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Portable light barbecues are good in nature, but near the house or in the country you want more convenience, and aesthetics. All this can give brick barbecues. Due to the plasticity of the material, they can be small – they occupy about one square place of the area, or there can be decent corner complexes with a hearth, a hob, and even a sink and water / sewage. Even a completely inexperienced bricklayer can lay out the simplest brick braziers with his own hands. One such project will be described in detail below. It can be used as a training task before building something more serious.
Simple brick brazier
Any building made of brick requires a foundation. And even such a small brazier, as presented below, is very undesirable to put directly on the ground. The foundation will have to be poured. You can make it tape or slab. The stove is more reliable: in winter it will not lead and the masonry will not fall apart.
The dimensions of the foundation for a barbecue made of bricks are 10-15 cm larger than its dimensions. First, the vegetation layer is removed, if necessary, the pit is deepened by 10-15 cm. Its bottom is leveled and rammed. A layer of crushed stone 10 cm is poured and rammed again. It is advisable to use a vibrating plate in this case: you do not compact the soil sufficiently with a manual rammer. The height of the tape is 20-30 cm, the thickness of the slab foundation is 10 cm.
Depending on the type of foundation chosen, an appropriate formwork is constructed. For greater strength, reinforcement is made with a bar of 10-12 mm in diameter. For the tape – two threads are laid around the perimeter, for the slab they make a “cage”: the bars are laid along and across in increments of 20 cm. Everything is poured with concrete of a grade of at least M200.
If the temperature during construction stays around +20°C, work can continue after about a week: the concrete has gained more than half its strength. Two rows of waterproofing are laid on it (roofing material, roofing felt, modern rolled waterproofing), coated with bituminous mastic or other liquid waterproofing solution. After that, you can start laying.
Dimensions and materials
You can fold this small brick brazier with your own hands without even having any experience. It is a building in the form of the letter “P”. There are two parts: the brazier itself and a table next to it. The design is simple and easy to modify. You can add another section next to it, make it wider or narrower, deeper or smaller. You can make two ledges under the grills – this is if a large number of kebabs will be cooked.
The basic dimensions are:
- width 180 cm;
- depth 90 cm;
- brazier height 100 cm.
For laying this garden barbecue, you can take a full-bodied ceramic brick, you can also use fireclay SHA-8. For the order given below, 202 bricks were used.
For the lower part – up to the 5th row – the mortar is used cement-sand 1: 3 or with the addition of one part of lime to it. Further, where heating will already take place, a clay-sand mortar is used. Its proportions are selected based on the qualities of clay (oily, normal, skinny). In terms of density – it should not be too liquid, but not too thick. About like a good thick sour cream.
Order and order of work
This country brazier is made up of bricks laid “on the bed”. Two protruding rows (bricks are laid across) serve as a support for the brazier sheet and the grill grid. Here you can put it on a spoon (put it on the narrow part), then the sheet will rise a little higher. In the lower part, you can stack firewood or use it for other household needs.
The rows are placed in a dressing – with an offset, for this you need halves of bricks. They can be cut with a grinder. The first six rows form the brazier and table on the right. Starting from the 7th row, the masonry goes only in the part where the brazier itself will be located.
Seam thickness 5-8 mm. It must be the same.
In order not to disturb the geometry during construction, you can stretch the cords and level all rows along them. But each brick and each row is controlled by the level to horizontal. Constantly need to check the verticality of the walls and corners. To do this, use a construction plumb line (a cord with a weight at the end). You can also check the verticality with a level, but it has an error, especially if it is not a professional, but an amateur instrument. So with such a check, there is a solid probability of getting a brazier with oblique, littered walls.
The ordering of this brick barbecue is simple, and does not require additional explanation. There may be questions about drying. If the weather is dry, leave the brazier to dry for three to four days. Then you can gradually build a fire. For a couple of days, heat in a gentle mode, using thin firewood and little by little. Then you can fry the first batch of kebabs.
If rains are expected, and there is no canopy over the barbecue, cover it with oilcloth. After about a week, you can start slow drying: make a small fire and not for long. Drying will also take 2-3 days. Then a brazier made of bricks, folded with your own hands, can be tested.
You may be interested in reading “How to make a metal grill with your own hands”
Video ordering of a brazier made of bricks with a stove
For those who perceive the visuals better than the words, it will be more convenient to look than to read the description. For you, detailed explanations of how to build a brick brazier with your own hands in video format.
This building is more monumental – and the vault near the firebox is round and the slab is nearby. Without any experience at all, it will be difficult to cope.
Brick brazier in the gazebo
If you are going to install a brick barbecue in a gazebo, the options proposed above will not work – the smoke will be all under the roof, which will not add joy to you. For gazebos you need a brazier with an exhaust pipe. This construction is more complex, but you can also do this option yourself. It is also not very difficult to fold the order of the barbecue made of bricks for a gazebo with your own hands below. It also, like the first, has an even arch, which is much easier to do in the absence of experience.
Dimensions and materials
This brick brazier / barbecue is of medium size:
- width 150 cm;
- depth 75 cm;
- total height to the beginning of the flue pipe 217,5 cm.
For masonry, you can use ceramic solid bricks. For the area where the fire will burn, you can (but not necessarily) use fireclay bricks. In the figure, it is indicated in light yellow.
The laying of the “cold” belt – up to the 11th row inclusive – can be done on a cement-sand mortar (1: 3). Next, you need to use clay-sand. The thickness of the seam in any case is 5-7 mm. Hold it for sure.
Structurally, this brazier consists of three “cold” compartments in which firewood can be stored and used for household items. The “hot” zone starts from the 12th row. Here they make a fire, install a barbecue grill or barbecue racks.
An example of building a wooden gazebo is described here, and one of the possible options for a summer kitchen is in this article.
Order and explanation
The ordering of this brick brazier is a little more complicated, so explanations are needed. The first row is laid out on the same level with the floor of the gazebo. If your foundation turned out to be low, you can also raise it with bricks laid on cement mortar.
The next four rows are laid with dressing. This will be a firewood shed – an area where it is convenient to stack firewood. On the fifth row, three strips of metal 3 mm thick and 50 mm wide are laid on top. They will serve as a support for the bricks of the next row. Lay the sixth and seventh rows according to the scheme.
In the 8th row, the formation of two chambers for household items begins. Look carefully at the location of the seams. This is fundamental: none should coincide with the seam of the bottom row. Only in this way will the brick wall be strong enough. Where required according to the scheme, the bricks are cut: halves and even quarters are used.
In the 11th row, the middle wall is no longer placed, but metal strips are again placed on top: the next row, which covers the utility compartment, will rest on them. The 12th row is slightly larger than all those located below: everything goes smoothly along the back wall, and the bricks protrude about 3 cm in front.
The 13th row is also laid out solid. A brazier will be installed on it. In size, it is still slightly larger than the previous one.
The next rows form a “hot” zone – a fire will burn here. This zone is smaller in size than all the underlying rows. To make it more resistant to fire, it is lined with fireclay bricks placed on the narrow side. In size, it does not match the ceramic and the height of the rows and the seams will be different. Ignore it by laying it out regardless of ceramic. Just follow the alternation, as indicated in the diagrams.
In the 21st row, a steel corner is laid. It can be used from black or stainless steel with a thickness of 3-4 mm. Corner dimensions 40*40 mm or 50*50 mm. Length – from the middle of the brick on the right to the middle of what is on the left. The front wall of the chimney will rest on this corner.
In the 22nd row, there is also fireclay brick, and the front wall of the chimney appears, resting on the corner. In size, this row is larger than the previous ones: in front, the bricks hang over the corner by 3 cm. The next row becomes even wider, and then there is a gradual decrease. Row by row the smoke channel becomes narrower. By the 30th row, a pipe is formed. It rises above the roof of the gazebo by at least 50 cm. During its construction, alternately alternate the 30th and 31st rows. ON this do-it-yourself brick brazier can be considered built. Now you need to dry it without fire for 5-7 days, and then gradually heat it for several days, evaporating the water from the masonry.
The easiest way is to make a brazier from a gas cylinder. How, read in the article “How to make a brazier from a gas cylinder, barrels, pipes”
Brick brazier laying: another project
Another version of the barbecue grill made of bricks in the gazebo is presented in the video. There are no explanations, but everything is clear enough and there are no difficulties in this project. Perhaps it is worth saying that starting from 52 seconds 4 sawn bricks are laid. Their front upper part is cut off at an angle of 45°. In the video, the sawn parts have a lighter shade.
Also in the second minute (1:35) the arch is being formed. It is easier to do this if you cut and fix a drywall template, and lay bricks on it.
Brazier with a cauldron made of bricks
Another version of the barbecue, but more complex: under a cauldron with a stove. The video instruction is detailed, there are explanations in the frame from the author.
The construction of a brick gazebo is described here.
Brick corner brazier
Sometimes you need to fit a brick manga into a corner. For this, there is a special form of firebox, although no one bothers to make one of the options proposed earlier, and to attach an economic surface at an angle. One of the brick corner barbecues is laid out in the order below. This is already quite a serious job, with doors, valves and other attributes of the furnace business.