Construction of my Outdoor Fireplace

Constructed in July-August, 2008, it includes about 175 cinder blocks, 50 solid blocks, a few hundred 80 year old bricks (which came from my house foundation when it was rebuilt a few months prior) for the stack, Sandstone for the flat surface/shelf areas, river rock for the front verticle faces, black marble for the Fireplace floor, and approx. 650 patio bricks with 8 bags of sand. The Patio edge is roughly 13 1/2 feet long each side which calculates to about 185 sq ft..
EDIT (May 2009): Just had to rebuild the underside of the fire box. The black marble floor that was exposed and had no support underneath, became brittle, cracked, and broke away over the last 9 months and had to be rebuilt with a solid block base under the new fire box floor. Not too difficult to fix, but was still an unexpected expense.

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11 Responses to Construction of my Outdoor Fireplace

  1. rvr2 says:

    Muchas Gracias!
    Muchas Gracias!

  2. tambor74 says:

    nice work, muy buen …
    nice work, muy buen trabajo.-

  3. rvr2 says:

    Ah.. Noted.

    Ah.. Noted.
    Thanks again

  4. VirtualAutonomy says:

    Would love to see a …
    Would love to see a vid of it in action.

  5. rvr2 says:

    It Truely Is!
    My …

    It Truely Is!
    My wife and I, along with her niece enjoyed a fire in it just last night.

  6. VirtualAutonomy says:

    God that must be so …
    God that must be so satisfying to have built. :]

  7. WakeUpDummies says:

    Ha! Yeah.. I hear …
    Ha! Yeah.. I hear ya man. K is a cool cat.

    That’s pretty neat. I really want to do some hard scaping in the back yard

  8. rvr2 says:

    Thanks! I’ve always …
    Thanks! I’ve always wanted one of these..
    The kiva/beehive fireplace sounds Excellent!
    When you do get it built, let me know and/or post a clip of it. I’d like to see that!

  9. rvr2 says:

    Sorry to hear you …
    Sorry to hear you know ‘Special K’ too.. HA! He’s a GR8 fella!
    I have connections through my business Here in Rock Hill with guys that build these.
    Thanks!

  10. WakeUpDummies says:

    Muy bueno Amigo! …
    Muy bueno Amigo! This is some cool shiznit. (as the bros say) You know Special K? He B a friend of mine. We want to build one of these babies in our yard but not sure if we want to do a fire pit instead. Do you do these? I didn’t listen to all the audio so you may have said. U from RH, SC? Right on… I went to Winthrop U.

  11. roginaz says:

    hey..nice work!! …
    hey..nice work!! im looking to build a kiva/beehive fireplace w/bbq…cant find any videos..good job man!

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