Our fire pit is also 16 inches high.
Retaining wall block fire pit ideas.
With a few basic skills and a bit of creativity you can easily design and build your own diy fire pit using retaining wall blocks.
Determine the location of your fire pit.
Build the foundation pad.
Find out how to build a fire pit in your backyard.
The secret to these super low costs is the basic building materials used to form the fire pits such as bricks pavers concrete and retaining wall blocks.
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We built our fire pit on the lawn from regular retaining wall blocks lined with clay fire bricks you can also build your pit on a patio.
This particular fire pit cost 250 with the brick design.
How to build a fire pit using retaining wall blocks.
Our fire pit ended up being about 4 feet 49 inches in diameter on the outside and 3 feet 35 5 inches in diameter on the inside if you want something bigger or smaller you will just need more or less blocks.
Using blocks of a different style can also change the look of your fire pit.
Rectangular blocks make it easy to adjust the layout to a size that works well for your design.
Nearly every fire pit in this gallery costs between 50 and 150.
Simple brick fire pit design.
This fire pit design idea is simple and can be done for less than 300.
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Other types of fire pits can be made using repurposed materials such as metal planters flower pots and even glass.
After a little work it turned out to be the perfect place to circle round in late evenings.