A street hearth is a bonfire, a barbecue and a grill at the cottage

If the dacha is used not only as a garden-garden, but also as a resting place, then in the yard, of course, it is necessary to install BBQ, barbecue or even a simple open hearth-fire. All these devices today can be purchased at the store ready. However, since they are made of metal, special reliability and durability do not differ. Therefore, it is still necessary to erect a more solid brick structure on the countryside.

How to make a hearth-fire: the choice of a place

Sometimes it happens that for the construction of a large stationary barbecue or barbecue, the owners of the suburban area do not have money or even just time. In this case, it is necessary to quickly assemble a small outdoor fireplace. It can be built, in total, literally in a couple of hours.

First of all, you should choose a place for such a hearth. It is not necessary to have a fireplace, for example, next to a fence, a wall of the house or tall trees. It is best to find for him some flat open area. The dimensions of the fireplace should be such that the people sitting around do not subsequently experience discomfort.

How to make a home in the country

Under the fireplace in the ground you need to dig a small trench (depth 30-40 cm). It is best to make it round. In this case, the ready hearth will look spectacular. Around the foundation pit should dig a deeper trench under the walls. On its bottom you need to pour small gravel. The same material should be laid and on the bottom of the foundation pit.

Then the very walls of the hearth are laid out. If the shape of the fireplace is square, for this purpose it is worth using high-quality red or chamotte brick. For a round hearth, rubble stone is more suitable . The laying can be carried out on a solution made of high-grade cement and sand in a ratio of 1x3. But it is better to use for construction of walls of such design as the focus on giving clay solution with salt or a special mixture. You can buy it in the building materials store.

Too high walls of the hearth do not necessarily - 30-40 cm is enough. After the skirts are ready, and the mortar is fully seized, you can start pouring concrete bottom. For strength, it should be reinforced with a metal rod or mesh.

After pouring the bottom should be located at a depth of about 15 cm from the ground level. In this case, the outdoor fire center will be much easier to clean. You can even slightly raise its bottom above the surface of the soil. However, in this case, of course, it is necessary to build much higher walls. It is also not bad to put benches near this kind of fireplace - ordinary or semicircular (depending on the shape of the hearth).

BBQ or BBQ?

A beautifully laid out street fireplace can become a real decoration of the country plot. But agree that much more respectable in the courtyards of country cottages or residential houses look great mangal or barbecue, laid out of bricks.

There is no fundamental difference between the two constructions. The main difference is that in the first case skewers are used for frying meat, and in the second case there is a grill.

However, many gardeners today are called a brazier a simpler structure, intended for frying meat on fire. Barbecue is considered the whole complex, in addition to the oven itself of simple design, which includes:

• Table;
• Washing;
• Sometimes a grill and other similar additional devices.

Of course, such a large convenient construction can be built only if there are sufficient funds. As for the actual construction technology, it does not differ much from the technique of erecting an ordinary brazier.

Filling the foundation

And BBQ dacha, and barbecue in the event that they are built of bricks, should be installed on a solid concrete foundation. The foundation for these heavy structures is worth making a slab. Under their foundation, a foundation ditch 40-50 cm deep is excavated in the ground. A layer of sand is poured onto the bottom in addition. Then the concrete is poured into a thickness of about 5 cm. And after its hardening, formwork and reinforcing cage are installed. Then the foundation is poured. Its surface, as a result, should be absolutely flat and horizontal.

The erection of the barbecue

After the concrete foundation is ripe (at least two weeks), you can start assembling the brazier itself. Laying should be conducted with bandaging the joints in half a brick. The stone is laid on three walls. They should be located strictly at right angles to each other.

After the walls have been raised to a height of about 70-80 cm, one row of bricks needs to be slightly moved deep into the brazier. The bottom of the brazier made of thick metal will subsequently be laid on the resulting support. Further laid out two more rows of bricks - this will be the walls of the brazier. Ahead, above the "empty" place laying on the steel corners.

In principle, it is possible to finish the work on erecting a stove for shish kebabs. Learned in this way, an open mangal dacha will be quite easy to use. However, it is still necessary to lay three of its walls at a height of 80 cm and cover the resulting structure with a cone-shaped or pyramidal tin chimney. The latter can be bent on its own or purchased at the store.

Features of erection of a barbecue

The brick fireplace in the street is assembled according to the same principle as the brazier. However, in this case, two more are laid out at a certain distance from the two parallel walls of the structure (to the height of the bottom of the brazier or just below).

Subsequently, metal sheets are installed between them and the furnace itself. In one of the resulting table tops, a hole is made for the sink. Above the brazier in the barbecue is usually additionally hung a bar-grill.

Portable structures

As you can see, the laying of a barbecue or barbecue , and even more so of such unpretentious design as a street fire-place - it's absolutely simple. The experience of a stove-maker for the erection of such structures is absolutely not required. The main thing is to do everything in a hurry, using a plumb line and a building level.

If on such a simple procedure as the construction of street standard construction, the owners of the suburban area do not have enough time, you can buy a ready-made portable hearth. However, in this case, special attention must be paid to the quality of the device.

The hearth is made - whether it be a fireplace, barbecue or barbecue - should be made of thick enough metal. As for the design of the design, which can be different (often very unusual), in this case everything depends solely on the taste preferences of the owners of the dacha or a country house.