finishing the pergola and outside kitchen .

Nice!

Brian

[44044]

That will be nice Sir...

[buzgun]

View My Video

Heres a video of the almost finished product.

Thank you 44040 ::

[4thIDvet]

Originally Posted by buzgun

View My Video

Heres a video of the almost finished product.

Super nice buz. Damn that place is lookin good. This summer if I am still kicken I gots to get on the road drive around and visit all you guys.

Originally Posted by baboon

I thought having my own smokehouse if I ever got a piece of land would be nice.

Best smoked meats and fish I have had here boon was my neighbors and old Florida cracker. He made his smoker out of an old refrigerator. Firebox off to the side with pipes running into it.
Damn he put out some good stuff.

flashy that looks great.

[baboon]

Originally Posted by 4thIDvet

Best smoked meats and fish I have had here boon was my neighbors and old Florida cracker. He made his smoker out of an old refrigerator. Firebox off to the side with pipes running into it.
Damn he put out some good stuff.

I figure with all the feral hogs around I'd want something big enough to do various things like hams, bone in loins, sausage & bacon.

[baboon]

I thought having my own smokehouse if I ever got a piece of land would be nice.

[flashy]

Added block and made a wood box underneath the area where space is for grill, 2 days to veneer and day to point and about 2 days to erect and wait in between bad weather

Firebox before extra block work, isokern kit

[buzgun]

Originally Posted by flashy

Added block and made a wood box underneath the area where space is for grill, 2 days to veneer and day to point and about 2 days to erect and wait in between bad weather

Firebox before extra block work, isokern kit

flashy, very nice.....thats a lot of work there........did you do that by yourself?

Did you put a spark arrestor in the top cap?

Its going to take me at least 2-3 days to grout and strike this....im probably going to get carpal tunnel from squeezing the grout bag and filling up all those joints with mortar.

[flashy]

Originally Posted by buzgun

flashy, very nice.....thats a lot of work there........did you do that by yourself?

Did you put a spark arrestor in the top cap?

Its going to take me at least 2-3 days to grout and strike this....im probably going to get carpal tunnel from squeezing the grout bag and filling up all those joints with mortar.

Cap is a 24x24 piece of pa flagstone and I used old philly cobble stones on the risers to levitate it. The secrete to sticking them on quick is I use a special bagged mortar that is reinforced with Kevlar and polymers, called laticrete mvis. It allows you to slap the lickems up real quick no holding or waiting to set, just notch trowel it on and smear a little bit on the back of each one to help bond.

I did attach them and point the stones with nephew to help, we did point and tool it in one day, but I got a mixer I traded for so that really speeds things up. Actually laid 2 rows of block at cabin for foundation a month ago, and mixed it by hand full wheel barrow at a time and that kicks your ass before you really get doing any work. I always use type S mortar for pointing and like when I did that it was cold so a tented the fireplace and heat it with readdy/forced air heater so I can tool it pretty quickly.

[buzgun]

Originally Posted by flashy

Cap is a 24x24 piece of pa flagstone and I used old philly cobble stones on the risers to levitate it. The secrete to sticking them on quick is I use a special bagged mortar that is reinforced with Kevlar and polymers, called laticrete mvis. It allows you to slap the lickems up real quick no holding or waiting to set, just notch trowel it on and smear a little bit on the back of each one to help bond.

I did attach them and point the stones with nephew to help, we did point and tool it in one day, but I got a mixer I traded for so that really speeds things up. Actually laid 2 rows of block at cabin for foundation a month ago, and mixed it by hand full wheel barrow at a time and that kicks your ass before you really get doing any work. I always use type S mortar for pointing and like when I did that it was cold so a tented the fireplace and heat it with readdy/forced air heater so I can tool it pretty quickly.

flashy, i used 50 pound bags of fire mortar to assemble the kit and install the firebrick inside the box......i went with full sized firebrick for the bottom of the firebox and used splits for the sides and back which i ripped in half on my tile saw to make them thinner for the herringbone pattern ....i believe masons call these "soaps".....i bought all the materials from a place called Marvels masonry supply......that fire mortar has a high level of lime in it because it really fucked up the skin on my hands.....my fingertips have no skin left on them and are split open and bleeding.

I have to get some cantera stone molding that im going to wrap around the top like crown moulding on cabinets and install the spark arrestor which the city demands you install out here because im in the desert......but first im going to do all that grouting starting tomorrow AM.