Barbecue your own hands

place for brick barbecue

First of all, define the space.Once the grill with your hands will make a fixed, then you should consider several factors:

• it should be positioned at a safe distance from residential buildings and green spaces, but also not too far away from the dining area;
• necessarily equip a canopy for barbecue with their own hands to protect the hearth from the rain and wind.

Barbecue: drawings, dimensions, configuration

second important factor for the construction of outdoor furnace is its design.Can you draw a sketch by hand or make a professional drawing.It helps when laying bricks, not only adhere to compliance with the chosen design, but also to calculate the approximate consumption of materials.

designing BBQ, you need to provide a place where they will be kept dry wood and located a compartment for the waste ash.It would be nice to make a mount on which to hang such tools as skewers, grills, etc..

main parameter for this design is the height, it is usually made from the calculation of the distance from the floor to the wrist of the human hand.the inside of the furnace length of about one meter.At such dimensions can be prepared without a sufficient number of servings of meat threaded on skewers.

If you make a furnace equipment dimensions 1400 x 590 mm, you will need about 300 bricks.

Stationary barbecue with his hands

Before the construction necessary to carry out preparatory work.First of all, it concerns the choice of brick as BBQ will be outdoors all year round.When using it in cold weather, construction will be periodically subjected to sudden temperature changes.So apply for these purposes need special firebrick.For masonry is better to use the classic composition of clay and sand mortar.

process of making outdoor oven

For any structure, made of brick, requires a solid foundation:

1. Therefore, first of all, dig a trench for the foundation of a stationary barbecue, approximate dimensions of which will be: width - 1.6m, length -. 0.8 m and a depth of 0.6 m
2. poured on the bottom of the pit dry sand layer thickness of about 0.2 m
3. Now do the formwork of waterproof plywood..
4. for reinforcing the foundation use any overage wire, thin metal plates and rods.
5. Fill all the grout layer, equal to 0.15 m.
6. To obtain a good waterproofing, put on a ready foundation frozen piece of tar paper or special film.
7. Now it prepared substrate can be laid brick.Do not forget to lay 2-3 layers thin metal grate or mesh.This technique will help to increase the strength of the structure.Be sure to check the level of the wall, and a plumb line on the horizontal and vertical lines.
8. Stacked six or seven rows, do overlap.Complete structure of masonry in three bricks.In the last rows are required clearances to ensure the access of oxygen to the point of combustion.
9. base and the pipe itself, you can cut it out of aerated concrete.
10. to make sure the oven floor street rubble.

resulting masonry coated with decorative stone or simply oshtukaturte.The design can be supplemented with tops made of wood or natural stone.Make a cupboard, equipped with a canopy structure.

All wooden parts necessarily treat with antiseptic.Do not forget that the structure is operated outdoors.