The center in the country with their own hands

Each owner of a country house or villa would be desirable to be able to breed on their site live fire, a warm evening sitting by the fire, roasting in the fire something edible.How to organize a bonfire, leaving black spots on the lawn conflagration, with the maximum comfort and safety?Make it so that the hearth harmoniously fit into the smallholding, its design feast for the eyes and the device was a force to master?

To build a center in the country with their own handsas in the photo, without resorting to the services of professionals - it is quite real, even for a man who has initially very distant idea of ​​such construction work.The main thing - respect the sequence of works on arrangement of the hearth, as well as a sensible choice of materials.

plan

Given an order to equip a fireplace in the country, it is desirable to draw the diagram on paper or drawing it.Before starting work, it is important to clearly think about where the future center will be located, as well as to partition the selected place under it.The layout of the hearth in the country, guided by a prepared plan, make it easier and more convenient.For markup will need the following tools: tape measure, pegs, plumb and a skein of twine.

digging pits and concrete mixing

mark the place dug a hole in the ground a depth of 50-60 cm. After, you should knead on a small concrete rubble.

approximate composition of the mixture is taken from the calculation: 45 kg of sand - 30 kg of gravel and 15 kg of cement, water is added to the required mobility of the mixture.Alternatively, you can take a ready-mix concrete brand 100.

Choice stones and laying

of stones laid out the contours of the chamber at the bottom of the hole, parallel to fixing them with concrete mortar.

For devices hearth need flat stones of different sizes of 5-10 cm thick.Stones can be very different (except for porous coquina and limestone).

By invoice can pick up quite a unique combination of rock, focusing on the taste.If the choice of stones, as well as their layout to make yourself hard, you can enlist the help of a designer, or a man who has artistic skills in this matter.

technological nuances

hearth bottom and is made of thick concrete pad at least 10 cm. In the concrete leaves openings for rainwater.If necessary, the holes can be used for installation of various designs for frying meat and vegetables grilled.

sinuses with exterior walls chamber backfilled with the excavated soil compaction.

Thus, filling is done in such a way that the space left by the concrete 10-15 cm thick blind area to the level of the top of the soil.To this end, around the hearth laid concrete with waterboarding in his large-sized flat stones.

remains to wait for the solidification of concrete and can kindle a fire, delighting children and friends' gatherings around the living flame.

Equipped stone hearth with his hands will be the pride of its owners, and it is quite possible, and the envy of neighbors and friends.

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